Pan's People - Top of the Pops Performances (1970)

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PAN'S PEOPLE PERFORMANCES
ON TOP OF THE POPS

1970

1970

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Date

Track

Artist

Dancers

01-Jan-70

Green River

Creedance Clearwater Revival

D, R,  L, B, A, F

08 Jan 70

Tracy

The Cuff Links

D, R,  L, B, A, F

15-Jan-70

[No performance]

-

-

22 Jan 70

Wedding Bell Blues

5th Dimension

D, R,  L, B, A, F

29 Jan 70

I'm a Man

Chicago

D, R,  L, B, A, F

05 Feb 70

Both Sides Now

Judy Collins

D, R,  L, B, A, F

12 Feb 70

I Want You Back

Jackson 5

D, R,  L, B, A, F

19 Feb 70

Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye

Steam

D, R,  L, B, A, F

26 Feb 70

Temma Harbour

Mary Hopkin

D, R,  L, B, A, F

05 Mar 70

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

Flick (solo)

12-Mar-70

-

-

-

19 Mar 70

Rag Mama Rag

The Band

-

26 Mar 70

Who Do You Love

Juicy Lucy

D, R,  L, B, A, F

02 Apr 70

Spirit in the Sky

Norman Greenbaum

-

09 Apr 70

Farewell is a Lonely Sound

Jimmy Ruffin

-

16 Apr 70

Never Had A Dream Come True

Stevie Wonder

-

23 Apr 70

Who Do You Love

Juicy Lucy

D, R,  L, B, A, F

23 Apr 70

House of the Rising Sun

Frijid Pink

-

30 Apr 70

If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody
(Backing)

Bobbie Gentry

B, A, D, ...?

30 Apr 70

Do the Funky Chicken

Rufus Thomas

-

07 May 70

Travellin' Band

Creedance Clearwater Revival

-

14 May 70

Do the Funky Chicken

Rufus Thomas

Ruth (solo)

14 May 70

Daughter of Darkness

Tom Jones

-

21 May 70

Up the Ladder to the Roof

The Supremes

-

28 May 70

ABC

Jackson 5

-

04 Jun 70

Cotton Fields

Beach Boys

-

11 Jun 70

Abraham, Martin and John

Marvin Gaye

-

18 Jun 70

Bet Yer Life I Do

(Promo)

Herman's Hermits

D, R,  L, B, A, F

 

25 Jun 70

[No performance]

 

-

 

02 Jul 70

[No performance]

-

-

09 Jul 70

It's All in the Game

The Four Tops

-

16 Jul 70

Love Like a Man

Ten Years After

-

23 Jul 70

Something

Shirley Bassey

-

30 Jul 70

Big Yellow Taxi

Joni Mitchell

-

06 Aug 70

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Stevie Wonder

D, R,  L, B, A, F

13 Aug 70

The Love You Save

Jackson 5

D, R,  L, B, A, F

20 Aug 70

The Tears of a Clown

Smokey Robinson & the Miracles

D, R,  L, B, A, F

27 Aug 70

Give Me Just A Little More Time

Chairmen of the Board

D, R,  L, B, F

27 Aug 70

The Weaver's Answer

Family

Flick (solo)

27 Aug 70

It's So Easy

Andy Williams

Andi (solo)

03 Sep 70

Make It With You

Bread

D, R,  L, B, F

10 Sep 70

Jimmy Mac

Martha Reeves & The Vandella

D, R,  L, B, A

10 Sep 70

The Weaver's Answer

Family

Flick (solo)

17 Sep 70

Montego Bay

Bobby Bloom

D, R,  L, B, A

24 Sep 70

Don't Play that Song

Aretha Franklin

-

01 Oct 70

Ball of Confusion

Temptations

-

08-Oct-70

-

-

-

15 Oct 70

Close to You

Carpenters

D, R,  L, B, A

22-Oct-70

-

-

-

29 Oct 70

War

Edwin Starr

-

05 Nov 70

Whole Lotta Love

CCS

-

12-Nov-70

-

-

-

19 Nov 70

Cracklin' Rosie

Neil Diamond

-

26-Nov-70

-

-

-

03-Dec-70

-

-

-

10 Dec 70

I'll Be There

Jackson 5

-

 

17-Dec-70

[No broadcast]

-

-

25 Dec 70

The Tears of a Clown

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

-

26 Dec 70

Spirit in the Sky

Norman Greenbaum

-

 

Key to Dancers:

D – Dee Dee Wilde R - Ruth Pearson L – Louise Clarke B – Babs Lord
A – Andrea Rutherford F – Flick Colby    

 

PERFORMANCE SUMMARY:

Year Performances on TOTP Surviving Archives
1970 47 (+1 repeat) 18 (+1 repeat)

 

PERFORMANCES PER DANCER:

Flick Dee Dee Ruth Babs Andrea Louise
>18 >19 >19 >19 >18 >18

 

NB This is a work in progress. Popscene lists the following additional performances which we cannot as yet confirm:

12 March 1970 (22) BOB & MARCIA – Young Gifted And Black (danced to by Pan’s People)

08 October 70 - No Pan's People performance.

22 October 70 (13) THE FOUR TOPS – Still Water (danced to by Pan’s People)

12 November 70 - No Pan's People performance.

19 November 70 (25) THE MOTOWN SPINNERS – It’s A Shame (danced to by Pan’s People)

26 November 70 - No Pan's People performance.

03 December 70 - No Pan's People performance.

 

Further discussion here.

Please let us know of any errata!

 

 

123 comments

panfan's picture

Good to know!  Just a private individual's collection perhaps!

I had trouble making head or tail of what in the £20K PVL, too many reference numbers etc!

Read about it here.

Suefan's picture

Yes, but a rather special individual.

As for the £20k list some is fairly easy to follow but I would love to know the significance of Upper Norwood to the 13/7/74!

panfan's picture

Wasn't this in 1970? I don't have it in the list yet.

Does anyone have a date?

Andy's picture

According to the source I use the “Montego Bay” and “Jimmy Mack” were in fact on the same show (10th Sep) the “The Weavers Answer” on that show is marked as a repeat

22 Jan 70  Time - Edwin Starr is noted as the date for it in the book the same as “Fifth Dimension-Wedding Day Blues”

I don’t know if “Bridge Over Troubled Water” was danced by the girls a promo of it appears as 5th Mar 70 and was on every week for 7 weeks

pp4ever's picture

To help with the first part of this year :-

8th Jan - Cuff Links, Tracy

15th Jan - Harry J and The All Stars, The Liquidator

22nd Jan - Fifth Dimension, Wedding Bell Blues (obvious)

Edwin Starr, Time, is unlikely as this was a live peformance with orchestra, not a disc.

Later in year :-

Weaver's Answer performace was on 27th August and repeated on 10th September.

Montego Bay 10th September was a live performance by Bobby Bloom, the Pan's People routine is 1st October. Jimmy Mack by Pans was 10th September. So,

27th August   Family, Weaver's Answer with Flick

10th September   Martha Reeves, Jimmy Mack

1st October  Bobby Bloom, Montego Bay

 

 

pp4ever's picture

Sorry was in my own "Ball of Confusion" for a moment !!

As stated further up in this thread, Pans Montego Bay is in fact 17th September!

panfan's picture

Thanks for the input guys: I'm just catching up with posts now and will edit the list when I get a chance....

cornershop15's picture

Can anyone identify them?

Credit to Peter (Flight14) for the original article I cropped this from, the Fab 208 Annual 1971. Was Suefan right in thinking the routine might be Cottonfields?:

Left to right: Louise, Flick, Dee Dee, Ruth and Babs

And Thanks to mishmash, who posted this at One for the Dads. The clips I've seen with 'cage' sets like this are all from around 1970:

Left to right: Andi, Ruth, Flick, Dee Dee, Louise and Babs

If they are both lost then I will add them to Photos from Wiped Routines but I'm hoping for Good News.

Rusty Carno's picture

Sorry I can't help with ID but with outfits like this (2nd photo) a cage was probably a wise precaution

Rusty

Suefan's picture

Ah yes, but for whom!

Afraid I can't help either with the caged number but have an inkling that a still from Rising Sun is on here somewhere although now I can't find it.

mojo2007's picture

I've been playing some of the music from 1970 on youtube. what a great year for popular music.  Can you imagine PP doing House of the rising sun?  Very high on want list

mojo

cornershop15's picture

This is dated 15th May 1970 and shows Family Dogg rehearsing one of their songs. They released Sympathy that year but it was Rare Bird's version that was a hit.

 The set looks identical to the one in the previous picture with the 'caged' Pan's People:

I know the guys are (L-R) Steve Rowland and famous songwriting dup Albert Hammond and Mike Hazelwood, but what about the girls (there were several line-up changes)? Are they Pam 'Zooey' Quinn and Christine Holmes (later Kristine Sparkle)?

To add to the confusion, they are not among the acts in Eins Forum's details for the Top of the Pops edition broadcast the day before, 14th May 1970. The Routines list states that the girls danced to Tom Jones' Daughter of Darkness.

Popscene reports that Family Dogg appeared four times on Top of the Pops. This could be their first, from 13th June 1969. They look very different here so I'm guessing the picture I've enclosed IS from 1970. One of my favourite songs, and therefore one of my favourite 'One Hit Wonders':

The Family Dogg - A Way of Life

#6 in 1969

Scrooge McDuck's picture

Not sure about the girl on the left, but the second from left is Ireen Sheer.

The girl on the left actually looks a lot like Lesley Duncan, but as far as I know she never was a member of Family Dogg, although she was an often-used background singer, so could have stood in for someone else.

Great picture!

Gary's picture

I think Scrooge is right, the girl is more likely to be Lesley Duncan.

Christine Holmes had long blonde hair. 

pp4ever's picture

 

As we know, Pan's People generally made two appearances per show during 1970 - the main routine and a 'mini' one as part of the opening titles. Both of these were live (as recorded anyway) with the latter being cut 'on the fly' between the titles film and the studio. This was changed when the titles were revamped and run as a complete film around October, but even then they featured Andrea (mostly in silhouette). With the 27/8/70 episode, we not only had these two but also Flick's solo performance and on film another solo performance from Andrea! So four Pan's appearances in the one episode - surely that's got to be something of a record?!
 
JEZ's picture

Thanks pp4ever for your info ,it is greatly appreciated ,it is great to have someone with expert knowlege of pans people like you have ,i was gonna ask what the andrea solo performance was on 27/8/70 but ive noticed it is on the database ,its so easy by andy williams ,many thanks for sharing your info on pans people ,it is very much appreciated

pp4ever's picture

Thanks JEZ, I'm trying to be as accurate as possible. As I'm sure you know, some of the available information can be quite ambiguous but occasionally other things are certain. 

panfan's picture

It will be interesting to see if Dee Dee recalls PP dancing to All I Ever Need Is You / Sonny & Cher on 20 Jan 70, the show she'll be talking about on TOTP Playback.  This is on the Popscene, but still unconfirmed.

pp4ever's picture

That's 20 Jan 1972

panfan's picture

Duh! silly me - got 1970 on the brain at the moment! Will repost on the correct location!

pp4ever's picture

It's a good year to have on the brain. smiley

panfan's picture

indeed it is!

So how does 1970 look now, folks?

JEZ's picture

1970 looks very good panfan ,and the pictures of the routines on certain dates looks very impressive ,well done panfan and anyone else who has contibuted to 1970 ,love the picture of ruth dancing with the funky chicken lol

Flight14's picture

Hi Panfan,thanks for updating 1970.I notice that we have about 35 seconds (interspersed) of Flick Colby's solo to 'The Weaver's Answer' by 'Family' August-September 1970. Please can we seperate those 35 seconds & include it in our video archive under the above title in the appropriate box?.Brilliant if we could have the entire dance routine instead of just a segment  because it obviously exists in BBC archive ,but not uploaded to youtube yet?.

Here's the link to it it starts at 0:06 secs - ends 0:41 secs :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq-Dm81cOtk

 

 

panfan's picture

Sure, will see what I can do!

panfan's picture

Rather than create a page just for the 30 sec clip, Peter, I've linked the thumbail to the existing thread with the compilation video plus discussion on the routine.

panfan's picture

Apart from layout tweaks, and updating the routines per dancer tables, I think that's about as good as I can get 1970 at the moment.

If anyone has any more information, whether additions or corrections, please do let us know, and also any thoughts on those Popscene suggestions at the bottom of the list.

Many thanks to all who contributed to this list: it wouldn't exist without your expert input!

gibb1962's picture

Have you seen this?It's from the beginning of TOTPs 29.01.70.Pan's People dance for 30 seconds.

Glenn

pp4ever's picture

This is the 5th Feb episode.

panfan's picture

Thanks for that Glenn.  We have the 1970 titles here, but I'll have a look in case it;s better quailty!

Simon O's picture

Hi Panfan,

I have been chatting with Boogie Box over on OftDs after I also did the call to arms on lobbying to get a PP routines show over there also. BB was quite surprised that you had listed Give me just a little more time as exisiting in the BBC archive and wondered where you got your information from. I have had a quick look through the comments here, but may have missed it. Do you remember where you got this from?

I have also been over on Ray Langstone's Wiped site at Doc's suggestion and left a message pointing out that I had suggested that we do this lobbying on both these sites and generated some interest. So as apparently he has already been trying to do this, if he feels that there would be some advantage in numbers we could give him some support.

Simon. 

pp4ever's picture

It's only a 15 second excerpt that exists. Panfan plans to update the captioning on certain thumbs to reflect their status more accurately. 

Boogiebox's picture

So sorry, Simon.  

Despite me seeing other posts, or possibly unintentionally missing some others.  If I have, anyone, please give me a buzz, I somehow missed yours.

Anyway, I digress.  

Thanks for getting in touch with Panfan on my behalf.  

As in the words of Queen, now I'm here! lol :)

I was most surprised about the BBC having Give Me Just A Little More Time, as on the original BBC database, a certain number of songs, both films, performances and discs (Pan's People, crowd, etc) exist at or outside the BBC, but are listed as wiped, so the full picture of what the BBC has that appears as wiped on the database remains unknown, apart from some songs here and there.

Another one that exists, also at the BBC, but listed as wiped is Family's The Weaver's Answer from 27/8/70 originally, but also repeated on 10/9/70.

I believe it's the 10/9/70 repeat that the BBC has, supplied from Flick's collection.

Is the Family song existing in full at the BBC, or just an excerpt?

I ask this, as it's been reported online that Digging The Dancing Queens featured several rare clips, but as Flick was, understandably, very cross with the BBC that their predecessors had wiped a number of Pan's People routines, she was only prepared to allow them excerpts from the dance routines she owned.

On that basis, this would mean that the BBC only have incomplete excerpts of songs including:

Wedding Bell Blues, 22/1/70

Make It With You, 3/9/70

Back Stabbers, 28/9/72 (also listed as a Disc on 5/10/72, but that must have been something else), etc, etc.

To have even excerpts only is better than nothing, but if the BBC now have, indeed two copies, of the Digging The Dancing Queens routines, one excerpts, the others in full, that would be even better.

Claire

Boogiebox's picture

How's it going?

It's nice to see there is more at the BBC than I, probably we all first thought.  Even just 15 seconds of Chairmen Of The Board is something.  Likewise to Middle Of The Road. :)

Claire

panfan's picture

Thanksfor the lobbying efforts Simon.

Yes a couple of people have asked me about that routine and also Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. As said, both these exist only as 10-15 second clips with the BBC.

I'll annotate it with 'clip only' when I get a chance to edit them.

Boogiebox's picture

I know Tweedle Dee Tweedle Dum was found as part of an arts doc called "Way Of Life", but where did the Chairmen Of The Board - Pan's People routine of 15 seconds clip come from - Bob Pratt's collection?

Claire

panfan's picture

Of course if anyone on OFTD has a query about the lists, they are welcome to register here too!

Simon O's picture

Thanks for the clip length clarification pp4ever and panfan. I will let Boogie Box know.

But I did point out that BB was welcome to join and post question here.

Simon.

Boogiebox's picture

Thanks, Simon. :)

Claire

mojo2007's picture

Is this one collection or does it show that an example exists in an individual's collection ?

Boogiebox's picture

I'm a bit confused about two 1970 photos, which appear to differ from the database.

Who Do You Love, 26/3/70: Is the Film photo relating to 23/4/70?, as 26/3/70 is a Pan's People (disc) studio appearance;

The Jackson Five, 13/8/70: Conversely, is the database Film ("promo video") is a misprint for a studio appearance, as implied in this photo?

Very interesting information and photos to match, Panfan. :)

Claire

Boogiebox's picture

Sorry, Simon, I've only just seen your message, but in the meantime, how did the BBC acquire the 15 second clip of Give Me Just A Little More Time? - Was it from Bob Pratt or another source?

Although only a brief clip, like Tweedle Dee Tweedle Dum (30/9/71), this is still very good news.

Claire

Boogiebox's picture

When you list "PVL" under a selection of songs in 1970, indeed other years, if also under those, as I haven't yet checked all the years, does this mean that the PVL owns missing TOTP dance routines as far back as 1970?

It's cool if this is correct.  It's just that I'd thought that the PVL owned material from 1973 onwards, from the site itself, but if they're wrong and merely haven't given a reference to earlier years, I stand corrected.

Either way, I am enjoying reading updates including on the dance routines. 

I like your different photos and symbols for existing and wiped material, which nicely compliments the data you describe per routine. :)

Nice to see some extra routines, unidentified under "Disc" in your listings, Panfan. :)

Claire

panfan's picture

Hi Claire,

I'm wondering if my terminology has been a little confusing, as I've used "PVL" just as shorthand to indicated the routine exists in a private video library, not necessarily the PVL / RTA archive that's been lists online.

Sorry for the confusion!

Boogiebox's picture

I at first thought you meant that the PVL/RTA also owned 1970-1972 TOTP footage including dance routines, but I can now see you were generalising. :)  I think the PVL/RTA's earliest footage dates to 22/6/73.  The earliest Panspeoplevideo footage of the 1973 PP montage clips I posted earlier seems to be Take Me To The Mardi Gras.

I've posted a link to that montage earlier, but here it is again :):

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xasw4b_pan-s-people-mardi-gras_music

One of the difficulties with some footage is that it exists incomplete at the BBC but complete privately or the BBC own one copy and it exists privately.  I don't know what would be the best middle ground for your records where the song is archived and existing privately, but I know there are two copies of Finders Keepers - the BBC has it in colour, while the PVL/RTA have it in b/w, from 6/7/73.

Claire

panfan's picture

Just to say, to ensure it's preserved for posterity, we put that up here:

http://www.panspeople.com/?q=node/820

Boogiebox's picture

Although not perfect quality, it's yet more brilliant footage of the Pan's People dancers. :) 

I don't know if all these are sourced from the PVL/RTA, but at least Take Me To The Mardi Gras is.  All great songs and performances.

Claire

pp4ever's picture

 
You're right in that the "Who Do You Love" filmed entry should be 23/4/70, which is the date I've always had but somehow I advised panfan wrongly! Sorry blush
 
The Jackson Five for 13/8/70 was not a promo/video though and is correct.
 
"Give Me Just A Little More Time" is most probably a Bob Pratt clip.
 
I believe Panfan's use of 'PVL' here is as a generic term, not necessarily referring to that collection of 1973+ material in b&w & colour.
Boogiebox's picture

Hi PP4ever

I think this is my first ever post to you.

Thanks for clarifying the info that I was a bit puzzled about.

No worries about the wrong date for Who Do You Love.  You're only human. :)  I did a similar thing a few days ago listing Abba's disc entry for Waterloo under the wrong date, which should be 18/4/74. 

Do you by any chance know if the footage of Jimmy Savile with Pan's People on location from 23/4/70, as shown on Babs Powell's edition of This Is Your Life is the same footage that was shown on the above date on Top Of The Pops?

Ah, now this is interesting.

I've just spotted that there are two listings for The Love You Save:

6/8/70 - Disc and

13/8/70 - Film (on the original database, this is the only date that gives a Pan's People reference)

Unless you know otherwise, it looks like 13/8/70 is still the correct date, but the database has misprinted it as a film, instead of a disc, which would match in with the PP.com photo.

Bob Pratt got lucky making all these unofficial recordings from TOTP and other music shows.  He should be commended for his excellent efforts. :)

Even if generic, "PVL" is still a useful idea for any private recordings :), and what cracking material from 1973 onwards, now in the Rare Video Archive, including the fantastic Geordie's Electric Lady.  That is some of my most favourite type of music, so I was in heaven when I came across that b/w clip. :)

Claire

pp4ever's picture

Hi. Yes, the clip used in 'This is Your Life' is the same footage.

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