Pan's People on The Two Ronnies, Series 3

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Submitted by panfan on Thu, 2011-05-19 21:28

 

 

THE TWO RONNIES (BBC2) Series 3

Alternate Thursday evenings, 27 Sept 1973 to 03 Jan 1974.

Pan’s People appeared on seven of the eight shows. They feature some of Pan’s People’s best routines, dancing to tunes such as ‘Yesterday’ and ‘Johnny B. Goode’.

Watch

Date

Track

Artist

Dancers

Episode

27-Sep-73

Bootleg

Bobby Keys

D, R, L, B, C

1

11-Oct-73

Philly Dog

Bill Black’s Combo

D, R, L, B, C

2

25-Oct-73

Yesterday

Jose Feliciano

D, R, L, B, C

3

08-Nov-73

Johnny B. Goode

James Burton

D, R, L, B, C

4

22-Nov-73

Singalong Junk

Paul McCartney

D, R, L, B, C

5

20-Dec-73

Buried Alive In The Blues

Janis Joplin

D, R, L, B, C

7

03-Jan-74

Hip Hug Her

Booker T & the MGs

D, R, L, B, C

8

 

D – Dee Dee Wilde R - Ruth Pearson L – Louise Clarke B – Babs Lord
C – Cherry Gillespie      

 

PERFORMANCE SUMMARY:

Year Performances on Two Ronnies (Series 3) Surviving Archives
1973/4 7 7

 

PERFORMANCES PER DANCER:

Dee Dee Ruth Babs Cherry Louise
7 7 7 7 7

 

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Two Ronnies
Pan's People

8 comments

Submitted by Suefan on Tue, 2011-07-05 21:32
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This is very handy.  Many thanks.

Submitted by Scrooge McDuck on Tue, 2011-12-27 11:12
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Here's what I found out about those performances:
1. the second picture (unknown song) is from 1973-Oct-11

2. the third picture is from 1973-Oct-25 dancing to Jose Feliciano's version of "Yesterday"

3. the fourth picture (Johnny B. Goode) is from 1973-Nov-08

4. the fifth picture is from 1973-Nov-22 dancing to Paul McCartney's "Singalong Junk"

5. the sixth picture is from 1973-Dec-20 dancing to "Buried Alive In The Blues"

The "Two Ronnies" episode from December 6, 1973, did not feature Pan's People.

Submitted by panfan on Tue, 2011-12-27 12:00
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Thanks Scrooge!

And oh my, what a formatting mess to sort out here!

Submitted by panfan on Sun, 2012-04-15 16:44
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Thanks to Malcom for sending me this last week and reminding me I needed to get the tracks listed.  The layout's still a bit of a mess: I think kthis was the first routine list I did and before I found a thumbnail size to fit in the table best.

Hello There.
I was doing some research at the BBC Written Archive Centre on The Two
Ronnies, Series Three and I came across the music details for the Pan's
People dance routines featured in each episode. I see you have featured
mention of some of these on one of your pages along with the seven Videos.
Thought you might like to update this section and perhaps you can post this
on your Message Board & News Page as well.
1 – Bootleg - Bobby Keys  (Warner Bros. K-46141)
2 – Philly Dog – Bill Black’s Combo  (London HAU-8373)
3 – Yesterday – Jose Feliciano  (RCA SF 8124)
4 – Johnny Be Good – James Burton  (A&M AMLS-64293)
5 – Singalong Junk – Paul McCartney  (Parlophone PCS 7162)
6 – No Track Featured
7 – Buried Alive In The Blues – Janis Joplin  (CBS 64188)
8 – Hip Hug Her – Booker T & The M.G.’s  (Stax 2362002)
Hope this helps.
Kind Regards
Malcolm.

 

Submitted by panfan on Sun, 2012-04-15 16:50
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Thanks also to Scrooge McDuck for providing some of the details earlier - my apologies for taking so long to sort it out!

i think all we need now is the date for episode 2?

Submitted by TOTP FAN on Sun, 2012-04-15 17:42
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I wonder why Pan's didnt do show 6?

Submitted by pp4ever on Sun, 2012-04-15 18:00
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I don't think it was a case of Pans not doing an episode as it's quite obvious their routines were all standalone segments recorded seperately from the usual studio session with the Ronnies. I sometimes wonder if they even got played into the studio as inserts for the Two Ronnies audience to see, as the canned applause start and end is quite obvious and there are no spoken introductions. They might have literally been added only at the programme editing stage in which case I expect episode 6 simply had enough sketch material without requiring a musical insert. That then begs the question of whether Pans did record eight routines destined for this series but in fact only seven ended up being used.

 

Submitted by TOTP FAN on Thu, 2012-04-19 08:16
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For the 6th episode what we got in place of Pan's was a magician