25/08/77 Top of the Pops

We are the Top Of The Pops, whereas Donna Summer is Down Deep Inside?

HE LAUGHS

# Down deep inside

# There's a place in me

# I'm yearning to explore

# Look in my eyes

# And remember wine, the music and amour

# The days grow stronger and longer with every glance...#

APPLAUSE

Well, with the rotten weather we're having

we could do with a bit of Summer,

and she's got two in the chart at the moment,

that's Down Deep Inside, the theme music from the film, The Deep.

And this one goes up ten to 19 for the Rods and

Do Anything I Wanna Do.

# I'm gonna break out of the city

# Leave the people here behind

# Searching for adventure

# It's the type of life to find

# Tired of doing day jobs

# With no thanks for what I do

# I'm sure I must be someone

# Now I'm gonna find out who

# Why don't you ask them

# What they expect from you

# Why don't you tell them

# What you are gonna do

# You get so lonely

# Maybe it's better that way

# It ain't you only

# You got something to say

# Do anything you wanna do

# Do anything you wanna do

# Don't need no politicians to tell me things I shouldn't be

# Neither no opticians to tell me what I oughta see

# No-one tells you nothing even when you know they know

# But they tell you what you should do

# They don't like to see you grow

# Why don't you ask them

# What they expect from you

# Why don't you tell them

# What you are gonna do

# You'll get so lonely

# Maybe it's better that way

# It ain't you only

# You got something to say

# Do anything you wanna do

# Do anything you wanna do

# I'm gonna break out of the city

# Leave the people here behind

# Searching for adventure

# It's the type of life to find

# Tired of doing day jobs

# With no thanks for what I do

# I'm sure I must be someone

# Now I'm gonna find out who

# Why don't you ask them

# What they expect from you

# Why don't you tell them

# What you are gonna do. #

APPLAUSE

Congratulations to The Rods, they've worked very hard for their current success

and they're doing very well in the chart with that at number 19.

There are six new entries in the Top 30 this week,

and not surprisingly the highest new entry of those six comes in at number four from Elvis Pressley.

# Baby, you're getting closer

# The lights are goin' dim

# The sound of your breathin'

# Has made the mood I'm in

# All of my resistance

# Lying on the floor

# Taking me to places

# I've never been before

# Ooh, and I can feel it,

# Feel it, feel it, feel it

# Way down

# Way down where the music plays

# Way down like a tidal wave

# Way down where the fires blaze

# Way down, down, way, way on down

# Ooh, my head is spinnin'

# You got me in your spell

# A hundred magic fingers

# On a twirling carousel

# The medicine within me

# No doctor could prescribe

# Your love is doing something

# That I just can't describe

# Ooh, and I can feel it

# Feel it, feel it, feel it, feel it, feel it

-# Way down

-# Way down where the music plays

-# Way down

-# Way down like a tidal wave

-# Way down

-# Way down where the fires blaze

# Way down, down

# Down, down, way on down

# Way on down

# Hold me again

# Tight as you can

# I need you so

# Baby, let's go

# Way down where it feels so good

# Way down where I hoped it would

# Way down where I never could

# Way down, down

# Down, down, way on down

# Way on down. #

APPLAUSE

There we go, Legs & Company dancing to Way Down.

There's a mystery badge sticker, these badges, well, you can see one there, Boomtown Rats is written...

Oh dear, not another one.

They're everywhere, the Boomtown Rats here, bit of social comment for you,

have a listen to the lyrics of this...

# The world owes me a living

# I've waited on this dole queue too long

# I've been standin' in the rain for 15 minutes

# That's a quarter of an hour too long

# Oh-oh-oh

# Oh-oh-oh

# I'll take all they can give me

# And then I'm gonna ask for more

# Cos the money's buried deep in the Bank of England

# And I want the key to the vault

# I'm gonna take your money

# Count your loss when I'm gone

# I'm all right, Jack, I'm lookin' after number one.

# If I want something I get it

# Don't matter what I have to do

# I'll step on your face, on my mother's grave

# Never underestimate me, I'm nobody's fool

# Oh-oh-oh

# Oh-oh-oh

# Don't owe nobody nothing

# It's me they must come to

# Stop, think, look, baby

# I always get what I want and I want to get you

# I'm gonna take your money

# Count your loss when I'm gone

# I'm all right, Jack

# Looking after number one

# I-I-I don't wanna be like you

# I-I-I don't wanna live like you

# I-I-I don't wanna talk like you

# Oh oh ho

# A-a-a-h, a-a-a-h

DRUM ROLLS

# I wanna

GUITAR SOLO

# Don't give me love thy neighbour

# Don't give me charity

# Don't give me peace and love, or the good Lord above

# You only get in my way with your stupid ideas

# Oh oh ho

# Oh oh ho

# I am an island

# Entire of myself

# And when I get old, older than today

# I'll never need anybody's help in any way

# I'm gonna take your money

# Count your loss when I'm gone

# I'm all right, Jack

# I'm lookin' after number one

# I-I-I don't wanna be like you

# I-I-I don't wanna live like you

# I-I-I don't wanna talk like you

# Ooh ooh

# I'm gonna be like, I'm gonna be like

# I'm gonna be like me! #

APPLAUSE

The Boomtown Rats and they're Looking After Number One,

and Deniece Williams has got friends.

# While you're gone, boy

# Do you wonder how I spend my days

# Thinking 'bout you

# And maybe in a special way

# I can show you how I miss you more and more

# Cos after all

# That's what friends are for

# Are you tired

# Do you think that you would like to nap

# By the fire

# I will hold you gently in my lap

# And I'll count the minutes till you sleep no more

# Cos after all

# That's what friends are for

# All I want to do

# Is to make life a little better for you

# So I try so hard to keep what's ours together

# Oh, there never could be

# Another for me

# Are you hungry

# Do you think that you could use some wine

# And the music takes you

# Did you have a certain thing in mind

# Dinner, wine and music starts

# To bore

# Fluff the pillows on the floor

# And more

# Cos after all

# That's what friends are for

# Cos after all

# That's what friends are for

# Bah bah

# Bah bah oh oh oh

# Would you like to sit by the fire

# I know I could take you higher

# Yeah, yeah, yeah. #

APPLAUSE

Deniece Williams defining exactly what friends are for.

There's also a Deniece Williams LP, This Is Niecy,

and it certainly is well worth listening.

Here's a band at number 23, they're Dancing In The Moonlight,

they've got that little bit extra style, watch them, it's Thin Lizzy.

# When I passed you in the doorway

# Well you took me with a glance

# I should have took that last bus home

# But I asked you for a dance

# Now we go steady to the pictures

# I always get chocolate stains on my pants

# And my father he's going crazy

# Says I'm living in a trance

# But I'm dancing in the moonlight

# It's caught me in its spotlight

# It's all right, all right

# Dancing in the moonlight

# On this long hot summer night

# It's three o'clock in the morning

# And I'm on the streets again

# I disobeyed another warning

# I should have been in by ten

# Now I won't get out until Sunday

# I'll have to say, hey, I stayed with friends

# Oh, but it's a habit worth forming

# If it means to justify the ends

# Dancing in the moonlight

# It's caught me in its spotlight

# It's all right, it's all right, dancing in the moonlight

# On this long hot summer night

INSTRUMENTAL SECTION

# I'm walking home

# The last bus has gone

INSTRUMENTAL SECTION

# Dancing in the moonlight

# It's caught me in its spotlight

# It's all right, it's all right, dancing in the moonlight

# On this long hot summer night

# It's so goddamn hot

# Dancing in the moonlight... #

APPLAUSE

Thin Lizzy and Dancing In The Moonlight.

It's fairly unusual for instrumentals to do so well in the Top 30.

This one is going a storm, Magic Fly from Space and, no,

don't adjust your set!

KEYBOARD AND SYNTHESISER

KEYBOARD AND SYNTHESISER

APPLAUSE

Made my eyes go all strange. Injecting a little space into the programme,

that's Magic Fly, up 11 places this week. And for the first time on

Top Of The Pops we're going to bring you some adverts,

in fact The Adverts, looking through the eyes of Gary Gilmore.

# I'm lying in a hospital, I'm pinned against the bed

# A stethoscope upon my heart, a hand against my head

# They're peeling off the bandages, I'm wincing in the light

# The nurse is looking anxious and she's quivering with fright

# I'm looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# I'm looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# I'm looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# I'm looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# The doctors are avoiding me

# My vision is confused

# I listen to my earphones and I catch the evening news

# A murderer's been killed and he donates his sight to science

# I'm locked into a private ward, I realise that I must be

# Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# I'm looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# I'm looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# I'm looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# I'm looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# I'm looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# I'm looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# I smash the light in anger, push my bed against the door

# I close my lids across my eyes and wish to see no more

# The eye receives the messages and sends them to the brain

# No guarantee the stimuli must be perceived the same

# When looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# Gary don't need his eyes to see

# Gary and his eyes have parted company-y-y-y. #

APPLAUSE

That's Adverts, and after the adverts what can you do but turn to Page Three?

# Doo-doo-do-doo

# Doo-doo-do-doo

# Doo-doo-do-doo

# Doo-doo-do-doo

# Give me time to get back on my feet

# And kept just one step behind of your heartbeat

# Maybe then I will find a reason or rhyme

# Heart's left weary, but if I'm sleeping

# Then what's the cause of the pounding and leaping

# It's the love-thief to steal my poor heart away

# Ooh that night

# Such a night

# Hold on to love and the whole world's alight, yeah

# Ooh that night

# Thought I might

# Hold on to love, baby, hold on to love, baby

# Hold onto love, baby

# You may say it's a crime of passion

# Just how my heart rules my head in this fashion

# But call my love-thief and steal my poor heart away

# Ooh that night

# Such a night

# Hold on to love and the whole world's alight

# Ooh that night

# Thought I might

# Hold on to love, maybe, hold on to love, baby

# Hold on to love, baby

# You told me, come on you know your kisses told me

# That they're never gonna break my heart

# Like they did before

# You told me, oh, you know your kisses told me

# That they're never gonna break my heart

# Like they did before

# Ooh that night

# Such a night

# Hold on to love and the whole world's alight

# Ooh that night

# Thought I might

# Hold on to love, maybe

# Hold on to love, baby

# Hold on to love, baby

# Doo-doo-do-do

# Doo-doo-do-do

APPLAUSE

That's Page Three and Hold On To Love.

Wash your brain out of those naughty thoughts you were having.

Well, they've made it to the number one slot,

here are The Floaters doing a bit of floating.

# Aquarius, and my name is Ralph

# And I like a woman who loves her freedom

# And I like a woman who can hold her own

# And if you fit that description, baby, come with me

# Take my hand, come with me, baby, to Love Land

# Let me show you how sweet it could be

# Sharing love with me, I want you to

# Float, float, come on, come on

# Float on, float on

# Libra, and my name is Charles

# Now I like a woman that's quiet

# A woman who carries herself like Miss Universe

# Mmm, take my hand

# Come with me, baby, to Love Land

# Let me show you how sweet it could be

# Sharing loving with me, I want you to

# Float, float, come on, girl

# Float on, float on with Charles

# Float, float, float on

# Ooh, yeah

# Float on, float on

# Leo, and my name is Paul

# You see I like all women of the world

# And if you understand what I'm sayin'

# I want you to

# Mmm, take my hand

# Come with me, baby, to Love Land

# Let me show you how sweet it could be

# Sharing love with me, I want you to

# Float, float on

# So float with me, baby

# Float on, float on

# Cancer, and my name is Larry, huh

# And I like a woman

# That loves everything and everybody

# And you know what, ladies

# If you feel that this is you

# Then this is what I want you to do

# Ooh, yeah

# Take my hand

# Let me take you to Love Land

# Let me show you how sweet it could be

# Sharing your love with Larry, listen

# Float, float on

# You better float with me now

# Float on, float on

# Float, float, float on

# Float, float, float on

# Yeah, yeah

# You better float on. #

APPLAUSE

They've made it to number one, The Floaters and Float On.

I'll see you on the Breakfast Show tomorrow.

I'm on BBC 2 in a couple of minutes, but don't tell anybody. We leave you with Jean Michel Jarre.

Bye-bye from Top Of The Pops. Bye-bye.

APPLAUSE

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