I posted a clip of Legs & Co. dancing to Cerrone's disco classic Supernature a few days back, and remarked that I always associated the record with Hot Gossip. Here's why: Hot Gossip on The Kenny Everett Video Show.
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Here's a Legs & Co. routine that's new to me: dancing to Barry Manilow's Lonely Together. My thanks go to Amy for sending us this rare clip.
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Another alternative routine: this time Legs & Co. dance again to David Soul's Silver Lady. I would imagine these are the outfits worn by female graduates of the Class of 1978 at the Time Lords' Academy on Gallifrey at their Graduation Ball. Or somethimg.
Great minds think alike: both PattiforPM and Lulupatti&sue sent me this clip. Many thanks to both.
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Another soppy ballad performance from Pan's People: dancing to Bread's Make It With You, in very flimsy, sheer, slightly see-through silk. Mmmmm...
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Here's another contribution from lulupatti&sue: Legs & Co. dancing to Cerrone's Supernature. Starting out as lab technician dolls, they transform into Hollywood Cavegirls, with those rawhide & fur bikinis that all stone age women must have worn.
I've always associated this tune with Hot Gossip, since it was used so much on Kenny Everett's original Video Show; this performance is new to me. So thanks, lulupatti&sue.
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Pan's People in groovy Laura Ashley frocks, dancing to Judy Collins' Both Sides Now on TOTP. A monochrome copy of a performance originally recorded in colour, so we don't know if those gogo boots they're wearing are the same flesh-coloured ones we saw in the Mama's Pearl clip.
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I posted this way back in the dark ages, before I'd worked out how to embed playable video into blog posts. Now here's a watchable version: Legs & Co. dancing to Diana Ross's Getting Ready for Love.
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Pan's People dance to George Harrison's My Sweet Lord on Top of the Pops.
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Youse guys don't really need me any more: Ryan ask for this clip a while ago: I didn't have it, but lulupatti&sue came to the rescue, and sent it in.
Sue gets to arse around in a silly Bigfoot Bumble Bee outfit, while the others dance in only slightly less silly flower costumes, with big petal headresses, and a huge kiss curl right in the middle of each girl's forehead.
Fair warning: before you press the play button, be aware that Piero Umiliani's Mah Na Mah Na is one of the catchiest tunes of the late twentieth century. Don't blame me if you're still humming it tomorrow.
many thanks to lulupatti&sue for the clip.
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I received a message last week from lulupatti&sue, asking if I had a clip of Pan's People dancing to Ike & Tina Turner's Nutbush City Limits. At first I was fairly sure I didn't have it, but after rumaging around in my vast untidy collection, I found it – and here it is!
What a performance. Thanks for reminding me about it with your request, lulupatti&sue.
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Legs & Co. occasionally had to perform more than one routine to the same song: sometimes a second routine for a Christmas special, sometime song that stayed in the charts for many weeks. We've already seen them dance one routine to the Whispers' And The Beat Goes On: here's another, courtesy of Patti4PM (thanks again).
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Get your sunglasses on folks. Here's Legs & Co. dancing to Andy Gibb's Everlasting Love, in front of a glittery, tinsely backdrop that makes your eyes (and whatever chip in your machine that handles video) scream in pain.
Thanks are due to the anonymous donor who sent me this clip via the easy widget at the bottom of this page. I'm always happy to receive your clips, and if I post them, I'll give a credit, if you've given a name.
Ruby Flipper dancing to Rubberband Man by The Spinners (called The Detroit Spiiners here in Airstrip One) on Top of the Pops in 1976. Modelling classic mid-seventies knitwaer. Introduced by whacky Jummy Saville, and a clump of Sailors.
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I've posted this before, but I've recently found the same clip on YouTube, so I'm using that a feeble excuse to repost it. Louise-period Pan's People, in colourful outfits, with what I think are strawberry patches on their bums, and those white-gold dancer's heels that they wear in a lot of performances around this time. Can you tell I've watched this many times? Can you blame me?
Yes, I've seen this clip a thousand times: but I've just seen something glaringly obvious that I never noticed before. If you don't want to spoil the fun, scroll up a bit and watch the clip before you read the next bit.
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Okay, everybody watched the clip? Did you notice anything? In the audience? No? You didn't notice that there's a Womble in the audience? Yes, that's right: a five-foot Womble. Right there. Go on, watch it again.
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...and if anyone did see it first time: how can you call yourself a Pan's People fan?
Update: embed video fixed (Thanks for spotting the fault, Ryan)
I mostly lost interest when Legs & Co were replaced by Zoo: they pretty much epitomised what was wrong with the early eighties. But they could occasionally produce a half decent routine, particularly when they reverted to PP/RF/L&C-style routines - like this one, performed to Adam & the Ants' Deutscher Girls, in lederhosen (or more likely ersatzlederhosen), from a TOTP2 repeat.
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Here's another Legs & Co. clip from the generous PattiforPM: dancing to the Beach Boys' soppy ballad Lady Linda. How can you tell it's a soppy ballad? Simple: the barefoot dancing is a dead giveaway.
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Here's an early Pan's People routine, from 1971 (Look! Flick dancing! And Andi too!) The song's Mama's Pearl by The Jacksons.
Dig those flesh-coloured go-go boots!
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Here's Legs & Co. on Top of the Pops, dancing to Bobby Thurston's Check Out This Groove. with a tiny bit of Steve Wright at the end. Unfortunately, a couple of the cameraman seem to have gotten stuck in the audience, so we keep getting close of shots of the girls from below. Which wouldn't be so bad except they are wearing revealingly tight, tiny, shiny metallic pants. Oh dear.
Thanks again to PattiforPM for this clip.
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Time for another ludicrous costume clip. Here's Legs & Co paying tribute to the then-recently-deceased John Lennon in outfits which suggest that the BBC costume department were either (A) frantically overstretched or (B) just not trying. I can see that red dresses with white fur trim is a fairly christmas-ish look, but why have the fur dangling in strips? It looks like the girls are being attacked by a vicious gang of albino stoats.
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Legs & Co dancing to Donna Summer's I Feel Love, in gowns that are long, light, loose, flowing, colourful, and (rather charmingly) slightly transparent.
Thanks again to PattiforPM for this wonderful clip.
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Legs & Co dance to 's soppy ballad One Day in Your Life, while the Top of The Pops end credits roll.
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Here's another Legs & Co clip from Pans Rugby Legs (thanks once again!). Here they're dancing to 'ole Bobby Dylan's Baby Stop Crying, with Gill taking the lead.
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Here's a Pan's People performance from their brief residency on The Two Ronnies in 1973. They're dancing to Sinaglong Junk from 's first solo album. Recognise those outfits? They also appeared on TOTP wearing them, dancing to John Holt's Help me make it through the Night (posted here).
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Legs & Co. dance to ELO's Hold on Tight. Thanks again to PattiforPM for sending this clip.
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Thanks once again to Pan's Rugby Legs for sending us this clip of Legs & Co. dancing to the Bee Gees' Spirits Having Flown.
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You might have noticed that poverty recently forced me to shove some Google adverts on this blog. Not that the few pennies I'll get for selling out will make me rich. Anyway, here's a more positive side of advertising: an early eighties advert for milk, featuring a few precious seconds of Legs & Co in delightfully shiny black latex outfits.
Another generous donation from PattiforPM. Many thanks.
Here's a great clip from PattiforPM (thanks again!): Legs & Co. dancing to Chic's My Feet Keep Dancing. The girls are wearing a selection of different kinds of footwear. Yes, that's the only noteworthy thing about their outfits: the shoes. Yes.
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Legs & Co. dancing in the rain to Randy Crawford's atmospheric A Rainy Night In Georgia. Another generous donation from Pan's Rugby legs. Thanks again.
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Here's another Zoo clip from Pan's Rugby Legs. Thanks again. My heart goes out to Flick Colby here: I'm a big fan of Laurie Anderson's O Superman, but I'd certainly not have a clue about creating a dance routine to go with such an outré record.
I don't think the routine really works, but I doubt anyone could do much better, given the short couple of days Flick must have had to devise this choreography, performed to such an obtuse piece of music
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I've posted this routine before, but here it is again with a much improved embedded version.
Legs & Co. wiggle around in tiny metallic dresses, while the mighty Fred Wedlock "sings" Oldest Swinger in Town.
Sue Menhenick was the only dancer to be a member of four Top of the Pops dance groups: Starting in Pan's People in 1974, she went on to be a member of the short-lived Ruby Flipper in 1976: when they became Legs & Co. later that year, Sue joined the new dance group, staying until their last appearance in October 1981. Sue made her final appearance in December 1981, cradited as a member of replacement group Zoo, dancing solo to Jon & Vangelis' I'll Find My Way Home.
Thanks again to Pan's Rugby Legs for contributing this clip.
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Here's another great clip from PattiforPM: Legs & Co. in green sequined gowns, dancing to Gloria Gaynor's Disco Hitzilla, I Will Survive, while Patti demonstrates her roller-skating technique. Thanks once again.
A christmas special clip, I'd guess, from the rather weedy tinsel trees on the set.
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here's another clip fromn Pan's Rugby Legs: Legs & Co., or more specifically Gill, dancing solo while Johnny Mathis sings Gone Gone Gone.
Thanks again to Pan's Rugby Legs, for this, and future contributions.
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Pan's People on To of the Pops, dancing to David Bowie's Space Oddity. Giving the lie to the usual lazy criticisms, this is refreshingly minimalist, non-literal choreography. With a silly fooling around introduction from The Hairy Cornflake and Mr. Stoke Mandeville himself.
The DCMA Stormtroopers have sent a nasty email to Blogger, so Ive had to remove the download link that was here. Harrumph.
Legs & Co dance to Fleetwood Mac's peculiar Tusk in equally peculiar outfits. Another contribution from PattiforPM. Thanks once again.
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Here's a strange routine: late-era Pan's People dance to the Small Faces' Itchycoo Park. Giant toadstools, strange dancing, and some creepy expressions (especially from Cherry).
Many thanks to our latest contributor, Pan's Rugby Legs, who sent me this clip. And he's got more to come...
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PattiforPM has contribute yet another clip: Legs & Co dancing to David Soul's Silver Lady. Thanks again.
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Legs & Co try there hardest to be all punky and sneery and atitude-y, dancing to the Sex Pistols' Silly Thing; but we all know the truth: they're a bunch of sweetie, softy good girls.
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Foe Cherry lovers only: Here's Cherry dancing to Misty Blue by Dorothy Moore.
Yet another clip from PattiforPM. Thanks as always.
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Mary's presence places this in the late period of Pan's People's reign on TOTP. Even though those outfits look like they came from charity shops, their brevity seems to fit well with the song title: You Sexy Sugar Plum by Roger Collins.
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It's time for some proper, serious dancing: here's Legs & Co doing proper serious dancing to kate Bush's The Man With The Child In His Eyes. Introduced with the correct degree of seriousness by DLT. Another kind contribution from PattieforPM. Thanks again.
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