0:00:02 > 0:00:04Hello! Just over a day to go. It's Top Of The Pops!
0:00:41 > 0:00:44APPLAUSE
0:00:59 > 0:01:02# Don't believe me if I tell you
0:01:02 > 0:01:06# Not a word of this is true
0:01:06 > 0:01:08# Don't believe me if I tell you
0:01:08 > 0:01:11# Especially if I tell you
0:01:11 > 0:01:12# I'm in love with you
0:01:12 > 0:01:16# Don't believe me if I tell you
0:01:16 > 0:01:20# That I wrote this song for you
0:01:20 > 0:01:23# There just might be some other silly pretty girl
0:01:23 > 0:01:27# I'm singin' it to
0:01:27 > 0:01:30# Don't believe a word
0:01:30 > 0:01:33# Cos words are only spoken
0:01:33 > 0:01:36# And your heart is like a promise
0:01:36 > 0:01:39# Meant to be broken... #
0:02:09 > 0:02:11# Don't believe a word
0:02:11 > 0:02:16# Cos words can tell lies
0:02:16 > 0:02:17# And lies are no comfort
0:02:17 > 0:02:20# When there's tears in your eyes
0:02:20 > 0:02:25# Don't believe me if I tell you
0:02:25 > 0:02:30# Not a word of this is true
0:02:30 > 0:02:32# Don't believe me if I tell you
0:02:32 > 0:02:36# Especially if I tell you I'm in love with you
0:02:36 > 0:02:39# Don't believe a word
0:02:39 > 0:02:42# No don't believe a word
0:02:42 > 0:02:46# Don't believe me don't believe me Don't believe me don't believe me
0:02:48 > 0:02:50# Hey! Don't! #
0:03:04 > 0:03:05APPLAUSE
0:03:05 > 0:03:06What about that?
0:03:06 > 0:03:09Thin Lizzy get us underway. Just had an argument with those guys.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12I reckon that'll reach number one, they don't think it will.
0:03:12 > 0:03:15I reckon that'll be the second number one in January of '77.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18We'll have to wait and see. Thin Lizzy Don't Believe A Word
0:03:18 > 0:03:21and on Top Of The Pops, here's Barry Biggs
0:03:21 > 0:03:23and The Story Of That Sideshow.
0:03:25 > 0:03:28# Step right up hurry hurry
0:03:28 > 0:03:33# Before the show begins
0:03:33 > 0:03:37# My friends
0:03:37 > 0:03:41# Stand in line get your tickets
0:03:41 > 0:03:45# I hope you will attend
0:03:45 > 0:03:50# It'll only cost you 50 cents to see
0:03:50 > 0:03:58# What life has done to those Like you and me
0:03:58 > 0:04:02# See the man with the broken heart
0:04:02 > 0:04:05# You'll see that he is sad
0:04:05 > 0:04:08# He's hurt so bad
0:04:08 > 0:04:11# So bad so bad
0:04:11 > 0:04:14# See the girl who has lost
0:04:14 > 0:04:18# The only love she's ever had
0:04:18 > 0:04:24# There's got to be no sadder show to see
0:04:24 > 0:04:30# No doubt about it satisfaction's guaranteed
0:04:30 > 0:04:33# So let the sideshow begin
0:04:33 > 0:04:36# Hurry hurry step right on in
0:04:36 > 0:04:40# Can't afford to pass it by
0:04:40 > 0:04:43# Guaranteed to make you cry
0:04:43 > 0:04:46# Let the sideshow begin
0:04:46 > 0:04:49# Step right on in
0:04:49 > 0:04:52# Can't afford to pass it by
0:04:52 > 0:04:55# Guaranteed to make you cry... #
0:05:05 > 0:05:09# So let the sideshow begin
0:05:09 > 0:05:13# Hurry hurry step right on in
0:05:13 > 0:05:16# Can't afford to pass it by
0:05:16 > 0:05:19# Guaranteed to make you cry
0:05:19 > 0:05:21# Let the sideshow begin
0:05:21 > 0:05:25# Hurry hurry step right on in
0:05:25 > 0:05:27# Can't afford to pass it by... #
0:05:27 > 0:05:28APPLAUSE
0:05:28 > 0:05:32Barry Biggs, this week's number 23, and The Sideshow.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34Congratulations to Barry.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36A further six places up is Status Quo,
0:05:36 > 0:05:38and they, at this particular moment,
0:05:38 > 0:05:40are living on the Wild, Wild Side Of Life.
0:05:53 > 0:05:59# Well, you wouldn't read my letters if I wrote you
0:06:01 > 0:06:05# You ask me not to call you on the phone
0:06:07 > 0:06:12# Well, there's something I've been waiting for to tell you
0:06:14 > 0:06:19# So I wrote it in the words of a song
0:06:21 > 0:06:26# Now the glamour of the gay nightlife has lured you
0:06:28 > 0:06:32# To the places where the wine and liquor flow
0:06:34 > 0:06:39# Well, you went to be somebody else's baby
0:06:41 > 0:06:46# And forget the truest love you ever know
0:06:48 > 0:06:53# I never knew there were honky-tonk angels
0:06:55 > 0:06:59# Oh, I might have known you'd never make a wife
0:07:01 > 0:07:07# You gave up the only one that ever loved you
0:07:10 > 0:07:14# And went back to that wild side of life
0:07:31 > 0:07:37# Well, the glamour of the gay nightlife has lured you
0:07:39 > 0:07:43# To the places where the wine and liquor flow
0:07:45 > 0:07:50# Well, you went to be somebody else's baby
0:07:52 > 0:07:54# And forget the truest love... #
0:07:54 > 0:07:57APPLAUSE
0:07:57 > 0:07:59The Wild Side Of Life, Status Quo.
0:07:59 > 0:08:03If you get tipped for the stardom bit and you're called
0:08:03 > 0:08:06"Face of '77" or something, it can be a bit of a lumber.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09But I'm prepared to lumber this guy - he's come over from Australia,
0:08:09 > 0:08:14he's had a good '76, but '77's going to be marvellous for John Christie.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17# Here we are once again
0:08:17 > 0:08:21# Another year at an end
0:08:21 > 0:08:23# We've had a few ups and downs
0:08:23 > 0:08:25# But we're still the same
0:08:28 > 0:08:30# Remember last June in Spain
0:08:30 > 0:08:33# When I smiled at a senorita
0:08:33 > 0:08:36# You said "Never speak to me again"
0:08:37 > 0:08:40# Then you left and you said you'd meet a Romeo
0:08:40 > 0:08:42# What's his name, you know?
0:08:42 > 0:08:47# There was never really anyone else but you and me
0:08:47 > 0:08:49# And I'd like to say
0:08:49 > 0:08:51# I wouldn't have it any other way
0:08:51 > 0:08:53# Here's to you
0:08:53 > 0:08:55# Here's to me
0:08:55 > 0:08:57# Here's to love
0:08:58 > 0:09:01# Time only passes by
0:09:01 > 0:09:04# Very soon you wonder why
0:09:04 > 0:09:09# You never did all the things that you wanted to
0:09:11 > 0:09:14# But being here alone with you
0:09:14 > 0:09:20# Remembering all those happy moments we shared, us two
0:09:20 > 0:09:26# Building our lives in a way that only lovers know how to do
0:09:26 > 0:09:30# And by the way, I'm still very much in the love with you
0:09:30 > 0:09:33# And I'd like to say
0:09:33 > 0:09:36# I wouldn't have it any other way
0:09:36 > 0:09:37# Here's to you
0:09:37 > 0:09:39# Here's to me
0:09:39 > 0:09:40# Here's to love
0:09:43 > 0:09:46# It really doesn't matter what the future holds
0:09:46 > 0:09:47# We'll see it through
0:09:49 > 0:09:53# After all you've got me and I've got you
0:09:55 > 0:09:58# You, oh-h-h-h
0:09:58 > 0:10:03# Should auld acquaintance be forgot
0:10:03 > 0:10:10# And never brought to mind
0:10:10 > 0:10:16# Should auld acquaintance be forgot
0:10:16 > 0:10:18# Here's to you
0:10:18 > 0:10:19# Here's to me
0:10:19 > 0:10:24# By the way, I'm still very much in love with you
0:10:24 > 0:10:27# And I'd like to say
0:10:27 > 0:10:30# I wouldn't have it any other way
0:10:30 > 0:10:32# Here's to you
0:10:34 > 0:10:35# Here's to me
0:10:37 > 0:10:40# Here's to love
0:10:40 > 0:10:46# Should auld acquaintance be forgot
0:10:46 > 0:10:52# And never brought to mind
0:10:52 > 0:10:59# Should auld acquaintance be forgot
0:10:59 > 0:11:05# For the sake of auld lang syne
0:11:06 > 0:11:09# Here's to you
0:11:09 > 0:11:12# Here's to me
0:11:12 > 0:11:17# Here's to love
0:11:17 > 0:11:24# We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
0:11:24 > 0:11:30# For the sake of auld lang syne
0:11:30 > 0:11:33# Here's to you, baby
0:11:33 > 0:11:37# Here's to me
0:11:37 > 0:11:41# And here's to love
0:11:41 > 0:11:49# Here's to lo-o-o-o-ve. #
0:11:52 > 0:11:56APPLAUSE
0:12:00 > 0:12:03John Christie. What a strange thing over my left shoulder.
0:12:03 > 0:12:07As we near the end of the year, it's worth looking back over the year,
0:12:07 > 0:12:11and looking at one of the most influential groups of individuals to come to this country.
0:12:11 > 0:12:16For the very first time, we present the men from the International Monetary Fund.
0:12:32 > 0:12:37# Looking back on when I was a little nappy-headed boy
0:12:41 > 0:12:46# Then my only worry was for Christmas what would be my toy
0:12:50 > 0:12:52# Even though we sometimes
0:12:52 > 0:12:54# Would not get a thing
0:12:54 > 0:12:59# We were happy with the joy the day would bring
0:12:59 > 0:13:01# Sneaking out the back door
0:13:01 > 0:13:04# To hang out with those hoodlum friends of mine
0:13:08 > 0:13:10# Greeted at the back door
0:13:10 > 0:13:13# Boy, I thought I told you not to go outside
0:13:17 > 0:13:22# Tryin' your best to bring the water to your eyes
0:13:22 > 0:13:26# Thinkin' it might stop her from woopin' your behind
0:13:26 > 0:13:27# I wish those days
0:13:27 > 0:13:29# Could
0:13:29 > 0:13:30# Come back once more
0:13:30 > 0:13:32# Why did those days
0:13:32 > 0:13:35# E-ver have to go?
0:13:35 > 0:13:37# I wish those days
0:13:37 > 0:13:38# Could
0:13:38 > 0:13:39# Come back once more
0:13:39 > 0:13:41# Why did those days
0:13:41 > 0:13:44# E-ver have to go?
0:13:44 > 0:13:45# Cos I love them so... #
0:13:53 > 0:13:56# Brother says he's tellin'
0:13:56 > 0:13:59# 'Bout you playin' doctor with that girl
0:14:03 > 0:14:05# Just don't tell and I'll give you
0:14:05 > 0:14:08# Anything you want in this whole wide world
0:14:12 > 0:14:14# Mamma gives you money
0:14:14 > 0:14:16# For Sunday school
0:14:16 > 0:14:21# You trade yours for candy after church is through
0:14:21 > 0:14:26# Smokin' cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall
0:14:27 > 0:14:29# You nasty boy
0:14:29 > 0:14:35# Teacher sends you to the principal's office down the hall
0:14:39 > 0:14:44# You grow up and learn that kinda thing ain't right
0:14:44 > 0:14:48# But while you were doing it it sure felt outta sight
0:14:48 > 0:14:49# I wish those days
0:14:49 > 0:14:50# Could
0:14:50 > 0:14:52# Come back once more
0:14:52 > 0:14:54# Why did those days
0:14:54 > 0:14:56# E-ver have to go?
0:14:56 > 0:14:58# I wish those days
0:14:58 > 0:14:59# Could
0:14:59 > 0:15:01# Come back once more
0:15:01 > 0:15:03# Why did those days
0:15:03 > 0:15:05# E-ver have to go? #
0:15:10 > 0:15:12APPLAUSE
0:15:13 > 0:15:17Legs & Company, of course, and that's Stevie Wonder's I Wish.
0:15:17 > 0:15:21Well, it's the season of parties, and grandma's holding her usual annual thing.
0:15:21 > 0:15:26Well, it'll be the usual thing. Stale donuts, and that elderberry wine that tastes like cocoa.
0:15:26 > 0:15:29But, anyway, Paul Nicholas is going to try make it sound
0:15:29 > 0:15:32a bit of an occasion, one way or another.
0:15:38 > 0:15:42# I brushed my bowler and I grabbed my cane
0:15:42 > 0:15:45# 11.30 I was on my way
0:15:45 > 0:15:47# The stars are shining bright
0:15:47 > 0:15:49# And I'm feeling just right
0:15:49 > 0:15:53# For Grandma's party tonight
0:15:53 > 0:15:57# Across the city and I reach the spot
0:15:57 > 0:16:00# The snow was falling in the parking lot
0:16:00 > 0:16:04# Looks like the whole world's here for the night of the year
0:16:04 > 0:16:08# It's Grandma's party tonight
0:16:08 > 0:16:11# I tell you everybody's going to the party
0:16:11 > 0:16:15# Everybody's going to the party
0:16:15 > 0:16:18# Everybody's going to the party
0:16:18 > 0:16:22# It's Grandma's party tonight
0:16:22 > 0:16:26# Bells are ringing and the captain's here
0:16:26 > 0:16:30# Mister Sax is swinging from the chandelier
0:16:30 > 0:16:34# It's almost 12 o'clock and we're ready to rock
0:16:34 > 0:16:36# At Grandma's party tonight
0:16:36 > 0:16:41# I tell you everybody's going to the party
0:16:41 > 0:16:45# Everybody's going to the party
0:16:45 > 0:16:49# Everybody's going to the party
0:16:49 > 0:16:51# It's Grandma's party tonight... #
0:17:08 > 0:17:12# It's Grandma's party It's Grandma's party
0:17:12 > 0:17:16# It's Grandma's party tonight
0:17:16 > 0:17:20# I tell you everybody's going to the party
0:17:20 > 0:17:23# Everybody's going to the party
0:17:23 > 0:17:30# Everybody's going to the party It's Grandma's party tonight
0:17:30 > 0:17:34# I tell you everybody's going to the party
0:17:34 > 0:17:38# Everybody's going to the party
0:17:38 > 0:17:44# Everybody's going to the party It's Grandma's party tonight. #
0:17:44 > 0:17:46APPLAUSE
0:17:49 > 0:17:50Absolutely amazing.
0:17:50 > 0:17:52Go and lie down, and rub yourself with the Radio Times.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55Paul Nicholas, and he was at Grandma's Party.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58This record is growing on me so quickly it's untrue.
0:17:58 > 0:18:00It's obviously growing on a lot of other people, as well,
0:18:00 > 0:18:03because it's just outside the top 30.
0:18:03 > 0:18:07It comes from Liverpool Express, and Every Man Must Have A Dream.
0:18:13 > 0:18:17# Every man must have a dream
0:18:21 > 0:18:26# Every play must have a scene
0:18:29 > 0:18:33# Every heartbreak has a heart
0:18:37 > 0:18:42# Every child must have a start
0:18:44 > 0:18:48# Every lover has a love
0:18:51 > 0:18:54# Every faith has god above
0:18:54 > 0:19:00# Oh yeah, but all these things that you're doin'
0:19:00 > 0:19:08# Leave me in a ruin in the same old way
0:19:12 > 0:19:15# Every morning has its day
0:19:19 > 0:19:24# Every woman has her way
0:19:26 > 0:19:29# Every road must have an end
0:19:32 > 0:19:38# Great pretenders must pretend
0:19:39 > 0:19:43# Every thing you need is free
0:19:46 > 0:19:49# When the one you need is me
0:19:49 > 0:19:55# Oh yeah, but all these things that you're doin'
0:19:55 > 0:20:03# Leave me in a ruin in the same old way
0:20:06 > 0:20:10# I used to be a dreamer
0:20:13 > 0:20:16# But now I'm just a man
0:20:20 > 0:20:24# I used to be alone
0:20:24 > 0:20:27# But I know you'd never
0:20:30 > 0:20:32# Understand
0:20:36 > 0:20:40# Every man must have a dream
0:20:43 > 0:20:48# Every picture paints a scene
0:20:50 > 0:20:54# Every heartbreak has a heart
0:20:57 > 0:21:02# Every child must have a start
0:21:04 > 0:21:07# Every lover has a love
0:21:10 > 0:21:14# Every faith has god above
0:21:14 > 0:21:19# Oh yeah, but all these things that you're doin'
0:21:19 > 0:21:24# Leave me in a ruin
0:21:24 > 0:21:27# In the same old way
0:21:27 > 0:21:34# I saw her today. #
0:21:49 > 0:21:51What a fabulous song.
0:21:51 > 0:21:56Horribly over-acted at the end, but what a fabulous song. Mike Oldfield, he's in Portsmouth.
0:21:56 > 0:21:59If you don't recognise the ladies, don't worry, they're drying their hankies.
0:23:56 > 0:24:02Mike Oldfield and Portsmouth. It's number one time on this, er, well, pre-Christmas Top Of The Pops.
0:24:02 > 0:24:05And a couple of weeks before Christmas, people are always saying,
0:24:05 > 0:24:07"What's going to be the Christmas number one?"
0:24:07 > 0:24:10Well, Johnny Mathis has made it with the story of what happens
0:24:10 > 0:24:12When A Child Is Born.
0:24:15 > 0:24:22# Ah-ah-ah-ah
0:24:23 > 0:24:30# Ah-ah-ah-ah
0:24:31 > 0:24:37# Ah-ah-ah-ah
0:24:38 > 0:24:41# Ah-ah-ah-ah
0:24:42 > 0:24:45# Ah-ah-ah-ah
0:24:46 > 0:24:49# A ray of hope
0:24:49 > 0:24:53# Flickers in the sky
0:24:54 > 0:24:58# A tiny star
0:24:58 > 0:25:01# Lights up way up high
0:25:03 > 0:25:05# All across the land
0:25:05 > 0:25:09# Dawns a brand-new morn
0:25:10 > 0:25:13# This comes to pass
0:25:14 > 0:25:17# When a child is born
0:25:18 > 0:25:21# A silent wish
0:25:21 > 0:25:25# Sails the seven seas
0:25:26 > 0:25:28# The winds of change
0:25:29 > 0:25:35# Whisper in the trees
0:25:35 > 0:25:36# And the walls of doubt
0:25:36 > 0:25:40# Crumble, tossed and torn
0:25:40 > 0:25:44# This comes to pass
0:25:44 > 0:25:47# When a child is born
0:25:49 > 0:25:52# A rosy hue
0:25:52 > 0:25:56# Settles all around
0:25:56 > 0:26:00# You've got the feel
0:26:00 > 0:26:03# You're on solid ground
0:26:05 > 0:26:07# For a spell or two
0:26:07 > 0:26:10# No-one seems forlorn
0:26:11 > 0:26:16# This comes to pass
0:26:16 > 0:26:19# When a child is born... #
0:26:22 > 0:26:25And all of this happens
0:26:25 > 0:26:27because the world is waiting.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30Waiting for one child.
0:26:30 > 0:26:34Black, white, yellow, no-one knows.
0:26:34 > 0:26:37But a child that will grow up
0:26:37 > 0:26:40and turn tears to laughter,
0:26:40 > 0:26:42war to peace, hate to love
0:26:42 > 0:26:45and everyone to everyone's neighbour.
0:26:45 > 0:26:48And misery and suffering
0:26:48 > 0:26:49will be words to be forgotten,
0:26:49 > 0:26:52forever.
0:26:52 > 0:26:54# It's all a dream
0:26:56 > 0:26:58# And illusion now
0:27:00 > 0:27:02# It must come true
0:27:04 > 0:27:07# Sometime, soon, somehow
0:27:09 > 0:27:12# All across the land
0:27:12 > 0:27:14# Dawns a brand-new morn
0:27:15 > 0:27:18# This comes to pass
0:27:19 > 0:27:24# When a child is born
0:27:24 > 0:27:27# Ah-ah-ah-ah
0:27:27 > 0:27:31# Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
0:27:32 > 0:27:35# Ah-ah-ah-ah... #
0:27:36 > 0:27:40Caught me for a moment, there. Anyway, that's number one from, thank you for the dance,
0:27:40 > 0:27:44from Johnny Mathis. Don't forget, Christmas Day, Top Of The Pops, and on Sunday, Top Of The Pops.
0:27:44 > 0:27:48A lot of good music coming your way. We wish you a very Merry Christmas, indeed,
0:27:48 > 0:27:50and we leave you with Jethro Tull. Good night. Bye-bye.
0:27:51 > 0:27:56# Now is the solstice of the year
0:27:56 > 0:28:01# Winter is the glad song that you hear
0:28:01 > 0:28:06# Seven maids move in seven time
0:28:06 > 0:28:11# Have the lads up ready in a line
0:28:14 > 0:28:20# Ring out these bells
0:28:20 > 0:28:26# Ring out, ring solstice bells
0:28:26 > 0:28:31# Ring solstice bells
0:28:39 > 0:28:45# Join together beneath the mistletoe
0:28:45 > 0:28:48# By the holy oak whereon it grows
0:28:50 > 0:28:55# Seven druids dance in seven time
0:28:55 > 0:29:00# Sing the song the bells call loudly chiming
0:29:02 > 0:29:07# Ring out these bells
0:29:08 > 0:29:14# Ring out, ring solstice bells
0:29:15 > 0:29:20# Ring solstice bells... #