28-8-75: Presenter: Tony Blackburn
(19) KENNY – Julie-Ann
(2) ROD STEWART – Sailing (video)
(29) THE EAGLES – One Of These Nights (danced to by Pan’s People)
(39) DESMOND DEKKER – Sing A Little Song
(13) JASPER CARROTT – Funky Moped
(NEW) GILBERT O’SULLIVAN – I’ll Believe It When I See It
(20) HOT CHOCOLATE – A Child’s Prayer
(NEW) PETER SKELLERN – She Gives Me Hard Times
(12) BIMBO JET – El Bimbo (Performed by the TOTP Orchestra)
(6) BILLIE JO SPEARS – Blanket On The Ground (video)
(42) CHRIS SPEDDING – Motor Biking
(1) THE STYLISTICS – Can’t Give You Anything (But My Love) (video)
(9) MIKE BATT with THE NEW EDITION – Summertime City (and credits)
Welcome to Top of the Pops. Heat [Music] up here. [Applause] [Music] Thinking about you the sunshine on the beach around taking all my chances every morning in town and I’ve been serving every morning every night without you thinking about Heat. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] They got a record on the trip. It really makes me want to cry. You always thought it was the one by saying goodbye. I think about you. I’m lonely. I draw your picture in the sand. very hard to understand [Music] Yeah. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Julie Julie Julie Julie Julie Julie Heat. Heat. [Music] Well, there you go. That’s the sound there of Kenny. Fabulous dude from a number called Julianne at number 19. Here’s the one. I got to be honest. I thought it would be this week’s number one. Still at number two. Let’s go sailing with Rod Stewart. [Music] I am sailing. I am sailing home again across the sea. I am sailing stormy waters to be near you to be free. I am flying. I am flying like a bird [Music] across the sky. [Music] I am flying passing high ground to be with you to be free. Can you hear me? And you help me through the dark far away. [Music] I am dying forever to be [Music] Yeah. Heat. Yeah. Heat. [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Applause] Yeah. Heat. [Music] There is number two sound there from Rod Stewart and Asin there called Sailing. The hits go on and on on top of the pops. As you well know by now, we don’t hang about right now. Here’s the number 29 sound. It comes from the Eagles and to dance to it the lovely Pans people. [Applause] [Music] One of these nights. [Music] One of these crazy old nights. We’re going to find out what turns on the lights. The full moon is calling. The fever is high and the wicked wind whispers. And you got your demons. You got desires, but I got a few on my own. Heat. [Music] Heat. One of these lost and lonely dreams [Music] will find the real scream. I’ve been searching for the daughter of the devil himself. I’ve been searching for an angel in white. I’ve been waiting for a woman who’s a little bold. I can feel her, but she’s nowhere inside. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat up [Applause] [Music] [Music] here. Heat. Heat. When your heart Sing a little song when you’re wondering [Music] [Music] Doesn’t matter if you’re a boy or a girl. Just remember the end of the world. And you sing a little song. Sing a little song. When you’re ready. [Music] A Heat. Heat. All the world [Music] Sing Heat. Heat. that one. Let’s sing a little song. It comes from Desmond Decka. Right now, I want to introduce you to a guy who in fact comes from Birmingham. He’s got his own club there and he appears in a lot of clubs. His name is Jasper Carrot and he has a number 13 sound at the moment called Funky Moped. The lights were groovy colors. The band was flying slow. We danced just one dance together. Then she said, “I’m going to kill you.” Cross away tear drop and outside when I look on the side was waiting to hear. I’ll never forget you and me take me down as soon as down. [Music] going to tell me Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] sing. [Music] [Music] Take your vision boy. [Music] [Applause] There you go. That’s Jasper Carrot there. That’s got to be one of the greatest names in the world. That one, hasn’t it? Talking about great names, here’s a great name with a great song. It’s called I’ll believe it when I see it. The brand new one from Gilbert Sullivan. [Music] You gave your love so tenderly. Said there could be no one but you for me. I know the time you spend your weekend. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] You disappointed me so much. Does it surprise you that I bear a grudge? It’s my promises. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Yeah. Heat. Just as well you [Music] [Music] want to see an instrument. inspiration for all those of you learning the piano. Stay at it and you never know what could happen. Here’s a group who are off to the States very shortly. But before they go, they’re definitely going to sing the number 20 sound. It’s called a child’s prayer. And here come hot chocolate.
Say a little prayer, baby, before you go to sleep. Say a little prayer and give the Lord thy soul to keep. Say a little prayer, darling, for all the people in the world. Their hearts will be happy. Feel the joy. [Music] Say a little prayer for all those who po the ones they adore sailing for all those who have much more than their hearts to hand a hand. [Music] Heat up [Music] here. Nobody goes to church on Sundays anymore. Is it why the world is fighting filled the poor? Nobody goes to church. Well, thanks the Lord for what they while the world is starving. Running out of necessities. I wonder wonder if we’re doing right. [Music] Say cret [Music] children. So s pray for all children just like you. growing like a flower. In the morning, you say a little prayer that they may go to see the world full of love when you harmon There you go. That’s our answer to telly Sylvanas, the hot chocolate and child’s prayer. I was talking to Peter Skellan just a moment ago who tells me he’s just written a musical which is just about to open up in Coventry. We wish him the best of luck with that. He’s also written a very good song called She Gives Me Hard Times. So, here he is right now for you. Peter Skellan. I got a girl who gives me hard times. [Music] If I tell you about her, you’ll recognize the signs. She’s the kind of girl who has beauty beyond compare. And she’s got her man pulling out his head. [Music] She has to eat. When I get there, she’s in the street. She gives me time. But when she loves me, she loves me. She gives me heart time. But when she loves me, she loves me. I tell her that I’d ra be alone. She gets the call and she’ll drive me home. She gives me time. But when she loves me, she loves me. She loves me. Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Peter Stell there. I wish I’d stuck at those piano lessons. And that’s enough. Of course, he gives me a hard time. Right now, we’re going to let an orchestra of about 2,000 loose across your television screens. The number 12 sound. Bel Vimbo and Bimbojet. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Yeah. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Applause] [Music] Little bit of country and western and here comes Billy Joe Spears. Come and look out through the window. [Music] That big old moon is shining down. [Music] Tell me now, don’t it remind you [Music] of a blanket on the ground? Remember back when love first found us. Heat. Heat. Heat. on the blanket on the ground. And we’ll go on again [Music] just because we’re married. Heat. Heat. Heat. But you like it down. [Music] Oh, remember how excited we used to get when I was young. That old moon was our best buddy. We couldn’t wait for night to come. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat. That’s what he goes here. I don’t normally like hunting western numbers, but that is exception to the rule. It’s called blanket on the ground. Here’s Chris. A bit of motorbiking. Heat. Heat. on the queen’s highway looking like a light go. Listen to me and I’ll tell you no lie. Too fast to live too young to die. I pull a new machine today and say it take your breath away. on the highway Heat. Heat. Here I am again. I’m dressed in black. I got my baby. She’s already back. Are we doing that 95? Wo. So good to be alive. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. There you go. That’s one there and we call motorbiking. Doing a ton up on the top of the box studio here. But right now, we’re going to go to the nation’s favorite. Here it is, the number one sound, the wonderful Stylistics. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] money. I go wild by your first session like a queen and a shower mess [Music] but I’m an ordinary guy in my heart I am deep just an ordinary guy but I’m yours I [Music] I can give you my love. Oh my love. [Music] I can give you anything. [Music] I can promise you a world can afford it. I can buy a diamond ring. No string of my vision. All my love just for as long as I live you my Heat. Heat. [Music] That’s lovely, isn’t it? I can’t give you anything but my love. That’s the sound of the stylistics. Unfortunately, we’re right out of time. We in fact are going to close with summertime city by Mike back with a new edition which is a theme music to seaside special which I’ll see you on at 10 minutes past 6 BBC 1 on Saturday and we’ll be back with another edition of Tom of the Fox next week. See you then. Thanks for watching. Bye-bye. [Music] In the cool light of the dawn. When the sky awakes and the sun shines on the board. In the land where I was born. I am sitting thinking about you. Wondering where you are. Darling, I got the sun when it shines. I need you. So, baby, get down.
2 Comments
Kenny were obviously an English version of The Bay City Rollers. Nevertheless a good song.
No wonder punk had to happen to blow all this bland stuff away. Hot Chocolate and the Stylistics very good though.The b side of funky moped was quite notorious at the time😊