24/08/1978 Top of the Pops

Don't touch that dial because the hits are on parade.

APPLAUSE

# Thought I had a fighting chance at one time

# I never ever thought I would lose

# But I never saw her sneak up behind

# I guess I always knew

# She's gonna win

# She's gonna win

# She knows me inside out

# I'm afraid she knows me outside in

# I can't escape at all, these days

# She knows exactly where I've been

# She's gonna win

# She's gonna win

# Let me win, let me win

# Let me win one time

# Let me win, let me win

# Let me win this time round

# Don't pull me down

# Let me win, let me win

# Let me win one time

# Let me win, let me win

# Let me win this time round

# Don't pull me down

# Not this time round

# She's gonna win

# She's gonna win

# Love is like a constant battle

# Fighting for identity

# But when I get to the end of this war

# She's gonna put the chains on me

# She's gonna win

# She's gonna win

# Oh!

# She's gonna win

# She's gonna win

# Let me win, let me win

# Let me win one time

# Let me win, let me win

# Let me win this time round

# Don't pull me down

# Let me win, let me win

# Let me win one time

# Let me win, let me win

# Let me win this time round

# Don't pull me down

# Or this time round

# She's gonna win

# She's gonna win

# She's gonna win

# She's gonna win

# She's gonna win

# She's gonna win

# She's gonna win. #

From Scotland, that's Bilbo with their new single She's Gonna Win,

opening up what promises to be a very exciting Top of the Pops.

David Essex has really undergone a remarkable

transformation from being star of pop to star of stage,

with his really startling performance of Evita.

And from that stage production comes this new single - Oh, What A Circus.

# Salve regina mater misericordiae

# Vita dulcedo et spes nostra

# Salve, salve regina

# Ad te clamamus exules filii Eva

# Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes

# O clemens o pia

# Oh what a circus, oh what a show

# Argentina has gone to town

# Over the death of an actress called Eva Peron

# We've all gone crazy

# Mourning all day and mourning all night

# Falling over ourselves to get all of the misery right

# Oh what an exit, that's how to go

# When they're ringing your curtain down

# Demand to be buried like Eva Peron

# It's quite a sunset

# And good for the country in a roundabout way

# We've made the front page of all the world's papers today

# But who is this Santa Evita?

# Why all this howling, hysterical sorrow?

# What kind of goddess has lived among us?

# How will we ever get by without her?

# Salve regina mater misericordiae

# Vita dulcedo et spes nostra

# Salve, salve regina

# Ad te clamamus exules filii Eva

# Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes

# O clemens o pia

# She had her moments, she had some style

# The best show in town was the crowd

# Outside the Casa Rosada crying, "Eva Peron"

# But that's all gone now

# As soon as the smoke from the funeral clears

# We're all gonna see and how

# She did nothing for years!

# You let down your people, Evita

# You were supposed to have been immortal

# That's all they wanted, not much to ask for

# But in the end you could not deliver

-# Salve regina mater misericordiae

-Oh, what a circus!

# Vita dulcedo et spes nostra

-# Salve, salve regina

-Oh, what a show!

-# Ad te clamamus exules filii Eva

-You let down your people

-# Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes

-Your people, Evita, Evita!

# O clemens o pia

# Salve regina mater misericordiae

# Vita dulcedo et spes nostra

# Salve, salve regina... #

APPLAUSE

What a popular song from the stage production of Evita

in which David Essex plays Che Guevara. And Oh, What A Circus.

If you've ever wondered whether blondes have more fun or not,

just look and listen and wonder no more

as we hear Debbie Harry and Blondie and their new 45.

This is called Picture This.

# All I want is a room with a view

# A sight worth seeing, a vision of you

# All I want is a room with view

# Oh-oh oh-oh-oh

# I will give you my finest hour

# The one I spent watching you shower

# I will give you my finest hour

# Oh, yeah

# All I want is a photo in my wallet

# A small remembrance of something more solid

# All I want is a picture of you

# Picture this - a day in December

# Picture this - freezing cold weather

# You got clouds on your lids and you'd be on the skids

# If it weren't for your job at the garage

# If you could only oh-oh

# Picture this - a sky full of thunder

# Picture this - my telephone number

# One and one is what I'm telling you

# Oh, yeah

# All I want is 20-20 vision

# A total portrait with no omissions

# All I want is a vision of you, oh-oh

# If you can picture this - a day in December

# Picture this - freezing cold weather

# You got clouds on your lids and you'd be on the skids

# If it weren't for your job at the garage

# If you could only oh-oh

# Picture this - a sky full of thunder

# Picture this - my telephone number

# One and one is what I'm telling you

# Get a pocket computer

# Try to do what you used to do, yeah. #

APPLAUSE

From what I consider to be one of the best single releases

of the year, Blondie. And that's Picture This.

From one of the best singles of the year to one of the most

bizarre of the decade. Got to be Jilted John.

# I've been going out with a girl

# Her name is Julie

# But last night she said to me

# When we were watching telly

This is what she said!

# She said, "Listen, John, I love you

# "But there's this bloke I fancy

# "I don't want to two time you, so it's the end for you and me"

# "Who's this bloke?" I asked her

# "Goooooordon," she replied

# "Not that puff," I said dismayed

# "Yes, but he's no puff," she cried

He's more of a man than you'll ever be!

Here we go, two, three, four!

# I was so upset that I cried all the way to the chip shop

# When I came out there was Gordon, standing at the bus stop

And guess who was with him?

Yeah, Julie, and they were both laughing at me!

# Oh, she is cruel and heartless to pack me for Gordon

# Just cos he's better looking than me

# Just cos he's cool and trendy

# But I know he's a moron

# Gordon is a moron

# Gordon is a moron

# Gordon is a moron

Here we go, two, three, four!

# Oh she's a slag and he's a creep

# She's a tart, he's very cheap

# She is a slut, he thinks he's tough

# She is a bitch, he is a puff

# Yeah, yeah, it's not fair

# Yeah, yeah, it's not fair

I'm so upset!

# I'm so upset

# I'm so upset, yeah, yeah

-I ought to smash his face in

-# Yeah, yeah, it's not fair

Yeah, but he's bigger than me, isn't he?

I know, I'll get my mate Barry to hit him.

-# Yeah, yeah, it's not fair

-He'd flatten him!

# Yeah, yeah, it's not fair

Yeah, but Barry's a mate of Gordon's, in'e?

-# Yeah, yeah, it's not fair

-Oh, well, I don't care

# I don't care... #

APPLAUSE

And he wonders why he's jilted. Jilted John. Good stuff.

Motors are revving up the chart once again with

a track from their great album Approved By.

This is called Forget About You.

# I've been walking along for a million places

# Places where we used to be

# I've been driving all night in the fog and rain

# Hoping just to see your face

# All of your friends they just tell me

# You've gone and you wanna be free

# Now I'm left with those memories

# For ever more

# And, baby, baby, baby

# I just can't forget about you

# Now that we're through

# How can I go on?

# But, baby, I just can't

# Forget about you

# Now that we're through

# All my dreams are gone

# But, baby, I'm still thinkin' of you

# I've been leaning on you, holdin' you down

# Spending all your time about me

# When you needed my love

# I was fooling around

# Leaving you to face the shame

# If ever you feel you need me

# I'll come runnin' right back to your side

# And I'll know in a wink of the longing I caused

# And, baby, baby, baby

# I just can't forget about you

# Now that we're through

# How can I go on?

# But, baby, I just can't forget about you

# Now that we're through

# All my dreams are gone

# But, baby, I just can't forget about you

# Now that we're through

# How can I go on?

# But, baby, baby, baby

# Baby, I just can't forget about you

# Now that we're through

# How can I go on?

# But, baby, I just can't forget about you

# Now that we're through

# All my dreams are gone

# But, baby, I'm still thinking of

# Forget about you

# Now that we're through

# How can I go on?

# But, baby... #

-APPLAUSE

-Motors and Forget About You.

Although they've been together a couple of years

and have had success in America,

only just recently have Foreigner found success in Great Britain.

And here they are at number 24 in the chart,

summing up the summer of '78 with Cold As Ice.

# You're as cold as ice

# You're willing to sacrifice our love

Can you hear me?

# You never take advice

# Some day you'll pay the price, I know

# I've seen it before, it happens all the time

# You're closing the door, you leave the world behind

# You're digging for gold, yet throwing away

# A fortune in feelings, but someday you'll pay

# You're as cold as ice

# You're willing to sacrifice our love

Talking about you and me.

# You want paradise

# But someday you'll pay the price, I know

# I've seen it before, it happens all the time

# You're closing the door, you leave the world behind

# You're digging for gold, yet throwing away

# A fortune in feelings, but someday you'll pay

# You're cold as ice

# You know that you are

# Cold as ice

# You're cold as ice to me

# Cold as ice

# Cold as, cold as ice

# Cold as, cold as, cold as

# You're as cold as ice

# You're as cold as ice, I know

# Cold as, cold as ice

# Oh, yes, I know

# Cold as, cold as ice

# You're as cold as ice

# Cold as ice

# Cold as, cold as ice

# Oh, baby, no

# You're cold as, cold as ice

# Cold as ice

# You know your love is cold as, cold as ice

# Cold as, cold as ice

# You're cold as, cold as, cold as ice

# Cold as, cold as ice

# You're cold as, cold as ice

# Oh, yeah

# Cold as ice. #

APPLAUSE

Here on Top Of The Pops we really try to

cater for all aspects of the pop chart scene.

And now we move on to the disco scene, where Hi Tension are having

a big disco success at the moment with this new single of theirs,

it's called the British Hustle.

# Do the British hustle

# Do the British hustle

# Do the British hustle

# Do the British hustle

# The hustle, baby

# Will drive you crazy

# So everybody, come on, get on down

# The hustle, baby

# Will drive you crazy

# So everybody, come on, get on down

# So get yourselves together

# All right

# So get yourselves together

# All right

# So get yourselves together

# All right

# So get yourselves together

# All right

# Do the British hustle

# Do the British hustle

# Do the British hustle

# Do the British hustle

# The hustle, baby

# Will drive you crazy

# So everybody, come on, get on down

# The hustle, baby

# Will drive you crazy

# So everybody, come on, get on down

# We've got the funky hit

# We're gonna make you pull something with

# Do the British hustle

# Oh, yeah

# Do the British hustle, hustle, hustle

# We're gonna sing and shout

# We're gonna do it till the day is out

# Do the British hustle

# Oh, yeah

# Do the British hustle, hustle, hustle

# Hustle!

# The hustle, baby

# Will drive you crazy

# So everybody, come on, get on down

# The hustle, baby

# Will drive you crazy

# So everybody, come on, get on down

# The hustle, baby

# Will drive you crazy

# So everybody, come on, get on down... #

-APPLAUSE

-Such an irresistible song!

Everybody's in the mood for dancing now in our studio.

So we'll bring on Legs And Co and Co and more Co.

To Boney M and Brown Girl In The you know where.

# Brown girl in the ring

# Tra-la-la-la-la

# There's a brown girl in the ring

# Tra-la-la-la-la

# Brown girl in the ring

# Tra-la-la-la-la

# She looks like a sugar in a plum

# Plum plum

# Show me your motion

# Tra-la-la-la-la

# Come on, show me your motion

# Tra-la-la-la-la

# Show me your motion

# Tra-la-la-la-la

# She looks like a sugar in a plum

# Plum plum

# All had water run dry

# Got no way to wash my clothes

# All had water run dry

# Got no way to wash my clothes

# I remember one Saturday night

# We had fried fish and Johnny-cakes

# I remember one Saturday night

# We had fried fish and Johnny-cakes

# Beng-a-deng Beng-a-deng

# Brown girl in the ring

# Tra-la-la-la-la

# There's a brown girl in the ring

# Tra-la-la-la-la

# Brown girl in the ring

# Tra-la-la-la-la

# She looks like a sugar in a plum

# Plum plum

# Show me your motion

# Tra-la-la-la-la

# Come on, show me your motion

# Tra-la-la-la-la

# Show me your motion

# Tra-la-la-la-la

# She looks like a sugar in a plum

# Plum plum

# All had water run dry

# Got no way to wash my clothes

# All had water run dry

# No way to wash my clothes

# I remember one Saturday night

# We had fried fish and Johnny-cakes

# I remember one Saturday night

# We had fried fish and Johnny-cakes

# Beng-a-deng Beng-a-deng

# Brown girl in the ring

# Tra-la-la-la-la

# See, brown girl in the ring

# Tra-la-la-la-la

# Brown girl in the ring

# Tra-la-la-la-la

# She looks like a sugar in a plum

# Plum plum... #

APPLAUSE

I don't know if you've noticed but poor old John got jilted again.

Maybe this will put him in a good mood, cos it's the new single from

The Jam. It's called David Watts.

# Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa

# Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa

# I am a dull and simple lad

# Cannot tell water from champagne

# And I have never met the queen

-# And I wish I could have all he has got

-Oi!

# I wish I could be like David Watts

# Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa

# Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa

# And when I lie on my pillow at night

# I dream I could fight like David Watts

# And lead the school team to victory

# Take my exams and pass the lot

-# Wish I could be

-I wish I could be like David Watts

-# Wish I could be

-I wish I could be like David Watts

-# Wish I could be

-Conduct my life like David Watts

# I wish I could be like David Watts

# Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa

# Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa

# He is the head boy at the school

# He is the captain of the team

# He is so gay and fancy free

-# And I wish I could have all he has got

-Oi!

# I wish I could be like David Watts

# Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa

# Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa

# And all the girls in the neighbourhood

# Try to go out with David Watts

# They try their best but can't succeed

# For he is a pure and noble breed

-# Wish I could be

-I wish I could be like David Watts

-# Wish I could be

-I wish I could be like David Watts

-# Wish I could be

-I wish I could be like David Watts

-# Wish I could be

-I wish I could be like David Watts

# I wish I could be like

# I wish I could be like

# I wish I could be like

# I wish I could be like

# Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa

# Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa

# Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa

# Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa

-# Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa

-David Watts

-# Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa

-David Watts

-# Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa

-David Watts... #

APPLAUSE

From one of the most exciting bands on the scene today, Jam,

and their new hit single called David Watts.

We've come to the number one song,

and I'm so glad to see The Commodores are still there

for the second week, with One, Two, Three Times A Lady.

# Thanks for the times

# That you've given me

# The memories are all in my mind

# And now that we've come

# To the end of our rainbow

# There's something I must say out loud

# You're once

# Twice

# Three times a lady

# And I love you

# Yes, you're once

# Twice

# Three times a lady

# And I love you

# I love you

# When we are together

# The moments I cherish

# With every beat of my heart

# To touch you, to hold you

# To feel you, to need you

# There's nothing

# To keep us apart

# Oo-oo-oo-ooh

# Oo-oo-ooh

# Oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooh

# Oo-oo-ooh

# You're once

# Twice

# Three times a lady

# And I love you

# I love you. #

APPLAUSE

Former Radio One record of the week of mine, from The Commodores,

still there at number one, Three Times A Lady,

which means it's time for the end of this week's Top Of The Pops.

I hope you enjoyed it enough to join us again next week at the same time for more hit sounds.

We leave you tonight with The Rezillos and Top Of The Pops.

-# Hold tight!

-Now we're on our own

-# Cue light!

-Now it's ready to roll

-# Tonight!

-How I've waited for

# I've been waiting for years

-# It's fun!

-Oh, I just can't wait

-# Hold on!

-Do I look up-to-date?

-# You're on!

-I'll do anything

# If that's the right thing to see

# Doesn't matter what is shown

# Just as long as everyone knows

# What is selling, what to buy

# The stock market for your hi-fi

# Take the money

# Leave the box

# Everybody's on Top Of The Pops

-# There's one!

-Born every day

-# Sing song!

-Then they fade away

-# Ding dong!

-What's the future in the pop music industry?

-# All right!

-So you make the grade

-# Hold tight!

-To the buck you made

-# Just wait!

-You've been rated for constipated peak viewing time

# Doesn't matter how it goes

# Just as long as everyone knows

# What's in fashion, what is seen

# On the front of a television screen

# Take the money

# Leave the box

# Everybody's on Top Of The Pops.

# Hey! Hey!

# Hey! #

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