25/12/76 - Christmas Day Special Top of the Pops

On this Christmas Day,

welcome to a special edition of Top Of The Pops

and it's a Merry Christmas from me...

and a very Merry Christmas from me.

APPLAUSE

Yes, a very merry Christmas to you.

We've got a lot of hits coming up on the programme and...

Dave? Dave? Dave?

Slik and Forever And Ever. Dave?

# As it was in the beginning

# Then so should it end

# Don't let a lover become just a friend

# Oh, no

# I made you a promise I vowed I would keep

# The candle's still burning The river runs deep

# My love

# Didn't you know?

# Didn't you feel?

# Couldn't you tell that it was real?

# Couldn't you tell that it was real?

# I'll dedicate to you

# All my love my whole life through

# I'll love you forever and ever

# Ev'ry day, ev'ry hour we share

# I'll treasure you I swear

# I'll love you forever and ever

# What we joined together Let no-one tear apart

# We give one another our hand and our heart

# My love

# Ashes to ashes, dust to dust

# Will love last forever? I know that it must

# My love

# Now you can see Now you can feel

# Now you can tell that it was real

# Now you can tell that it was real

# I'll dedicate to you

# All my love my whole life through

# I'll love you forever and ever

# Ev'ry day, ev'ry hour we share

# I'll treasure you I swear

# I'll love you forever and ever

# I'll dedicate to you

# All my love my whole life through

# I'll love you forever and ever

# Ev'ry day ev'ry hour we share. #

APPLAUSE

What a way to start off a Christmas Top Of The Pops.

Slik and a big number one sound.

Talking of number one, Elton John made his first number one in 1976,

together with the lovely Kiki Dee...

Will you pay attention? What is the matter with you?

I'm doing a Christmas flower arrangement.

-Flower arrangement, that's rubbish!

-This is a work of art!

Work of art?

'Ere! Don't go breaking my art!

# Don't go breaking my heart

# I couldn't if I tried

# Oh, honey, if I get restless

# Baby you're not that kind

# Don't go breaking my heart

# You take the weight off of me

# Oh, honey, when you knock on my door

# Oh, I gave you my key

# Oo-oo, nobody knows it

# When I was down

# I was your clown

# Oo-oo, nobody knows it

# Nobody knows

# Right from the start

# I gave you my heart

# Oh-oh, I gave you my heart

# So don't go breaking my heart

# I won't go breaking your heart

# Don't go breaking my heart

# And nobody told us

# Cos nobody showed us

# And now it's up to us, baby

# Oh, I think we can make it

# So don't misunderstand me

# You put the light in my life

# Oh, you put the spark to the flame

# I've got your heart in my sights

# Oo-oo, nobody knows it

# When I was down

# I was your clown

# Oo-oo, nobody knows it

# Nobody knows

# Right from the start

# I gave you my heart

# Oh-oh, I gave you my heart

# Don't go breaking my heart

# I won't go breaking your heart

# Don't go breaking my heart

# Oo-oo, nobody knows it

# When I was down

# I was your clown

# Right from the start

# I gave you my heart

# Oh-oh, I gave you my heart

# Don't go breaking my heart

# I won't go breaking your heart

# Don't go breaking my Don't go breaking my

# Don't go breaking my heart

# Don't go breaking my Don't go breaking my

# I won't go breaking your heart

# Don't go breaking my heart

# I won't go breaking your heart

# Don't go breaking my heart

# I won't go breaking your heart

# Don't go breaking my heart

# I won't go breaking your heart. #

APPLAUSE

That's Elton John and Kiki Dee and Don't Go Breaking My Heart

and for the next announcement, it's over to you, Dave.

Oh, no, you're not going to leave me to do it, are you?

Control yourself, man.

-I wouldn't mind them on the top of my Christmas tree.

-Control yourself!

It's Legs And Co!

# You can dance

# You can jive

# Having the time of your life

# See that girl

# Watch that scene

# Diggin' the dancing queen

# Friday night and the lights are low

# Looking out for a place to go

# Where they play the right music

# Getting in the swing

# You come to look for a king

# Anybody could be that guy

# Night is young and the music's high

# With a bit of rock music

# Everything is fine

# You're in the mood for a dance

# And when you get the chance

# You are the dancing queen

# Young and sweet

# Only 17

# Dancing queen

# Feel the beat from the tambourine

# Oh, yeah

# You can dance

# You can jive

# Having the time of your life

# See that girl

# Watch that scene

# Diggin' the dancing queen

# You're a teaser, you turn 'em on

# Leave 'em burning and then you're gone

# Looking out for another

# Anyone will do

# You're in the mood for a dance

# And when you get the chance

# You are the dancing queen

# Young and sweet

# Only 17

# Dancing queen

# Feel the beat from the tambourine Oh yeah

# You can dance

# You can jive

# Having the time of your life

# See that girl

# Watch that scene

# Diggin' the dancing queen

# Diggin' the dancing queen. #

APPLAUSE

Yes, indeed. That was the magnificent troupe of ladies known as Legs and Co

dancing to a big Abba number one and they will be on again later

in the programme, I don't think my heart can stand it!

And now for a late newsflash, it's over to you, Reginald.

Thank you very much, Andrew.

And we've just heard from the Crimean War

that the Light Brigade are not going to go ahead.

-Oh, what, no charge?

-No charge.

Now, our little boy came up to his mom in the kitchen this evening,

While she was fixing supper,

And he handed her a piece of paper He'd been writing on,

And after wiping her hands on her apron, she read it

And this is what it said...

..For mowing the lawn, five dollars,

For making up my own bed this week, one dollar,

For going to the store, 50 cents,

And playing with little brother while you went shopping, 25 cents.

Taking out the trash, one dollar,

And getting a good report card, five dollars.

And for raking the yard, two dollars.

Total owed, 14.75.

Well, his mom looked at him standing there expectantly,

And I could see the memories flashing through her mind,

And so she picked up the pen and turned the paper over,

This is what she wrote...

-# For the nine months I carried you

-For the nine months I carried you

-# Growing inside me, no charge

-Growing inside me, no charge

-# For the nights I sat up with you

-For the nights I sat up with you

-# Doctored you, prayed for you

-Doctored you, prayed for you

-# No charge

-No charge

-# For the time and the tears

-For the time and the tears

-# That you cost through the years

-That you cost through the years

-# There's no charge

-There's no charge

-# When you add it all up

-And when you add it all up

-# The full cost of my love

-The full cost of my love

-# Is no charge

-Is no charge

-# For the nights filled with dread

-For the nights filled with dread

-# And the worries ahead, no charge

-And the worries ahead, no charge

-# For advice and the knowledge

-For advice and the knowledge

-# And the cost of your college

-And the cost of your college

-# No charge

-No charge

-# For the toys, food and clothes

-For the toys, food and clothes

-# And for wiping your nose

-And even for wiping your nose

-# There's no charge

-There's no charge, son

-# When you add it all up

-When you add it all up

-# The full cost of my love

-The full cost of our love

-# There's no charge.. #

-There's no charge

Well, when he finished reading, he had great big old tears in his eyes,

And he looked up at her standing there and he said,

Mama, I sure do love you.

Then he took the pen and in great big letters he wrote,

Paid in full.

Lord knows when you add it all up,

The cost of real love is no charge.

# When you add it all up the full cost of real love is no charge. #

No charge.

-JJ Barrie, and That's No Charge.

-Very smooth, very smooth.

Go on then, Flash, tell us who's on next.

You read the script, use your loaf.

GRUFF VOICE: All right, next, we've got Laurel and Hardy

and the Trail of the Lonesome Pine.

# On a mountain in Virginia

# Stands a lonesome pine

# Just below is the cabin home

# Of a little girl of mine

# Her name is June, and very, very soon, she'll belong to me

# For I know she's waiting there for me

# 'Neath that lone pine tree

# In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia

# On the trail of the lonesome pine

# In the pale moonshine Our hearts entwine

# Where she carved her name and I carved mine

# Oh, June, like the mountains I'm blue

# Like the pine I am lonesome for you... #

HARDY SUSTAINS NOTE, HUMMING

# ..In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia

# On the trail of the lonesome pine

BASS VOICE: # In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia

# On the trail of the lonesome pine

# In the pale moonshine

# Our hearts entwined

# Where she carved her name and I carved mine

# Oh, June, like the mountains I'm blue

# Like the pine I'm lonesome for you... #

POP

HIGH WOMAN'S VOICE: # ..In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia

# On the trail of the lonesome pi-ine! #

THUD

APPLAUSE

Oh, that's Laurel and Hardy, On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine.

-What are you doing?

-I'm trying to clear up my dandruff.

Shocking, isn't it? Here's Tina Charles.

# Oh, I love to love

# But my baby just loves to dance

# He wants to dance, he loves to dance, he's got to dance

# So I love to love

# But my baby just loves to dance

# Oh, I love to love

# But there's no time for our romance

# No, no, no

# Oh, I love to love

# But my baby just loves to dance

# The minute the band begins to swing it

# He's on his feet to dig it

# And dance the night away

# Stop! I'm spinnin' like a top

# We'll dance until we drop

# But if I had my way

# Oh, I love to love

# But my baby just loves to dance He wants to dance

# He loves to dance He's got to dance

# So I love to love

# But my baby just loves to dance

# Oh, I love to love

# But he won't give our love a chance

# No, no, no

# I love to love

# But my baby just loves to dance

# Stop! I'm spinnin' like a top

# We'll dance until we drop

# But if I had my way

# Sundown, instead of going downtown

# We'll stay at home and get down

# To what I'm tryin' to say

# I love to love

# But my baby just loves to dance Yeah, yeah

# Woo!

# I love to love

# But my baby just loves to dance Yes he does... #

APPLAUSE

# ..Woo! #

Tina Charles for you there, lovely.

Did you manage to solve our BBC Crossword puzzle?

-They keep moving the clues around.

-I know, it's terrible.

-Knock, knock.

-Who's there?

-Wurzel.

-Wurzel who?

Just down the corridor there!

# I drove my tractor through your haystack last night

# Ooh-ar, ooh-ar

# I threw me pitchfork at your dog to keep quiet

# Ooh-ar, ooh-ar

# Now somethin's tellin' me that you're avoidin' me

# Ooh-ar ooh-ar

# Come on now darlin' you got somethin' I need

# Cos I've got a brand-new combine harvester, I'll give you the key

# Come on now, let's get together in perfect harmony

# I've got 20 acres and you've got 43

# Well, I've got a brand-new combine harvester

# I'll give you the key

# She made I laugh, ha-ha-ha!

# I'll stick by you I'll give you all that you need

# Ooh-ar, ooh-ar!

# We'll have twins and triplets I'm a man built for speed

# Ooh-ar, ooh-ar

# I love you, darlin' So give me your hand

# Ooh-ar, ooh-ar

# But the thing I want the most is all they acres o' land

# Well, I've got a brand-new combine harvester, I'll give you the key

# Come on now, let's get together in perfect harmony

# I've got 20 acres, you've got 43

# Well I've got a brand-new combine harvester, I'll give you the key

# She were a nice bit of stuff, an' all! Ha-ha!

# For seven long years I've been alone in this place

# Ooh-ar, ooh-ar

# Eat, sleep in the kitchen It's a proper disgrace

# Ooh-ar, ooh-ar

# And if I cleaned it up Would you change your mind?

# Ooh-ar, ooh-ar

# I'll give up drinking scrumpy and that lager and lime

# Well, I've got a brand-new combine harvester, I'll give you the key

# Come on now, let's get together in perfect harmony

# I've got 20 acres and you've got 43

# But I've got a brand-new combine harvester, I'll give you the key

# Who loves you, baby? Ha-ha!

# Weren't we a grand couple at that last Wurzels dance?

# I wore brand new gaiters and me cordeeroy pants

# In your new Sunday dress with your perfume smellin' grand

# We had our photos took and us holdin' hands

# But I've got a brand-new combine harvester, I'll give you the key

# Now that we're both past our 50s I think that you and me

# Should stop this gallivantin'

# And will you marry me?

# Well, I've got a brand-new combine harvester, I'll give you the key

# Arr, you're a fine lookin' woman!

# And I can't wait to get me hands on your land! Arr! #

Ooh-arr!

APPLAUSE

Ooh-arr, ooh-arr, indeed. The Wurzels, having a raving time.

We come now to a gentleman who's been over to Scandinavia,

he's been to Amsterdam, he's conquered America and Russia

and a big sound from '76 for Cliff Richard, Devil Woman.

# I've had nothing but bad luck

# Since the day I saw that cat at my door

# So I came in to you, sweet lady

# Answering your mystical call

# Crystal ball on the table

# Showin' my future, the past

# Same cat with them evil eyes

# And I knew it was a spell she cast

# She's just a devil woman

# With evil on her mind

# Beware the devil woman

# She's gonna get you!

# She's just a devil woman

# With evil on her mind

# Beware the devil woman She's gonna get you from behind

# Give me the ring on your finger

# Let me see the lines on your hand

# I can see me a tall, dark stranger

# Giving you what you hadn't planned

# I drank the potion she offered me

# I found myself on the floor

# Then I looked in those big, green eyes

# And I wondered what I came there for

# She's just a devil woman

# With evil on her mind

# Beware the devil woman She's gonna get you

# She's just a devil woman With evil on her mind

# Beware the devil woman She's gonna get you from behind

# Stay away

# Look out

# If you're out on a moonlit night

# Be careful of them neighbourhood strays

# Of a lady with long, black hair

# Tryin' to win you with her feminine ways

# Crystal ball on the table

# Showin' the future, the past

# Same cat with them evil eyes

# You better get out of there fast

# She's just a devil woman

# With evil on her mind

# Beware the devil woman She's gonna get you

# She's just a devil woman

# With evil on her mind

# Beware the devil woman She's gonna get you

# She's just a devil woman

# With evil on her mind

# Beware the devil woman She's gonna get you

# She's just a devil woman

# With evil on her mind

# Beware the devil woman She's gonna get you, get you

# She's just a devil woman. #

APPLAUSE

What an amazing year it's been for Cliff Richard.

It's also been an incredible year for the Swedish band, Abba.

-They've had three number ones and here they are with an Italian song...

-No, wrong!

-What do you mean?

-No, it's from Liverpool.

-Liverpool?

-It is because when the kids came home from school hungry

and knocked on the door, they went, "Mam, ah'm 'ere!"

# I've been cheated by you since I don't know when

# So I made up my mind It must come to an end

# Look at me now, will I ever learn?

# I don't know how But I suddenly lose control

# There's a fire within my soul

# Just one look and I can hear a bell ring

# One more look and I forget everything

# Oh-oh, Mamma mia, here I go again

# My, my, how can I resist you?

# Mamma mia, does it show again

# My, my, just how much I missed you?

# Yes, I've been broken hearted

# Blue, since the day we parted

# Why, why, did I ever let you go?

# Mamma mia, now I really know

# My, my, I could never let you go

# I've been angry and sad About things that you do

# I can't count all the times that I've told you we're through

# And when you go When you slam the door

# I think you know that you won't be away too long

# You know that I'm not that strong

# Just one look and I can hear a bell ring

# One more look and I forget everything

# Oh, oh, Mamma mia, here I go again

# My, my, how can I resist you?

# Mamma mia, does it show again

# My, my, just how much I've missed you?

# Yes, I've been broken-hearted

# Blue since the day we parted

# Why, why, did I ever let you go?

# Mamma mia, even if I said

# Bye-bye, leave me now or never

# Mamma mia, it's a game we play

# Bye-bye, doesn't mean for ever

# Mamma mia, here I go again

# My, my, how can I resist you?

# Mamma mia, does it show again

# My, my, just how much I missed you?

# Yes, I've been broken-hearted

# Blue since the day we parted

# Why, why, did I ever let you go?

# Mamma mia, now I really know

# My, my, I could never let you go. #

Look at that BBC jelly wobble! Ooh!

-That's ABBA and a bit of Mamma Mia...

-Get on with it!

We've got Hank Mizell...

HE LAUGHS

..and he's got a bit of Jungle Rock, which goes nicely with the roll.

A bit of rock'n'roll...

# I was walking through the jungle just the other night

# Oh well, I heard a big a-rumble and I thought it was a fight

# Well, I stood and listened and began to move my feet

# It was a jungle drummer doin' a knocked out beat

# It was a jungle jungle Jungle jungle rock

# A jungle jungle Jungle jungle rock

# A jungle jungle Jungle jungle rock

# A jungle jungle Jungle jungle rock

# A knocked out beat and I had to move my feet

# It was a jungle jungle Jungle jungle rock

# Well, I moved a little closer just to get a better view

# I saw a chimp and a monkey had done the Suzie Q

# Oh well, a 'gator and a hippo was a-doin' the bop

# While a great big frog was a-makin' me hop

# It was a jungle jungle Jungle jungle rock

# A jungle jungle Jungle jungle rock

# A jungle jungle Jungle jungle rock

# A jungle jungle Jungle jungle rock

# A knocked out beat And I had to move my feet

# It was a jungle jungle Jungle jungle rock

# Oh well, the fox grabbed the rabbit and they hit the bunny hug

# And all the beasts that fly was a-cutting the rug

# Oh well, the camel was a-jitter buggin' with a kangaroo

# And the elephant the mover with the ring-dang-doo

# It was a jungle jungle Jungle jungle rock

# A jungle jungle Jungle jungle rock

# A jungle jungle Jungle jungle rock

# A jungle jungle Jungle jungle rock

# A knocked out beat And I had to move my feet

# It was a jungle jungle Jungle jungle rock

# A jungle jungle Jungle jungle rock

# A jungle jungle Jungle jungle rock. #

There's Hank Mizell and a bit of a Jungle Rock.

-Now we've got a pussycat for...

-Oh, you've said the wrong thing.

-Why?

He does not like pussycats.

-Oh, no, I had problems with a man called Hull.

-What? Get on with it!

-Is he trying to say Mississippi and Pussycat...?

-Ow! Get off!

# Where you can hear a country song from far

# And someone playing a honky-tonk guitar

# Where all the lights will go out one by one

# The people join the sun

# And the wind takes it away

# Where the Mississippi rolls down to the sea

# And lovers found the place they'd like to be

# How many times before the song was ending?

# Love and understanding

# Everywhere around

# Mississippi

# I'll remember you

# Whenever I should go away

# I'll be longing for the day

# That I will be in Greenville again

# Mississippi

# You'll be on my mind

# Every time I hear this song

# Mississippi roll along

# Until the end of time

# Now the country song forever lost its soul

# When the guitar player turned to rock'n'roll

# And every time when summer nights are falling

# I always will be calling

# Dreams of yesterday

# Mississippi

# I'll remember you

# Whenever I should go away

# I'll be longing for the day

# That I will be in Greenville again

# Mississippi

# You'll be on my mind

# Every time I hear this song

# Mississippi roll along

# Until the end of time. #

We've had Pussycat from Holland and ABBA from Sweden,

-and here's something big in grease.

-There it is, BBC potatoes!

And Demis Roussos!

# La la la la la la-la

# La la-la

# La la la la

# La la la la

# La la la la la la-la

# La la-la

# Ever and ever Forever and ever

# You'll be the one

# That shines in me

# Like the morning sun

# Ever and ever Forever and ever

# You'll be my dream

# My rainbow's end

# And the song I sing

# Take me far beyond imagination

# You're my dream come true

# My consolation

# Ever and ever Forever and ever

# You'll be my dream

# My symphony

# My own lover's theme

# Ever and ever Forever and ever

# My destiny

# Will follow you eternally

# La la la la la la-la

# La la-la

# La la la-la

# La la la-la

# La la la la la la-la

# La la-la

# La la la la-la

# La-la la la la la

# La-la la-la

# La-la la-la

# La la la la-la

# La-la la la-la

# La la-la la la-la

# La-la la-la

# La-la la-la

# La la la la-la

# Take me far beyond imagination

# You're my dream come true

# My consolation

# Ever and ever Forever and ever

# You'll be the one

# That shines in me

# Like the morning sun

# Ever and ever Forever and ever

# My destiny

# Will follow you eternally

# La la-la

# La la-la

# La la la-la

# La la la-la

# La la la la la la-la

# La la-la

# La la la-la

# La la la-la... #

We're enjoying ourselves, hope you are. That's Demis Roussos.

And right now, with a rhapsody from bohemia, it's Queen!

# Is this the real life?

# Is this just fantasy?

# Caught in a landslide

# No escape from reality

# Open your eyes

# Look up to the skies and see

# I'm just a poor boy

# I need no sympathy

# Because I'm easy come, easy go

# Little high, little low

# Anyway the wind blows

# Doesn't really matter to me

# To me

# Mama

# Just killed a man

# Put a gun against his head

# Pulled my trigger Now he's dead

# Mama

# Life had just begun

# But now I've gone and thrown it all away

# Mamaaaaa, oooh

# Didn't mean to make you cry

# If I'm not back again this time tomorrow

# Carry on, carry on

# As if nothing really matters

# Too late, my time has come

# Sends shivers down my spine

# Body's aching all the time

# Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go

# Got to leave you all behind and face the truth

-# Mama, oooh-oooh

-Any way the wind blows

# I don't want to die

# I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all

# I see a little silhouetto of a man

# Scaramouche! Scaramouche! Will you do the fandango?

# Thunderbolts and lightning Very, very frightening me!

-# Galileo,

-Galileo

-# Galileo,

-Galileo

-# Galileo,

-Figaro

# Magnifico!

# I'm just a poor boy Nobody loves me

# He's just a poor boy from a poor family

# Spare him his life from this monstrosity!

# Easy come, easy go Will you let me go?

# Bismillah! No, we will not let you go!

-# Let him go!

-Bismillah! We will not let you go!

-# Let him go!

-Bismillah! We will not let you go!

-# Let me go!

-Will not let you go!

-# Let me go!

-Will not let you go!

# Let me go!

# No, no, no, no, no, no, no!

# Oh mamma mia, mamma mia!

# Mamma mia, let me go!

# Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me!

# So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?

# So you think you can love me and leave me to die?

# Oh, baby, can't do this to me, baby

# Just got to get out Just got to get right out of here!

# Oooh, oooh, oooh

# Oooh, yeah, oooh, yeah

# Nothing really matters

# Anyone can see

# Nothing really matters

# Nothing really matters to me

# Any way the wind blows. #

APPLAUSE

I touched the turkey! I touched it - it's real! Eurgh!

Have a really good Christmas Day. Thanks for joining us.

We leave you with Legs & Company, and a bit of Wings! Happy Christmas.

Oh, I've only got two seconds left. Have a nice Christmas! Ta-ta!

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