27/10/76 Top of the Pops

Hello, and welcome to Top Of The Pops.

APPLAUSE

# Overhead, morning planes are roaring

# Under the bed the dog is snoring

# Down the street rolls a bony taxi

# Boy, am I glad I'm not on my jacksie

-# We have kissed away the night

-Sha-la-la

# And the morning sun's so bright

-# You can bring on the day

-Sha-la-la

# But our love won't fade away

# Paper scandals land on the sidewalk

# Midnight vandals start with their wall talk

# Windy litter, waste and wine

# Fill up these empty streets of mine

-# We have kissed away the night

-Sha-la-la

# And the morning sun's so bright

-# You can bring on the day

-Sha-la-la

# But our love won't fade away

# Ooh!

# Ah, ah, ah, a-a-h

# Ah, ah, ah, a-a-h

-# We have kissed away the night

-Sha-la-la

# And the morning sun's so bright

-# You can bring on the day

-Sha-la-la

# But our love won't fade away

# Moneyed masters mix up their papers

# Neighbourhood priests who follow their neighbours

# Mamma and Pa lie cold in the ground

# But I keep on spinning on this merry-go slow down

-# We have kissed away the night

-Sha-la-la

# And the morning sun's so bright

-# You can bring on the day

-Sha-la-la

# But our love won't fade away

-# We have kissed away the night

-Sha-la-la

# And the morning sun's so bright

-# You can bring on the day

-Sha-la-la

# But our love won't fade away. #

APPLAUSE

That's Alan... Oh, there you are behind us. Sneaking up behind me.

That's Alan Price and Kissed Away The Night, his new one.

Get a pencil and paper handy, because a little later

I'll give you details on our competition to find a brand new name

for our new dancers, here on Top Of The Pops.

So if you want to win a prize and come on Top Of The Pops,

you need a pencil and paper handy, OK?

But now, back we go to music and here's the number three sound,

and what a lovely sound this one is.

It's called If You Leave Me Now, and here they are,

the wonderful sound of Chicago,

doing so well in the charts at the moment.

APPLAUSE

# If you leave me now

# You'll take away the biggest part of me

# Ooh oh, no, baby please don't go

# And if you leave me now

# You'll take away the very heart of me

# Ooh oh, no, baby please don't go

# Ooh, oh, girl I just want you to stay

# A love like ours is love that's hard to find

# How could we let it slip away?

# We've come too far to leave it all behind

# How could we end it all this way?

# When tomorrow comes and we both regret

# The things we said today

# A love like ours is love that's hard to find

# How could we let it slip away?

# We've come too far to leave it all behind

# How could we end it all this way?

# When tomorrow comes and we both regret

# The things we said today

# If you leave me now

# You'll take away the biggest part of me

# Ooh oh, no, baby please don't go

# Ooh, girl I just got to have you by my side

# Ooh, oh no, baby, please don't go

# Ooh, mama

# I just got to have your lovin' Yeah, yeah. #

How lovely. If You Leave Me Now, the sound of Chicago.

Used to be one of my records of the week on Radio 1.

Do you like the T-shirt? I definitely think this is a style

that's going to catch on for this coming Christmas.

Well, in actual fact, this is the new look for '77.

-Let's have a look at...

-That one is a bit under the arm.

-I don't like that one.

-It's the new one.

I'm going to introduce one of my other records of the week.

Leo Sayer, You Make Me Feel Like Dancing.

-Oh, do you want to dance?

-Yes, please.

APPLAUSE

# You've got a cute way of talking

# You got the better of me

# Just snap your fingers and I'm walking

# Like a dog hanging on your lead

# I'm in a spin, you know

# Shaking on string, you know

# You make me feel like dancing

# I want to dance the night away

# You make me feel like dancing

# I'm going to dance the night away

# You make feel like dancing

# I feel like dancing, dancing Dance the night away

# I feel like dancing, dancing

# A-a-a-a-h

# Quarter to four in the morning

# I ain't feeling tired No, no, no, no, no

# Just hold me tight and leave on the light

# Cos I don't want to go home

# You put a spell on me

# I'm right where you want me to be

# You make me feel like dancing

# I want to dance the night away

# You make me feel like dancing

# I'm going to dance the night away

# You make me feel like dancing

# I feel like dancing, dancing Dance the night away

# I feel like dancing, dancing Dance the night away

# I feel like dancing, dancing Dance the night away

# I feel like dancing, dancing

# A-a-a-a-h

# Ooh-ooh-ooh

# Ah, yeah

# And if you'll let me stay

# We'll dance our lives away

# You make me feel like dancing

# I want to dance my life away

# You make me feel like dancing

# I'm going to dance my life away...#

Fabulous. You Make Me Feel Like Dancing,

and that's the sound of Leo Sayer, in at number 30.

Don't worry, I've got rid of him. I've given him the elbow,

we're by ourselves now, we should be all right.

Let's have a bit of that Love And Affection right now

and here's a really beautiful song that's doing so well

for Joan Armatrading. Here it is.

# I am not in love

# But I'm open to persuasion

# East or west

# Where's the best

# For romancing?

# With a friend

# I can smile

# But with a lover I could hold my head back

# I could really laugh, really laugh

# Thank you

# You took me dancing

# 'Cross the floor

# Cheek to cheek

# But with a lover I could really move, really move

# I could really dance, really dance

# Really dance, really dance

# I could really move, really move

# Really move, really move

# Now if I can feel the sun

# In my eyes And the rain on my face

# Why can't I

# Feel

# Love?

# I can really love, really love

# Really love, really love

# Really love

# Love, love, love, love

# Love, love, love, love

# Now I got all

# The friends that I want

# I may need more

# But I shall just stick To those that I have got

# With friends I still feel So insecure

# Little darling, I believe You could help me a lot

# Just take my hand And lead me where you will

# No conversation No wave goodnight

# Just gimme love

# Make love with affection

# Sing me another love song

# But this time With a little dedication

-# Sing it, sing it

-Sing it, sing it

# You know that's what I like

# Once more with feeling

# Give me love, give me love Give me love

# Love...

# Make love with affection

# Sing me another love song

# But this time With a little dedication

-# Sing it, sing it

-Sing it, sing it

# You know that's what I like

# With affection

# Sing me another love song

# But this time With a little dedication

-# Sing it, sing it

-Sing it, sing it

# You know that's what I like

# With affection

# With a little dedication

# Once more with feeling

# You know that's what I like, lover

# Woo-ooh. #

APPLAUSE

Beautiful song, isn't it? Joan Armatrading there and Love And Affection.

If you were watching last week, you'll know we're having an exciting competition,

because we have six new dancers but we haven't found a name for them.

Well, thousands of you wrote in last week,

but we want some more cards. So this is all you've got to do.

First, you need a postcard, rather like this one.

You don't have to have one quite as big as that.

All you have to do is put what you think the group should be called on the left hand side,

then put your own name and address,

and if you've got a telephone, put the telephone number as well. OK?

That's all you have to do. Simple as that.

Now if your card is chosen as the one that we think is best,

the prize is to come here next week and announce

what you think the group should be called,

and from that moment on they'll be called that.

And also we might sneak in a rather exciting little prize for you.

The cards, by the way, have to be in by the 1st November, OK?

The first post. You'll want to know the address to write to.

Let's go back to the postcard.

We've flipped it over.

We're very clever here. All you've got to put is...

So now let's see the dancers dancing to the Theme From Jaws.

MUSIC: "Theme From Jaws" by Lalo Schifrin

APPLAUSE

Lalo Schifrin there, and the Theme From Jaws

or Fins Ain't What They Used To Be.

-Did you see that film?

-Yeah.

-A very frightening film, wasn't it?

Those were the Top Of The Pops dancers.

I wonder what you'll call them.

We'll announce the winners next week.

But right now, I hate to say it, here's another of my records of the week.

From Simon May, it's at number 7 this week, The Summer Of My Life.

APPLAUSE

# Drinking up the last drops Of the summer wine

# Clutching straws by the riverside

# And I look into your eyes

# And autumn's getting near

# You were the summer of my life You were everything to me

# You were all a man could need

# You turned my darkness into light You changed everything inside

# You were the summer of my life

# I've got a thing What I'll say to you

# And what I say I think it's true

# Did it ever cross your mind

# That I'll always love you

# You were the summer of my life

# You were everything to me

# You were all a man could need

# You turned my darkness into light

# You changed everything inside

# You were the summer of my life

# You were the summer of my life

# You were everything to me

# You were all a man could need

# You turned my darkness into light

# You changed everything inside

# You were the summer of my life

# You were the summer of my life

# You were everything to me

# You were all a man could need

# You turned my darkness into light

# You changed everything inside

# You were the summer of my life. #

-APPLAUSE

-Lovely, isn't it? Simon May there, reliving those summer moments.

The Summer Of My Life. And didn't we have a lovely summer?

Not like the rain we're getting now. Still, we could do with it.

We could also do with a little bit of funky music with Wild Cherry.

APPLAUSE

# Hey, do it now!

# Yeah, hey

# Hey, once I was a boogie singer

# Playing in a rock and roll band

# I never had no problems, yeah

# Burnin' down the one night stands

# And everything around me, yeah

# Got to start to feelin' so low

# And I decided quickly Yes, I did

# To disco down and check out the show

# Yeah, they was dancin' and singin' And movin' to the groovin'

# And just when it hit me Somebody turned around and shouted

# Play that funky music, white boy

# Play that funky music right

# Play that funky music, white boy

# Lay down the boogie and Play that funky music till you die

# Till you die

# Oh, till you die! #

Come on! Play some electro-funk! Wow!

Hey! Wait a minute!

# Now first it wasn't easy

# Changin' rock and rolling minds

# And things were getting shaky

# I thought I'd have to leave it behind

# But now it's so much better It's so much better

# I'm funking out in every way

# But I'll never lose that feelin' No, I won't

# Of how I learned my lesson that day

# When they were dancin' and singin' And movin' to the groovin'

# And just when it hit me Somebody turned around and shouted

# Play that funky music, white boy

# Play that funky music right

# Play that funky music, white boy

# Lay down the boogie and Play that funky music till you die

# Till you die

# Oh, till you die

# They shouted play that funky music Play that funky music

# Play that funky music... # APPLAUSE

Doing very well in the discotheques,

that's Play That Funky Music from Wild Cherry at number 15.

Just before we play the number 1,

remember that competition address

to find the name for our brand new dancers.

Let's see our postcard again, shall we? It's...

And in, of course, by the 1st November.

That's Monday, and it must be the first post. OK?

We're going to go for the number 1, right now. Here they are.

Still at number 1, Pussycat and Mississippi.

Thanks for watching. See you next week, Bye-bye.

APPLAUSE

# Well, you can hear A country song from far

# And someone play the honky tonk guitar

# Where all the lights will go out one by one

# The people enjoying the sun

# And the wind takes it away

# Where the Mississippi rolls down to the sea

# And lovers found the place they like to be

# How many times before the song was ending

# Love and understanding Everywhere around

# Mississippi

# I'll remember you

# Whenever I shall 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 and roll

# And every time when summer nights are falling

# I always will be calling

# Dreams of yesterday

# Mississippi

# I'll remember you

# Whenever I shall 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. #

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