Tribute to Pans People on Top of the Pops

[paulspeke]

ah yes, still brings a lump to my err... throat.

[GlitterMike]

Hotties.

[SteveGad]

Came across this by chance and stayed for the duration. Only fellow 50 year old men will be sharing my thoughts right now. :-))

Great post, thanks.

[irondogon]

@SteveGad Ah yes, but what thoughts! What a gang! Here's to us 50 year old men.

[themanfromutopia1]

Jeeezus



[djx64]

Fit and sexy without being cheap and trashy.

[Vangeli100]

slim and no god damb tattoos

[makeminemusic1]

YOU are the Awesomest!!!!!!!! Thank You so much!!!!! I am dancing all around my house to that great song! Not like Pans People, but my own little shuffle off the buffalo! lol! Thank You so very very much again! You have brought great joy from some lost music! Thank You!!!!! :)

[garyhaggarty]

@makeminemusic1 You're very welcome. I think it's high time we started a petition to turn these babes into Dames!

[makeminemusic1]

@garyhaggarty Amen to that! Real talent! :)

[makeminemusic1]

Anybody know the name or artist of the song at 2:06 to 2:22 when they are wearing the little black hot pants outfits?

[garyhaggarty]

@makeminemusic1 That one's got me too. At 2:06 to 2:22 I'm just mystified as to what Ruth was thinking & Babs was playing at!

[garyhaggarty]

@makeminemusic1 FOUND IT! - Buddy Miles 'Life Is What You Make It' (Part 2) from the album 'Chapter VII' (1973). Incidentally, they conclude their In Concert special with yet another Buddy Miles track 'L.A. Resurrection' from the same album.

[pec104]

I had a girlfriend who could dance like them. Time to get another one. Do they still exist?

[Flowmotion1000]

I would become someones slave for a day if they could find the complete Pans People routine to' I want you back' (shown briefly at the beginning of this).

[garyhaggarty]

@Flowmotion1000 Go to the One For the Dads website & scroll down to next video. It's been downgraded for now but at least it's proof (thankfully) that the whole performance exists. By the way, you're my 'slave' for the day!

[Flowmotion1000]

@garyhaggarty Thanks! Much appreciated.If I knew where you lived I would indeed do a bit of shopping for you and maybe a bit of dusting too.

[garyhaggarty]

@Flowmotion1000 My pleasure. I've just had Kim round dusting & Aggie shopping for me recently but if you shop around, find & dust down misplaced tapes of early TOTP (presumed wiped) then I'd be your slave for a year!

[LionheartNh]

Why are todays women not half as sexy as Pans people ?

[cyberindigenous]

@LionheartNh Because standards, dignity, and expectations diminish with time.

[hslufc]

The Buddy Miles dance (at 3.40) is sexy as hell. Is the full performance available? That I'd love to see.

[garyhaggarty]

@hslufc YES. Simply type in Pans People In Concert to find someone has kindly posted it in three parts.

[OSWALDOUK]

I met Babs at Cowes week a fews years back - she's an accomplished yachtswoman now. Still fabulous.

[chappellwestlake]

LOVE!!

[lightheart321]

RIP Flick Colby

[kingbleah]

if we had the current youth dancing on stage it would be like a earthquake!

cos they so fat man!!

[foonman50]

They all had nice curves and it was OK.

[mwt1960]

English roses through and through, seems they built girls better in my days.

[Philomena9able]

wonderful :) thank you

[Philomena9able]

I loved Pans People :)))

[roylennon13]

Im in my 50s now but I still could.

[crimple7]

The best version of Pan's People was the original i.e Louise, Flick, Dee Dee, Ruth, Babs and Andi.

Louise was the best dancer. Look at her in the "Jimmy Mack" clip. She puts everything into it and is so lithe and lively.

Babs may have not been as good a dancer but her welcoming smile always made it a pleasure to turn on TOTP on the TV.

[AnElephantsChild]

As a kid I could never understand why I wasn't allowed to dress like Pan's People!

Thank you for this x x

[abbanutter]

@AnElephantsChild they looked amazing....i cant dress like them now.....somehow wearing shiny hotpants and tiny tanktop turns heads in the street for the wrong reasons now!

[pattayalob]

In this PC world we have now, these beautiful girls are like a breath of fresh air. Kudos for the cameraman. I hate this century and all that it has become.

[Dennysmock]

Ahhhhhhj, those were the days, when women had decent legs, and hairy muffs!!

Great vid.

[1FineYoungCannibal]

3:41 dont stand up too quickly

[TheFeckineejit]

i was lucky enough to sit next to louise in our primary school in harlesden .happy days

[vntr2006]

Fantastic.

[viceroy30]

As fonejacker`s Terry Tibbs would say "beautiful,beautiful"

[MrMLD72MLD]

♥ ♥

[pattayalob]

Just.... fabulous, thanks for uploading.

[cckcai]

Brill

[CNicol40]

The clip with Louise and Dee Dee on beds looks and sounds like a 1970s Swedish porn movie... or so I've been told ;-)

[lucarion87]

i need to put this on big screen

[Glenn1967ful]

The black and white clip from the beginning is from an amusingly named film called Gonks Go Beat with Babs Lord as one of the dancers.

[AtheistOrphan]

Took me right back.

As a hormonal youngster in the late 70's PP never failed to raise my er, spirits!

[Chopper894]

@AtheistOrphan Oh yes. As a 13 year old lad, it was this and the Kays Catalogue lol

[wayneschlaegal]

what's the tune after 4 mins, where they are sitting on the cushions? phwoar!!

[catmando1973]

@wayneschlaegal

its called 'pelvic thrusting' by 'the scantily clad bints'

[skitster5117]

Yhanks for posting . You forget just how good they were. -so so sexy

[skoragzi]

Well, aw-riiiiiiight-ah!

[Glenn1967ful]

The black and white dancing scene comes from the amusingly named Gonks Go Beat, a pop music film.

[jnmklo9]

Beautiful and so vital I used to look forward to their bit every week, green river wow and Nutbush wow twice

[Nuron666]

They dont make females like them any more.

[Glenn1967ful]

@Nuron666

Sure as hell don't same as you don't get singers like Lynsey de Paul nowadays.

[Nuron666]

@Glenn1967ful very true



[gaysy1st]

@Glenn1967ful

Is that Lynsey de Paul singing at 35secs? And if so, do you know the name of the song? Thanks.

While you're here :) would you happen to know the song playing at 2.05?

[bribriboytoy]

@gaysy1st at 35 secs it is Mary hopkins song is Temma Harbour. srry don't know other one

[gaysy1]

@bribriboytoy

Thanks very much for your help :)

[macthornberg]

@Nuron666 they do, but they're hard to find!

[Nuron666]

@macthornberg very true.

[abbanutter]

@Nuron666 I agree i adore the 60's and 70's icon like pans people, farrah fawcett and Brigitte bardot......they were real women!

[Nuron666]

@abbanutter the BBC should bring back Top of the pops.

The British music industry has gone down hill ever since TOTP have been taken off.

[TherMoJo]

lol absolutely fabulous