CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Welcome to Top Of The Pops and here to start us off
is Jaki Graham at Number 20 with Set Me Free.
APPLAUSE
# Oo-oh
# Flash back hits me right between the eyes
# The man just came and said to me
# I want you by my side
# So excited but not without a doubt A doubt
# He's locked the door and thrown the key
# Someone get me out
# I know he means no harm to me
# But building walls confining me
# Can only make me want to leave
# Set me free
# Set me free, oo-oh Set me free, oo-oh
# Set me free, oo-oh
# Set me free, set me free
# Set me free, oo-oh Set me free, oo-oh
# Set me free, oo-oh
# Got to get away
# Falling, crashing in and out of love
# Doing things that girls do
# Then he came about
# So delightful
# All that I could want Could want
# But he locked the door and threw the key
# Won't you let me out?
# I know he means no harm to me
# But building walls confining me
# Can only make me want to leave
# Set me free
# Set me free, oo-oh Set me free, oo-oh
# Set me free, oo-oh
# I've got to go He won't let me go
# Set me free, oo-oh Set me free, oo-oh
# Ooooh
# Set me free, oo-oh Set me free, oo-oh
# Let me go
# And just let me go
# Set me free
# Oo-oh
# I know he means no harm to me
# But building walls confining me
# Can only make me want to leave
# Set me free
# Let me go
# And just let me go
# Set me free
# Set me free, oo-oh Baby
# Set me free, oo-oh Set me free, oo-oh
# I can't control Please let me go
# Set me free, oo-oh Darling, if you're sick of love
# Set me free, oo-oh Set me free, oo-oh
# Set me free, oh, baby
# Set me free, oo-oh Let me go
# Set me free, oo-oh Set me free, oo-oh
# Set me free, oo-oh... #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Jaki Graham and Set Me Free.
Good evening. Welcome to Top Of The Pops.
On the show tonight, Simply Red, Billy Ocean.
We also have the Number 1 in the studio as well. Not to be missed.
Right now, though, a song that went to Number 37 in 1979.
It's now Number 12. Here are The B-52's.
# We were at the beach
# Everybody had matching towels
# Somebody went under a dock
# And there they saw a rock
# It wasn't a rock
# It was a rock lobster
# Rock lobster
# Rock lob
# Lobster
# Rock lob
# Lobster
# Motion in the ocean Oo-ah
# His air hose broke Oo-ah
# Lots of trouble Oo-ah
# Lots of bubble Oo-ah
# He was in a jam Oo-ah
# In a giant clam Oo-ah
# Rock, rock
# Rock lobster
# Down, down
# Lobster Aa-aa-aa-aa-aa-aa-aa
# Rock Aa-aa-aa-aa-aa-aa-aa
# Lobster Aa-aa-aa-aa-aa-aa-aa
# Rock
# Let's rock... #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
The B-52's and Rock Lobster.
Now, these T-shirts are the T-shirts that millions of people
on Sunday will be wearing proudly in the Race Against Time.
It is Sport Aid on Sunday. If you're taking part, good luck to you.
And now, on Top Of The Pops, at Number 13,
Billy Ocean with There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry).
APPLAUSE
# Sometimes I wonder by the look in your eyes
# When I'm standing beside you
# There's a fever burning deep inside
# Is there another in your memory?
# Do you think of that someone
# When you hear that special melody?
# I always stop and think of you especially
# When the words of a love song
# Touch the very heart of me
# There'll be sad songs
# To make you cry
# Love songs often do
# They can touch the heart
# Of someone new
# Saying I love you
# I love you
# I often wonder
# How it could be
# You loving me
# Two hearts in perfect harmony
# I'll count the hours
# Until that day Until that day
# A rhapsody plays
# A melody for you and me
# Until the moment that you give your love to me
# You're the one I care for
# The one that I would wait for
# There'll be sad songs
# To make you cry
# Love songs often do
# They can touch the heart
# Of someone new
# Saying I love you
# Oo-ooh, oo-oo-oo-ooh
# Aaah-oo-oo-oo-ooh
# You're my desire
# You take me higher
# My love is like a river
# Running so deep
# I always stop and think of you especially
# When the words of a love song
# Touch the very heart of me
# There'll be sad songs
# To make you cry
# Love songs often do
# They can touch the heart
# Of someone new
# Saying I love you
# Ooh-oo-oo-ooh
# There'll be sad songs There'll be sad songs
# To make you cry, yeah, yeah
# Love songs often do
# They can touch the heart
# Of someone new
# Saying I love you
# Doo-doo-doo-doo-dooh Doo-doo-dooh
# Doo-doo-doo-doo-dooh
# Ooh-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooh
# Saying I love you
# I love you. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Billy Ocean, There'll Be Sad Songs.
He's about to embark on his first world tour in June.
Right now on Top Of The Pops, another sloppy record at Number 2.
Michael McDonald, Patti LaBelle, On My Own. It's beautiful.
# So many times
# Said it was for ever
# Said our love would always be true
# Something in my heart always knew
# I'd be lying here beside you
# On my own
# So many promises
# Never should be spoken
# Now I know what loving you cost
# Now we're up to talking divorce
# And we weren't even married
# On my own
# Once again now
# One more time
# By myself
# No-one said it was easy
# No, no
# But it once was so easy
# Well, I believed I believed
# In love In love
# Now here I stand
# I wonder why
# Oooh, I'm on my own
# Why did it end this way? On my own
# This wasn't how it was supposed to be
# On my own
# I wish that we could do it all again
# So many times
# I know I could have told you
# Losing you, it cut like a knife
# Hey
# You walked out and there went my life
# I don't want to live without you
# On my own
# This wasn't how it was supposed to end
# On my own
# I wish that we could do it all again
# On my own
# I never dreamed I'd spend one night alone
# By my side
# Oo-oo-oo-oo-oon
# My own I've got to find out... #
APPLAUSE
Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald, On My Own,
is Britain's second bestselling single.
Let's find out what the others are as we have a look at the charts.
A chart entry at 40, Bassline from Mantronix.
There's a chart entry at 39, Freddie Mercury and Time.
Chart entry at 38, Bad Boy from Miami Sound Machine.
And a new entry at 37, The Real Thing, Can't Get By Without You.
Down at 36, Secret Lovers from Atlantic Star.
A new entry at 35, Nu Shooz, I can't wait.
A new entry at 34, Love Touch from Rod Stewart.
And going down at 33, Look Away from Big Country.
Down at 32, Your Latest Trick, Dire Straits.
Up to Number 31, The Bangles, If She Knew What She Wants.
A new entry at 30, Mine All Mine, Cashflow.
The Force MDs and Tender Love go down to Number 29.
Up 11 at 28, Sinful, Pete Wylie.
And the highest new entry, at 27, AC/DC, Who Made Who.
Down at 26, A Kind Of Magic from Queen.
The Cure and Boys Don't Cry are down to Number 25.
Down at 24, I'll Keep On Loving You, Princess.
And up to Number 23, ZZ Top, Rough Boy.
Down at 22, You And Me Tonight. That's Aurra.
Down to 21, George Michael and A Different Corner.
Up 15 at 20, Set Me Free, Jaki Graham.
The highest chart entry is at Number 19 for Simply Red
and Holding Back The Years.
Down at 18, Heard It Through The Grapevine, Marvin Gaye.
Down to 17, Joyce Sims, All And All.
Up 18 at 16, Addicted To Love, Robert Palmer.
Janet Jackson, What Have You Done For Me Lately, is down to Number 15.
Down at 14, Can't Wait Another Minute, Five Star.
Going up to 13, There'll Be Sad Songs from Billy Ocean.
Up eight to 12, Rock Lobster, The B-52's.
And going down to Number 11,
Whitney Houston with Greatest Love Of All.
And we'll have more charts for you later on
when we have a look at the Top 10.
Now some of the biggest stars who've made the biggest impact on this week's charts.
Here are this week's Top 40 Breakers.
Going up 11 places to Number 28, it's Pete Wylie and Sinful.
# It's tragic
# It's sinful
# It's tragic
# Oooh-oo-ooh
# Hey, Joe, I got the news tonight
# Should I laugh or should I cry or should I stay and fight?
# It's sinful
# So true
# Hey, Joe, I know I sound confused
# But do you ever get the feeling that you're being used?
# So true, boo-hoo
# Sing
# Barada-barada-barada-barada Barada-barada-barada... #
The highest new entry, at 27, is AC/DC and Who Made Who.
# Get it in the eye Take it to the wire
# Spinning like a dynamo
# Feel it going round and round
# Running out of chips
# You got no line in an eight bit town
# So don't look down
# No
# Who made who?
# Who made you?
# Who made who?
# Ain't nobody told you?
# Who made who?
# Who made you?
# If you made them and they made you
# Who picked up the bill and who made who...? #
Here's the biggest climber on the chart this week.
Up 18 places to Number 16 for Robert Palmer.
But forget about him, have a look at these girls. Addicted To Love.
# You're running at
# A different speed
# Your heart beats
# In double time
# Another kiss
# And you'll be mine
# A one track mind
# You can't be saved
# Oblivion
# Is all you crave
# If there's some
# Left for you
# You don't mind
# If you do
# Whoa, you like to think that you're immune to the stuff
# Oh, yeah
# It's closer to the truth to say you can't get enough
# You know you're gonna have to face it, you're addicted to love... #
So, from the highest climber on the chart this week
to the highest chart entry. They're in the studio.
At Number 19, a beautiful song called Holding Back The Years.
Here's Simply Red.
APPLAUSE
# Holding back the years
# Thinking of the fear I've had so long
# When somebody hears
# Listen to the fear that's gone
# Strangled by the wishes of pater
# Hoping for the arms of mater
# Get to me the sooner or later
# I'll keep holding on
# Holding back the years
# Chance for me to escape from all I know
# Holding back the tears
# Cos nothing here has grown
# I've wasted all my tears
# Wasted all those years
# Nothing had the chance to be good
# Nothing ever could, yeah
# Oo-oo-ooh
# I'll keep holding on
# So tight
# Well, I've wasted all my tears
# Wasted all of those years
# And nothing had the chance to be good
# Cos nothing ever could
# Oh, yeah
# Ooooh
# I'll keep holding on
# Holding, holding, holding
# Aaaaah-aaaaaah
# La-la-la-la-la
# I said
# Ooooh, yeah
# That's all I have to say
# It's all I have to say. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Great song. Simply Red, Holding Back The Years. This week at Number 19.
And now the Top 10 big sellers.
Going down five at 10, Live To Tell from Madonna.
Up 16 places to Number 9, Status Quo and Rollin' Home.
Up five at 8, Why Can't This Be Love, Van Halen.
And down three to Number 7, Falco, Rock Me Amadeus.
Up five at 6, Snooker Loopy, The Matchroom Mob with Chas and Dave.
Up 12 to Number 5, Doctor And The Medics and Spirit In The Sky.
Up three at 4, Sledgehammer, Peter Gabriel.
And a non-mover at Number 3, Level 42, Lessons In Love.
And no change at 2, On My Own from Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald.
And no change at the top. Britain's Number 1 for the second week running
and they're here in the studio,
it's Spitting Image with The Chicken Sing.
APPLAUSE
# It's the time of year Now that spring is in the air
# When those two wet gits with their girlie curly hair
# Make another song for moronic holidays
# That nauseate-ate-ate in a million different ways
# From the shores of Spain to the coast of Southern France
# No matter where you hide You just can't escape this dance
# Hold a chicken in the air
# Stick a deckchair up your nose
# Buy a jumbo jet
# And then bury all your clothes
# Paint your left knee green
# Then extract your wisdom teeth
# Form a string quartet
# And pretend your name is Keith
# Skin yourself alive
# Learn to speak Arapahoe
# Climb inside a dog
# And behead an Eskimo
# Eat a Renault Four with salami in your ears
# Casserole your gran
# Disembowel yourself with spears
# The disco is vibrating
# The sound is loud and grating
# It's truly nauseating
# Let's do the dance again
# Hold a chicken in the air
# Stick a deckchair up your nose
# Yes, you'll hear this song in the holiday discos
# And there's no escape in the clubs or in the bars
# You would hear this song
# If you holidayed in Mars
# Skin yourself alive
# Learn to speak Arapahoe
# Climb inside a dog
# And behead an Eskimo
# Now you've heard it once
# Your brain will spring a leak
# And though you hate this song
# You'll be humming it for weeks
# Hold a chicken in the air
# Stick a deckchair up your nose
# Buy a jumbo jet
# And then bury all your clothes
# La-la-la-la-la
# La-la-la-la-la-la-la
# La-la-la-la-la
# La-la-la-la-la-la-la. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Spitting Image and The Chicken Song is Britain's Number 1.
Chicken. Good job they haven't got puppets of you and me.
Next week, Top Of The Pops live with Janice Long and John Peel.
From Peter and myself, we'll say ta-ra, and we'll leave you with
Snooker Loopy from The Matchroom Mob and Chas and Dave. Bye-bye. Bye.
# Snooker loopy nuts are we We're all snooker loopy
# Now ol' Meo, as we all know, has got loads of dapper suits
# London bred and he keeps his head though he's got Italian roots
# Emotional but he keeps his cool till he reaches the finals
# And whether he wins or whether he don't
# I always wipe me eyeballs
# But our friend Den Hours he spent
# Down the snooker hall
# On the old green baize His mates seem amazed
# With his skills with a snooker ball
# But them long shots he never ever got
# Why? The old mind boggles
# But nowadays he pots the lot
# Cos I wear these goggles
# Snooker loopy nuts are we
# Me and him and them and me
# We'll show you what we can do
# With a load of balls and a snooker cue
# Pot the reds then screw back
# For the yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black
# Snooker loopy nuts are we
# We're all snooker loopy
# Now Terry the Taff was born in a gaff
# In the valleys of the land of song
# And as the reds he puts to bed
# He likes to sing along
# If I win, he says with a grin
# It can only help me, can't it?
# I'll celebrate I'll buy another eight
# Hairbrushes for me barnet
# But old Willy Thorne His hair's all gone
# And his mates all take the rise
# His opponent said Cover up his head
# Cos it's shining in my eyes
# When the light shines down on his bare crown
# It's a cert he's gonna walk it
# It's just not fair giving off that glare
# Perhaps I ought to chalk it
# Snooker loopy nuts are we
# Me and him and them and me
# We'll show you what we can do
# With a load of balls and a snooker cue
# Pot the reds then screw back
# For the yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black
# Snooker loopy nuts are we
# We're all snooker loopy
# Steve last year come very near
# To winning the snooker crown
# But he never got to put it on his ginger nut
# Cos the black ball wouldn't go down
# His manager and all Said, sod that ball
# But it helped him make his mind up
# Now he don't care who wins this year
# Cos he's got the rest of us signed up
# Snooker loopy nuts are we
# Me and him and them and me
# We'll show you what we can do
# With a load of balls and a snooker cue
# Pot the reds then screw back
# For the yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black
# Snooker loopy... #