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Pan's People on TopPop (1971), showing the original Top of the Pops line-up; from front Babs Lord, Louise Clarke, Flick Colby, Ruth Pearson, Andi Rutherford, Dee Dee Wilde. Pan's People were a British all-female dance troupe most commonly associated with the BBC TV music chart show Top of the Pops, from 1968 to 1976.
Pan's People first performance (three of the dancers, independently contracted): April 1968 – Dancing to Young Girl by Gary Puckett & The Union Gap [27] or Respect by Aretha Franklin [28] Pan's People's first performance (as the six-piece group of early 1968): 30 May 1968 – Dancing to U.S. Male by Elvis Presley [28]
In 1966, Colby founded Pan's People, an all-female dance troupe most commonly associated with Top of the Pops. She choreographed routines for Pan's People on the series for eight years, from late 1968 until 1976. The weekly record chart was released on Tuesday mornings, and the live show aired on Thursday evenings.
Legs & Co. was a dance troupe created in 1976 for the BBC's weekly Top of the Pops programme. ... Pan's People were succeeded by Ruby Flipper, a mixed-gender and ...
By the autumn of 1976, Colby and Pearson decided to disband Ruby Flipper and return to the all-female dance troupe formula of Pan's People with a new sextet, Legs & Co. Ruby Flipper made their final Top of the Pops appearance on 14 October 1976 as a quintet, with a routine to Wild Cherry's "Play That Funky Music". [10]
However, the BBC decided in mid-1968 to replace the Go-Jos with Pan's People on Top of the Pops. Their final performance was on 20 June 1968, dancing to Jumping Jack Flash by The Rolling Stones. Only one Top of the Pops performance by the Go-Jos is known to survive, Reflections by Diana Ross and the Supremes, [2] transmitted on 26 December 1967.
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