24/12/1981 Top of the Pops

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Coming at you live, from the BBC Television Centre in London,

welcome to our Christmas Eve Top Of The Pops.

And our first number is really something very festive.

From Wizzard, I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day.

-BELLS CHIME Are you ready, children?

-YES!

# When the snowman brings the snow

# Well, he just might like to know

# He's put a great big smile

# On somebody's face

# If you jump into your bed

# Quickly cover up your head

# Don't you lock the doors

# You know that sweet Santa Claus

# Is on the way-ay

# Well, I wish it could be Christmas

# Every day

# When the kids start singing

# And the band begins to play

# Oh, I wish it could be Christmas

# Every day

# Let the bells ring out

# For Christmas

# When we're skating in the park

# If the snow cloud makes it dark

# Then your rosy cheeks are gonna

# Light my merry way

# Now the frosty paws appear

# And they've frozen up my beer

# So we'll lie by the fire

# Till the sleet simply knocks 'em all away-ay

# Well, I wish it could be Christmas

# Every day

# When the kids start singing

# And the band begins to play

# Oh, I wish it could be Christmas

# Every day

# So, let the bells ring out

# For Christmas... #

INSTRUMENTAL INTERLUDE

# When the snowman brings the snow

# When the snowman brings the snow

# Well he just might like to know

# Just might like to know

# He's put a great big smile

# On somebody's face

# So if Santa brings that sleigh

# Santa brings that sleigh

# All along the Milky Way

# Along the Milky Way

# I'll sign my name on the rooftop in

# The snow then he may decide to stay

# Well, I wish it could be Christmas

# Every day

# When the kids start singing

# And the band begins to play

# Oh-oh, I wish it could be Christmas

# Every day

# So let the bells ring out

# For Christmas... #

OK, you lot, take it!

# Well, I wish it could be

# Christmas every day

# When the kids start singing

# And the band begins to play

# Oh-oh-oh...

# I wish it could be Christmas

# Every day

# So let the bells ring out

# For Christmas

# Why don't you

# Give your love

# For Christmas... #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Well, I'm happy to say that live, here in the studio with us,

on this live Christmas Eve show from Top Of The Pops,

it's Elvis Costello and the Attractions.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# Sweet dreams of you

# Every night

# I go through

# I should hate you girl

# The whole night through

# Instead of having

# Sweet dreams

# All about you

# You don't love me

# It's plain

# I should have known

# You'd never

# Share my name

# Why can't I forget my past

# Start loving someone new

# Instead of having

# Sweet dreams

# All about you?

# Why can't

# I forget my past

# Start loving someone new

# Instead of having sweet dreams

# All about you?

# Sweet dreams

# Of you

# Every night I

# Go through

# I should hate you girl

# The whole night through

# Instead I'm

# Having sweet dreams

# All about you

# Instead I'm having

# Sweet dreams

# All about you

# Ooh-ooh #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Beautiful song and performance from Elvis Costello and The Attractions.

But one of the highest climbers in this week's chart is

Buck's Fizz, and here they are with The Land Of Make Believe.

Hooray!

# Stars in your eyes, little one

# Where do you go to dream

# To a place, we all know

# The land of make believe

# Shadows, tapping at your window

# Ghostly voices whisper

# "Will you come and play-ee-yay?"

# Not for all the tea in China

# Or the corn in Carolina

# Never, never ever

# They're running after you, now

# Run for the sun, little one

# You're an outlaw once again

# Time to change, Superman

# Will be with us while he can

# In the land of make believe

# Something

# Nasty in your garden's waiting

# Patiently, till it can have your heart

# Try to go but it won't let you

# Don't you know it's out to get you running

# Keep on running

-#

-They're running after you babe

# Run for the sun, little one

# You're an outlaw once again

# Time to change, Superman

# He'll be with us while he can

# In the land of make believe

# Your world is turning

# From night to day,

# Your dream is burning far, far away

# Into the blue

# You and I

# To the circus in the sky

# Captain Kids

# On the sand

# With the treasure close at hand

# In the land of make believe

# In the land of make believe

# Run for the sun, little one

# You're an outlaw once again

# Time to change, Superman

# He'll be with us while he can

# In the land of make believe

# Run for the sun, little one

# You're an outlaw once again

# Time to change, Superman... #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Here's Flick Colby's Zoo moving to the

music of Kool And The Gang's Get On Down With It.

What you gonna do?

You wanna get down?

What you gonna do?

Do you wanna get down?

What you gonna do? You wanna get down?

What you gonna do? You gonna get down?

Tell me.

# Get down on it

# Get down on it

# Get down on it

-# Get down on it

-Come on and

# Get down on it

# Get down on it

# Get down on it

# Get down on it

# How you gonna do it if you really don't wanna dance

# By standing on the wall?

# Get your back up off the wall

# Tell me

# How you gonna do it if you really don't wanna dance

# By standing on the wall?

# Get your back up off the wall

# Cos I heard all the people saying

-# Get down on it

-Come on and

-get down on it

# If you really want it

-# Get down on it

-You gotta feel it

-# Get down on it

-Get down on it

-# Get down on it

-Come on and

-# Get down on it

-Baby, baby

-# Get down on it

-Get on it

# Get down on it

# I say people

-# What?

-What you gonna do?

# You've gotta get on the groove

# If you want your body to move

# Tell me, baby

# How you gonna do it if you really don't wanna dance

# By standing on the wall?

# Get your back up off the wall

# Tell me

# How you gonna do it if you really won't take a chance

# By standing on the wall?

# Get your back up off the wall

# Cos I heard all the people saying

# Get down on it

# Get down on it

# Get down on it

-# Get down on it

-You're dancing

# Get down on it

# Get down on it

# Get down on it

-# Get down on it

-Get down on it

-# Get down on it

-Come on and

-# Get down on it

-Baby, baby

-# Get down on it

-Get on it

-# Get down on it

-Sha na-ba-na-ba-na-ba... #

What you gonna do?

Do you wanna get down?

What you gonna do?

Ah!

# Get your back up off the wall

# Dance, come on

# Get your back up off the wall

# Dance, come on

-# Get down on it

-Come on and

-# Get down on it

-If you really want it

-# Get down on it

-You gotta feel it

-# Get down on it

-Get down on it

-# Get down on it

-Come on and

-# Get down on it

-Get down on it

-# Get down on it

-While you're dancing. #

APPLAUSE

You know, for most artists,

the Christmas chart is the most prestigious to be in

and we won't keep you in suspense any longer

as we climb up the brand-new top 30 for Christmas 1981.

New to the 30 at number 30, Meat Loaf and Dead Ringer For Love.

At 29, Four More from Toyah.

At number 28, John Lennon's Happy Xmas (War Is Over).

At 27, The Lunatics from the Fun Boy Three.

At number 26, Get Down On It from Kool & The Gang.

At 25, Earth, Wind & Fire - Let's Groove.

Up three places to 24 goes David Bowie with Wild Is The Wind.

At 23 - Imagination, Flashback.

At number 22, up six, The Tweets and The Birdie Song.

And new at 21, Chas & Dave and Stars Over 45.

And at number 20, a terrific tune from the Glasgow band Altered Images

- a group composition - I Could Be Happy.

APPLAUSE

# I would like to climb high in a tree

# I could be happy, I could be happy

# Or go to Skye on my holiday

# I could be happy, I could be happy

# Maybe swim a mile down the Nile

# I could be happy, I could be happy

# All of these things I do

# All of these things I do

# To get away from you

# Get away, run away, far away

# How do I

# Get away, run away, far away?

# How do I

# Escape from you?

# I would like to climb high in a tree

# I could be happy, I could be happy

# Or go to Skye on my holiday

# I could be happy, I could be happy

# Maybe swim a mile down the Nile

# I could be happy, I could be happy

# All of these things I do

# All of these things I do

# To get away from you

# Get away, run away, far away

# How do I

# Get away, run away, far away?

# How do I

# Escape from you?

# I would like to climb high in a tree

# I could be happy, I could be happy

# Or go to Skye on my holiday

# I could be happy, I could be happy

# Maybe swim a mile down the Nile

# I could be happy, I could be happy

# Get away, run away, far away

# How do I

# Get away, run away, far away?

# How do I

# Get away, run away, far away?

# How do I

# Get away, run away, far away?

# How do I

# Escape from you? #

APPLAUSE

What an effervescent performance from a band

with such a bright future for next year - Altered Images.

Right now, we're going to continue our count up the top 30.

From number 30 to 19, Foreigner with Waiting For A Girl Like You.

New at 18, it's the Snowmen and Hokey Cokey.

At 17, Kim Wilde's Cambodia.

At number 16, Bedsitter from Soft Cell.

Duran Duran are at number 15 this week with My Own Way.

Julio Iglesias, Begin The Beguine,

a former number one, this week at 14.

At 13, Why Do Fools Fall In Love?, Diana Ross.

At number 12, up one for The Police and Spirits In The Material World.

At 11, up 12, Rod Stewart with Young Turks.

At number 10, up 16, Jon & Vangelis, and I'll Find My Way Home.

And at number 9, one of the real high climbers.

From Dollar, this is Mirror Mirror.

# Mirror mirror, mon amour

# If I was to tell you

# How I feel

# That my love was silent

-# That my

-heart was real

-# I've been looking at you

-You've been looking at me

-# And I want you to know

-That I like what I see

# Mirror mirror, mon amour Send me what I'm waiting for

# Pick me up an image so fine, so fine

# Mirror mirror, mon amour Give me what I'm waiting for

# Set my heart on making you mine

# In a moment's anger

-# I will

-Freeze the frame

# But my feelings for you

-# How they

-Will remain

-# I've been looking at you

-You've been looking at me

-# And I want you to know

-That I like what I see

# Mirror mirror, mon amour Send me what I'm waiting for

# Pick me up an image, so fine, so fine

# Mirror mirror, mon amour Give me what I'm waiting for

# Set my heart on making you mine

# My mirror always echoes

# My mirror always echoes

# My mirror always echoes

# Mirror, mirror, mirror, mirror, mirror

# Only in my mirror

# Mirror mirror, mon amour Send me what I'm waiting for

# Pick me up an image, so fine, so fine

# Mirror mirror, mon amour Give me what I'm waiting for

# Set my heart on making you mine

-# Mirror mirror, mon amour

-Is in my head

-# Mirror mirror, mon amour

-Is in my head

-# Mirror mirror, mon amour

-Is in my head

# Mirror mirror, mon amour

# Is in my head

# So fine

# My mirror always echoes

# Echoes, echoes, echoes

# My mirror always echoes

# Echoes, echoes, echoes

# So fine... #

APPLAUSE

Dollar, of course, at number 9, with Mirror Mirror.

We're nearing the top - in fact,

we're going to go into the home stretch right now -

the very last chart of 1981.

At number 8, up four places for Status Quo and Rock 'N' Roll.

At number 7, up one, Godley and Creme's Wedding Bells.

Madness are at 6 this week with It Must Be Love.

At 5, up five for Bucks Fizz and The Land Of Make Believe.

At 4, Adam and the Ants - Ant Rap.

At 3, ABBA with One Of Us.

Cliff Richard's Daddy's Home is at number 2.

And this year's coveted Christmas number 1

comes from The Human League.

That's right! In fact, it's number 1 now for the third consecutive week

and they're here in the studio live with us now to perform

Don't You Want Me.

APPLAUSE

# You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar

# When I met you

# I picked you out, I shook you up

# And turned you around

# Turned you into someone new

# Now five years later on, you've got the world at your feet

# Success has been so easy for you

# But don't forget, it's me who put you where you are now

# And I can put you back down too

# Don't, don't you want me?

# You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me

# Don't, don't you want me?

# You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me

# It's much too late to find

# When you think you've changed your mind

# You'd better change it back or we will both be sorry

# Don't you want me, baby?

# Don't you want me? Oh!

# Don't you want me, baby?

# Don't you want me? Oh!

# I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar

# That much is true

# But even then I knew I'd find a much better place

# Either with or without you

# The five years we have had have been such good times

# I still love you

# But now I think it's time I lived my life on my own

# I guess it's just what I must do

# Don't, don't you want me?

# You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me

# Don't, don't you want me?

# You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me

# It's much too late to find

# When you think you've changed your mind

# You'd better change it back or we will both be sorry

# Don't you want me, baby?

# Don't you want me? Oh!

# Don't you want me, baby?

# Don't you want me? Oh!

# Don't you want me, baby?

# Don't you want me? Oh!

# Don't you want me, baby?

# Don't you want me? Oh!

# Don't you want me, baby?

# Don't you want me? Oh! #

APPLAUSE

The Christmas number 1 for this year, Human League and Don't You Want Me,

and that just about winds up our live Christmas Eve edition of Top Of The Pops.

We're going to leave you with the current hit from Philip Lynott which happens to be

our signature tune. It's called Yellow Pearl.

Now, I'm going to be back tomorrow afternoon on Top Of The Pops at 2 o'clock

with the rest of the Radio 1 DJs as we pick our favourite hits from 1981,

so I hope you'll be with us tomorrow at two, here on BBC One.

Have a terrific Christmas. Lots of love. Bye-bye for now.

APPLAUSE

# Attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack

# Attack is what we lack

# We shall arise

# We shall control

# We will command

# We will patrol

# It is foolish under the guise of love and liberty

# That we should capitalise and rob

# And fell the poor for the socialistic tree

# We will arise

# We will control

# Attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack

# Attack is what we lack

# We shall arise

# They will arise

# We will control

# They will control

# We will command

# They will command... #