Legs & Co. - Las Vegas

Here's a second clip from Legs & Co, on ITV's The Video Entertainers, 27 July 1982. I don't know anything about the somng Las Vegas, and I can't identify the singer. As with the previous clip, the dancers, but (as identified on the discussion forum) are Lulu, Patti, Sue, "Patricia" and "Tanya".

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Pan's People - Crackerjack (Crackerjack!)

Thanks again to the generous PattiforPM, we have another rare clip: this time, Pan's People appearing in Crackerjack's (Crackerjack!) Christmas Panto, 24 December 1974. It's clearly Aladdin, and I reckon it's the scene early in the story, where the evil magician bloke has sent Aladdin into the scary cave to find the treasure for him. And of course the treasure turns out to be... Pan's People!

It's quite difficult to identify the dancers here, partially because of their heavy stage make-up and big colourful wigs, but mainly because whoever is doing the video mixing just doesn't want to give us a clear close up shot of any of the dancers. Cherry, by virtue of her height, is easiest to spot as the dancer in pink: I reckon Sue is in green, Babs is in Blue, Ruth's in Purple, and Dee Dee in red.

Standing around in the background is Aladdin, played by long-time Crackerjack (Crackerjack!) female lead Jan Hunt: fittingly Jan was and is a veteran Panto performer, too.

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Legs & Co. - Jail Bait

Here's an extremely rare post-TOTP appearance from Legs & Co, on ITV's The Video Entertainers, 27 July 1982. The song must have been deemed acceptable back then, but nowadays, it seems (to me anyway) frankly creepy. I can't identify the singer: a quick google shows that lots of bands on the heavier end of the rock spectrum (Motorhead, Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, Eric Clapton...) have used the title, but none of them seem to be this one.

I'm afraid the image quality is fairly ropey here, but I doubt we'll find a better version. It's fairly difficult to identify dancers, but (over on the discussion forum) Susie, who seems a reliable source, had identified the dancers as Lulu, Patti, Sue, "Patricia" and "Tanya".

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Legs & Co. - British Rock & Pop Awards 1979 - End Credits

Here's a second performance from Legs & Co. at the British Rock & Pop Awards 1979: dancing to a cheesy big-band version of Night Fever during the end credits. I think this routine, and the previous one, both serve as examples of how important camera direction is to TV choreography. Clearly, for her work on TOTP, Flck had a good working relationship with the director and the camera operators, and had imput into the camera-work and editing. Just as clearly, in these routines she had little or no input. As a result, with no idea where the cameras would be, she's forced to choreograph the performance for the stage, directing the focus towards the audience, rather than the cameras. This results in an "ITV-variety-show" effect, where the cameras seem to be documenting a stage performance, not makinga TV show.

Before the many Flick Fans (aFlickcionados?) complain, I'm not putting Flick down here: I'm just descrbing the less-than-ideal circumstances she was sometimes forced to work in.

My thanks once again to PattiforPM for sharing yet another rare clip with us.

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Legs & Co. on Larry Grayson's Generation Game

This clip was recently posted over on panspeople.com by Flight14. Unfortunately, their embedded youtube video seems to have been trampled on by the copyright dinosaurs, and they've replaced the full embedded routine with a shorter version with only the final Larry Grayson dancing. So here's a watchable version of the whole thing.

Legs & Co. appear on the Larry Grayson/Isla St. Clair incarnation of The Generation Game. They're demonstrating that peculiarly formal version of "Disco Dancing" taught by ageing dance instructors, with our old friend Floyd, and a couple of other blokes. And yes, Larry, I know what you mean: where do I recognise the tall tall blonde guy from? New Edition? The Young Generation? I dunno.

Then there's a rare appearance by Flick as expert judge. I assume that the whole "People think 'Flick' is a man" routine she does with Larry is really about Larry himself expecting a chap to show up. But I'm just guessing here.

Flick is extravagantly generous in handing out points, a tradition on this show.

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Legs & Co. - Ossie's Dream

Pickings are getting mighty slim folks. I'm reduced to posting clips from TOTP where Our Heroines are merely standing arounding in the background. Here are Showbiz Cockneys Chas & Dave, a couple of Tottenham Hotspurs' calciatores, and Legs & Co, with a portion of audience, miming dreadfully to Ossie's Dream. Thanks to Norvik_1602 for spotting the clip.

Can't say I've ever got the hang of this football thing: I can almost understand the appeal of playing it. Almost. But watching other people play it? No, I don't get the appeal. I'm clearly in a small minority here, though.

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Chas & Dave Trivia Question: Which breakthrough rap hit contained substantial samples featuring Chas Hodges & Dave Peacock? (Wikipedia is out of bounds, you rotten cheats).

Legs & Co. on Ant & Dec’s Saturday Takeaway

I've never been a fan of cheeky Geordie double-act Ant & Dec, so I missed this Legs & Co. appearance on their Saturday Takeaway in 2003. Since this appearance came up on our doscussion board, I've searched in vain to find it. But some kind soul has finally sent it to me.

There's one mystery: in a couple of brief long shots in the early portion, Patti is clearly there, at the end of the row (our left): but in the later dance sequence (to Sister Sledge's We Are Family), she doesn't appear. It can't be that they only had six lettered jump-suits, surely?

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