Ho, ho, ho, ho!
Good evening and welcome to Christmas Top Of The Pops 2 2006.
This is Steve Wright with my elves.
Should you need to know anything about any of these yuletide hits,
just ask elves!
Here's some songs to crack your nuts and pull crackers to.
First, Slade, Merry Christmas Everybody.
We couldn't leave this out!
# Are you hanging up a stocking on your wall?
# It's the time that every Santa has a ball
# Does he ride a red-nosed reindeer?
# Does he turn up on his sleigh?
# Do the fairies keep him sober for a day?
# So here it is merry Christmas
# Everybody's having fun
# Look to the future now
# It's only just begun
# Are you waiting for the family to arrive?
# Are you sure you got the room to spare inside?
# Does your granny always tell ya
# That the old songs are the best?
# Then she's up and rock and rollin' with the rest
# So here it is merry Christmas
# Everybody's having fun
# Look to the future now
# It's only just begun
# What will your daddy do
# When he sees your mama kissin' Santa Claus?
# Ah-ah
# Are you hanging up a stocking on your wall?
# Are you hoping that the snow will start to fall?
# Do you ride on down the hillside
# In a buggy you have made?
# When you land upon your head then you've been Slade
# So here it is merry Christmas
# Everybody's having fun
# Look to the future now
# It's only just begun
# So here it is merry Christmas
# Everybody's having fun
# Look to the future now
# It's only just begun
# So here it is merry Christmas
# Everybody's having fun
# Look to the future now It's Christmas!
# It's only just begun... #
This is Top Of The Pops 2 Christmas edition.
Merry Christmas from all of us at BBC Two's Top Of The Pops 2.
So to, perhaps, one of the best and worst Christmas videos ever.
It looked like a Marks & Spencer ad before even Marks & Spencer made ads.
# Last Christmas I gave you my heart
# But the very next day you gave it away
# This year, to save me from tears
# I'll give it to someone special
# Last Christmas I gave you my heart
# But the very next day you gave it away
# This year, to save me from tears
# I'll give it to someone special
# Once bitten and twice shy
# I keep my distance
# But you still catch my eye
# Tell me, baby
# Do you recognise me?
# Well, it's been a year
# It doesn't surprise me
# I wrapped it up and sent it
# With a note saying "I love you"
# I meant it
# Now I know what a fool I've been
# But if you kissed me now
# I know you'd fool me again
# Last Christmas I gave you my heart
# But the very next day you gave it away
# This year, to save me from tears
# I'll give it to someone special
# Last Christmas I gave you my heart
# But the very next day you gave it away
# This year, to save me from tears
# I'll give it to someone special
# Oh
# Oh, baby
# A crowded room
# Friends with tired eyes
# I'm hiding from you
# And your soul of ice
# My God, I thought you were someone to rely on
# Me? I guess I was a shoulder to cry on
# A face on a lover with a fire in his heart
# A man under cover but you tore me apart
# Oh, oh
# Now I've found a real love you'll never fool me again
# Last Christmas I gave you my heart
# But the very next day you gave it away
# This year, to save me from tears
# I'll give it to someone special
# Last Christmas I gave you my heart
# But the very next day you gave it away
# This year, to save me from tears
# I'll give it to someone special
# A face on a lover with a fire in his heart
# A man under cover but you tore him apart
# Maybe next year I'll give it to someone
# I'll give it to someone special. #
I don't think George got the girl.
From Christmas 22 years ago, George and Andrew - Wham! - and "Last Christmas".
# I don't care about the presents
# Underneath the Christmas tree
# I just want you for my own
# More than you could ever know
# Make my wish come true
# All I want for Christmas
# Is...
# You
# I don't want a lot for Christmas
# There's just one thing I need
# And I don't care about the presents
# Underneath the Christmas tree
# I don't need to hang my stocking
# There upon the fireplace
# Santa Claus won't make me happy
# With a toy on Christmas Day
# I just want you for my own More than you could ever know
# Make my wish come true
# All I want for Christmas is you
# You, baby
# I won't ask for much this Christmas
# I won't even wish for snow
# I'm just gonna keep on waiting
# Underneath the mistletoe
# I won't make a list and send it
# To the North Pole for Saint Nick
# I won't even stay awake
# To hear those magic reindeers click
# Cos I just want you here tonight
# Holding on to me so tight
# What more can I do?
# Baby, all I want for Christmas is you
# You, baby All the lights are shining
# So brightly everywhere
# And the sound of children's laughter fills the air
# And everyone is singing
# I hear those sleigh bells ringing
# Santa, won't you bring me the one I really need?
# Won't you please bring my baby to me?
# Oh, I don't want a lot for Christmas
# This is all I'm asking for
# I just want to see my baby Standing right outside my door
# I just want you for my own More than you could ever know
# Make my wish come true Baby, all I want for Christmas... #
Love your '60s look, and our Dream Girls in the background. Mariah Carey!
If there's any kids watching,
the elves don't smoke in real life.
# This snowman is shaping up to be an eight, but not out of ten
# The robots awake to find that they've been taped down
# Wondering when
# They'll break though these chains
# But little boys have action toys for brains
# I'm living proof it can last a long time
# Now the girls up the street are innocent and sweet
# While they're all in bed
# They got their make-up and dreams of wonderland
# Sprinkled inside their heads
# Soon they will change
# But tonight the Hollywood hills never seem so strange
# Their mothers pray it will last a long time
# I wanna roll around like a kid in the snow
# I wanna relearn
# What I already know
# Just let me take flight dressed in red
# Through the night on a great big sled
# I wanna wish you merry Christmas
# Ho-ho-ho!
# Now the boys are all grown up
# And they're working their fingers to the bone
# They go around chasing them girls on the weekend
# You know they still can't be alone
# I've been racking my brain with thoughts of peace and love
# How on earth did we get so mixed up?
# I pray to God it don't last a long time
# I wanna roll around like a kid in the snow
# I wanna relearn
# What I already know
# Just let me take flight dressed in red
# Through the night on a great big sled
# I hear the sound of bells
# There's something on the roof
# I wonder what
# This night will bring
# I wanna roll around like a kid in the snow
# I wanna relearn
# What I already know
# Just let me take flight dressed in red
# Through the night on a great big sled
# I wanna wish you merry Christmas
# Can't do that
# I wanna wish you merry Christmas
# Can't do that. #
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
That wasn't Vegas at the end - that looked like England! Merry Christmas to the Killers!
So it's December 1974. We love the Wombles.
Not only did they clean up the rubbish, they made it too.
# We wish you a Wombling Merry Christmas
# Open your eyes
# Look to the skies when you're lonely
# There will be stars shining for you
# Sleepers awake!
# It's getting late, snow is falling
# The whole wide world is Wombling too
# All day long
# We will be Wombling in the snow
# We wish you a Wombling Merry Christmas
# All day long
# We will be laughing as we go
# We wish you a Wombling Merry Christmas
# Under the ground
# There is the sound of a symphony
# The lights are low
# The fire is bright
# Wombling through
# I'll tune in to you You tune in to me
# We'll send a message into the night
# All day long
# We will be Wombling in the snow
# We wish you a Wombling Merry Christmas
# All day long
# We will be laughing as we go
# We wish you a Wombling Merry Christmas
# All day long
# We will be Wombling in the snow
# We wish you a Wombling Merry Christmas
# All day long
# We will be laughing as we go
# We wish you... #
How do you do? I say, I think your pipe's gone out.
Look at me when I'm talking... or I'll melt you!
Ringo, he's a snowman, and everybody knows snowmen can't speak.
She's right, Mr Ringo. Don't you remember the old saying, "Silence is frozen"?
# Oh, you can't melt the heart of a snowman
# He'll give you the cold shoulder if you try
# You can start being nice
# But it will break no ice
# Though it may bring a tear to his eye
# You can try all you like to persuade him
# You can put your arms around him in the snow
# But his heart will not flinch
# And he won't budge an inch
# Mr Snowman, go, man, go!
Look out, he's moving!
# Mr Snowman, go, man, go! #
APPLAUSE
That's Cilla Black, Basil Brush and Ringo Starr - The Snowman Song.
Now, here comes another Beatle.
# Mull of Kintyre
# Oh, mist rolling in from the sea
# My desire is always to be here
# On Mull of Kintyre
# Far have I travelled
# And much have I seen
# Dark distant mountains
# With valleys of green
# Vast painted deserts
# The sunset's on fire
# As it carries me home
# To the Mull of Kintyre
# Mull of Kintyre
# Oh, mist rolling in from the sea
# My desire is always to be here
# On Mull of Kintyre
# Sweep through the heather
# Like deer in the glen
# Carry me back
# To the days I knew then
# Nights when we sang
# Like a heavenly choir
# Of the life and the times
# Of the Mull of Kintyre
# Mull of Kintyre
# Oh, mist rolling in from the sea
# My desire is always to be here
# Oh, Mull of Kintyre
# Mull of Kintyre
# Oh, mist rolling in from the sea
# My desire is always to be here
# Oh, Mull of Kintyre. #
# So this is Christmas
# And what have you done?
# Another year over
# And a new one just begun
# And so this is Christmas
# I hope you have fun
# The near and the dear ones
# The old and the young
# A very merry Christmas
# And a happy New Year
# Let's hope it's a good one
# Without any fear
# And so this is Christmas
# War is over
# For weak and for strong
# If you want it
# For rich and the poor ones
# War is over
# The world is so wrong
# And so happy Christmas
# War is over
# For black and for white
# If you want it
# For yellow and red ones
# War is over
# Let's stop all the fight
# Ah, ah, ah, ah
# A very merry Christmas
# And a happy New Year
# Let's hope it's a good one
# Without any fear
# And so this is Christmas
# War is over
# And what have we done?
# If you want it
# Another year over
# War is over
# And a new one just begun
# Ah, ah, ah, ah
# And so happy Christmas
# War is over
# I hope you have fun
# If you want it
# The near and the dear one
# War is over
# The old and the young
# Ah, ah, ah, ah
# A very merry Christmas
# And a happy New Year
# Let's hope it's a good one
# Without any fear
# War is over
# If you want it
# War is over...now. #
So now, 1975, and Mud are at their pinnacle.
# Try to imagine, a house that's not a home
# Try to imagine, a Christmas all alone
# That's where I'll be
# Since you left me
# My tears could melt the snow
# What can I do? Without you
# I've got no place, no place to go
# It'll be lonely this Christmas
# Without you to hold
# It'll be lonely this Christmas
# Lonely and cold
# It'll be cold, so cold
# Without you to hold
# This Christmas
# Each time I remember, the day you went away
# How I would listen to the things you had to say
# I just break down as I look around
# And the only things I see
# Are emptiness and loneliness
# And an unlit Christmas tree
# It'll be lonely this Christmas
# Without you to hold
# It'll be lonely this Christmas
# Lonely and cold
# It'll be cold, so cold
# Without you to hold
# This Christmas. #
D'you remember last year
when...you and I were here?
We never thought there'd be an end
And I remember looking at you then
And I remember thinking that Christmas must have been made for us
cos, darling, this is the time of year that you really... you really need love
And it means so very, very much...
# It'll be lonely this Christmas... #
So it'll be lonely this Christmas
# Without you to hold... # Without you to hold
# It'll be lonely this Christmas...#
It will be so very lonely
Lonely and cold
# It'll be lonely this Christmas
# Without you to hold
# It'll be lonely this Christmas
# Lonely and cold
# It'll be cold, so cold without you to hold
# This Christmas. #
Merry Christmas, darling, wherever you are.
All right, here comes The Darkness, Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End.)
Our old friend Justin was showing way too much chest.
# Feigning joy and surprise
# At the gifts we despise Over mulled wine
# With you
# On the 25th day
# Of the 12th month The sleigh bells are in time
# Ringing true
# How we cling each Noel
# To that snowflake's hope in hell
# That it won't end
# Don't let the bells end
# Christmas time
# Just let them ring in peace
# Well, the weather is cruel
# And the season of yule Warms the heart
# But it still hurts
# So that's why I pray Each and every Christmas Day
# That it won't end
# Don't let the bells end
# Christmas time
# Just let them ring in peace
# Pass underneath The mistletoe leaf
# And you're not here
# You went away
# Upon Boxing Day
# Now how the hell Am I gonna make it
# Into the New Year?
# Christmas time
# Don't let the bells end
# Christmas time
# Don't let the bells end
# Christmas time
# Don't let the bells end
# Christmas time
# Just let them ring in peace. #
Come on, kids!
There's The Darkness as they were.
Now, unfortunately, in every Christmas show there has to be something scary and lame.
# Your left leg in Your left leg out
# In out in out And shake it all about
# You do the Hokey Cokey And you turn around
# That's what it's all about
# Whoa-o the Hokey Cokey
# Whoa-o the Hokey Cokey oh oh
# Whoa-o the Hokey Cokey
# Knees bent arms stretched Raa raa raa
# You put your right leg in Your right leg out
# In out in out You shake it all about
# You do the Hokey Cokey And you turn around
# That's what it's all about
# Whoa-o the Hokey Cokey Whoa-o the Hokey Cokey oh oh
# Whoa-o the Hokey Cokey
# Knees bent arms stretched Raa raa raa
# You put your left arm in Your left arm out
# In out in out And shake it all about
# You do the Hokey Cokey And you turn around
# That's what it's all about
# Whoa-o the Hokey Cokey Whoa-o the Hokey Cokey oh oh
# Whoa-o the Hokey Cokey
# Knees bent arms stretched Raa raa raa
# You put your right arm in Your right arm out
# In out in out Shake it all about
# You do the Hokey Cokey And you turn around
# That's what it's all about
# Whoa-o the Hokey Cokey
# Whoa-o the Hokey Cokey oh oh
# Whoa-o the Hokey Cokey
# Knees bent arms stretched Raa raa raa. #
INTRUMENTAL: "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer"
# Whoa-o the Hokey Cokey
# Whoa-o the Hokey Cokey oh oh
# Whoa-o the Hokey Cokey
# Knees bent arms stretched Raa raa raa
# You put your whole self in Your whole self out
# In out in out And shake it all about
# You do the Hokey Cokey And you turn around
# That's what it's all about
# Whoa-o the Hokey Cokey
# Whoa-o the Hokey Cokey oh oh
# Whoa-o the Hokey Cokey
# Knees bent arms stretched Raa raa raa
# Whoa-o the Hokey Cokey oh oh Whoa-o the Hokey Cokey... #
Given that they're doing the ultimate party dance,
this performance is almost totally without action, atmosphere and festivity.
But it's so bad, it's good.
The Snowmen.
Now we're back to 1979,
you're thinking Thin Lizzy.
Well, kind of - it's an early super group.
# We wish you a merry Christmas
# And a happy New Year
# We wish you a merry Christmas
# And a happy New Year
ALL: # Jingle bells jingle jangle Jingle all the way
# Oh what fun it is to ride In a one horse open sleigh. # Hey!
# Jingle bells jingle bells Jingle all the way
# Oh what fun it is to ride In a one horse open sleigh. # Hey!
# Jingle bells jingle jangle Jangle all the way
# Oh what fun it is to ride
# In a one horse open sleigh
# We wish you a merry Christmas
# And a happy New Year
# Jingle bells jingle jangle Jingle all the way
# Oh what fun it is to ride In a one horse open sleigh. # Hey!
# Jingle bells jingle jangle Jangle all the way
# Oh what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh. #
Sleigh! Hey! Hey!
# We wish you a merry Christmas
# And a happy New Year. #
APPLAUSE
And it's now become a tradition that we play out
with Bing and White Christmas,
every Christmas. Goodnight.
# I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
# Just like the ones I used to know
# Where the tree tops glistened
# And children listened
# To hear sleigh bells in the snow
# I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
# With every Christmas card I write
# May your days be merry and bright
# And may all your Christmases
# Be white. #
BOTH: # I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
# Just like the ones I used to know. #
Where the tree tops glisten.
# Where the tree tops glisten. #
And children listen. # And children listen
# To hear To hear
BOTH: # Sleigh bells in the snow. #
BELLS CHIME BRIGHTLY
BING HARMONISES WITH WHISTLES # I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
# With every Christmas card I write
BOTH: # May your days be merry and bright
# And may all your Christmases
# Be white. #
CHEERS AND APPLAUSE