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Old 30-06-2010, 20:17
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Not the song, but the dancers.

Found THIS on You-Tube.

It got me to thinking.

Yes, they were incredibly sexy, but there was also a sort of naive innocence, in that they didn't cavort about the stage, in the way so many female pop stars do nowadays.

Oh, for that gentler time again.
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Old 30-06-2010, 20:26
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Not the song, but the dancers.

Found THIS on You-Tube.

It got me to thinking.

Yes, they were incredibly sexy, but there was also a sort of naive innocence, in that they didn't cavort about the stage, in the way so many female pop stars do nowadays.

Oh, for that gentler time again.
Phwooooaaar.
I'm off for a 60s style w**k.
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Old 30-06-2010, 20:36
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Phwooooaaar.
I'm off for a 60s style w**k.
I think you will find that is the 70s.

Although I do agree, they were (in some cases, still are) gorgeous.

I think they should release a DVD of some of the routines.

I'm guessing you would need two copies, because of al the sticky fingerprints you would get on one copy
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Old 30-06-2010, 20:47
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I haven't opened the link but I'm guessing that you're talking about Pan's People.

I'll have a look now to see if I'm right.....

I knew it! I love that song, it takes me back to my youth. Dancing in the discos. Happy days.

Mind you, Pan's People didn't so much dance, as prance.

I remember we used to chuckle when their coreographer's name came up on the screen at the end of TOTP. Her name was Flick Colby. It was in capital letters and the L next to the I looked like a U.

We were young.
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Old 30-06-2010, 20:51
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In the 'olden days' it was always exciting to wonder which track they would be 'doing' on TOTP. There were a few notable mistakes as well though.

'Legs and co'? Pah.
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Old 30-06-2010, 20:52
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ah Pan's People...........
Beautiful Babs.
Never knew her name though
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Old 30-06-2010, 21:02
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ah Pan's People...........
Beautiful Babs.
Never knew her name though
Copyright Norman Stanley Fletcher.

Personally, I preferred Ruth.
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Old 30-06-2010, 21:03
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ah Pan's People...........
Beautiful Babs.
Never knew her name though
She married Robert Powell, so her name is now Mrs Powell.
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Old 30-06-2010, 21:04
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Delightful young ladies.

All we seem to get nowadays are homosexual men.
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Old 30-06-2010, 21:07
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Slighty off topic but playing all those other Chi-Lites links on there takes me back to the slow dancing at the end of every disco.

Kids these days are really missing out. Sad.
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Old 30-06-2010, 22:06
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Having only been born in 78, Im too young to remember this at the time. Isnt it funny the older you get the less things you can say you dont remember?

Anyway, having watched the beautiful Pans People in that video, I was mesmerised. It was like a sort of hypnotism
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Old 30-06-2010, 22:19
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It was like a sort of hypnotism
Imagine being hypnotised like that every week.
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Old 07-07-2010, 22:56
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Old 07-07-2010, 23:26
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Much better than Hot Gossip!
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Old 08-07-2010, 21:35
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Much better than Hot Gossip!
Or Legs and Co.

I bet a lot of teenage male fantasies developed around them.
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Old 09-07-2010, 00:07
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I'm guessing you would need two copies, because of al the sticky fingerprints you would get on one copy
... and your thread started off so well too.
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Old 09-07-2010, 07:13
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am i the only one who doesnt think they are either sexy or gorgeous? they NEVER appealled to me and their dance routines were.... daft.

dont get me started on the chi lites ..... *enter puke smiley here that ds doesnt have*
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Old 09-07-2010, 08:39
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am i the only one who doesnt think they are either sexy or gorgeous?
It's the "girl next door" look that makes it so... and as the OP said "a sort of naive innocence".
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Old 09-07-2010, 21:31
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Was quite enjoying that until one of them popped up from the bottom of the screen and 'did the hustle'
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Old 09-07-2010, 21:57
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Much better than Hot Gossip!
Well yes but....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE6YR9QbrqI
Check out Sara Brightman!

This is one of Pans Peoples most famous routines:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOnbM7X4BYg

This is French and Saunders doing Pans People:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrXYXqxYaR8
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Old 10-07-2010, 20:55
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Check out Sara Brightman!
I'd rather not.

How can anyone fancy her

This is one of Pans Peoples most famous routines
Don't you mean infamous
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Old 10-07-2010, 21:00
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This version is the best:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-Fhc...eature=related
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Old 10-07-2010, 22:26
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It's the "girl next door" look that makes it so... and as the OP said "a sort of naive innocence".
but i like 'the girl next door' look... (actually, i did, litterally, ended in divorce and my third child but thats another story! )

sorry, i dont like 'glamour', i like natural beauty but i didnt get either from this bunch of middle class bints trying to be down with the hip kids.
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Old 08-08-2010, 21:58
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These outfits are stunning.
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