Tag Archives: Cherry

Top of the Pops, 4th October 1974: Pan’s People dance to You Little Trustmaker by The Tymes.

From the old blog, Sunday, 3 November 2013:

Time for another upgrade: my previous post of this routine was from a UK Gold VHS recording. Here’s a nice sharp Einsfestival digital broadcast version. Pan’s People on Top Of The Pops: October 4th 1974, dancing to the Thymes’ You Little Trustmaker.

comments:

Some Guy said…

Never tire of watching this. Awesome performance, all five girls put on a great display and look very sexy.
3 November 2013 11:59

alghero7 said…

Was this Sue’s debut with PP?
Whatever her trademark insouciance still shines through.
9 February 2014 13:35

Top of the Pops, 27 September 74:
Pan’s People dance to It’s Better to Have (and Don’t Need) by Don Covay

Thanks to an anonymous donor, here’s another fine vintage Pan’s People routine, with the dancers all looking relaxed and well-rehearsed.

Don Covay is more of a critics’ favourite than a huge crowd pleaser, but he’s probably my personal top soul singer of the sixties and seventies.

Top of the Pops, 20 September 1974: Pan’s People dance to Machine Gun by The Commodores.

From a generous, anonymous donor, here’s another rare classic routine. Pan’s people, in one-piece white bell-bottom outfits, dancing to The Commodore’s first hit, a spirited instrumental.

Noel Edmonds, usually a practitioner of terrible puns, actually manages a reasonable play on words in his introduction.

Many thanks to my anonymous donor.

Pan’s People dance to Cat Stevens’ hit cover of Sam Cooke’s Another Saturday Night, 13 September 1974.

It’s takes a lot of chutzpah to cover a Sam Cooke song: your performance will always be compared with the master’s original. But Cat Stevens just about gets away with it.

The dancers’ performances and outfits are surprisingly jolly, given the sad edge to the lyrics subject matter: but I’m not complaining: it’s always nice to see them get the chance to goof around a little.

Many thanks to my anonymous donor for this excellent routine.

Top of the Pops, 5 December 1974
Pan’s People dance to You’re the First, the Last, My Everything

Pan’s People in big floppy veiled hats and white leotards, dancing in dry-ice mist (kept under control for once) to Barry White’s classic song.
NB: There’s no video for the first few seconds of music.

I’ve been looking for this rare Pan’s People routine for a long time, and recently a decidedly ropey version, marred by an excessively large central watermark, has appeared on YouTube.
So I’m very pleased to be able to post this superior version, contributed by generous forum regular Vintage Videos. Thanks Vin!