26/04/1979 Top of the Pops

It's Top Of The Pops, and here's the sound of Neil Diamond.

SONG: "Forever In Blue Jeans" by Neil Diamond

# Money talks

# But it don't sing and dance and it don't walk

# Long as I can have you here with me

# I'd much rather be

# For ever in blue jeans

# Honey's sweet

# But it ain't nothing next to baby's treat

# And if you pardon me, I'd like to say

# We do OK

# For ever in blue jeans. #

SONG: "Valley of the Dolls" by Generation X

# Into the Valley of the Dolls

# Into the Valley of the Dolls

# Into the Valley of the Dolls

# Went the gang of four

# Song number one

# Rhythm up amping

# Drummer beats down 4/4 rock ranking

# A bass so deep

# Thud, thud, spines shaking

# And all around...

# Mad eyes are rolling

-# In the Valley of the Dolls

-Made up and stunning

-# In the Valley of the Dolls

-As the feet get moving

-# In the Valley of the Dolls

-As the pressure rising

-# In the Valley of the Dolls

-White faces staring

# As into the Valley of the Dolls

# Go the gang of four

# Boom, bop, basher!

# Song after song, rockettes up rocking

# 100 watts scream

# Man, my ears are bleeding

# Hot bodies charged Blonde locks a-giving

# And all around...

# Young girls are fainting

-# In the Valley of the Dolls

-Their hearts a-pumping

-# In the Valley of the Dolls

-As the spikes are dancing

-# In the Valley of the Dolls

-Skank girl skanking

-# In the Valley of the Dolls

-I saw love vibrating

# As into the Valley of the Dolls

# Go the gang of four

# Into the Valley of the Dolls

# Dolls

# Into the Valley of the Dolls

# Dolls

# Into the Valley of the Dolls

# Dolls

-# As into the valley of the...

-Dolls!

# Wooooow!

-# In the Valley of the Dolls

-Four skulls are splitting

-# In the Valley of the Dolls

-Five fingers creaking

-# In the Valley of the Dolls

-Six strings a-burning

-# In the Valley of the Dolls

-Seventh hour approaching

-# In the Valley of the Dolls

-Eight legs are stomping

-# In the Valley of the Dolls

-Nine lives are grooving

-# In the Valley of the Dolls

-10,000 coasting

-# In the Valley of the Dolls

-X Generating

# As into the Valley of the Dolls... #

APPLAUSE

Getting the show of to a really good start, the latest,

and for me, the best of Generation X and The Valley of the Dolls.

From a superb album, Breakfast In America, here's Supertramp

and The Logical Song.

# When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful

# A miracle

# Oh, it was beautiful, magical

# And all the birds in the trees

# They'd be singing so happily

# Oh, joyfully

# Oh, playfully, watching me

# But then they sent me away

# To teach me how to be sensible

# Logical

# Oh, responsible, practical

# And then they showed me a world where I could be so dependable

# Oh, clinical

# Oh, intellectual, cynical

# There are times

# When all the world's asleep

# The questions run too deep

# For such a simple man.

# Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned

# I know it sounds absurd

# Please tell me who I am.

# Now watch what you say or they'll be calling you a radical,

# Liberal, oh, fanatical, criminal.

# Won't you sign up your name, we'd like to feel you're

# Acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable

# Oh, take, take, take it yeah!

# But at night, when all the world's asleep,

# The questions run so deep

# For such a simple man.

# Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned

# I know it sounds absurd

# Please tell me who I am

# Who I am

# Who I am

# Who I am. #

APPLAUSE

The latest disco delight to boogie its way into the chart is

One Way Ticket from Eruption

and I'm glad to say they're here with us tonight.

# Mmmm... oohhh...

# Yeea yeea yeaah...

# One way ticket

# One way ticket.

# One way ticket

# One way ticket.

# One way ticket.

# One way ticket to the blues.

# Choo choo train

# Tuckin' down the track

# Gotta travel on it

# Never comin' back

# Ooh

# Got a one way ticket to the blues

# Bye-bye love

# My babe is leavin' me

# Now lonely tear drops are all that I can see

# Ooh

# Got a one way ticket to the blues

# Gonna take a trip to lonesome town

# Gonna stay at heartbreak hotel

# A fool such as I

# There never was

# I cry my tears away

# One way ticket

# One way ticket

# One way ticket

# One way ticket

# One way ticket

# One way ticket to the blues

# Choo choo train

# Tuckin' down the track

# Gotta travel on it

# Never comin' back

# Ooh

# Got a one way ticket to the blues

# Hey now!

# Gotta go on

#Yeah

# Tuckin' on tuckin' on

# One way ticket to the blues.

# Oh, I gotta take a trip to lonesome town

# Gonna stay at heartbreak hotel

# Oh, a fool such as I

# There never was I cry the tears away

-#

-One way ticket.

-Choo Choo

-#

-One way ticket.

-I'm tuckin' on tuckin' on.

-#

-One way ticket.

-I've got my ticket

-#

-One way ticket.

-#

-One way ticket.

-#

-One way ticket to the blues.

# Choo choo train

# Tuckin' down the track

# I've gotta travel on it

# Never comin' back

# Ooh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

# Woah whoa got a one way ticket to the blues

# I got my ticket

# Oh I'm tuckin' on one way ticket

# I'm leaving you, I got my ticket..#

APPLAUSE

One way ticket, hmm? The plot thickens. Staircase - Mystery.

This is a case for Siouxsie and the Banshees.

SONG: "The Staircase (Mystery) by Siouxsie and the Banshees

# Staircase lying face up

# Stare cat sat on the mat

# Looking down, looking down

# Slide down the banister

# Take the escalator

# Slide down the banister

# Or try the elevator

# I was standing on the landing

# Now I'm standing in the hall

# Looking up, up, up, up

# Won't someone assist me

# Solve this mystery

# Somebody assist me

# Arrange the symmetry

# Muffled footsteps on the carpet

# Spiral steps start spinning

# Around me

# Which floor, which ceiling

# You're off balance

# Which floor, which ceiling

# It's all upside down

# Staircase lying face up

# Stare cat sat on the mat

# Looking down, looking down, down. #

APPLAUSE

Dynamic stuff indeed

from Siouxsie And The Banshees, The Staircase (Mystery).

Still in the runner-up spot, Racey this week.

SONG: "Some Girls" by Racey

# Some girls will, some girls won't

# Some girls need a lot of lovin' and some girls don't

# Well I know I've got the fever but I don't know why

# Some say they will and some girls lie

# So here I am in front of you

# Not really knowing what to do

# My heart is feeling something new

# Nervously I turn away from you

# I see those looks you're sending me

# Is this the way it's meant to be?

# It's something we should talk about

# Just give me time to work it out

# Some girls will, some girls won't

# Some girls need a lot of lovin' and some girls don't

# Well I know I've got the fever but I don't know why

# Some say they will and some girls lie

# I find your company to be

# Something completely new to me

# Now that I know you socially

# Obviously I'll fall heavily

# I've seen those looks you're sending me

# This is the way it's meant to be

# There's nothing left to talk about

# Oh, how I wish you'd work it out

# Some girls will, some girls won't

# Some girls need a lot of lovin' and some girls don't

# Well, I know I've got the fever but I don't know why

# Some say they will and some girls lie

# I don't know what I'm going to do.

# Some girls will, some girls won't

# Some girls need a lot of lovin' and some girls don't

# Well I know I've got the fever but I don't know why

# Some say they will and some girls lie

# So here I am in front of you

# Not really knowing what to do

# My heart is feeling something new

# Nervously I turn away from you

# Some girls will, some girls won't

# Some girls need a lot of lovin' and some girls don't

# Well, I know I've got the fever but I don't know why

# Some say they will and some girls lie. #

APPLAUSE

Some girls will, and some girls won't.

And incredibly, some girls like knocking on wood, like

Amii Stewart and this week, she's knocking at number 20 in the chart.

SONG: "Knock On Wood" by Amii Stewart

# I don't want to lose you

# This good thing that I got

# Cos if I do I will surely

# Surely lose a lot

# Cos your love is better

# Than any love I know

# It's like thunder lightning

# The way you love me is frightening

# You better knock knock

# On wood baby

# Ooh baby

# Ooh wooh!

# I'm not superstitious about ya

# But I can't take no chance

# You got me spinnin' baby

# You know that I'm in a trance

# Cos your love is better

# Than any love I know

# It's like thunder lightning

# The way you love me is frightenin'

# You better knock knock knock

# On wood baby

# Ooh baby

# Ohh...

-#

-Think I better knock knock knock on wood

-#

-Think I better knock knock knock on wood

-#

-Think I better knock knock knock on wood

-#

-Think I better knock knock knock on wood

-#

-Think I better knock

# Ohh baby

# Aahhh...

# It's no secret about it

# Cos with his lovin' touch

# He sees to it

# That I get enough

# With his touch, all over

# You know it means so much

# It's like thunder burstin' lightnin'

# The way you love me is frightenin'

# You better knock knock knock

# On wood... #

APPLAUSE

Well on a more topical note with the election and stuff coming up,

questions and answers.

Would you vote for Sham 69?

SONG: "Questions and Answers" by Sham 69

# As soon as we are born

# We're told what to say and do

# But only a friend can know the you that's you

# So think before you do what they say

# It's your life so go your own way

# Questions and answers honesty lies

# Yes no you can't but you can and you know why

# An arguments your statement

# Just say look I'm alive

# Just doing what you think is right

# Will help you to survive

# So think before you do what they say

# It's your life so go your own way

# Questions and answers honesty lies

# Yes no you can't but you can and you know why

# Questions and answers honesty lies

# Yes no you can't but you can and you know why

# There's no-one that can tell you

# What you can and cannot be

# The world was made for all of us

# For you and yes for me

# So think before you do what they say

# It's your life so go your own way

# Questions and answers honesty lies

# Yes no you can't but you can and you know why

# Questions and answers honesty lies

# Yes no you can't but you can and you know why. #

APPLAUSE

Well by way of a slight contrast, here's the weeks highest new

chart entry from Boney M and Hooray Hooray,

It's A Holli- Holliday.

# Hey - di - hey - di - hoh

# Digge ding ding ding digge digge ding ding

# Hey - di - hey - di - hoh

# Digge ding ding ding digge digge ding ding

# Hey - di - hey - di - hoh

# Digge ding ding ding digge digge ding ding

# Hey - di - hey - di - hoh

# There's a place I know where we should go - hey-di-hey-di-hoh

# Won' t you take me there your lady fair - hey-di-hey-di-hoh

# There's a brook near-by the grass grows high - hey-di-hey-di-hoh

# Where we both can hide side by side - hey-di-hey-di-hoh

# Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday

# What a world of fun for everyone, holi-holiday

# Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday

# Sing a summer song, skip along, holi-holiday

# It's a holi-holiday

# There's a country fair not far from there - hey-di-hey-di-hoh

# On a carousel the dingdong bell - hey-di-hey-di-hoh

# On the loop di loop we swing and swoop - hey-di-hey-di-hoh

# And what else we'll do is up to you - hey-di-hey-di-hoh

# Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday

# What a world of fun for everyone, holi-holiday

# Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday

# Sing a summer song, skip along, holi-holiday

# It's a holi-holiday

# Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday

# What a world of fun for everyone, holi-holiday

# Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday

# Sing a summer song, skip along, holi-holiday

# It's a holi-holiday

# In the country side we take a ride - hey-di-hey-di-hoh

# Where the stars will shine lots of time - hey-di-hey-di-hoh

# Back of your old car we might get far - hey-di-hey-di-hoh

# In the summer breeze we feel at ease - hey-di-hey-di-hoh

# Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday

# What a world of fun for everyone, holi-holiday

# Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday

# Sing a summer song, skip along, holi-holiday

# It's a holi-holiday, it's a holi-holiday. #

APPLAUSE

I must warn you, watching this next act could be habit-forming.

They are The Monks. Nice legs, shame about their faces though.

SONG: "Nice Legs Shame About Her Face" by Monks

# Met her on a blind date

# Helping out an old mate

# Waiting at the corner

# She'd be dressed in black

# There was I expecting a really tasty bird

# He said she was good looking

# I should have doubted his word

# When I saw her there

# She was a real disgrace

# I thought nice legs shame about her face

# I had to take her dancing

# I couldn't let her down

# So we caught the bus

# To the other side of town

# Out upon the dance floor

# I wasn't getting far

# So I had a drink with my friends

# Up at the bar

# I asked them what they thought of her they fell about the place

# And they said nice legs

# Shame about her face

# She said could we go bowling,

# I said that would be fine

# But when I bought the tickets

# She'd already changed her mind

# She was turning out

# To be a real hard case

# Nice legs shame about the boat race

# Downed a gin and soda

# Tapped me on the shoulder

# Whispered in my ear

# It's getting kind of late

# When I took her home

# We hardly said a thing

# I walked her to the door

# Expected to go in

# She looked me up and down

# And really put me in my place

# She said nice legs shame about your face

# Nice legs shame about your face. #

APPLAUSE

And on the subject of legs and things,

to the tune of The Bee Gees' Love You Inside Out, it's Legs & Co.

# Baby, I can't figure it out

# Your kisses taste like honey

# Sweet lies don't gimme no rise

# Oh, oh what you're trying to do?

# Livin' on your cheatin'

# And the pain grows inside me

# It's enough to leave me crying in the rain

# Love you forever but you're driving me insane

# And I'm hanging on, oh, oh, oh

# Oh, I'll win, I'll never give in

# Our love has got the power

# Too many lovers in one lifetime

# Ain't good for you

# You treat me like a vision in the night

# Someone there to stand behind you

# When your world ain't working right

# I ain't no vision, I am the man

# Who loves you inside and out

# Backwards and forwards with

# My heart hanging out

# I love no other way

# What am I going to do if we lose that fire?

# Wrap myself up and take me home again

# Too many heartaches in one lifetime

# Ain't good for me

# I figure it's the love that keeps you warm

# Let this moment be forever

# We won't ever feel the storm

# I ain't no vision, I am the man

# Who loves you inside and out

# Backwards and forwards with

# My heart hanging out

# I love no other way

# What am I going to do if we lose that fire?

# Don't try to tell me it's all over

# I can't hear a word I can't hear a line

# No man could love you more

# And that's what I'm cryin' for

# You can't change the way I feel inside... #

APPLAUSE

And now we come to this week's number one.

And it's the third week for it being at the top, from the motion picture

Watership Down, Art Garfunkel sings the lovely Bright Eyes.

# There's a fog along the horizon

# A strange glow in the sky

# And nobody seems to know where you go

# And what does it mean?

# Oh, is it a dream?

# Bright eyes

# Burning like fire

# Bright eyes

# How can you close and fail?

# How can the light that burned so brightly

# Suddenly burn so pale?

# Bright eyes. #

Well that's it for this week.

I hope you've enjoyed the programme, enough to join us again next week.

From us all here at Top Of The Pops,

have yourself a good week with Showaddywaddy, Remember Then!

# Mem mem, remem-me-mem-ber

# Mem mem, remem-me-mem-ber

# Mem mem, remem-me-mem-ber then then

# Remember then?

# Re-mem mem, remem-me-mem-be

# Re-mem mem, remem-me-mem-be

# Re-mem mem, remem-me-mem-ber then then

# Remember then?

# That night we fell in love

# Beneath the stars from above

# That was a lovely summer night

# Remember then, then, then, then, then

# Remember

# Re-mem mem, remem-me-mem-ber

# Re-mem mem, remem-me-mem-ber

# Re-mem mem, remem-me-mem-ber then then

# Remember then?

# The summer is over

# Our loving is over

# To lose that love was such a shame

# Remember then, then, then, then, then

# Remember then, then, then, then, then

# Remember

# Re-mem mem, remem-me-mem-ber

# Our love is in the past

# Why has it gone so fast?

# Why couldn't our love last?

# I'm broken hearted now

# Since we have parted now

# My mind wonders now and then

# Remember then, then, then, then, then

# Remember then, then, then, then, then... #