23/12/76 Top of the Pops

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APPLAUSE

# Don't believe me if I tell you

# Not a word of this is true

# Don't believe me if I tell you

# Especially if I tell you

# I'm in love with you

# Don't believe me if I tell you

# That I wrote this song for you

# There just might be some other silly pretty girl

# I'm singin' it to

# Don't believe a word

# Cos words are only spoken

# And your heart is like a promise

# Meant to be broken... #

# Don't believe a word

# Cos words can tell lies

# And lies are no comfort

# When there's tears in your eyes

# Don't believe me if I tell you

# Not a word of this is true

# Don't believe me if I tell you

# Especially if I tell you I'm in love with you

# Don't believe a word

# No don't believe a word

# Don't believe me don't believe me Don't believe me don't believe me

# Hey! Don't! #

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What about that?

Thin Lizzy get us underway. Just had an argument with those guys.

I reckon that'll reach number one, they don't think it will.

I reckon that'll be the second number one in January of '77.

We'll have to wait and see. Thin Lizzy Don't Believe A Word

and on Top Of The Pops, here's Barry Biggs

and The Story Of That Sideshow.

# Step right up hurry hurry

# Before the show begins

# My friends

# Stand in line get your tickets

# I hope you will attend

# It'll only cost you 50 cents to see

# What life has done to those Like you and me

# See the man with the broken heart

# You'll see that he is sad

# He's hurt so bad

# So bad so bad

# See the girl who has lost

# The only love she's ever had

# There's got to be no sadder show to see

# No doubt about it satisfaction's guaranteed

# So let the sideshow begin

# Hurry hurry step right on in

# Can't afford to pass it by

# Guaranteed to make you cry

# Let the sideshow begin

# Step right on in

# Can't afford to pass it by

# Guaranteed to make you cry... #

# So let the sideshow begin

# Hurry hurry step right on in

# Can't afford to pass it by

# Guaranteed to make you cry

# Let the sideshow begin

# Hurry hurry step right on in

# Can't afford to pass it by... #

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Barry Biggs, this week's number 23, and The Sideshow.

Congratulations to Barry.

A further six places up is Status Quo,

and they, at this particular moment,

are living on the Wild, Wild Side Of Life.

# Well, you wouldn't read my letters if I wrote you

# You ask me not to call you on the phone

# Well, there's something I've been waiting for to tell you

# So I wrote it in the words of a song

# Now the glamour of the gay nightlife has lured you

# To the places where the wine and liquor flow

# Well, you went to be somebody else's baby

# And forget the truest love you ever know

# I never knew there were honky-tonk angels

# Oh, I might have known you'd never make a wife

# You gave up the only one that ever loved you

# And went back to that wild side of life

# Well, the glamour of the gay nightlife has lured you

# To the places where the wine and liquor flow

# Well, you went to be somebody else's baby

# And forget the truest love... #

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The Wild Side Of Life, Status Quo.

If you get tipped for the stardom bit and you're called

"Face of '77" or something, it can be a bit of a lumber.

But I'm prepared to lumber this guy - he's come over from Australia,

he's had a good '76, but '77's going to be marvellous for John Christie.

# Here we are once again

# Another year at an end

# We've had a few ups and downs

# But we're still the same

# Remember last June in Spain

# When I smiled at a senorita

# You said "Never speak to me again"

# Then you left and you said you'd meet a Romeo

# What's his name, you know?

# There was never really anyone else but you and me

# And I'd like to say

# I wouldn't have it any other way

# Here's to you

# Here's to me

# Here's to love

# Time only passes by

# Very soon you wonder why

# You never did all the things that you wanted to

# But being here alone with you

# Remembering all those happy moments we shared, us two

# Building our lives in a way that only lovers know how to do

# And by the way, I'm still very much in the love with you

# And I'd like to say

# I wouldn't have it any other way

# Here's to you

# Here's to me

# Here's to love

# It really doesn't matter what the future holds

# We'll see it through

# After all you've got me and I've got you

# You, oh-h-h-h

# Should auld acquaintance be forgot

# And never brought to mind

# Should auld acquaintance be forgot

# Here's to you

# Here's to me

# By the way, I'm still very much in love with you

# And I'd like to say

# I wouldn't have it any other way

# Here's to you

# Here's to me

# Here's to love

# Should auld acquaintance be forgot

# And never brought to mind

# Should auld acquaintance be forgot

# For the sake of auld lang syne

# Here's to you

# Here's to me

# Here's to love

# We'll take a cup o' kindness yet

# For the sake of auld lang syne

# Here's to you, baby

# Here's to me

# And here's to love

# Here's to lo-o-o-o-ve. #

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John Christie. What a strange thing over my left shoulder.

As we near the end of the year, it's worth looking back over the year,

and looking at one of the most influential groups of individuals to come to this country.

For the very first time, we present the men from the International Monetary Fund.

# Looking back on when I was a little nappy-headed boy

# Then my only worry was for Christmas what would be my toy

# Even though we sometimes

# Would not get a thing

# We were happy with the joy the day would bring

# Sneaking out the back door

# To hang out with those hoodlum friends of mine

# Greeted at the back door

# Boy, I thought I told you not to go outside

# Tryin' your best to bring the water to your eyes

# Thinkin' it might stop her from woopin' your behind

# I wish those days

# Could

# Come back once more

# Why did those days

# E-ver have to go?

# I wish those days

# Could

# Come back once more

# Why did those days

# E-ver have to go?

# Cos I love them so... #

# Brother says he's tellin'

# 'Bout you playin' doctor with that girl

# Just don't tell and I'll give you

# Anything you want in this whole wide world

# Mamma gives you money

# For Sunday school

# You trade yours for candy after church is through

# Smokin' cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall

# You nasty boy

# Teacher sends you to the principal's office down the hall

# You grow up and learn that kinda thing ain't right

# But while you were doing it it sure felt outta sight

# I wish those days

# Could

# Come back once more

# Why did those days

# E-ver have to go?

# I wish those days

# Could

# Come back once more

# Why did those days

# E-ver have to go? #

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Legs & Company, of course, and that's Stevie Wonder's I Wish.

Well, it's the season of parties, and grandma's holding her usual annual thing.

Well, it'll be the usual thing. Stale donuts, and that elderberry wine that tastes like cocoa.

But, anyway, Paul Nicholas is going to try make it sound

a bit of an occasion, one way or another.

# I brushed my bowler and I grabbed my cane

# 11.30 I was on my way

# The stars are shining bright

# And I'm feeling just right

# For Grandma's party tonight

# Across the city and I reach the spot

# The snow was falling in the parking lot

# Looks like the whole world's here for the night of the year

# It's Grandma's party tonight

# I tell you everybody's going to the party

# Everybody's going to the party

# Everybody's going to the party

# It's Grandma's party tonight

# Bells are ringing and the captain's here

# Mister Sax is swinging from the chandelier

# It's almost 12 o'clock and we're ready to rock

# At Grandma's party tonight

# I tell you everybody's going to the party

# Everybody's going to the party

# Everybody's going to the party

# It's Grandma's party tonight... #

# It's Grandma's party It's Grandma's party

# It's Grandma's party tonight

# I tell you everybody's going to the party

# Everybody's going to the party

# Everybody's going to the party It's Grandma's party tonight

# I tell you everybody's going to the party

# Everybody's going to the party

# Everybody's going to the party It's Grandma's party tonight. #

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Absolutely amazing.

Go and lie down, and rub yourself with the Radio Times.

Paul Nicholas, and he was at Grandma's Party.

This record is growing on me so quickly it's untrue.

It's obviously growing on a lot of other people, as well,

because it's just outside the top 30.

It comes from Liverpool Express, and Every Man Must Have A Dream.

# Every man must have a dream

# Every play must have a scene

# Every heartbreak has a heart

# Every child must have a start

# Every lover has a love

# Every faith has god above

# Oh yeah, but all these things that you're doin'

# Leave me in a ruin in the same old way

# Every morning has its day

# Every woman has her way

# Every road must have an end

# Great pretenders must pretend

# Every thing you need is free

# When the one you need is me

# Oh yeah, but all these things that you're doin'

# Leave me in a ruin in the same old way

# I used to be a dreamer

# But now I'm just a man

# I used to be alone

# But I know you'd never

# Understand

# Every man must have a dream

# Every picture paints a scene

# Every heartbreak has a heart

# Every child must have a start

# Every lover has a love

# Every faith has god above

# Oh yeah, but all these things that you're doin'

# Leave me in a ruin

# In the same old way

# I saw her today. #

What a fabulous song.

Horribly over-acted at the end, but what a fabulous song. Mike Oldfield, he's in Portsmouth.

If you don't recognise the ladies, don't worry, they're drying their hankies.

Mike Oldfield and Portsmouth. It's number one time on this, er, well, pre-Christmas Top Of The Pops.

And a couple of weeks before Christmas, people are always saying,

"What's going to be the Christmas number one?"

Well, Johnny Mathis has made it with the story of what happens

When A Child Is Born.

# Ah-ah-ah-ah

# Ah-ah-ah-ah

# Ah-ah-ah-ah

# Ah-ah-ah-ah

# Ah-ah-ah-ah

# A ray of hope

# Flickers in the sky

# A tiny star

# Lights up way up high

# All across the land

# Dawns a brand-new morn

# This comes to pass

# When a child is born

# A silent wish

# Sails the seven seas

# The winds of change

# Whisper in the trees

# And the walls of doubt

# Crumble, tossed and torn

# This comes to pass

# When a child is born

# A rosy hue

# Settles all around

# You've got the feel

# You're on solid ground

# For a spell or two

# No-one seems forlorn

# This comes to pass

# When a child is born... #

And all of this happens

because the world is waiting.

Waiting for one child.

Black, white, yellow, no-one knows.

But a child that will grow up

and turn tears to laughter,

war to peace, hate to love

and everyone to everyone's neighbour.

And misery and suffering

will be words to be forgotten,

forever.

# It's all a dream

# And illusion now

# It must come true

# Sometime, soon, somehow

# All across the land

# Dawns a brand-new morn

# This comes to pass

# When a child is born

# Ah-ah-ah-ah

# Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

# Ah-ah-ah-ah... #

Caught me for a moment, there. Anyway, that's number one from, thank you for the dance,

from Johnny Mathis. Don't forget, Christmas Day, Top Of The Pops, and on Sunday, Top Of The Pops.

A lot of good music coming your way. We wish you a very Merry Christmas, indeed,

and we leave you with Jethro Tull. Good night. Bye-bye.

# Now is the solstice of the year

# Winter is the glad song that you hear

# Seven maids move in seven time

# Have the lads up ready in a line

# Ring out these bells

# Ring out, ring solstice bells

# Ring solstice bells

# Join together beneath the mistletoe

# By the holy oak whereon it grows

# Seven druids dance in seven time

# Sing the song the bells call loudly chiming

# Ring out these bells

# Ring out, ring solstice bells

# Ring solstice bells... #