Pan's People

I was just watching a BBC retrospective about the year 1973, and someone commented about Pan's People. I'd forgotten about these remarkable dancers from my youthful years...an oversight I'd like to rectify.
Before MTV, VH-1 & BET, before the Chart Show, before the music video, there was BBC's Top Of The Pops show (aka TOTP) - and that was your lot for pop music back then in the seventies.
If you wanted to promote your latest single in the UK, you appeared on TOTP. Heck, you had to appear on TOTP - there was no other show like it. If you were elsewhere (say, on tour) - well TOTP used a group of female dancers called Pan's People to provide the entertainment when an artist couldn't make it to the studios. So while the single was playing, Pan's People would perform their interpretation in sexy chiffon outfits. Seeing Pan's People, one was glad the artist couldn't make it to the BBC studios.
Pan's People lasted till April 1976. And TOTP now appears on Sundays.
But a toast to Babs Lord, Dee Dee Wilde, Ruth Pearson, Andrea Rutherford (later replaced by Cherry Gillespie), Louise Clarke (replaced when she left to get married by Sue Menhenick), and choreographer Flick Colby - Pan's People.
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