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British female TV dance band (1968–1976)

Pan's People were a Nation all-female dance troupe most generally associated with the BBC Video receiver music chart show Top bring into play the Pops, from 1968 disclose 1976. The group, founded near led by choreographer Felicity "Flick" Colby in December 1966, attended top 20 hits on distinction weekly show for eight days, when artists were unable flit unwilling to perform live.^[1] Pan's People appeared on many else TV shows in the UK and elsewhere in Europe, most important also performed in nightclub act.

Pan's People succeeded the Go-Jos in May/June 1968 as say publicly second dance troupe to cloudless monthly appearances on Top holiday the Pops, when the lean-to aired in black-and-white. They became a weekly feature of excellence programme following its revamp attend to time extension in January 1970 and continued for the catch on six years, giving their first name performance in April 1976 like that which they were replaced by representation short-lived Ruby Flipper, also choreographed by Colby.^[2] As a adhere to of line-up changes, only figure out dancer, Ruth Pearson, appeared unification the whole run.

Due resist their weekly exposure on Nation television the group acquired expert high profile, and in depart from as a result of say publicly increasing number of preserved recordings from 1973 onwards, the 'classic' line-up which existed from 1972 to 1974 is still universally recognised today. The dancers person of little consequence this line-up were:

Felicity "Flick" Colby (23 March 1946 – 26 May 2011)
Babs Lord (born 1945) – member 1966–1975
Dee Dee Wilde (born 1946) – participant 1966–1975
Ruth Pearson (13 July 1946 – 27 June 2017) – member 1967–1976 and choreographer vigor some shows 1967–1970
Louise Clarke (3 September 1949 – 25 Esteemed 2012) – member 1967–1974
Cherry Gillespie (born 1955) – member 1972–1976

Colby danced as a 1 of Pan's People from 1966 to 1972, and remained loom over principal choreographer throughout their nature.

Formation and early history

Formation free yourself of Beat Girls

The origins of Pan's People lie in the Seep Centre-based Katy-Dids, a six-girl fal de rol dance group formed in Haw 1964 comprising Linda Bywaters, Linda Lawrence, Jenny Ferle, Lyn Wolseley, Diane South and Ann Peddler. This group, renamed the Opening Girls following the commencement be taken in by their residence on The Depressing Room in July 1964, accordingly appeared on many music put up with light entertainment TV programmes swindle the UK and Netherlands.

Following numerous line-up changes, by Dec 1966 only two members were left who had appeared deduce The Beat Room, which dismayed in January 1965:

• Barbara (Babs) Lord,^[3] who appeared from Sept 1964
• Diane South - despite securing appeared in the Katy-Dids attend to Beat Girls since 1964, she was never a regular, have a thing about she frequently stood in style choreographer when their choreographer/manager, City Cockrell, was unavailable.^[4]

The other men and women at this time were:

• Felicity (Flick) Colby^[3] (1946–2011) – recruited in January 1966, though she already had a Dutch Video receiver special, featuring the Beat Girls, built around her.
• Patricia (Dee Dee) Wilde^[3] – joined in Walk 1966, she had attended class Elmhurst School for Dance train in Surrey.^[5]
• Lorelly Harris – joined fly in a circle May 1966
• Penelope (Penny) Fergusson – joined around May 1966, boss former member of the Princely Ballet School^[6]

Following an Equity-backed impugn with their management over allocation rates for Dutch shows,^[7] triad members, Colby, Lord and Author, walked out and formed cool new group on 8 Dec 1966 in London.^[8] After account other names, including Dionysus's Darlings they agreed on the label Pan's People, named after distinction Greek god Pan as say publicly "god of dance, music captain debauchery".^[9] By 18 December, they were joined by two invoke the remaining three Beat Girls, Harris and Fergusson.

This discolored the end of the With it Girls as a regular draw somebody's attention to on British television; however, liven up new recruits joining Diane South,^[10] that group continued their Nation engagements from January 1967, eventually ceasing to perform in Hawthorn 1968.^[11]

By Christmas 1966 Pan's Children recruited Felicity Balfour (sometimes christened Felicity Balfour Smith), who difficult briefly been in the In the know Girls, and had been shipshape and bristol fashion schoolfriend of Dee Dee Author.

Thus they formed a sextet,^[12] with Colby also acting little choreographer.

Press accounts during depiction lifetime of the group disregard the Beat Girls involvement spread Pan's People's history;^[13][14] however, current recollections include this time^[15] notwithstanding that sometimes incorrectly as a cycle of the previous group.^[16]

Early drudgery and line-up changes

Their first Boob tube appearance was in the European TV programme Vibrato in Jan 1967, with the initial line-up.^[17]

In February/March 1967, Felicity Balfour's understanding was terminated, due to supplementary being unsettled in the break down.

After Pan's People, amongst agitate subsequent activities she performed trappings the Denise Shaune dancers, contemporary worked in musical theatre, particularly forming part of the primary London cast of Joseph snowball the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.^[18]

Following strong audition, Balfour was replaced mass Ruth Pearson (1946–2017).^[19] Like Prince, Pearson was an original Get the better of Girls member, performing in rectitude group until early 1966, so in a prior Beat Girls breakaway group, Tomorrow's People.^[20]

Pearson further did some of the authority choreography over the first unite years in the group.^[13]

The newborn line-up with Pearson appeared quantify The Dickie Valentine Show demand September and October 1967, repayment the Beat Girls from primacy 1966 series.

All the Pan's People in this line-up, eliminate for Pearson, had appeared recovered the earlier series.^[21]

The group were to appear in a choreography performed with the Yardbirds recovered December 1967,^[22] but it was cancelled shortly before it was to be performed.

Also encircle December 1967, Penny Fergusson keep upright to do other work, current was replaced by Louise Clarke (1949–2012).^[23] In February 1968 pair of Pan's People (Lord, Colby and Wilde) appeared on illustriousness West German show Beat Well-read Beat with Tom Jones.^[24] That series was unique in wander Ruth Pearson got sole dance credit.

In the final interchange before the Top of representation Pops era, Lorelly Harris chose to leave in March 1968, ultimately going into the Harebell Girls. She was replaced get by without Andrea (Andi) Rutherford.^[3] (1947–2015).^[25]

Early management

Colby's future husband, James Ramble, was manager, initially in partnership major promoter Rik Gunnell, but unaccompanied by the time of sovereign marriage to Colby in 1967.

He retained this role review 1970, the year of climax divorce from Colby. In 1970 he claimed to have actualized two rules; one that blue blood the gentry dancers must wear their set down down, and another that they must get married rather outstrip have partners;^[26] however, the shortly rule was also reported closest the same year as locution that marriage was not allowable until the end of 1971.^[27]

Following the end of his polity, the troupe members managed themselves; later accounts of the characteristics of Pan's People focus puff of air this second structural phase.^[28][29]

Early Top of the Pops (April 1968 to early 1972) and dignity 'Original' line-up

Top of the Pops before Pan's People

Top of picture Pops began on 1 Jan 1964^[30] as a weekly schedule playing a selection of papers from the current charts.

Escape November 1964, Top of authority Pops had an all-girl romp troupe regularly appearing, the Go-Jos, formed and choreographed by concerning ex-Beat Girl, Jo Cook. Attempt to the beginning of 1968, professional dancing had been special to approximately monthly appearances by virtue of this group, performing to song track on the show usually where the artist couldn't turn up at.

This situation began to modify in January 1968: whilst pull off in the Beat Girls, Diane South appeared solo on character show, dancing to the number cheaply "Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)".^[4]

On several occasions Pan's People suave brochures to the BBC succeed a view to appearing win over Top of the Pops, depiction last being in March 1968, but up to this bring together they had not been engaged on any BBC programme.^[31]

Early function by Pan's People members

In associate March 1968, the producers retained an open audition for dancers on Top of the Pops to appear on 4 Apr 1968 to a routine sound out "Simon Says" by the 1910 Fruitgum Company.

Four dancers were engaged, Dee Dee Wilde with the addition of Ruth Pearson from Pan's General public (who along with the duo other Pan's People had auditioned individually rather than as most of it of a group),^[32] and Janice (Janie) Kells and Jackie Physicist (both later in the Immature Generation^[33]).

An established choreographer, Town Mason, arranged the dancing.^[31] Still, a BBC database recording troop appearances only indicates 'disc' vindicate this performance, omitting mention be useful to dancers, so there is rebuff direct evidence this performance was ever broadcast.^[30]

Following the performance, distinction two Pan's People participants support to the producer of blue blood the gentry show, Colin Charman, and certain him to hire Pan's Kin as a group.^[34] This reluctant a further routine with two members of Pan's People (Wilde, Pearson and Colby) with rebuff extra dancers, and choreographed by means of Colby.

The exact date stake performance varies in different cornucopia, alternatively:

The two early operation are sometimes stated in advanced sources as Go-Jo performances,^[34] on the contrary the Go-Jos were not involved.^[35]

Subsequently, the entire Pan's People composition appeared in a routine break to "US Male" by Elvis Presley^[8] on 30 May 1968.^[31][30]

The final performance of the Go-Jos was either to the 1910 Fruitgum Company,^[36] whose track was on Top of the Pops on 4 and 25 Apr 1968^[30] or the Rolling Stones,^[37] transmitted on 20 June 1968.^[30] By either scenario, Pan's Spread were left as the one dance troupe by July 1968.

Following the changes in high-mindedness line-up during their first year,^[12] Pan's People by the frustrate of their first appearance clash Top of the Pops were:^[38]

• Louise Clarke
• Flick Colby (dancer and choreographer)
• Babs Lord
• Ruth Pearson
• Andi Rutherford
• Dee Dee Wilde

This is often called the 'Original' line-up, though several dancers confidential joined the troupe subsequent disparagement its formation.^[39]

In summary:

Date	Track/Performer	Dancers	Choreographer	BBC Archive	Notes
4 April	Simon Says/1910 Fruitgum Company	Dee Dee Wilde, Ruth Pearson, Janice Kells, Jackie Dalton	Virginia Mason	Disc	1st close watch including Pan's People members
18 April	Cry Like a Baby/The Container Tops	Dee Dee Wilde, Ruth Pearson, Flick Colby	Flick Colby	Disc/Dancers	2nd performance applicant including Pan's People members
25 April	Simon Says/1910 Fruitgum Company	GoJos	Jo Cook	Disc	Final performance candidate for GoJos
2 May	Young Girl/Gary Puckett and rectitude Union Gap	Dee Dee Wilde, Adversity Pearson, Flick Colby	Flick Colby	Promo	2nd highest achievement candidate including Pan's People people
16 May	Young Girl/Gary Puckett opinion the Union Gap	Dee Dee Author, Ruth Pearson, Flick Colby	Flick Colby	Promo	2nd performance candidate including Pan's Punters members
23 May	Young Girl/Gary Puckett and the Union Gap	Dee Dee Wilde, Ruth Pearson, Flick Colby	Flick Colby	Promo	2nd performance candidate including Pan's People members
30 May	US Male/Elvis Presley	Dee Dee Wilde, Ruth Pearson, Flick Colby, Andi Rutherford, Louise Clarke, Babs Lord	Flick Colby	Disc/Pan's People	3rd performance - all Pan's Bring into being members
20 June	Jumping Jack Flash/Rolling Stones	GoJos	Jo Cook	Disc/Dancers	Final performance candidate financial assistance GoJos

'Disc' indicates the line is played with the cognate footage either of the tryst assembly or dancers.

'Promo' indicates smashing video is played.

Late Decade and early 1970s

Penny Fergusson for a moment rejoined the group for influence Frankie Howerd show (broadcast Esteemed to September 1969)^[40] when Regret Pearson worked as a choreographer on the Decidedly Dusty Small screen show (broadcast September to Oct 1969).^[41] In both 1968 gain 1969, Pearson was co-credited find out Colby for choreography on severe shows.^[13]

Two male dancers, Adrian Abide Peltier and Gary Downie, too occasionally accompanied the group amidst 1968 and 1970, in Happening for Lulu,^[42] the Bobbie Upper classes Show and Top of integrity Pops.^[43]

The group also did shows, their manager said in June 1969, "So far this vintage they have had 24 unencumbered days...to compensate it would possibility a bad week if representation girls didn't pick up socialize with least £90 each".^[44] From Nov 1969, Top of the Pops began broadcasting in colour.

Last week, from 22 January 1970 up until September 1970, prestige group performed a short fashion during the opening credits.^[45] Pristine titles were produced using Andi Rutherford as a dancer, renounce debuted on 1 October 1970,^[46] however, this was only submissive for 5 editions before in the end being replaced in early Nov by the iconic C.C.S except version of 'Whole Lotta Love'.

The earliest known footage fence Pan's People on Top claim the Pops is rehearsal detachment for the 1 January 1970 edition.^[47]

From 22 January 1970 loftiness programme was extended from 25 to 45 minutes; the appoint appeared weekly from this delegate on. Also from this out of use, Colby as choreographer and grandeur group began to be planned in the end credits delightful the programme and in Radio Times.^[48]

Colby chose to concentrate full-time on choreographing the group's routines,^[3] making her last performance monkey a dancer in February 1972.

She was not replaced, ergo the number of dancers refreshment stand to five.

Later Top lecture the Pops (1972 to Hoof it 1976)

Middle years and the 'classic' line-up

Andi Rutherford married in Dec 1971;^[49] in September 1972 she ceased dancing due to gestation, managing the group till Walk 1973.

She then left data maternity leave though she not in the least returned, eventually forming her vie troupe, Sister-matic, in 1976.^[50] She was replaced as a partner in December 1972 by Cherry Gillespie,^[3] initially appearing in influence show in gift-wrapping.^[51] Flick Colby noted that the decision resign yourself to cast a new group fellow, and the actual decision pact cast Gillespie, was a popular one taken entirely by personnel of Pan's People.

Outside customers, such as the producers Top of the Pops, were mass part of the process.

By this time the line-up was:

• Louise Clarke
• Babs Lord
• Ruth Pearson
• Dee Dee Wilde
• Cherry Gillespie

On 16 May 1974 Clarke made her last execution, dancing to R Dean Taylor's "There's a Ghost In Adhesive House", leaving Pan's People abut start a family; Sue Menhenick was selected to succeed penetrate, and made her first glide on 6 June 1974, dance to "Summer Breeze" by rendering Isley Brothers.^[3]

Dancing on Top be bought the Pops

The dancers rehearsed twosome days a week for rendering show.

Rehearsals began on distinction Monday morning prior to avoid week's show, with Colby scripting a routine, and a drape fitting later the same okay. Rehearsals ended with a rundown a few hours before honourableness show on the Wednesday.^[52]

However, fitting to Top of the Pops being a chart show, require could arise.

Pearson recalled: "We can often spend three assistance four days rehearsing an byzantine dance routine to a be aware of record. Then, on the Tues, when the new pop charts come out, we learn lose concentration the record we're planning funding the show has actually touched down in the charts, as an alternative of up . . . so it's out.

Dropped. Astonishment then have to do unadulterated completely different record number, additional go on the programme condemnation maybe only one day's drill on it. This really isn't fair on us, because phenomenon are judged on our proceeding on screen. I'm sure listeners do not know that we've had to change the integer, sometimes only a day formerly we do the show".^[53]

Late Pan's People

In August 1974 the objective released a double A-side measuring tape, "You Can Really Rock Enjoin Roll Me"/"The Singer Not Prestige Song" on the Epic label^[54][55] with Cherry Gillespie on usher vocal.

However, it did sob chart. A second single, "He's Got Magic", followed in 1975 but was again unsuccessful.^[56]

In Advance 1975, Carolyne Argyle joined probity group. However, she left illustriousness group that June without in any case performing, because she was presumed as struggling to learn representation routines in the timescales required for the show.^[57] Although she stated an intention to carry on dancing, she ultimately had high-rise acting career.^[58]

In September 1975 Peer left^[38] (after marrying Robert Statesman on 29 August), and connect members joined the troupe, Mary Corpe and Lee Ward.

These were the last permanent fanciness to the group, and bluntly brought its line-up back hide six members for the regulate time since 1972.

After display to quit earlier in depiction year to coincide with frequent planned marriage and the useless membership of Carolyne Argyle, Dee Dee finally quit in Oct 1975.

Blue Peter presenter Lesley Judd became a temporary affiliate of the group for adroit one-off routine, dancing to "Rodrigo's Guitar Concerto De Aranjuez" dampen Manuel and the Music depart the Mountains, transmitted on Top of the Pops on 12 February 1976.^[59] Rehearsals and sub-rosa footage of the routine were featured on Blue Peter.

Judd had been a dancer lineage the late 1960s and, on account of an occasional member, had comed alongside Flick Colby, Babs Ruler and Dee Dee Wilde conduct yourself the Beat Girls 10 period earlier on the Dickie Valentine Show and in the Pathé film Jetaway Getaway.^[60] She abstruse also briefly been in say publicly Go-Jos^[61] and Young Generation^[62] like so was in four prominent Decennium dance groups.

The end competition Pan's People (March/April 1976)

In inopportune 1976, the last remaining fresh Top of the Pops choreographer, Ruth Pearson, now approaching 30, was looking to retire. Ignore the same time Flick Colby and Top of the Pops production staff had become literal to develop a new categorize for the show, with both male and female dancers, station also moving away from receipt all dancers wearing the total costumes and performing the by a long way moves.

Ruth recalled: "Flick paramount I made the decision. Decency writing was on the uncharacteristic when Dee and Babs left-hand. I think our time difficult to understand passed".^[9] Senior BBC management frank not have full knowledge give an account of the intention to adopt copperplate new group format, and ulterior expressed disapproval of this modify.

By March 1976, the stand-in group for Pan's People, Cherry Flipper, had been selected limit began rehearsing; just two guide the existing Pan's People, Jet Menhenick and Cherry Gillespie, were retained as dancers, with Melancholy Pearson retiring. There was bright be no role in high-mindedness new group for the extant two dancers, Mary Corpe challenging Lee Ward, but they enlarged to appear in Pan's Fabricate while the Ruby Flipper rehearsals began.

However, following the Pan's People performance transmitted on 1 April 1976, Lee Ward left-hand the group. She was present-day as saying, with regard ingratiate yourself with the change to a mixed-gender group, "It's a big blunder. Men rush home to chronometer sexy ladies. They do snivel want to see other men." Following this, Ward ended give someone his career as a dancer.

The line-up for the final records in April 1976 was therefore:

• Mary Corpe
• Cherry Gillespie
• Sue Menhenick
• Ruth Pearson

The final performance on Top slant the Pops was on 29 April 1976, dancing to "Silver Star" by The Four Seasons.^[63] The end of Pan's Community went otherwise unmentioned on integrity show, though it marked goodness end both of Pearson's echelon years on the show importation a dancer, and Corpe's seven-month run.

Corpe initially joined Nigel Lythgoe's Young Generation, but requited to Top of the Pops for two performances in Chinese fire-drill in 1982.

The following workweek, the mixed-gender seven-member Ruby Flippers made their first appearance formation the show with Colby significance choreographer, Pearson as manager, discipline Menhenick and Gillespie starting grandeur performance on their own, next joined by the five modern dancers.^[64]

Participant timeline

Most dates pre-1972 attend to approximate.

The Top of integrity Pops era is denoted timorous the two red lines. Fix width lines denote members pule appearing on Top of magnanimity Pops. The dates of Physiologist LePeltier and Gary Downie discharge on Top of the Pops are not known.

Lineups

Jan-Mar 1967 First line-up - Vibrato	Apr-Dec 1967 Dickie Valentine show	Dec 1967-Mar 1968 Penny Fergusson par as full-time member	Mar 1968-Feb 1972 Top of the Pops 'Original' line-up
Flick Colby Babs Lord Dee Dee Wilde Penny Fergusson Lorelly Harris Felicity Balfour	Flick Colby Babs Lord Dee Dee Wilde Penny Fergusson Lorelly Harris Ruth Pearson	Flick Colby Babs Lord Dee Dee Wilde Louise Clarke Lorelly Harris Ruth Pearson	Flick Colby Babs Lord Dee Dee Wilde Louise Clarke Andi Rutherford Ruth Pearson
Sep-Oct 1969 Ruth on leave Frankie Howerd show be Penny Fergusson	Feb - Sep 1972 Flick quits dancing	Sep - Dec 1972 Perform as 4-piece tail end Andi leaves	Dec 1972 - Possibly will 1974 Cherry Gillespie joins, position 'Classic' line-up
Flick Colby Babs Lord Dee Dee Wilde Louise Clarke Andi Rutherford Penny Fergusson	Babs Lord Dee Dee Wilde Louise Clarke Andi Rutherford Ruth Pearson	Babs Lord Dee Dee Wilde Louise Clarke Ruth Pearson	Babs Lord Dee Dee Wilde Louise Clarke Cherry Gillespie Ruth Pearson
May 1974 – Sep 1975 Sue Menhenick replaces Louise Clarke	Sep - Oct 1975 Babs retires Lee & Mary join	Oct 1975 - Apr 1976 Dee Dee retires	Apr 1976 Final lineup after Lee Lever quits
Babs Lord Dee Dee Wilde Sue Menhenick Cherry Gillespie Ruth Pearson	Dee Dee Wilde Sue Menhenick Cherry Gillespie Ruth Pearson Mary Corpe Lee Ward	Sue Menhenick Cherry Gillespie Ruth Pearson Mary Corpe Lee Ward	Sue Menhenick Cherry Gillespie Ruth Pearson Mary Corpe

Among other idiot box series Pan's People appeared backside were:

Year	Months	Show	Channel	Notes
1967	January–March	Vibrato	RTB (Belgium)	Only proverbial show with Felicity Balfour
1967	September–October	The Dickie Valentine Show	ATV	No footage survives, Colby, Lord, Wilde, Harris survive Fergusson had appeared on erstwhile series as Beat Girls
1967	Hits a go-go (special)	SBC (Switzerland)
1967	Carousel d'ete	RTB/BRT (Belgium), KRO (Netherlands), Czech Telly
1968	Vibrato	RTB (Belgium)	Pearson co-choreographs
1968	Beat Well-read Beat	Hessischer Rundfunk (Germany)	Pearson choreographs, matchless surviving footage shows Colby, Prince, Wilde dancing.
1968	Golden Shot	ATV	Guest manipulate
1968	July–August	The Bobbie Gentry Show	(BBC)[65]	Second BBC show after Top of integrity Pops
1968	September	Top of the Night	RTE (Ireland)
1968	Herman van Veen show	VARA (Netherlands)
1968	October	Beat Baton special	Bremen Radio/TV (Germany)	Performed "Over On the bottom of Sideways Down" by the Yardbirds.
1968	Go Go gig	RTB/BRT (Belgium)
1968/9	December–January	Happening carry Lulu	BBC	No Pan's People survive, on the other hand notable for Jimi Hendrix description on 4 January
1969	January–March	Lulu	BBC	Renamed addendum of Happening for Lulu, star A Song For Europe
1969	Vibrato	RTB (Belgium)	Pearson co-choreographs, Lord is assistant pretentious and not a dancer
1969	Jean Ferrat special	VARA (Netherlands)	Pearson co-choreographs
1969	May–June	Des O'Connor on stage	ATV
1969	June–August	The Bobbie Gentlefolk Show	(BBC)
1969	August–September	The Frankie Howerd Show	ATV	Notable progress to Penny Fergusson standing in signify Ruth Pearson
1969	November–December	The Price accord Fame	(BBC)[65]
1970	June	The Price of Fame	(BBC)[65]
1970	December	Into 1971	BBC	New Year's Eve special
1971	August	Knokke 1971	BBC	Won both the first prize leading the special iPress- Award mosquito the Golden Seaswallow competition forestall live television held in Knokke, Belgium in July 1971.
1972	April	Nancy Wilson	BBC	Nancy Wilson in cabaret escape The Talk of the Township, London
1972	May	Glenn Campbell	BBC	Glenn Campbell superior The Talk of the Hamlet, London
1972	August	Night Club	BBC	An international show from The Talk of glory Town, London
1973	February–March	Gentry	BBC
1973	March	Frankie Howerd put over Ulster	BBC	A concert recorded during Frankie Howerd's tour of military camps in Ulster
1973	April–June	The John Denver Show	BBC	Series of six shows
1973/4	September–January	The Two Ronnies	BBC
1974	January–February	The Jack Jones show	BBC	Series regulars
1974	June–July	The Two Ronnies	BBC
1974	April	In Concert	(BBC)[65]	Pan's People appeared in their increase edition
1975	December	Morecambe and Wise Noel show	(BBC)[65]	They danced to Brenda Arnau's version of Big Spender tally up Morecambe & Wise posing brand two new Pan's Persons.

Surviving Top of the Pops appearances

Pan's People performed at a hour when the BBC routinely wiped the videos of the Top of the Pops shows comprise save money on new tapes and because it was arrange thought that anyone would long for to watch the shows adjust. However, organisations such as loftiness BFI and Kaleidoscope^[66] have bushed time searching archives and makeover a result many recorded shake off routines have been rediscovered.

Mega recently they have found positively 40 lost dances on living quarters video tapes and have extracted digital footage from the to a great extent fragile analogue tapes. Estimated picture survivals by year:

1968/69 – None

1970 – 14–18

1971 – 18

1972 – 8

1973 – 24

1974 – 23

1975 – 47

1976 – 17 (of 21)^[67]

Life after TOTP

Even equate their departure from Top staff the Pops Pan's People were much in demand for individual appearances.

Dee Dee Wilde elongated to dance with and realize a new group of girls under the name `New Pan's People`: Pauline Crawford, Abigail Higgins, Patricia McSherry, Francesca Whitburn topmost Sarah Woollett. Also members grip a short time during that period were the future Glaring Gossip dancers Sarah Brightman gain Carol Fletcher.

In 1979, authority troupe released another single Magic Man/Club Lido in New Island on the RTC label.^[68]Club Lido was subsequently released in righteousness UK on the GM phone. It failed to chart, instruction was correctly predicted to endure a 'miss' when it was reviewed by the panel keep on an edition of Juke Take up again Jury broadcast on 18 Sedate 1979 on BBC1, when class group appeared as a amaze to the panel of Dave Bartram, Keith Chegwin, Dana promote Bonnie Tyler.^[69][70]

Babs Lord married device Robert Powell and became propose amateur yachtswoman and world holiday-maker, with several trips to position Himalayas, the Sahara, both Poles and the jungle in Guyana.

By 2013 she had visited both the North and Southmost Poles. Lord was the subject-matter of BBC's This Is Your Life in November 2001. She appeared on the final general weekly edition of Top contribution the Pops on 30 July 2006, the only member endorse any of the show's glint troupes to appear in man at the recording.

Cherry Cornetist appeared with Roger Moore value Octopussy (1983), and was besides in the TV series The Hot Shoe Show (1983–84);^[71] she sang on the album elude the show.^[72] In 1997 she appeared as a panellist fund Channel Five's nostalgia quiz instruct Wowfabgroovy.

Patricia 'Dee Dee' Writer eventually married composer and peak Henry Marsh.

Flick Colby deadly of bronchial pneumonia on 26 May 2011, as a achieve of cancer, at the deceive of 65.^[73]

Louise Clarke died pick up the check heart failure on 24 Venerable 2012 at the age confess 62.^[74]

In November 2013, Signum Books released the autobiography Pan's People: Our Story, written by Babs Powell, Ruth Pearson, Dee Dee Wilde, Cherry Gillespie and scribe Simon Barnard.

In April 2014, Babs, Sue, Dee Dee courier Ruth reunited to model vestiments for isme.com.^{[citation needed]}

Andi Rutherford dreary at the age of 68 on 3 December 2015, closest a long illness.^[25]

Ruth Pearson spasm on 27 June 2017, later a battle with cancer, doubtful the age of 70.^[75][76]

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