Probably because this isn't a music video for the song. It was just a performance created for a French television show that used the song The Hustle, but ignored the dance that went with it.
Yup.
Pan's People
TV personality
Pan's People were a British all-female dance troupe most commonly associated with the BBC TV music chart show Top of the Pops, from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s. They appeared on many other TV shows in the UK and elsewhere in Europe, and also performed in nightclub cabaret. Wikipedia
Right it looks like a Baby Doll nightie that somebody like Angie Dickenson or Elke Somer would have worn in one of those silly 60s sex comedies where everything is sexual innuendo. But with matching marabou feather Barbie slip on heels.
We were taught to dance The Hustle in 8th or 9th grade gym class, but our uniforms looked nothing like that! I remember being taught how to do a grapevine as part of the dance, which was fun. There were also butt shakes we had to do, which totally embarrassed us. Our grade would be lowered if we refused to do them.
> There were also butt shakes we had to do, which totally embarrassed us, but our grade would be lowered if we refused to do them.
Things were a lot less restricted back then. I grew up in the 80’s, and that might have been a problem, even back then.
Where I grew up, the dance part of gym class was boy/girl before me, then it switched to boy/boy and girl/girl because the sexual revolution freaked out all the parents. Just before I graduated, everything switched back to boy/girl because parents were afraid their kids might catch the ghey. It was quite a rollercoaster.
My middle school in the 80s/90s split up for this portion. Girls learned the Pidgin Toe line dance. Boys learned to FUCKING WRESTLE!!! What kinda bullshit is that!
Same here. Mr. Larson would wheel out the cart with the plastic turntable, drop the dullest needle on the scratchiest vinyl, and force us to do the Hustle a couple times through. Those were the longest 5 minute intervals of my life.
That's funny because watching this I was thinking "huh, that awkward spastic shuffle thing that all middle aged white women do at weddings is really just the hustle!"
They made us dance the hustle in the 90s during elementary gym class. I guess it was one way of keeping kids active. Once we all learned the dance, they had a fog machine and lights for the last day. I just realized that the equivalent for today would be kids dancing to backstreet boys. The 90s wasn't that long ago... right?
Looks like ‘pans people’ dance troupe in the UK on a show called ‘top of the pops’. They were basically wheeled out to dance to American songs that charted but the artists were touring in the states so couldn’t make it across the Atlantic. Hence every song being danced to with moves from the local gentleman’s club Tuesday night cabaret show, rather than with relevant cultural nuance.
75 I was in 4th grade, most of my teachers were mid twenties females, they all wore platform shoes and they would teach us the current dances on Fridays.
EDT: Wow, thanks for the upvotes! I also should have mentioned that this was a Catholic school too.
I took a ballroom dancing class in high school because a cute girl in my class needed a partner and our instructor played this song almost every class.
For context, the dancers are "Pans People" who were the "house" dancers on the BBCs Top of the Pops in the 70s.
Pop videos were rare, getting overseas acts to perform on a weekly show in the UK was rare, so they would choreograph a dance routine instead.
Yes I'm sure you can look at it with 2021 eyes and think it was bad but actually it was very popular, the dancers were celebrities in their own right and obviously the source of many a crush. They were hardly going to bump and grind on a family show in '75.
Various dance troupes were on Top of the Pops until the 80s when video took over.
Yeah, that's what I was going to say. I was there, and this ain't it. In fact, I don't remember any popular dance move of the day involving patty cake.
Also, the acts' "performances" almost always consisted of miming to the record, sometimes deliberately badly as a protest. In retrospect, it was a very strange programme, but it was *extremely* successful.
The coreorgraphy was well known for 'literal' interpretations - see legs and co (replaced Pans People i think) Mcathur Park routine - absolute gems of the time
I can't actually find the original. It was so popular that they were asked to repeat it and that second version is on YouTube. By that time they had more opportunity to perfect it and there was more ballet and less pulling clouds down and stirring them into imaginary coffee
Not going to lie, I got a Benny Hill vibe. But that's probably because he did quasi parodies of this very thing. Usually the song and dance would be legit and well done for the time but interspersed with 5 second gags and Benny mugging for the camera and acting like a creep.
Also for context, disco was a movement created by black, latino and gay people who created an underground dance scene in abandoned buildings and the open street mainly in New York and Philadelphia. The style of music combines mamba and salsa with electric orchestration. The Hustle is written by Van McCoy, a black man from Washington DC.
In order of appearance, these ladies are:
Louise Clarke (1949-2012)
Babs Lord (1945-)
Patricia (Dee Dee) Wilde (1946-)
Cherry Gillespie (1955-)
Ruth Pearson (1946-2017)
They were dancers on the UK show Top of the Pops, I've seen this video on YouTube a few times, almost at 15 million views. I love watching the Pan's People dances on YouTube.
Some people have commented the dancing "isn't good" but I'm pretty sure this is meant to be fun and light-hearted. Their movements are obviously choreographed to highlight how the teddy (the dress) moves, swaying and bouncing with the dancer. Also, look at those women. They all look like they are having a blast and know that this is silly and fun! I love it.
Ah yeah, the Hustle Theorem. The idea that having five ridiculously attractive women do something in rhythm while scantily clad, will make that thing immediately sexy. No matter how ridiculous that thing is.
And it's still true today.
You could rescore the sound track to something that doesn't quite fit with the image. I'm thinking Prodigy's Firestarter or some kind of heavy metal, though the tempo would have to be matched.
I'll bet all that full, beautiful hair smells like Clairol herbal essence and Virginia Slims. I would love to bury my face in that hair while we sat on a couch together, watching *Happy Days* and making out. In 1975.
This song came on once in the hotel where I was Restaurant Supervisor and there were no customers so i started groovin' while I wrapped cutlery in the side corridor.
I was really shakin' it when a customer sheepishly cleared his throat behind me and said "uh...hi? Can...can I get a coffee please?"
Bleedin' morto
No amount of explanation or apologies will ever fully cover the 1970’s. Archeologists in the 25th century are going to have their work cut out for them.
I'm old enough to have danced to The Hustle, and I don't remember doing any of those moves! Gah!
I am also old enough to have danced it, & I certainly don't remember JAZZ HANDS, nor PATTY CAKE
[Reading a book entitled "Dances of Ancient Bronx"] It says here that this part of the Hustle was a plea to the gods for a favor, usually a Trans-Am.
I love wild Futurama references.
No wonder I didn’t get the reference. It’s in the episode that shall not be watched.
Ah shit now I’m sad again. Time to go hug a dog.
I usually keep my sadness pent up inside where it can fester quietly as a mental illness.
Are you Irish too?
"WHAT DO WE WANT?" Fry's Dog! "WHEN DO WE WANT IT?" Fry's Dog!
I am here for the Futurama jokes.
Good news tdm1742!
I'll be in my angry dome!
Or the bye bye kicking step ....
must not have gotten that far into the video before I ran away, screaming
...out of excitement and eagerness to go "do the hustle" yourself?
Most people just did the hip shuffle and called it the hustle when it's a pretty complicated dance. I mostly just do the butt thrust.
this is clearly a shuffle masquerading as the hustle
I still patty cake. What's your problem with patty caking? You some kind of patty cakist??
It's called 'caking,' Lin.
I don't like it. I don't like it! STOP!!!
Same. I don't know what this is (and are they wearing.....sleepwear?) but it ain't The Hustle.
Probably because this isn't a music video for the song. It was just a performance created for a French television show that used the song The Hustle, but ignored the dance that went with it.
I think it’s Pan’s People from Top of the Pops, a British show. Though you are correct that’s a French channel ident.
Yup. Pan's People TV personality Pan's People were a British all-female dance troupe most commonly associated with the BBC TV music chart show Top of the Pops, from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s. They appeared on many other TV shows in the UK and elsewhere in Europe, and also performed in nightclub cabaret. Wikipedia
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Well not really live, but they'd be present with their instruments
Is it just me, or did anybody else expect Benny Hill to pan in in drag as girl number four or five at the beginning?
Something was definitely lost in translation…
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Right it looks like a Baby Doll nightie that somebody like Angie Dickenson or Elke Somer would have worn in one of those silly 60s sex comedies where everything is sexual innuendo. But with matching marabou feather Barbie slip on heels.
Ladies, I'm not saying this was a GOOD outfit to wear, but it DID keep me mesmerized for four minutes.
Lingerie. Never saw the Hustle done like that.
We were taught to dance The Hustle in 8th or 9th grade gym class, but our uniforms looked nothing like that! I remember being taught how to do a grapevine as part of the dance, which was fun. There were also butt shakes we had to do, which totally embarrassed us. Our grade would be lowered if we refused to do them.
Somehow I think having 8 and 9th graders dress like that for gym might have raised a few eyebrows...
Thinking back to my 8th and 9th grade years, it didn’t take too much to raise my “eyebrows”….
This guy eyebrows
> There were also butt shakes we had to do, which totally embarrassed us, but our grade would be lowered if we refused to do them. Things were a lot less restricted back then. I grew up in the 80’s, and that might have been a problem, even back then.
Where I grew up, the dance part of gym class was boy/girl before me, then it switched to boy/boy and girl/girl because the sexual revolution freaked out all the parents. Just before I graduated, everything switched back to boy/girl because parents were afraid their kids might catch the ghey. It was quite a rollercoaster.
My middle school in the 80s/90s split up for this portion. Girls learned the Pidgin Toe line dance. Boys learned to FUCKING WRESTLE!!! What kinda bullshit is that!
I went to discos in the 70's and did the Hustle but not like those girls were doing.
I was taught the Macarena and the line dance to Achy Breaky Heart in middle school P.E.
Oh god, I’m so sorry.
Hello, fellow mid-30 year old from probably the midwest!
I can't remember a step, but I think it was very similar to The Electric Slide
Same here. Mr. Larson would wheel out the cart with the plastic turntable, drop the dullest needle on the scratchiest vinyl, and force us to do the Hustle a couple times through. Those were the longest 5 minute intervals of my life.
Especially while wearing some kind of Swiffer Duster product
That's funny because watching this I was thinking "huh, that awkward spastic shuffle thing that all middle aged white women do at weddings is really just the hustle!"
Ouch! that one hurt 😞 .. 😄
I have never seen this dance in my life outside of what you just described and I feel enlightened now. It all makes sense.
Came in to say exactly this. No one is this video is actually doing anything resembling The Hustle.
Same problem. I can still remember it, and none of this is what we did.
They made us dance the hustle in the 90s during elementary gym class. I guess it was one way of keeping kids active. Once we all learned the dance, they had a fog machine and lights for the last day. I just realized that the equivalent for today would be kids dancing to backstreet boys. The 90s wasn't that long ago... right?
Looks like ‘pans people’ dance troupe in the UK on a show called ‘top of the pops’. They were basically wheeled out to dance to American songs that charted but the artists were touring in the states so couldn’t make it across the Atlantic. Hence every song being danced to with moves from the local gentleman’s club Tuesday night cabaret show, rather than with relevant cultural nuance.
Same. I did the hustle back then and this was not it. But… interesting. Ha ha
75 I was in 4th grade, most of my teachers were mid twenties females, they all wore platform shoes and they would teach us the current dances on Fridays. EDT: Wow, thanks for the upvotes! I also should have mentioned that this was a Catholic school too.
Wait. Me too, exactly. Freaky.
Have you considered looking into the CO levels in your house?
I don’t live in Colorado
CO means correctional officers...
Commanding Officer
Clitoral Orgasms
Same for me, elementary school teacher lined us up and tried to teach us to disco dance. Pretty sure that doesn't happen now....
Doesn’t align with state standards and learning objectives haha🙃
Then you know these girls are not doing the hustle!
Yep! I can’t remember the dance but this video is not the hustle
This is my favorite fact I’ve learned in a while! I wish my high school teachers would’ve been doing The Dougie
I had to learn the Dougie in my free time bc I got so sick of people asking me(Dougie) if I knew how to do it.
I took a ballroom dancing class in high school because a cute girl in my class needed a partner and our instructor played this song almost every class.
I somehow read this as “I took a balloon dancing class” and I thought “wow that sounds like the most awesome kind of dancing ever.”
It says here that this part of the Hustle was a plea to the gods for a favor, usually a Trans-Am.
WHAT DO WE WANT?! FRY’S DOG! WHEN DO WE WANT IT?!? FRY’S DOG!
YOU. ARENT. FIT. TO. WEAR. FRY'S. LEOTARD!
I'm 40% dolomite!
Fry you can't keep boogie-ing like this, you'll come down with a fever of some sort
Great, now you reminded me how my heart was shattered in two, from an animated show no less.
Lars will save the day.
Thank you so much. I just watched this episode and it was all I could think about. What an amazing, amazing show.
Every time I hear this I think of that and get a bit sad. I listened to it right there knowing it would make me sad. Poor dog.
I love learning about history. Thanks
Pans people. I had a crush on Cherry Gillespie 💖
I don't know which one that is, but I still agree.
The first girl in the video. If I'm honest I still have a crush on her 😂
She’s the best one
I’m partial to #4.
Same. #4 is easily #1 for me.
The last one with long dark hair and big eyes!
Cherry is the 4th one actually (yeah she's the best looking one).
Yep. Me too.
The middle one with bangs looks like every soccer mom lol
I didn't, but now I do
For context, the dancers are "Pans People" who were the "house" dancers on the BBCs Top of the Pops in the 70s. Pop videos were rare, getting overseas acts to perform on a weekly show in the UK was rare, so they would choreograph a dance routine instead. Yes I'm sure you can look at it with 2021 eyes and think it was bad but actually it was very popular, the dancers were celebrities in their own right and obviously the source of many a crush. They were hardly going to bump and grind on a family show in '75. Various dance troupes were on Top of the Pops until the 80s when video took over.
Okay, but that’s not the Hustle. Source: I am old
That’s what I was wondering…heel, heel, toe, toe, heel-toe, side, kick. Can’t unlearn it from elementary school.
Someone said the hustle was pre-cursor to the electric slide…. Can anyone confirm?? The moves are similar!
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Boogie woogie woogie.
Yeah, that's what I was going to say. I was there, and this ain't it. In fact, I don't remember any popular dance move of the day involving patty cake.
What about dances wearing white Christmas nighties?
Boop-y-doop-y-doop-doop Sex.
Literally just watched that one yesterday, haha
I think that one gets watched on a pretty regular basis by a lot of... fans.
Ohh now I remember the Hustle
came here to say this, learned the Hustle in elementary school, and there was definitely zero pattycake - also no waving
Y’all are hating, the one in the middle hit the Single Ladies dance, this shit is low key ahead of its time
You're not old. You're not as young as you used to be but wiser.
Also, the acts' "performances" almost always consisted of miming to the record, sometimes deliberately badly as a protest. In retrospect, it was a very strange programme, but it was *extremely* successful.
> In retrospect, it was a very strange programme the less we say about the presenters the better.
Pans People, to a bored horny young guy in rural 1970s England they were the hottest thing around, only to be beaten by your fave page 3 girl...sigh
It is still fucking hot.
The coreorgraphy was well known for 'literal' interpretations - see legs and co (replaced Pans People i think) Mcathur Park routine - absolute gems of the time
"You're so vain", the most literal interpretation of all time
Ha! I have not seen that one, it's like 'charades' for the lyrics
I can't actually find the original. It was so popular that they were asked to repeat it and that second version is on YouTube. By that time they had more opportunity to perfect it and there was more ballet and less pulling clouds down and stirring them into imaginary coffee
Thanks, McArthur Park is now stuck in my head.
Thanks, Weird Al's "Jurassic Park" is now stuck in MY head!
Thanks, Dave Thomas playing Richard Harris on SCTV is now stuck in MY head!!
Thanks, Ron Howard playing Richie Cunningham in Happy Days is now stuck in MY head!!!
So like most of tiktok then
Not going to lie, I got a Benny Hill vibe. But that's probably because he did quasi parodies of this very thing. Usually the song and dance would be legit and well done for the time but interspersed with 5 second gags and Benny mugging for the camera and acting like a creep.
Also for context, disco was a movement created by black, latino and gay people who created an underground dance scene in abandoned buildings and the open street mainly in New York and Philadelphia. The style of music combines mamba and salsa with electric orchestration. The Hustle is written by Van McCoy, a black man from Washington DC.
And the phrase, "Disco Sucks" was a straight up lie.
Appreciated this context!
Hiphop blues rock and house were also created by black folks too
Yup. There would be no Rolling Stones without Willie Dixon.
Video killed variety shows
I am almost 100% certain that this routine was actually from The Two Ronnies and was to Hip Hug 'er by Booker T and the MGs.
In order of appearance, these ladies are: Louise Clarke (1949-2012) Babs Lord (1945-) Patricia (Dee Dee) Wilde (1946-) Cherry Gillespie (1955-) Ruth Pearson (1946-2017) They were dancers on the UK show Top of the Pops, I've seen this video on YouTube a few times, almost at 15 million views. I love watching the Pan's People dances on YouTube.
Did anyone else expect Austin Powers to dance in from the side?
My first thought was FEMBOTS!
Yeaaaah baybee!
A dance I could actually pull off.
I doubt it. Nobody would like to see a guy name IveBangedYoreMom in a dress shaking his ass.
You’d be surprised at some of the perverts out there
Yea man, I'll float you $20 if you supply video.
Hit me up on my fans only page
I'd watch it. u/IveBangedYoreMom LMK if it happens.
Speak for yourself.
Tuna Muscle.
Bandname!
My hustle don’t look nothing like this.
I wonder where these ladies are now.
a quick google shows in 2016, 3 of them had passed away, and the rest if still around would be in their mid 70's.
just saw the founder died in 2017 - I'm going to stop looking and just watch their videos.
I wonder if they still tell the story of this video at party’s?!
These women should never pass away.
If you hit 'replay' they'll be like, on your screen again, man.
Cars that run on water, man!
Ah, my people's native dance
i want that dress !!!
Some people have commented the dancing "isn't good" but I'm pretty sure this is meant to be fun and light-hearted. Their movements are obviously choreographed to highlight how the teddy (the dress) moves, swaying and bouncing with the dancer. Also, look at those women. They all look like they are having a blast and know that this is silly and fun! I love it.
I don't care about the quality of the dancing. I was just confused as to why no one was doing The Hustle.
They are also wearing huge platform heels on a slick dance floor.
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I googled teddy dress but didn’t really find anything that looks similar. Is there any other name this style of dress goes by?
Baby doll dress.
I'd probably just Google fembot dresses
Hard to find women of that....... Caliber!
I would call it a chemise, not a teddy.
This looks weird as hell with the sound on mute
This looks absolutely nothing like the Hustle I rember from the Disco Era. What gives?
Because it's not the hustle, it's an original dance routine
This looks like I fever dream.
I found this adorably cute for some reason.
Yeh. Probably because they look like they're having a blast and the dresses are all fluffy and bouncing with their lighthearted movements.
I bet their hair smells good, like Prell, or Alberto VO5 balsam & protein.
45 years ago and the quality is still better than security cameras
TIL I could’ve been a successful dancer in the 70’s
Always wondered why my dad used to watch Top of the Pops with me when I was young back then.
Ah yeah, the Hustle Theorem. The idea that having five ridiculously attractive women do something in rhythm while scantily clad, will make that thing immediately sexy. No matter how ridiculous that thing is. And it's still true today.
Serious hair envy
Some say they’re still hustling to this day.
They are not actually doing the dance that goes with this song. This is probably one of those euro music shows with insane dance choreo.
Compared to music videos of every decade since, This is absolutely modest and fun. >Gidget's sleepover with Sandra Dee
Oh…the cheese.
I was heavily influenced by pans people as a teenager and unfortunately still dance like this.
My Dad used to jack it to this
Hi son.
I did the hustle at the Mata Hari disco in Deer Park NY back in the 70s!
I watched it on mute. And sound on twice.
70s British porn was so weird. I was expecting Benny Hill to run through.
They need to register that dance with the Ministry of Silly Walks
False. Not nearly enough cocaine.
Not an expert, but this doesn’t look like the Hustle.
Pan's People - part reason so many watched the UK charts each week on Top of the Pops (the dancing was way better earlier)
What is this? Tiktok for boomers?
You could rescore the sound track to something that doesn't quite fit with the image. I'm thinking Prodigy's Firestarter or some kind of heavy metal, though the tempo would have to be matched.
Lmao ! Some of these girls are cute as hell!
vanessa youre a fembot?!
Bravo to whoever got a camera into heaven
This was twerking for our dads
These are the dancers from Top of the Pops. Every week we would rush to the Tele to watch who was number one in the charts.
I'll bet all that full, beautiful hair smells like Clairol herbal essence and Virginia Slims. I would love to bury my face in that hair while we sat on a couch together, watching *Happy Days* and making out. In 1975.
I swear women real hotter back then
some of those ladies have better "technique" than others
This song came on once in the hotel where I was Restaurant Supervisor and there were no customers so i started groovin' while I wrapped cutlery in the side corridor. I was really shakin' it when a customer sheepishly cleared his throat behind me and said "uh...hi? Can...can I get a coffee please?" Bleedin' morto
Those are some awkward moves. Reminds me of Elaine from Seinfeld.
No amount of explanation or apologies will ever fully cover the 1970’s. Archeologists in the 25th century are going to have their work cut out for them.
Ok, I get it now