Top of the Pops, 24th July 1975:
Pan’s People dance to Foot Stompin’ Music by Hamilton Bohannon,
Yes, Bing: a fine performance, with plenty of gusto, to a solid groove from Hamilton Bohannon, an early practitioner of that kind of heavy, beat-landen funky soul music that was rapidly evolving into full-on Disco music around this time.
Ripped clothes are usually dramatic shorthand fort either a “desert island” scenario, or that of a post-apocalyptic society, but I’m already in danger of over-analysing these outfits. Let’s just assume that their various states of dishevelment are the result of all the foot stompin’ that they’ve been doing.
No honestly, I mean it: only the previous month, on the 19th of June 1975, Pan’s People were dancing to another Hamilton Bohannon song on TOTP. Given the name, “Disco Stomp”, we can assume that a fair amount of foot stomping’ would have been going on there. Unfortunately there’s no publicly available copy of this routine for me to show you.
But no, wait a minute: thanks to Andeebee, there’s a tiny snippet here. Cheers Andeebee.
And thanks to YouTuber ASmK for this routine.
