30/06/77 Top of the Pops

There's only one way to introduce this week's show - this is it.

APPLAUSE

MUSIC: "Do What You Wanna Do" by T Connection

# When everybody's starting to pick on you

# Just can't let them tell you what to do

# You've only got one life so live it cool

# In this world of strife you can be a fool

# Let your body tell you what to do

# Got to be your judge and the jury too

# Do-do-do-do-do

# Let nobody tell you what to do

# Got to be your judge and the jury too

# All right

# Got to do your thing and let it all hang out

# Got to really show them what it's all about

# Move on up and don't look around

# People always try to put you down

# Down, down

# Let nobody tell you what to do

# Got to be your judge and the jury too

# Do-do-do-do-do

# Let nobody tell you what to do

# Got to be your judge and jury too

# A-ha, a-ha, a-ha. #

DRUM SOLO

APPLAUSE

That gets this edition of Top Of The Pops under way.

That's T Connection, born with a teaspoon in their mouths.

We have three new entries in the charts this week.

Well, four altogether, but three in this programme.

This lady is doing very well.

Gladys Knight, and Baby, Don't Change Your Mind.

# Ooh, your ex is back in town

# What you gonna do when she comes around

# And she starts going through her act?

# Woo-ooh-ooh-ooh

# Will she beg you to take her back?

# Woo-ooh-ooh-ooh

# Will your love for me remain intact?

# Or will you run to her?

# Run to her

# Baby, my love is on the line

# Baby don't change your mind

# Don't change it

# Be strong

# And leave the past behind

# Baby, don't change your mind

# Don't change it

# Don't you change it

# Ooh, you say your love is true

# What you gonna say when she looks at you?

# Will the seconds in your head

# Make you take back things you said?

# Will you give in and be misled?

# Or will you stay with me?

# Stay with me

# Baby, my love is on the line

# Baby, don't change your mind

# Don't change it

# Be strong

# And leave the past behind

# Baby, don't change your mind

# Don't change it

# Don't you change it

# Do, do-do-do

# Do-do-do-do

# Do, do-do-do

# Do-do-do-do-do

# I would exit and take my bow

# But I don't want to do it now

# So I'm thinking some way, somehow

# Baby, you'll stay with me

# Stay with me

# Baby, my love is on the line

# Baby, don't change your mind

# Don't change it

# Be strong

# And leave the past behind

# Baby, don't change your mind

# Don't change it

# You know

# She's not the staying kind

# Baby, don't change your mind

# Don't you change it

# You know

# My love is genuine

# Baby, don't change your mind. #

APPLAUSE

This week's number five,

from one of those really magical ladies - Gladys Knight.

How about this? Straight in at number 24 -

John Miles, and Slow Down.

# People always rushing round

# Making time to fuss and to worry

# Get your feet back on the ground

# It's no good to live in a hurry

# Take it easy on your mind

# No-one wants to get behind

# Think about it, you will find

# Time is on your side

# Slow down, baby!

# Can't slow down

# Slow down, baby!

# Can't slow down

# Try it now, woman

# Can't slow down

# Baby, won't you please slow down?

# All right!

# Ooh!

# Take it up, take it up!

# Yeah, yeah, yeah! #

TALKBOX SOLO

# Things around you change so fast

# Living day-to-day is confusing

# Woh-hoh!

# And how long will the good times last

# Thinking you're on top when you're losing?

# Yeah

# Take it easy on your mind

# No-one wants to get behind

# Think about it, think about it

# Slow down, baby!

# Can't slow down!

# Slow down, baby!

# Can't slow down!

# Slow down, baby!

# Can't slow down!

# Baby, won't you please slow down?

# You've got to, you've got to

# Can't slow down

# You've got to, you've got to

# Can't slow down

# You've got to, you've got to

# Can't slow down

# I said, baby won't you please slow down?

# All you've got to do All you've got to do

# Can't slow down. #

APPLAUSE

That really is quite unbelievable - the pace that that record is moving.

Straight in at this week's number 24. It's got to have number one written all over it.

That's John Miles, and he was slowing down.

This gentleman, last time I was on Top of the Pops, was hovering just outside the chart.

He's now in at 29 - it's Jesse Green.

MUSIC: "Come With Me" by Jesse Green

# Why don't you come with me?

# For you, I'll keep an open door

# You will see

# A love you've never known before

# You and me

# We know, baby, what's in store

# I love you once, and then some more

# Oh baby, come with me

# Together, let our loving flow

# You and me

# I'll teach you all you need to know

# Let it be

# And we will find our love will grow

# Don't hold back, just let it go

# When you're near

# There's a feeling deep inside me

# Ooh - I can't control

# So let it be

# Baby, baby, come with me

# Oh, oh, oh, oh

# Oh, my darling

# My sweet love

# My darling

# When you're near

# There's a feeling deep inside me

# Ooh, I can't control

# So let it be

# Baby, baby, come with me

# Ah! Ha-ha-ha!

# Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!

# Why don't you come with me?

# For you, I'll keep an open door

# You will see

# A love you've never known before

# You and me

# We know, baby, what's in store

# I'll love you once And then some more. #

APPLAUSE

He's got reason to look content with life.

He's on his way to another hit - Jesse Green and Come With Me.

This week's number 17 comes from Queen.

It's the Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy

# I can dim the lights and sing you songs

# Full of sad things

# We can do the tango just for two

# I can serenade and gently play on your heart strings

# Be your Valentino just for you

# Ooh, love

# Ooh, lover boy

# What you doing tonight? Hey, boy

# Set my alarm, turn on my charm

# That's because I'm a good old-fashioned lover boy

# Ooh - let me feel your heartbeat

# Grow faster, faster

# Ooh - can you feel my love heat?

# Come on and sit on my hot seat of love

# And tell me, how do you feel?

# Right, after all

# I'd like for you and I to go romancing

# Say the word Your wish is my command

# Ooh, love

# Ooh, lover boy

# What you doing tonight? Hey, boy

# Write my letter, feel much better

# And use that fancy patter on the telephone

# Yeah

# When I'm not with you

# Think of you always

# I miss you

# When I'm not with you

# Think of me always

# I love you

# Love you

# Hey boy, where did you get it from?

# Hey boy, where did you go?

# I learned my passion in the good old-fashioned

# School of lover boys... #

GUITAR SOLO

# Dining at the Ritz We'll meet at nine

# Precisely

# I will pay the bill You taste the wine

# Driving back in style in my saloon will do quite nicely

# Take me back yours That will be fine

# Come and get it

# Ooh, love

# Ooh, lover boy

# What you doing tonight? Hey boy

# Everything's all right Just hold on tight

# That's because I'm a good old-fashioned

# Lover boy. #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

I always want him to say, "Give us a kiss," at the end of that.

Queen, and Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy. Before the show, I talked to Cliff

about the fortunes of his latest single.

He says, if it's not a hit, it'll be a miss with style. I reckon it's got style and it'll be a hit -

otherwise I wouldn't have chosen it as Record of the Week.

Cliff Richard, and what happens When Two Worlds Drift Apart.

# We turned water into wine

# But that didn't last

# We were the victims of our age

# Now we live on different floors

# And go our separate ways

# And talk behind closed doors

# We changed our world

# Waiting for it all to end

# It's such a shame

# But who's to blame

# When two worlds drift apart?

# We used to sit around the fire

# And whisper words

# The world outside would make no claims to hear

# And now we talk an octave higher

# And drone in tones that don't relate at all

# To yesteryear

# We changed our world

# Waiting for it all to end

# It's such a shame

# But who's to blame

# When two world drift apart?

# Do you remember

# When we were 17?

# We took our boat out for an hour

# But we preferred the greenery to the scenery of the sea

# And tied up in some cosy cove

# Till harbour lights appeared across the bay

# Remember?

# Remember?

# Into love and out of mind

# A poet claimed that loving you

# Has only made me blind

# But love is really crystal clear

# It's only when you need someone

# The clouds will soon appear

# We changed our world

# Waiting for it all to end

# It's such a shame

# But who's to blame

# When two worlds drift apart?

# Do you remember

# When laughter was the cure

# For all the hard times that we knew?

# But we forgot to feed the fire

# Let it all burn down

# And warmth returns to cold

# And poison into pain

# It's such a shame

# But who's to blame

# When two worlds drift apart?

# Remember?

# Remember? #

APPLAUSE

Really amazing. Cliff Richard, and When Two Worlds Drift Apart.

And when 12 legs get together with a few other bits,

this is what happens.

MUSIC: "Feel The Need In Me" by the Detroit Emeralds

# See how I'm walking

# See how I'm talking

# Notice everything in me

# Feel the need

# Oh, feel Feel the need in me

# I need you by my side

# To be my guide

# Can't you see my arms are open wide?

# Feel the need

# Oh, feel

# Feel the need in me

# I need your love

# Every day I need

Love

# Every day I want

Love

# Without your sweet, sweet love I'd rather die

# I need your love

# I need it constantly

# Love

Your love takes care of me

# Your love is better to me than apple pie

# Just put your hand in mine

# And love me all the time

# You will plainly see

# Feel the need

# Oh, feel

# Feel the need in me

# I need you on the case

# To keep my heart in place

# You make me what I need to be

# Feel the need

# Oh, feel

# Feel the need in me

# Hey, hey, hey, hey

# Your love is tough and I

# Can't get enough

# Girl, your love is so important to me

# Important to me now

# Feel the need

# Hey, feel it

# Feel the need in me. #

APPLAUSE

Legs & Company, and Detroit Emeralds, feeling the need.

Incidentally, it's Patti's birthday and we'll have a birthday "Patti" for her.

Right, this is number three. It's ELP. Ooh, it rhymed.

# MUSIC: "Fanfare for the Common Man" by Emerson, Lake & Palmer

APPLAUSE

That's Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and Fanfare for the Common Man.

Rather appropriate to have a fanfare before the number one sound.

And men don't come more common than this lot(!)

Actually, it's the first number one for Hot Chocolate.

# Do-do-do-do

# Do-do-do-do

# Do-do-do-do

# Do-do-do-do

# Do-do-do-do

# Do-do-do-do

# Just to admit one mistake

# It can be hard to take

# I know we've made them fall

# But only fools come back for more

# Being the fool I am

# I figured in all your plans, darling

# Your perfumed letters didn't say

# That you'd be leaving any day

# So you win again

# You win again

# Here I stand again

# The loser

# And just for fun

# Took my love and run

# Love had just begun

# I can't refuse her

# But now I know

# That I'm the fool

# Who won your love

# To lose it all

# When you come back

# You win again

# Do-do-do-do

# Do-do-do-do

# Do-do-do-do

# And I'm not proud to say

# I let love slip away

# Now I'm the one who's crying

# I'm a fool - there's no denying

# When will my heartache end?

# Will my whole life depend

# On fading memories

# You took the game this time with ease

# So you win again

# You win again

# Here I stand again

# The loser

# And just for fun

# You took my love and run

# Love had just begun

# I can't refuse her

# But now I know

# That I'm the fool

# Who won your love

# To lose it all

# When you come back

# You win again

# Do-do-do-do

# Do-do-do-do

# Do-do-do-do. #

APPLAUSE

Marvellous. They're there at number one, after a phenomenal rush to the top.

Hot Chocolate, and So You Win Again.

We leave you with "Ma Boney". See you on the breakfast show.

From this edition of Top Of The Pops, bye-bye.

MUSIC: "Ma Baker" by Boney M

# She was the meanest cat

# In all Chicago town

# She was the meanest cat

# She really mowed them down

# She had no heart at all

# No, no - no heart at all

# She was the meanest cat

# Oh, she was really tough

# She left her husband flat

# He wasn't tough enough

# She took her boys along

# For they were mean and strong

# Ma-ma-ma-ma

# Ma Baker - she taught up her sons

# Ma-ma-ma-ma

# Ma Baker - to handle their guns

# Ma-ma-ma-ma

# Ma Baker - she never could cry

# Ma-ma-ma-ma

# Ma Baker - but she knew how to die...

INSTRUMENTAL

# They left a trail of crime

# Across the USA. #