16/11/1978 Top of the Pops

Welcome to the cream of the crop on this week's Top Of The Pops

MUSIC: "Givin' Up Givin' In" by the Three Degrees

# Givin' up, givin' in

# I won't be no fool again

# I'm givin' up I'm givin' up now

# Givin' up I'm givin' up now

# I'm givin' up now

# I'm givin' up, givin' in

# You can sweet-talk to the wind

# Cos I'm givin' up I'm givin' up now... #

APPLAUSE

MUSIC: "Promises" by Buzzcocks

# Ah, loving you is easy you are on my side

# We play the game strictly to our rules

# We led the field

# A love affair Which made all other lovers fools

# Oh

# How can you ever let me down How can you ever let me down?

# How can you ever let me down

# These promises are made for us

# We promised that we'd always have time for each other

# Whenever I needed, you'd be there

# We promised to be true There'd be no other

# We promised that for ever we would care

# Oh

# How can you ever let me down How can you ever let me down?

# How can you ever let me down

# These promises are made for us

# We had to change

# But you stayed the same

# You wouldn't change

# Oh, what a shame

# Cos loving you's not easy You're not on my side

# We play a game with two sets of rules

# We lead the field in a love affair

# Ah, strictly meant for fools

# Oh

# Why did you ever let me down Why did you ever let me down?

# Why did you ever let me down

# Those promises were made for us

# You never have any time for me

# Whenever I need you you're not there

# You've never been true and it's plain to see

# The fact is you never really cared

# Oh

# Why did you ever let me down Why did you ever let me down?

# Why did you ever let me down

# Those promises we made for us. #

APPLAUSE

Buzzcocks, with their new single, called Promises.

At number 24 this week, the demon prince of the third division.

Elton John, with his new single called Part-Time Love.

# Part-time love is bringing me down

# Cos I just can't get started with you, my love

# Did I hear you saying that I'm too hard-hearted?

# Wipe those stars from your eyes

# And you'll get quite a surprise

# Because you'll see everybody's got a part-time love

# You've been seen running around

# There's not much I don't hear of

# And still you try

# Telling me all the things I must stay clear of

# Don't tell me what to do When you've been doing it too

# Because you, me and everybody s got a part-time love

# Falling, I'm falling Can't get free

# Baby, if you keep on stalling

# Oh, how can I make you see

# That you, me and everybody needs a part-time love

# Part-time love Time love

# I seem to be pulling in the wrong direction with you, my love. My love!

# Whatever I do you raise the same objection

# I've got someone at home But she's got a love of her own

# Because you, me and everybody got a part-time love

# I'm waiting, I'm waiting all the time

# And it's getting so frustrating, love

# Well, it ain't no crime

# Because you, me and everybody needs a part-time love

# And, oh, you, me and everybody s got a part-time love

# And, oh, you, me and everybody needs a part-time love

# You, me Everybody got a part-time love. #

APPLAUSE

And if Elton John failed to get your circulation going,

then here's Showaddywaddy with an little mover they call. .

# Pretty little angel eyes Pretty little angel eyes

# Pretty little angel Pretty little angel

# Pretty little, pretty little pretty little angel

# Ooh-oooh Waah, wap-wap-wap-wap

# Pretty little, little, little angel eyes

# Angel eyes, I really love you so

# Angel eyes, I'll never let you go

# Because I love you My darling angel eyes

# Oh, angel eyes

# Pretty little, little, little angel eyes

# Angel eyes, you are so good to me

# And when I'm in your arms It feels so heavenly

# You know I love you My darling angel eyes

# Oh, angel eyes

# I know you were sent from heaven above

# To fill my life with your wonderful love

# I know we'll be happy for eternity

# Cos I know-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow that our love is real

# Angel eyes, I really love you so

# Angel eyes, I'll never let you go

# Because I love you My darling angel eyes

# Oh, angel eyes

# Pretty little angel eyes

# Pretty little angel eyes

# Pretty little angel Pretty little angel

# Pretty little, pretty little pretty little angel

# Angel eyes, I really love you so

# Angel eyes, I'll never let you go

# Because I love you My darling angel eyes

# Oh, angel eyes

# Pretty little, little, little angel eyes

# Oooh-oooh Shoo-bop, shoo-bop... #

APPLAUSE

At number 29 this week,

could it be that Elvis Costello is getting ready

for our wavelength changes next week, with Radio Radio?

MUSIC: "Radio Radio" by Elvis Costello And The Attractions

# I was tuning in the shine On the light night dial

# Doing anything my radio advised

# With every one of those Late-night stations

# Playing songs bringing tears To my eyes

# I was seriously thinking About hiding the receiver

# When the switch broke cos it's old

# They're saying things that I can hardly believe

# They really think we're getting out of control

# Radio is a sound salvation Listen, listen, listen...

# Radio is cleaning up the nation

# Listen, listen, listen...

# They say you better listen to the voice of reason

# Listen, listen, listen...

# But they don't give you any choice Cos they think that it's treason

# Listen, listen, listen...

# So you had better do As you are told

# You better listen to the radio

# I wanna bite the hand that feeds me

# I wanna bite that hand so badly

# I want to make them wish They'd never seen me

# Some of my friends Sit around every evening

# And they worry About the times ahead

# But everybody else is overwhelmed By indifference

# And the promise of an early bed

# You either shut up or get cut up

# They don't wanna hear about it

# It's only inches On the reel-to-reel

# And the radio is in the hands Of lots of silly men

# Trying to anaesthetise The way that you feel

# Radio is a sound salvation Listen, listen, listen...

# Radio is cleaning up the nation

# Listen, listen, listen...

# They say you better listen to the voice of reason

# Listen, listen, listen...

# But they don't give you any choice Cos they think that it's treason

# Listen, listen, listen...

# So you had better do as you are told

# You better listen to the radio

# Wonderful radio

# Marvellous radio

# Wonderful radio

# Radio, radio

# Radio, radio... #

If you're with someone rather special right now,

here's some music you can cuddle up to by.

It's Heatwave, and this is called Always And Forever.

MUSIC: "Always And Forever" by Heatwave

# Always and forever

# Each moment with you

# Is just like a dream to me

# That somehow came true

# And I know tomorrow

# Will still be the same

# Cos we've got a life of love

# That won't ever change and

# Every day love me Your own special way

# Melt all my heart away

# With a smile

# Take time to tell me

# You really care

# And we'll share tomorrow together

# I'll always love you forever

# Always forever love you

# Forever

# There'll always be sunshine

# When I look at you

# It's something I can't explain

# Just the things that you do

# And if you get lonely

# Phone me and take

# One second to give to me

# That magic you make and

# Every day love me Your own special way

# Melt all my heart away

# With your smile

# Take time to tell me

# You really care

# And we'll share tomorrow together

# Always forever love you

# I'll always love you

# Ever

# Loving you

# Always forever love you

# Love...

# Always forever love you

# Loving you...

# Forever... Always forever love you

# Forever...

# Love you...

# Always forever love you

# Oh, oh... Love...

# Loving you... #

APPLAUSE

And we've got more romantic stuff, just like that,

coming up a little bit later.

It seems like the last few Top Of The Pops I've introduced

have featured Blondie, and tonight is no exception.

This time, they're Hanging On The Telephone.

MUSIC: "Hanging On The Telephone by Blondie

DIALLING TONE

# I'm in the phone booth It's the one across the hall

# If you don't answer I'll just ring it off the wall

# I know he's there But I just had to call

# Don't leave me hanging on the telephone

# Don't leave me hanging on the telephone

# I heard your mother Now she's going out the door

# Did she go to work Or just go to the store?

# All those things she said I told you to ignore

# Oh, why can't we talk again?

# Don't leave me hanging on the telephone

# Don't leave me hanging on the telephone

# It's good to hear your voice You know it's been so long

# If I don't get your calls Then everything goes wrong

# I want to tell you something You've known all along

# Don't leave me hanging on the telephone

# I had to interrupt and stop this conversation

# Your voice across the line gives me a strange sensation

# I'd like to talk when I could show you my affection

# Oh, I can't control myself

# Oh, I can't control myself..

# Don't leave me hanging on the telephone

# Oh, hang up and run to me

# Oh, whoa-whoa-whoa Run to me, yeah. #

Such a lot of good music coming up on tonight's Top Of The Pops,

and I'm delighted to say that we have Dean Friedman with us tonight

to play from his superb album "Well, Well," Said The Rocking Chair

the latest single release from it. This is called Lydia.

# Lydia keeps my toothbrush in her apartment

# And she never complains

# Well, hardly ever

# And then jokingly she says

# "Boy, it's been so long since I've held you

# "I nearly gave you up for dead

# "I nearly gave you up for dead

# "I nearly gave you up for dead"

# Lydia, Lydia How come you understand?

# I can offer you nothing at all

# No, this is more than I had planned

# Lydia, Lydia, I am at your command

# At least until morning comes

# Then I must be off again

# I must be off again

# Lydia, you know I always talk about conscious decisions

# About running my own life

# Maybe I'm fooling myself

# It's a role I like to play

# Cos more often than not I'm down here on the corner

# I'm sorry I woke you

# Do you feel like some company

# Babe, I need a place to stay

# Lydia, Lydia How come you understand?

# I can offer you nothing at all

# No, this is more than I had planned

# Lydia, Lydia, I am at your command

# At least until morning comes

# Then I must be off again

# I must be off again

# I sleep with a woman who thinks I'm a child

# Maybe I am

# No, that wouldn't surprise anyone

# I suspect that much is true

# But, Lydia, if you only knew just how much I love you

# Don't you know that I love you?

# It's the best that I can do

# Lydia, Lydia How come you understand?

# I can offer you nothing at all

# No, this is more than I had planned

# Lydia, Lydia, I am at your command

# At least until morning comes

# Then I must be off again

# I must be off again. #

Beautiful stuff from Dean Friedman.

It's nice when a record that doesn't fit into an exact groove

gets into the chart.

That's why I'm particularly happy to see the Streetband in the charts

with a former Record Of The Week of mine called Toast.

# Evenin', all

# I'd like to tell you a story about when I was a very young boy

# I must have been, ooh, three or four months old at the time

# And I didn't know what I wanted

# But if I did, I wouldn't have been able to tell anybody

# Cos all I could do was gurgle

# So I sat there in me highchair thinking one day, looking at me tray

# And thinking, "What I'd give for a meal on there"

# So I started looking round the kitchen to see what I could have

# I was rubbing me eggy soldier in me head, trying to think

# And then I looked over in the corner

# And there's a yellow and white bread bin with its mouth open

# Just staring at me, like

# I saw bread in there

# I thought, "I'll have toast

# "A little piece of toast"

# But then I started getting older and I hated this, I hated that

# Expensive steak was ludicrous

# And cafes couldn't cater for the finer things in life

# The upper crust was not for me I could tell that

# So I'd go home Switch the kitchen light on

# Put the grill on Slip a slice under

# And have toast

# A little piece of toast

# Cos there's so much to choose from!

# There's brown bread, white bread, all sorts of wholemeal bread

# It comes in funny packages with writing on the side

# But it doesn't matter which one you have

# Just cut the crust off Have it with marmalade or butter

# Cheese, tomatoes, beans, banana

# Or chocolate, if you're strange It doesn't really matter

# Oh, no, it all goes with toast

# A little piece of toast

# I'm going to think about it some... #

HE SCATS

# That's toast

# Just toast

# That's toast

# Yeah, just toast

# So, Friday was my day off

# I went on down the supermarket With my basket in my hand

# Walking from one counter to another

# Trying to find the bread stall But I can't find it anywhere

# I bump into a mother with a baby in her basket

# She says, "Look, I come down here for a bit of piece and quiet

# "Get some bread and go home making toast"

# Just toast

# "I like toast"

# And I said, "Yeah, but I don't half like toast." #

OK, scrape that toast, boys!

SCRAPING

# Ladies and gentlemen, that's toast

# Just toast. #

I can't think about it anymore I've got to go and have some.

Here, listen, I'm getting a bit browned off standing here, as well.

Take that off and... Shall we go and have some toast

Let's go. OK, then. See ya. Night, all.

I'm sure they'll be making a lot of bread out of that one

That's Streetband, and Toast.

Right, lucky for some - particularly for Queen - the number 13,

because they've been there for the second week now,

with their double A-sided single Bicycle Race

and this, Fat Bottom Girls.

# Oh, you gonna take me home tonight

# Oh, down beside that red fire light

# Oh, you gonna let it all hang out

# Fat bottomed girls you make the rocking world go round

# Hey!

# I was just a skinny lad

# Never knew no good from bad

# But I knew life before I left my nursery

# Left alone with big fat Fanny

# She was such a naughty nanny

# Big woman You made a bad boy out of me

# Hey, hey!

# I've been singing with my band

# Across the water, across the land

# I seen every blue-eyed floozy on the way

# But their beauty and their style

# Went kind of smooth after a while

# Take me to them lardy ladies every time!

# Oh, won't you take me home tonight?

# Oh, down beside your red fire light

# Oh, and you give it all you got

# Fat bottomed girls You make the rockin' world go round

# Hey, listen here!

# Now I got mortgages on homes

# I got stiffness in my bones

# Ain't no beauty queens in this locality

# I tell ya!

# Oh, but I still get my pleasure

# Still got my greatest treasure

# Big woman You done made a big man of me!

# Now get this!

# Oh, you gonna take me home tonight?

# Oh, down beside that red fire light

# Oh, you gonna let it all hang out

# Fat bottomed girls You make the rockin' world go round

# Get on your bikes and ride!

# Ooooh, yeah!

# Fat bottom girls! Fat bottom girls!

# Yeah! Yeah! #

Ever since their big hit record It's Only Make Believe,

things have really taken off for Child in a very big way,

and I have a feeling this next single

is about to do the same for them. It's called Still The One.

# Some day, we will be together

# You just carry on

# They took me away from you

# Don't know for how long

# Still, they can't tear us apart

# Though they try to break my heart

# Darling, you know I'll be true

# So hold on, babe

# We'll see it through

# Oh, still the one

# Let me be still the one

# So please don't turn your back on me

# Cos you're all that my eyes can see

# Still the one

# Let me be still the one

# I know we will make it through

# Can't go on without you

# It's too late to turn around

# Have to carry on

# Now I'm paying for the things

# Things that I've done wrong

# Let them say it isn't real

# They can't change the way I feel

# Darling, you know I'll be true

# So hold on, babe

# We'll see it through

# Oh, still the one

# Let me be still the one

# So please don't turn your back on me

# Cos you're all that my eyes can see

# Still the one

# Let me be still the one

# I know we will make it through

# Can't go on without you

# Still the one

# Still the one

# Still the one

# Still the one

# Still the one

# Still the one

# Still the one

# Still the one

# Still the one... #

Well, they'll be celebrating in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, tonight

because their favourite wayward sons have made it to the top.

Quite an achievement for the Boomtown Rats,

this week's number one, with Rat Trap!

# There was a lot of rocking going on that night

# Cruising time for the young bright lights

# Just down past the gasworks by the meat factory door

# The five lamp boys were coming on strong

# The Saturday night city beat had already started

# And the pulse of the corner boys sprang into action

# And young Billy watched it all under the yellow street light

# And said, "Tonight of all nights there's gonna be a fight"

# Billy don't like it living here in this town

# He says the traps have been sprung long before he was born

# He says Hope bites the dust behind all the closed doors

# And pus and grime ooze from its scab-crusted sores

# There's screaming and crying in the high-rise blocks

# It's a rat trap, Billy but you're already caught

# But you can make it if you want to or you need it bad enough

# You're young and good-looking and you're acting kind of tough

# Anyway it's Saturday night time to see what's going down

# Put on the bright suit, Billy Head for the right side of town

# It's only eight o'clock but you're already bored

# You don't know what it is but there's got to be more

# You'd better find a way out Hey, kick down the door

# It's a rat trap and you've been caught

# In this town Billy says everybody tries to tell you what to do

# In this town Billy says everybody says you gotta follow rules

# You walk up to those traffic lights

# Switch from your left to right

# You push in that button and that button comes alight

# It tells you, walk, don't walk Walk, don't walk

# Talk, don't talk Talk, don't talk

# Walk, don't walk Walk, don't walk

# Talk, don't talk Talk, don't talk

# Hey, Billy, take a walk Take a walk, take a walk

# Billy, take a walk Take a walk, take a walk

# Hey, Billy... take a walk with me

# Little Judy's trying to watch Top Of The Pops

# But Mum and Dad are fighting Don't they ever stop?

# She takes off her coat and walks down to the street

# It's cold on that road but it's got that home beat

# Deep down in her pockets she finds 50p

# Hey, is that any way for a young girl to be?

# "I'm gonna get out of school Work in a silk factory

# "Work all the hours God gave me Get myself a little easy money

# Na na na

# Her mind's made up She walks down the road

# Her hands in her pockets Coat buttoned against the cold

# She finally finds Billy down at the Italian cafe

# When he's drunk it's hard to understand what Billy says

# But then he mumbles in his coffee and suddenly roars

# "It's a rat trap, Judy And we've been caught!"

# Rat trap! You've been caught

# It's a rat trap! You've been caught

# It's a rat trap! #

They really are Top Of The Pops this week, and that's all for this week.

I hope you enjoyed the programme and you'll join us next week.

We leave you with the highest new entry in the chart -

Rod Stewart, Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?

Girls: No!

# Sugar

# She sits alone Waiting for suggestions

# He's so nervous Avoiding all her questions

# His lips are dry Her heart is bounding

# Don't you just know exactly what they're thinking?

# If you want my body And you think I'm sexy

# Come on, sugar, let me know

# If you really need me Just reach out and touch me

# Come on, honey, tell me so

# He's acting shy Looking for an answer

# Come on, honey let's spend the night together. #

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