PAN'S PEOPLE PERFORMANCES
ON TOP OF THE POPS
1970
1970
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Date
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Track
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Artist
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Dancers
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01-Jan-70
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Green River
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Creedance Clearwater Revival
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D, R, L, B, A, F
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08 Jan 70
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Tracy
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The Cuff Links
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D, R, L, B, A, F
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15-Jan-70
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[No performance]
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-
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-
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22 Jan 70
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Wedding Bell Blues
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5th Dimension
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D, R, L, B, A, F
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29 Jan 70
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I'm a Man
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Chicago
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D, R, L, B, A, F
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05 Feb 70
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Both Sides Now
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Judy Collins
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D, R, L, B, A, F
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12 Feb 70
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I Want You Back
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Jackson 5
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D, R, L, B, A, F
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19 Feb 70
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Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
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Steam
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D, R, L, B, A, F
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26 Feb 70
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Temma Harbour
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Mary Hopkin
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D, R, L, B, A, F
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05 Mar 70
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Bridge Over Troubled Water
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Simon & Garfunkel
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Flick (solo)
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12-Mar-70
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-
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-
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-
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19 Mar 70
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Rag Mama Rag
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The Band
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-
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26 Mar 70
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Who Do You Love
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Juicy Lucy
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D, R, L, B, A, F
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02 Apr 70
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Spirit in the Sky
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Norman Greenbaum
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-
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09 Apr 70
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Farewell is a Lonely Sound
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Jimmy Ruffin
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-
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16 Apr 70
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Never Had A Dream Come True
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Stevie Wonder
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-
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23 Apr 70
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Who Do You Love
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Juicy Lucy
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D, R, L, B, A, F
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23 Apr 70
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House of the Rising Sun
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Frijid Pink
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-
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30 Apr 70
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If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody
(Backing)
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Bobbie Gentry
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B, A, D, ...?
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30 Apr 70
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Do the Funky Chicken
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Rufus Thomas
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-
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07 May 70
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Travellin' Band
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Creedance Clearwater Revival
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-
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14 May 70
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Do the Funky Chicken
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Rufus Thomas
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Ruth (solo)
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14 May 70
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Daughter of Darkness
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Tom Jones
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-
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21 May 70
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Up the Ladder to the Roof
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The Supremes
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-
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28 May 70
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ABC
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Jackson 5
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-
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04 Jun 70
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Cotton Fields
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Beach Boys
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-
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11 Jun 70
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Abraham, Martin and John
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Marvin Gaye
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-
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18 Jun 70
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Bet Yer Life I Do
(Promo)
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Herman's Hermits
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D, R, L, B, A, F
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25 Jun 70
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[No performance]
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-
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02 Jul 70
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[No performance]
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-
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-
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09 Jul 70
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It's All in the Game
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The Four Tops
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-
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16 Jul 70
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Love Like a Man
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Ten Years After
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-
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23 Jul 70
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Something
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Shirley Bassey
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-
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30 Jul 70
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Big Yellow Taxi
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Joni Mitchell
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-
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06 Aug 70
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Signed, Sealed, Delivered
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Stevie Wonder
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D, R, L, B, A, F
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13 Aug 70
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The Love You Save
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Jackson 5
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D, R, L, B, A, F
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20 Aug 70
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The Tears of a Clown
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Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
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D, R, L, B, A, F
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27 Aug 70
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Give Me Just A Little More Time
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Chairmen of the Board
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D, R, L, B, F
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27 Aug 70
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The Weaver's Answer
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Family
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Flick (solo)
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27 Aug 70
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It's So Easy
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Andy Williams
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Andi (solo)
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03 Sep 70
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Make It With You
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Bread
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D, R, L, B, F
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10 Sep 70
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Jimmy Mac
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Martha Reeves & The Vandella
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D, R, L, B, A
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10 Sep 70
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The Weaver's Answer
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Family
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Flick (solo)
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17 Sep 70
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Montego Bay
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Bobby Bloom
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D, R, L, B, A
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24 Sep 70
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Don't Play that Song
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Aretha Franklin
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-
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01 Oct 70
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Ball of Confusion
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Temptations
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-
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08-Oct-70
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-
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-
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-
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15 Oct 70
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Close to You
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Carpenters
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D, R, L, B, A
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22-Oct-70
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-
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-
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-
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29 Oct 70
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War
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Edwin Starr
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-
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05 Nov 70
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Whole Lotta Love
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CCS
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-
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12-Nov-70
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-
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-
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-
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19 Nov 70
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Cracklin' Rosie
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Neil Diamond
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-
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26-Nov-70
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-
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-
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-
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03-Dec-70
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-
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-
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-
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10 Dec 70
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I'll Be There
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Jackson 5
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-
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17-Dec-70
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[No broadcast]
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-
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-
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25 Dec 70
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The Tears of a Clown
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Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
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-
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26 Dec 70
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Spirit in the Sky
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Norman Greenbaum
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-
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Key to Dancers:
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D – Dee Dee Wilde |
R - Ruth Pearson |
L – Louise Clarke |
B – Babs Lord |
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A – Andrea Rutherford |
F – Flick Colby |
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PERFORMANCE SUMMARY:
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Year |
Performances on TOTP |
Surviving Archives |
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1970 |
47 (+1 repeat) |
18 (+1 repeat) |
PERFORMANCES PER DANCER:
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Flick |
Dee Dee |
Ruth |
Babs |
Andrea |
Louise |
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>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
Good to know! Just a private
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.
Yes, but a rather special
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!
Bridge over Troubled Water?
Wasn't this in 1970? I don't have it in the list yet.
Does anyone have a date?
Jimmy Mac and Montego Bay
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
info
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
Sorry was in my own "Ball of
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!
1970 revisited
Thanks for the input guys: I'm just catching up with posts now and will edit the list when I get a chance....
Unknown routines
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.
Safety
Sorry I can't help with ID but with outfits like this (2nd photo) a cage was probably a wise precaution
Rusty
Ah yes, but for whom!
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.
1970
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
Family Dogg on 'Top of the Pops'
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
Ireen Sheer
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!
Not Christine Holmes
I think Scrooge is right, the girl is more likely to be Lesley Duncan.
Christine Holmes had long blonde hair.
Classic Episode
Thanks pp4ever for your info
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
Thanks JEZ, I'm trying to be
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.
20 Jan 70
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.
That's 20 Jan 1972
That's 20 Jan 1972
Duh! silly me - got 1970 on
Duh! silly me - got 1970 on the brain at the moment! Will repost on the correct location!
It's a good year to have on
It's a good year to have on the brain.
1970
indeed it is!
So how does 1970 look now, folks?
1970 looks very good panfan
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
The Weaver's Answer- Family 1970
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
Sure, will see what I can do!
Sure, will see what I can do!
Weaver's Answer
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.
Apart from layout tweaks, and
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!
panfan
Have you seen this?It's from the beginning of TOTPs 29.01.70.Pan's People dance for 30 seconds.
Glenn
This is the 5th Feb episode.
This is the 5th Feb episode.
PP in TOTP Opening Titles
Thanks for that Glenn. We have the 1970 titles here, but I'll have a look in case it;s better quailty!
Give me just a little more time
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.
It's only a 15 second excerpt
It's only a 15 second excerpt that exists. Panfan plans to update the captioning on certain thumbs to reflect their status more accurately.
Re: Give me just a little more time
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
Simon O
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
Thanksfor the lobbying
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.
Where was Give Me Just A Little More Time recovered from,Panfan?
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
Of course if anyone on OFTD
Of course if anyone on OFTD has a query about the lists, they are welcome to register here too!
I did say that Boogie Box was welcome to join
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.
Here she is, Simon :) (Claire winks)
Thanks, Simon. :)
Claire
PVL
Is this one collection or does it show that an example exists in an individual's collection ?
Pan's People, 26/3/70 and 13/8/70
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
Pan's People - Chairmen Of The Board, 27/8/70
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
Not doubting you, Panfan :), but
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
PVL confusion
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!
No problem, Panfan
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
Panspeoplevideo Mardi Gras compilation
Just to say, to ensure it's preserved for posterity, we put that up here:
http://www.panspeople.com/?q=node/820
I love this compilation :)
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
Dates
Re: Dates
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
Hi. Yes, the clip used in
Hi. Yes, the clip used in 'This is Your Life' is the same footage.
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