Friday 3 June 2011

William Flew more music girls

The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and 
fourth generation.


From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.




William Flew more music girls


Her marriage did not last but Colby’s love affair with London did and she stayed for the next 25 years. Initially contracted to appear on Top of the Pops to dance the odd number here and there, the attraction of the troupe soon became obvious and they quickly became a regular weekly feature. Constantly inventive, regardless of the time constraints she was under on Top of the Pops, Colby never failed to produce routines of great variety and style, from a balletic and lyrical routine to Carly Simon’s You’re so Vain to the raunchy hip-gyrations that accompanied Nutbush City Limits by Ike and Tina Turner. When some of her routines, danced to the wilder aspects of rock, were criticised by Mary Whitehouse as being too suggestive Colby replied: “Well that’s what they are playing so that’s what we’re dancing”. In contrast, her own free dance solo rendition of Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water was critically acclaimed. Although Pan’s People was a staple of Top of the Pops the girls also featured in many other series produced by BBC Light Entertainment in that era from The Two Ronnies to shows for Des O’Connor, Frankie Howerd, John Denver and Bobby Gentry, to series with Alan Price and Georgie Fame and their very own Pan’s People In Concert Special. Never a lover of performing, Colby soon withdrew from dancing to concentrate on choreography and directing cameras on her routines in the studio, sliding into the director’s chair to do so as their number came up in the running order. When Pan’s People split up in 1976 Colby continued working with new groups among which Legs and Co became successors to Pan’s People on Top of the Pops.

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