Ruby Flipper - Soul City Walk

The other full-troup performance from the second week of Ruby Flipper's run on TOTP, first broadcast on 13th May 1976. Here they dance to Archie Bell & the Drells' Soul City Walk. (See my previous post for more info.)

Though I usually try my best to avoid being so crude and disrespectful as to discuss anyone's physical appearance, I neverless feel compelled to mention that those shorts really do suit Cherry particularly well...

Taken again from Einsfestival's re-broadcast of the original 1976 show. As before, nyrainbow4 has kindly posted a version of this clip on YouTube, but the Copyright Gestapo have forced him to replace the original soundtrack with something innocuous.

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Ruby Flipper - Love Hangover

Continuing with German satallite channel Einsfestival's re-broadcasting of vintage Ruby-Flipper-era TOTP episodes, here's RF dancing to Diana Ross's Love Hangover on their second week on the show (13th May 1976): some sensuous, slinky dancing to a very sensual piece of music. The producers seemed keen to use Ruby Flipper far more extensively than their predecessors: after two performances on their first week, there are two full-group routines on this show, plus a third with just Floyd, Sue & Lulu. More details in later posts.

Thanks again to nyrainbow4 for uploading all these clips to YouTube.

(I have posted this routine before, but it was an inferior, grainy version from a VHS source.)

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Ruby Flipper - My Resistance is Low

My last-but-one post was about Ruby Flipper's first appearance on TOTP. Here's there second appearance, later on that same episode (6 May 2009) dancing to Robin Sarstedt's My Resistance is Low. And, after all the fuss about a new boy-&-girl lineup, they've immediately dumped the blokes and reverted to a female-only quartet. In posh thirties frocks.

Thanks again to nyrainbow4 for YouTube-ing all the Einsfestival TOTP repeats.

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Legs & Co - Everybody Dance

Hadeel sent me another YouTube link to a Legs & Co clip, with the original music (Everybody Dance by Chic) replaced by the uploader (with I Am A Cliché by X-Ray Spex), asking if I can provide the original.

I have posted this before, but as a huge MPEG-2 download, without a watchable preview. So here it is again. Enjoy!

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Ruby Flipper - Can't Help Falling in Love

German satallite channel Einsfestival's repeats of TOTP have reached the middle of 1976 recently, the time of Ruby Flipper. Though I wasn't a fan at the time, I think their performances have stood up well to the passing years. A mixture of male and female dancers, though not popular, gave Flick a wider range of choreographic possibilities, and indeed pushed them away from various chorus-line dance clichés.

Here's their very first appearance, dancing to the Stylistics Can't Help Falling in Love: and there's a mixture of playfulness with old-style literal interpretation. The routine starts with Sue and Cherry (the two remaining pan's persons) looking bemused as they dance together. "Where are they others?" they mime. Then, right on the line "Only fools rush in", the four new dancers, er, rush in.

Lulu's looking particularly nervous (1:09–1:15) about her national TV debut. But she pulls it of splendidly.

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My appreciation and thanks to nyrainbow4 who's doing a fine job of posting these Einsfestival repeats on YouTube.

Pan's People - Jungle Rock

Costume silliness from PPs later days.

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