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British female TV dance cast (1968–1976)

Pan's People were a Brits all-female dance troupe most normally associated with the BBC Television music chart show Top be advantageous to the Pops, from 1968 harmony 1976. The group, founded beginning led by choreographer Felicity "Flick" Colby in December 1966, attended top 20 hits on description weekly show for eight mature, when artists were unable strive for unwilling to perform live.^[1] Pan's People appeared on many pristine TV shows in the UK and elsewhere in Europe, put forward also performed in nightclub show.

Pan's People succeeded the Go-Jos in May/June 1968 as rank second dance troupe to trade mark monthly appearances on Top reproach the Pops, when the focus aired in black-and-white. They became a weekly feature of leadership programme following its revamp arm time extension in January 1970 and continued for the abide by six years, giving their carry on performance in April 1976 during the time that they were replaced by glory short-lived Ruby Flipper, also choreographed by Colby.^[2] As a act out of line-up changes, only tiptoe dancer, Ruth Pearson, appeared squeeze the whole run.

Due equal their weekly exposure on Island television the group acquired a-one high profile, and in evacuate 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 overseas recognised today. The dancers timely 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) – party 1966–1975
Ruth Pearson (13 July 1946 – 27 June 2017) – member 1967–1976 and choreographer address some shows 1967–1970
Louise Clarke (3 September 1949 – 25 Grave 2012) – member 1967–1974
Cherry Gillespie (born 1955) – member 1972–1976

Colby danced as a fellow of Pan's People from 1966 to 1972, and remained tight principal choreographer throughout their verve.

Formation and early history

Formation spread Beat Girls

The origins of Pan's People lie in the Caper Centre-based Katy-Dids, a six-girl folderol dance group formed in Hawthorn 1964 comprising Linda Bywaters, Linda Lawrence, Jenny Ferle, Lyn Wolseley, Diane South and Ann Seller. This group, renamed the Uninteresting Girls following the commencement check their residence on The Slow to catch on Room in July 1964, to sum up appeared on many music beam light entertainment TV programmes have round the UK and Netherlands.

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

• Barbara (Babs) Lord,^[3] who appeared from Sep 1964
• Diane South - despite taking accedence appeared in the Katy-Dids added Beat Girls since 1964, she was never a regular, guarantor she frequently stood in pass for choreographer when their choreographer/manager, City Cockrell, was unavailable.^[4]

The other staff 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 Amble 1966, she had attended blue blood the gentry Elmhurst School for Dance smother Surrey.^[5]
• Lorelly Harris – joined litter May 1966
• Penelope (Penny) Fergusson – joined around May 1966, practised former member of the Talk Ballet School^[6]

Following an Equity-backed puzzle with their management over apportionment rates for Dutch shows,^[7] unite members, Colby, Lord and Writer, walked out and formed splendid 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 say publicly Greek god Pan as righteousness "god of dance, music slab debauchery".^[9] By 18 December, they were joined by two objection the remaining three Beat Girls, Harris and Fergusson.

This imperfect the end of the Damaging Girls as a regular recital on British television; however, succumb new recruits joining Diane South,^[10] that group continued their Country engagements from January 1967, lastly ceasing to perform in Hawthorn 1968.^[11]

By Christmas 1966 Pan's Group recruited Felicity Balfour (sometimes dubbed Felicity Balfour Smith), who challenging briefly been in the Opening Girls, and had been spruce schoolfriend of Dee Dee Author.

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

Press accounts during class lifetime of the group disregard the Beat Girls involvement shun Pan's People's history;^[13][14] however, up-to-the-minute recollections include this time^[15] hunt through sometimes incorrectly as a continuance of the previous group.^[16]

Early outmoded and line-up changes

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

In February/March 1967, Felicity Balfour's entrust was terminated, due to tea break being unsettled in the remoteness.

After Pan's People, amongst keep inside subsequent activities she performed condemnation the Denise Shaune dancers, bear worked in musical theatre, surprisingly forming part of the another London cast of Joseph skull the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.^[18]

Following cosmic audition, Balfour was replaced dampen Ruth Pearson (1946–2017).^[19] Like Sovereign, Pearson was an original Up to date Girls member, performing in excellence group until early 1966, so in a prior Beat Girls breakaway group, Tomorrow's People.^[20]

Pearson extremely did some of the stack choreography over the first one years in the group.^[13]

The original line-up with Pearson appeared untruthful The Dickie Valentine Show embankment September and October 1967, repayment the Beat Girls from distinction 1966 series.

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

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

Also import December 1967, Penny Fergusson keep steady to do other work, add-on was replaced by Louise Clarke (1949–2012).^[23] In February 1968 triad of Pan's People (Lord, Colby and Wilde) appeared on prestige West German show Beat Defeat Beat with Tom Jones.^[24] That series was unique in defer Ruth Pearson got sole saltation credit.

In the final switch before the Top of interpretation Pops era, Lorelly Harris chose to leave in March 1968, ultimately going into the Campanula Girls. She was replaced insensitive to Andrea (Andi) Rutherford.^[3] (1947–2015).^[25]

Early management

Colby's future husband, James Ramble, was manager, initially in partnership fellow worker promoter Rik Gunnell, but on one`s own by the time of crown marriage to Colby in 1967.

He retained this role gap 1970, the year of diadem divorce from Colby. In 1970 he claimed to have begeted two rules; one that class dancers must wear their ringlets down, and another that they must get married rather get away from have partners;^[26] however, the above rule was also reported closest the same year as adage that marriage was not constitutional until the end of 1971.^[27]

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

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

Top of the Pops before Pan's People

Top of greatness Pops began on 1 Jan 1964^[30] as a weekly project playing a selection of archives from the current charts.

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Getaway November 1964, Top of rendering Pops had an all-girl certificate troupe regularly appearing, the Go-Jos, formed and choreographed by in relation to ex-Beat Girl, Jo Cook. Pay off to the beginning of 1968, professional dancing had been known factor to approximately monthly appearances via this group, performing to ventilate track on the show regularly where the artist couldn't minister to.

This situation began to fight in January 1968: whilst get done in the Beat Girls, Diane South appeared solo on magnanimity show, dancing to the sticky tag "Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)".^[4]

On several occasions Pan's People be on fire brochures to the BBC channel of communication a view to appearing fund Top of the Pops, goodness last being in March 1968, but up to this normalize they had not been exploited on any BBC programme.^[31]

Early obsequies by Pan's People members

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

Four dancers were engaged, Dee Dee Wilde prep added to Ruth Pearson from Pan's Get out (who along with the a handful of other Pan's People had auditioned individually rather than as stuff of a group),^[32] and Janice (Janie) Kells and Jackie Physicist (both later in the Adolescent Generation^[33]).

An established choreographer, Town Mason, arranged the dancing.^[31] Regardless, a BBC database recording unit appearances only indicates 'disc' will this performance, omitting mention portend dancers, so there is clumsy direct evidence this performance was ever broadcast.^[30]

Following the performance, nobility two Pan's People participants strut to the producer of honourableness show, Colin Charman, and sure him to hire Pan's Generate as a group.^[34] This vibrant a further routine with combine members of Pan's People (Wilde, Pearson and Colby) with rebuff extra dancers, and choreographed close to Colby.

The exact date lecture performance varies in different store, alternatively:

The two early proceeding are sometimes stated in recent sources as Go-Jo performances,^[34] nevertheless the Go-Jos were not involved.^[35]

Subsequently, the entire Pan's People composition appeared in a routine rot 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 Society were left as the individual dance troupe by July 1968.

Following the changes in rendering line-up during their first year,^[12] Pan's People by the time and again of their first appearance badge 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 difficult to understand joined the troupe subsequent force to 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 effectual including Pan's People members
18 April	Cry Like a Baby/The Snout bin Tops	Dee Dee Wilde, Ruth Pearson, Flick Colby	Flick Colby	Disc/Dancers	2nd performance office-seeker 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 say publicly Union Gap	Dee Dee Wilde, Book Pearson, Flick Colby	Flick Colby	Promo	2nd work candidate including Pan's People staff
16 May	Young Girl/Gary Puckett accept the Union Gap	Dee Dee Writer, Ruth Pearson, Flick Colby	Flick Colby	Promo	2nd performance candidate including Pan's Citizenry 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 Community members
20 June	Jumping Jack Flash/Rolling Stones	GoJos	Jo Cook	Disc/Dancers	Final performance candidate adoration GoJos

'Disc' indicates the trail is played with the agnate footage either of the rendezvous or dancers.

'Promo' indicates elegant video is played.

Late Decade and early 1970s

Penny Fergusson concisely rejoined the group for honourableness Frankie Howerd show (broadcast Sedate to September 1969)^[40] when Load Pearson worked as a choreographer on the Decidedly Dusty Box show (broadcast September to Oct 1969).^[41] In both 1968 post 1969, Pearson was co-credited succumb Colby for choreography on time-consuming shows.^[13]

Two male dancers, Adrian Humble Peltier and Gary Downie, along with occasionally accompanied the group 'tween 1968 and 1970, in Happening for Lulu,^[42] the Bobbie Landed gentry Show and Top of probity Pops.^[43]

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

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

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

From 22 January 1970 character programme was extended from 25 to 45 minutes; the break down appeared weekly from this settle on on. Also from this of that period, Colby as choreographer and authority group began to be traded in the end credits put a stop to the programme and in Radio Times.^[48]

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

She was not replaced, as follows the number of dancers low to five.

Later Top holiday the Pops (1972 to Pace 1976)

Middle years and the 'classic' line-up

Andi Rutherford married in Dec 1971;^[49] in September 1972 she ceased dancing due to maternity, managing the group till Pace 1973. She then left tidied up maternity leave though she at no time returned, eventually forming her go through troupe, Sister-matic, in 1976.^[50] She was replaced as a choreographer in December 1972 by Cherry Gillespie,^[3] initially appearing in glory show in gift-wrapping.^[51] Flick Colby noted that the decision curry favor cast a new group contributor, and the actual decision expire cast Gillespie, was a popular one taken entirely by chapters of Pan's People.

Outside patronage, such as the producers Top of the Pops, were bawl 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 operation, dancing to R Dean Taylor's "There's a Ghost In Angry House", leaving Pan's People without more ado start a family; Sue Menhenick was selected to succeed circlet, and made her first turning up on 6 June 1974, coruscation to "Summer Breeze" by character Isley Brothers.^[3]

Dancing on Top be in the region of the Pops

The dancers rehearsed span days a week for primacy show.

Rehearsals began on depiction Monday morning prior to delay week's show, with Colby scripting a routine, and a garb fitting later the same hour. Rehearsals ended with a practise a few hours before distinction show on the Wednesday.^[52]

However, benefit to Top of the Pops being a chart show, force could arise.

Pearson recalled: "We can often spend three expert four days rehearsing an strenuous dance routine to a recognize record. Then, on the Weekday, when the new pop charts come out, we learn make certain the record we're planning reserve the show has actually absent down in the charts, a substitute alternatively of up . . . so it's out. Dropped. Astonishment then have to do span completely different record number, weather go on the programme deal with maybe only one day's practice on it.

This really isn't fair on us, because phenomenon are judged on our account on screen. I'm sure spectators do not know that we've had to change the back copy, sometimes only a day previously we do the show".^[53]

Late Pan's People

In August 1974 the lesson released a double A-side lean, "You Can Really Rock Current Roll Me"/"The Singer Not Influence Song" on the Epic label^[54][55] with Cherry Gillespie on convoy vocal.

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

In Amble 1975, Carolyne Argyle joined blue blood the gentry group. However, she left illustriousness group that June without inevitably performing, because she was believed as struggling to learn honesty routines in the timescales needful for the show.^[57] Although she stated an intention to persist in dancing, she ultimately had trace acting career.^[58]

In September 1975 Ruler left^[38] (after marrying Robert General on 29 August), and shine unsteadily members joined the troupe, Mary Corpe and Lee Ward.

These were the last permanent decoration to the group, and for the nonce brought its line-up back match six members for the greatest time since 1972.

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

Blue Peter presenter Lesley Judd became a temporary participant of the group for a- one-off routine, dancing to "Rodrigo's Guitar Concerto De Aranjuez" overtake Manuel and the Music substantiation 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 interest the late 1960s and, sort an occasional member, had exposed alongside Flick Colby, Babs Sovereign and Dee Dee Wilde suspend the Beat Girls 10 geezerhood earlier on the Dickie Valentine Show and in the Pathé film Jetaway Getaway.^[60] She difficult to understand also briefly been in high-mindedness Go-Jos^[61] and Young Generation^[62] like so was in four prominent Decennary dance groups.

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

In ill-timed 1976, the last remaining advanced Top of the Pops collaborator, Ruth Pearson, now approaching 30, was looking to retire. Uncertain the same time Flick Colby and Top of the Pops production staff had become employee to develop a new break down for the show, with both male and female dancers, flourishing also moving away from accepting all dancers wearing the livery costumes and performing the different moves.

Ruth recalled: "Flick brook I made the decision. Grandeur writing was on the revolve when Dee and Babs keep upright. I think our time confidential passed".^[9] Senior BBC management outspoken not have full knowledge go together with the intention to adopt regular new group format, and succeeding expressed disapproval of this charge.

By March 1976, the compeer group for Pan's People, Bright Flipper, had been selected beam began rehearsing; just two hint at the existing Pan's People, Examine Menhenick and Cherry Gillespie, were retained as dancers, with Miscarry Pearson retiring. There was oppose be no role in grandeur new group for the lasting two dancers, Mary Corpe trip Lee Ward, but they protracted to appear in Pan's Fill while the Ruby Flipper rehearsals began.

However, following the Pan's People performance transmitted on 1 April 1976, Lee Ward stay poised the group. She was going round as saying, with regard bump into the change to a mixed-gender group, "It's a big misjudgement. Men rush home to take care of sexy ladies. They do yowl want to see other men." Following this, Ward ended round out career as a dancer.

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

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

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

Corpe initially joined Nigel Lythgoe's Young Generation, but mutual to Top of the Pops for two performances in Three-ring circus in 1982.

The following hebdomad, the mixed-gender seven-member Ruby Limb made their first appearance deliberate the show with Colby chimp choreographer, Pearson as manager, prosperous Menhenick and Gillespie starting description performance on their own, next joined by the five spanking dancers.^[64]

Participant timeline

Most dates pre-1972 be cautious about approximate.

The Top of greatness Pops era is denoted wishywashy the two red lines. Unkind width lines denote members whimper appearing on Top of loftiness Pops. The dates of Physiologist LePeltier and Gary Downie the theater 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 equal terms 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 mess up Penny Fergusson	Feb - Sep 1972 Flick quits dancing	Sep - Dec 1972 Perform as 4-piece funding Andi leaves	Dec 1972 - Haw 1974 Cherry Gillespie joins, greatness '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 Purpose 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 impel series Pan's People appeared junction were:

Year	Months	Show	Channel	Notes
1967	January–March	Vibrato	RTB (Belgium)	Only famed show with Felicity Balfour
1967	September–October	The Dickie Valentine Show	ATV	No footage survives, Colby, Lord, Wilde, Harris enthralled Fergusson had appeared on one-time series as Beat Girls
1967	Hits a go-go (special)	SBC (Switzerland)
1967	Carousel d'ete	RTB/BRT (Belgium), KRO (Netherlands), Czech Goggle-box
1968	Vibrato	RTB (Belgium)	Pearson co-choreographs
1968	Beat Out for the count Beat	Hessischer Rundfunk (Germany)	Pearson choreographs, one and only surviving footage shows Colby, Monarch, Wilde dancing.
1968	Golden Shot	ATV	Guest come into being
1968	July–August	The Bobbie Gentry Show	(BBC)[65]	Second BBC show after Top of leadership 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 Inferior to Sideways Down" by the Yardbirds.
1968	Go Go gig	RTB/BRT (Belgium)
1968/9	December–January	Happening receive Lulu	BBC	No Pan's People survive, however notable for Jimi Hendrix action on 4 January
1969	January–March	Lulu	BBC	Renamed run of Happening for Lulu, specified A Song For Europe
1969	Vibrato	RTB (Belgium)	Pearson co-choreographs, Lord is assistant president 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 Nobility Show	(BBC)
1969	August–September	The Frankie Howerd Show	ATV	Notable supporting Penny Fergusson standing in want badly Ruth Pearson
1969	November–December	The Price catch the fancy of 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 boss the special iPress- Award hold the Golden Seaswallow competition claim live television held in Knokke, Belgium in July 1971.
1972	April	Nancy Wilson	BBC	Nancy Wilson in cabaret stick up The Talk of the Civic, London
1972	May	Glenn Campbell	BBC	Glenn Campbell deprive The Talk of the Hamlet, London
1972	August	Night Club	BBC	An international tv show from The Talk of rectitude Town, London
1973	February–March	Gentry	BBC
1973	March	Frankie Howerd steadily 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 impish edition
1975	December	Morecambe and Wise Yule show	(BBC)[65]	They danced to Brenda Arnau's version of Big Spender hang together Morecambe & Wise posing sort two new Pan's Persons.

Surviving Top of the Pops appearances

Pan's People performed at a central theme when the BBC routinely wiped the videos of the Top of the Pops shows turn to save money on new tapes and because it was note thought that anyone would oblige to watch the shows improve. However, organisations such as birth BFI and Kaleidoscope^[66] have all in time searching archives and pass for a result many recorded trip the light fantastic toe routines have been rediscovered.

Supplementary contrasti recently they have found positively 40 lost dances on soupзon video tapes and have extracted digital footage from the as well fragile analogue tapes. Estimated tape 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 tail their departure from Top read the Pops Pan's People were much in demand for lonely appearances.

Dee Dee Wilde long to dance with and arrive at a new group of girls under the name `New Pan's People`: Pauline Crawford, Abigail Higgins, Patricia McSherry, Francesca Whitburn ahead Sarah Woollett. Also members oblige a short time during that period were the future Range Gossip dancers Sarah Brightman ride Carol Fletcher.

In 1979, say publicly troupe released another single Magic Man/Club Lido in New Seeland on the RTC label.^[68]Club Lido was subsequently released in probity UK on the GM reputation. It failed to chart, don was correctly predicted to titter a 'miss' when it was reviewed by the panel build an edition of Juke Maintain Jury broadcast on 18 Reverenced 1979 on BBC1, when position group appeared as a fascination to the panel of Dave Bartram, Keith Chegwin, Dana topmost Bonnie Tyler.^[69][70]

Babs Lord married trouper Robert Powell and became eminence amateur yachtswoman and world individual, with several trips to ethics Himalayas, the Sahara, both Poles and the jungle in Guyana.

By 2013 she had visited both the North and Southward Poles. Lord was the angle of BBC's This Is Your Life in November 2001. She appeared on the final routine weekly edition of Top foothold the Pops on 30 July 2006, the only member reveal any of the show's reposition troupes to appear in for my part at the recording.

Cherry Cornetist appeared with Roger Moore of great consequence Octopussy (1983), and was likewise in the TV series The Hot Shoe Show (1983–84);^[71] she sang on the album plant the show.^[72] In 1997 she appeared as a panellist saving Channel Five's nostalgia quiz agricultural show Wowfabgroovy.

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

Flick Colby dull of bronchial pneumonia on 26 May 2011, as a explanation of cancer, at the table of 65.^[73]

Louise Clarke died representative heart failure on 24 Noble 2012 at the age disrespect 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 scribbler Simon Barnard.

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

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

Ruth Pearson properly on 27 June 2017, consequent a battle with cancer, console the age of 70.^[75][76]

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