31/05/1979 Top of the Pops

I'm Paul Burnett and this is Top Of The Pops.

# I'm glad you're home

# Now did you really miss me

# I guess you did

# By the look in your eyes

# Look in your eyes

# Well, lay back and relax

# While I put away the dishes

# Put away the dishes

# Then you and me can rock-a-bye

# You can ring my bell

# Ring my bell

# You can ring my bell

# Ring my bell. #

APPLAUSE

# Taumatawhakatangihangakoayauo

# Nukypokaiwhenuakitanatahu

# Tamateaturipukakapikimaungahoro

# Me Tonto Kimosabi

# Me go and catchee baddy

# Find him by the shady water

# Deep within Apache forest

# Find him, scalp him eat him up for breakfast

# Real good friend to Kimosabi

# Save another silver bullet

# Hi-ho silver away

# Ride into tomorrow today

# But who was that masked man you say

# That was the Lone Ranger

# Fill up pipe of peace for Tonto

# Kimosabi friend and brother

# He smoke pipe of peace with Tonto

# Put his mask on back to fronto

# Tonto fall about with laughter

# He's a head our great white brother

# Even pass a tote to Silver

# Mask man very untogether

# Hi-ho Silver away

# Ride into tomorrow today

# But who was that masked man you say

# That was the Lone Ranger

# Taumatawhakatangihangakoayauo

# Tamateaturipukakapikimaungahoro

# Nukypokaiwhenuakitanatahu

# Taumatawhakatangihangakoayauo

# Nukypokaiwhenuakitanatahu

# Tamateaturipukakapikimaungahoro

# Nukypokaiwhenuakitanatahu

# Tamateaturipukakapikimaungahoro

# Tonto know that Kimosabi

# Never ever have a woman

# Tonto sometime stop and wonder

# What the trip with the great white brother

# Maybe masked man he a poofter

# Try it on with surly Tonto

# Let me say to mister lawman

# Tonto doesn't mind

# Hi-ho Silver away

# Ride into tomorrow today

# But who was that masked man you say

# That was the Lone Ranger

# Hi-ho Silver away

# Ride into tomorrow today. #

APPLAUSE

Quantum Jump there. Thanks a lot there, fellas.

I'm glad you called it The Lone Ranger.

Here we've got a beautiful sound that reached number one in the States.

Peaches and Herb and Reunited.

# I was a fool to ever leave your side

# Me minus you is such a lonely ride

# The break-up we had

# Has made me lonesome and sad

# I realise I love you

# Cos I want you bad

# Hey, hey

# I spent the evening with the radio

# Regret the moment that I let you go

# Our quarrel was such a way

# Of learning so much

# I know now that I love you

# Cos I need your touch

# Hey, hey

# Reunited and it feel so good

# Reunited cos we understood

# There's one perfect fit

# And, sugar, this one is it

# We both are so excited

# Cos we're reunited

# Hey, hey

# I sat here staring at the same old wall

# Came back to life just when I got your call

# I wished I could climb

# Right through the telephone line

# And give you what you want

# So you will still be mine

# Hey, hey

# I can't go cheating honey

# I can't play

# I found it very hard to stay away

# As we reminisce

# On precious moments like this

# I'm glad we're back together

# Cos I missed your kiss

# Hey, hey

# Reunited and it feels so good

# Reunited cos we understood

# There's one perfect fit

# And, sugar, this one is it

# We both are so excited

# Cos we're reunited

# Hey, hey

# Yeah, yeah, yeah

# Baby. #

APPLAUSE

Peaches and Herb there.

Now, a bit of a knees-up in the Top Of The Pops studio.

It's Chas and Dave and Gertcha.

# Now there's a word that I don't understand

# I hear it every day from my old man

# It may be cockney rhyming slang

# It ain't in no school book

# He says it every time that he gets mad

# A regular caution is my old dad

# Rub the old man up the wrong way

# Bet your life you'll hear him say

# Gertcha, cowson, gertcha

# Gertcha

When the kids are swinging on the gate

# Gertcha

# When the paperboy's half an hour late

# Gertcha

# When the pigeons are pecking at his seed

# Gertcha

# When the farmer starts digging up his weeds

# Gertcha

# Gertcha

# Bar-stool preaching

# He's always been the same

# Now the old man was a Desert Rat

# Khaki shorts and a khaki hat

# How my mother could have fancied that

# I just don't know

# But when the enemy came in sight

# They gave up without a fight

# They rubbed him up the wrong way

# This is what they heard him say

# Gertcha

# Gertcha

# Gertcha

# When me rock'n'roll records wake him up

# Gertcha

# When the Poles knocked England out of the cup

# Gertcha

# When the kids are banging on his door

# Gertcha

# When the barman won't serve him any more

# Gertcha

# Gertcha

# Bar-stool preaching

# He's always been the same

# Gertcha

# Gertcha

# Gertcha

# Gertcha

# Gertcha

# When the tomcats when they're kicking up a din

# Gertcha

# Tottenham Hotspur they couldn't get one in

# Gertcha

# When my mother locks him out of the flat

# Gertcha

# When it's raining and he can't find his hat

# Gertcha

# In the mornings when his motorcar won't go

# Gertcha

# Next-door neighbour when he won't give him a tow

# Gertcha

# Gertcha. #

APPLAUSE

That was Chas and Dave and Gertcha.

I do like a song with a message, don't you?

Now, a record that came in as a new entry in the chart

and it's McFadden and Whitehead, Ain't No Stopping Us Now.

And there ain't no stopping Legs & Co.

# Ain't no stopping us now

# We're on the move

# Ain't no stopping us now

# We've got the groove

# There's been so many things that's held us down

# But now it looks like things are finally coming around

# I know we've got a long long way to go

# And where we'll end up

# I don't know

# But we won't let nothing hold us back

# We're putting ourselves together

# We're polishing up our act

# If you felt we've been held down before

# I know you'll refuse to be held down any more

# Don't you let nothing, nothing

# Stand in your way

# I want you all to listen, listen

# To every word I say

# Every word I say

# Ain't no stopping us now

# We're on the move

# Ain't no stopping us now

# We've got the groove

# Ain't no stopping us now

# We're on the move

# I know

# I know

# Ain't no stopping us now

# We've got the groove

# We've got it

# Ain't no stopping us now

# We're on the move

# We're moving

# We're grooving

# Ain't no stopping us now

# We've got the groove

# We're grooving

# Moving, moving, moving, moving

# Ain't no stopping us now. #

APPLAUSE

There certainly ain't no stopping us now

because here with The Number One Song In Heaven, it's Sparks.

# It's number one all over heaven

# It's number one all over heaven

# It's number one all over heaven

# The number one song all over heaven

# If you should die before you awake

# If you should die while crossing the street

# The song that you'll hear I guarantee

# It's number one all over heaven

# It's number one all over heaven

# It's number one all over heaven

# The number one song all over heaven

# The one that's the rage up here in the clouds

# Loud as a crowd or soft as a doubt

# Lyrically weak but the music's the thing

# Gabriel plays it God how he plays it

# Gabriel plays it God how he plays it

# Gabriel plays it God how he plays it

# Gabriel plays it

# Let's hear him play it

# It's number one all over heaven

# It's number one all over heaven

# It's number one all over heaven

# The number one song all over heaven

# The song filters down down through the clouds

# It reaches the earth and winds all around

# And then it breaks up in millions of ways

# It goes 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

# In cars it becomes a hit

# In your homes it becomes advertisements

# And in the streets it becomes the children singing

# Oooh-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

# Oooh-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

# Oooh-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la. #

APPLAUSE

A record we've been playing quite a lot of on Radio 1 recently is this one.

I think it's going to be a big chart success for Voyager and it's called Halfway Hotel.

# Hey mama it's a long, long way

# To your borderland home

# Where the butterflies play all day

# Yeah, it's a long, long way

# And I'm awful hungry you know

# I could almost eat my words

# I said I'd give up my vacation

# To take you right across the nation

# And your mother thinks I'm crazy too

# I'll tell you what I think we should do

# Why don't we pull in at the halfway hotel

# I long for service at the ring of a bell

# And we could sleep in late

# Sleep in late

# Hey, your mummy and your daddy can wait

# Daddy can wait

# And if we pull in at the halfway hotel

# Why they're so discreet and I know only too well

# You won't get home again

# Won't get home

# No, it ain't home but you'll be welcome to stay

# You'll be amazed to see the people who you thought so swell

# Tipping back the Moselle

# And life is so hard on a credit card

# It's almost over

# At the halfway hotel

# Oooh, yeah

# Hey, mama, can you feel the heat

# My radiator's all dry

# And we're the only fools left in the street

# But sure I think you're sweet

# But I ain't no hero, you know

# You been mixing me up with those men in that slush

# You fill your mind with all that comic book stuff

# But it's your imagination

# Playing little tricks on you

# Only your imagination

# But at least I think I know what to do

# Why don't we pull in at the halfway hotel

# I long for service at the ring of a bell

# And we could sleep in late

# Sleep in late. #

APPLAUSE

See? What a nice sound it is. Voyager and Halfway Hotel.

In my disco appearances up and down the country,

I've found that this particular record is just about favourite.

Earth, Wind and Fire with Boogie Wonderland.

# Dance

# Boogie wonderland

# Dance

# Boogie wonderland

# Midnight creeps so slowly

# Into hearts of men who need more than they get

# Daylight deals a bad hand

# To a woman who has laid too many bets

# The mirror stares you in the face

# And says, baby, uh, uh it don't work

# You say your prayers

# Though you don't care

# You dance and shake the hurt

# Dance

# Boogie wonderland

# Dance

# Boogie wonderland

# Sound fly through the night

# I chase my vinyl dreams

# To boogie wonderland

# I find romance when I start to dance

# In boogie wonderland

# I find romance when I start to dance

# In boogie wonderland

# All the love in the world

# Can't be gone

# All the need to be loved

# Can't be wrong

# All the records are playing

# And my heart keeps saying

# Boogie wonderland

# Wonderland

# Dance

# Boogie wonderland

# Dance

# Boogie wonderland

# Yeah, yeah, yeah

# I find romance when I start to dance

# In boogie wonderland

# I find romance when I start to dance

# In boogie wonderland

# Dance

# Boogie wonderland

# Dance

# Boogie wonderland

# Yeah, yeah, yeah

# Do-do-do-do-do-do

# Do-do-do-do

# Wonderland

# Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do

# Do-do-do-do

# Wonderland

# Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do

# Do-do-do-do

# Wonderland

# All the love in the world

# Can't be gone

# All the need to be loved

# Can't be wrong

# All the records are playing

# And my heart is saying. #

APPLAUSE

I was talking to a bunch of guys before the show and they were really annoyed

that Tony Blackburn picked this as record of the week.

It's Squeeze and Up The Junction.

# I never thought it would happen

# With me and the girl from Clapham

# Out on a windy common

# That night I ain't forgotten

# When she dealt out the rations

# With some or other passions

# I said you are a lady

# Perhaps she said I may be

# We moved into a basement

# With thoughts of our engagement

# We stayed in by the telly

# Although the room was smelly

# We spent our time just kissing

# The Railway Arms we're missing

# But love had got us hooked up

# And all our time it took up

# I got a job with Stanley

# He said I'd come in handy

# And started me on Monday

# So I had a bath on Sunday

# I worked 11 hours

# And bought the girl some flowers

# She said she'd seen a doctor

# And nothing now could stop her

# I worked all through the winter

# The weather brass and bitter

# I put away a tenner

# Each week to make her better

# And when the time was ready

# We had to sell the telly

# Late evenings by the fire

# With little kicks inside her

# This morning at four fifty

# I took her rather nifty

# Down to an incubator

# Where thirty minutes later

# She gave birth to a daughter

# Within a year a walker

# She looked just like her mother

# If there could be another

# And now she's two years older Her mother's with a soldier

# She left me when my drinking Became a proper stinging

# The devil came and took me From bar to street to bookie

# No more nights by the telly No more nights nappies smelling

# Alone here in the kitchen I feel there's something missing

# I'd beg for some forgiveness But begging's not my business

# And she won't write a letter Although I always tell her

# And so it's my assumption I'm really up the junction. #

APPLAUSE

I think that's going to be a number one song. Here's Edwin Starr with an

English lesson for you. H-A-P-P-Y R-A-D-I-O spells H.A.P.P.Y. Radio!

# An automatic alarm

# Turns my radio on

# Before my feet can hit the floor

# The music's got me ready to go

# And all through the whole day

# I know my favourite records they'll play

# It helps me chase all my blues away

# When I can hear that DJ say

# That this is station H.A.P.P.Y.

# We plan to help your day go by

# I said it's a musical natural high

-# Ooh, on station H.A.

-H.A.

-P.P.

-P.P.Y.

# H.A.P.P.Y.

-# We plan, we plan

-To help your day go by

# Ooh, musical, natural

-# On station H.A.

-H.A.

-P.P.

-P.P.Y.

# You should hear them

# Every day, yeah

# While riding home in my car

# My happy radio is never too far

# I just reach out my hand turn the dial

# And I know it will make me smile

# Cos this is station H.A.P.P.Y.

-# We plan, we plan

-To help your day go by

-# Ooh, ooh, ooh

-It's a musical natural high

-# Yes, it is, on station H.A.

-H.A.

-P.P.

-P.P.Y.

# Don't you know that it's a musical

# Natural

-# On station H.A.

-H.A.

-P.P.

-P.P.Y.

# H.A.P.P.Y.

# We plan to help your day go by

# By, by, by

# Said it's a musical, natural

-# H.A.

-H.A.

-P.P.

-P.P.Y.

# Just by mistake one day while turning the dial

# From my radio came this incredible sound

# The music they were playing right next to me

# I start clapping my hands and stomping my feet

# At station H.A.P.P.Y.

# We plan to help your day go by, by, by

# It's a musical, natural

-# On station H.A.

-H.A.

-P.P.

-P.P.Y.

# H.A.P.P.Y.. #

APPLAUSE

H.A.P.P.Y. Radio. I've got a fine collection of badges here tonight,

from Sparks and Fischer-Z.

This is their new entry in the chart, The Worker.

# Hated journey on the train

# Always been the same

# Looking out windows

# Second class and second best

# Oooh

# What a waste of time

# Sleep for five stops in a row

# Prepare yourself to go

# Waterloo Station

# Bought a '69 Capri

# Failed the M.O.T.

# What a waste of time

# The worker

# The worker

# The worker

# The worker

# Always kiss the wife goodbye

# Often wonder why

# At seven in the morning

# Think it's time you had a change

# Wouldn't that be strange

# What a waste of time

# The worker

# The worker

# The worker

# The worker

# The worker

# The worker

# The worker

# The worker

# The worker

# The worker

# The worker

# The worker. #

APPLAUSE

All right, here's Errol Brown and Hot Chocolate with Mindless Boogie.

# As the bomb goes Neutron

# So for you and I

# Will the finger on the button decide

# If we live or if we die?

# The more you think, think

# The more you blow your mind

# The more you search for a peace yeah

# The less that you will find

# Dance

# Mindless boogie till we drop don't stop

# Music is the drug

# Music is the drug we're searching for

# Mindless boogie, boogie boogie, boogie

# Boogie, boogie, boogie don't stop

# Mindless boogie, boogie boogie, boogie

# Boogie, boogie, boogie till we drop

# Dance

# Dance

# Dance

# Nine hundred or more

# Commit mass suicide in Jonestown

# Very strange, very strange

# More than ever

# The world needs God's helping hand

# Confused, we don't seem to know

# What we're doing

# Like a blind man

# Spinning round in space

# Dance

# Mindless boogie till we drop don't stop

# Music is the drug

# Music is the drug we're searching for

# Mindless boogie, boogie boogie, boogie

# Boogie, boogie, boogie don't stop

# Mindless boogie, boogie boogie, boogie

# Boogie, boogie, boogie till we drop

# Dance

# Dance

# Dance

# Dance

# Dance

# Dance

# Like clones and robots that we are

# Music is the drug we're searching for

# Mindless boogie, boogie boogie, boogie. #

APPLAUSE

-We're all having fun tonight. Where are you from?

-Liverpool.

-What's number one at the moment?

-Blondie.

-Correct. You've won a Des O'Connor album.

Here's Blondie. Two weeks at number one with Sunday Girl.

# I know a girl from a lonely street

# Cold as ice cream but still as sweet

# Dry your eyes, Sunday girl

# Hey, I saw your guy with a different girl

# Looks like he's in another world

# Run and hide, Sunday girl

# Hurry up, hurry up and wait

# I stay away all week and still I wait

# I got the blues, please come see

# What your loving means to me

# She can't catch up with the working crowd

# The weekend mood and she's feeling proud

# Live in dreams, Sunday girl

# Baby, I would like to go out tonight

# If I go with you my folks will get uptight

# Stay at home, Sunday girl

# Ooh-oooh

# Hey, I saw your guy with a different girl

# Looks like he's in another world

# Run and hide, Sunday girl

# When I saw you again in the summertime

# If your love was as sweet as mine

# I could be Sunday's girl

# Hurry up, hurry up and wait

# I stay away all week and still I wait

# I got the blues, please come see

# What your loving means to me

# Hurry up, hurry up hurry up and wait

# I got the blues, please, please

# Please come see what you do to me

# I got the blues

# Hurry up

# Hurry up, hurry up and wait

# Hurry up

# Please come see what you do to me. #

APPLAUSE

They're only after my badges really. Time for one more.

It's Linda Clifford and Bridge Over Troubled Water.

From all of us at Top Of The Pops, bye-bye!

# When you need a friend

# When you need a friend

# When you need a friend

# When you need a friend

# When you're weary

# Feeling small

# When tears are in your eyes

# I'll dry them all

# I'm on your side

# I'm on your side

# When times get rough

# And friends just can't be found

# Like a bridge over troubled waters

# I will lay me down

# Like a bridge over troubled waters

# I will lay me down

# Oh, yeah

-# I'm going to lay me down

-When you need a friend

-# You've got a friend

-When you need a friend

# When you're down and out

# When you're out there on the street

# When evening falls so hard

# I'll comfort you... #