Top of the Pops 15 October 1970: Pan’s People dance to The Carpenters’ Close to You. From the old blog, Tuesday, 24 May 2011: Don’t panic: there’s no sound for the first few seconds of this clip, so we don’t get to hear Tony Blackburn’s introduction. No doubt he was his usual brain-dead showbiz zombie […]
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Pan’s People – Close to You
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Pan’s People – Ghetto Child
Top of the Pops, 11 October 1973 Pan’s People dance to Ghetto Child by the Detroit Spinners. Kenny Everett introduces a fairly subdued performance from Pan’s People, in burgundy-red flared jumpsuits. American readers might find the band’s name here confusing: called simply “The Spinners” at home (and in the rest of the world too, I […]
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Pan’s People – Back Stabbers
Top of the Pops, 5 October 1972: Pan’s People dance to Back Stabbers by The O’Jays. From the conversation over on the discussion forum, this clip seems to be a rehearsal recording rather than the broadcast performance, which doesn’t seem to have survived: notice the lack of a studio audience, for instance. Still it’s good […]
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Pan’s People – You Little Trustmaker
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 […]
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Pan’s People – It’s Better to Have (and Don’t Need)
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 […]
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Pan’s People – Nutbush City Limits
Top of the Pops 20 September 1973: Pan’s People dance to Ike & Tina Turner’s Nutbush City Limits A fine flamboyant hair-shaking hip-swiveling perfomance to one of the classic pop songs about the frustrations of parochial life in a small town, from Nutbush Tennessee‘s most famous child, Annie Mae Bullock.
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Pan’s People – Machine Gun
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 […]
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Pan’s People – Tap Turns On The Water
Top of the Pops, 16 September 1971: Pan’s People dance to Tap Turns On The Water by CCS. Watch on sendvid | streamable | google drive I had posted a version of this rare Pan’s People treat on the old blog: but as many people remarked, there were audio/video synching problems with it. Soon I […]
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Pan’s People – Another Saturday Night
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 […]
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Pan’s People – You’re the First, the Last, My Everything (05/12/74)
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 […]
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