Editing Pan's People (section)

===Formation from Beat Girls===
[[File:BeatGirls1966.jpg|thumb|September 1966: Beat Girls picture showing original Pan's People dancers; from left, Dee Dee Wilde, Lorelly Harris, Babs Lord, Flick Colby and Penny Fergusson. Dancer and choreographer Diane South, who was never in Pan's People, is almost completely obscured at the back.]]
The origins of Pan's People lie in [[the Dance Centre]]-based Katy-Dids, a six-girl jazz dance group formed in May 1964 comprising Linda Bywaters, Linda Lawrence, Jenny Ferle, Lyn Wolseley, Diane South and Ann Chapman. This group, renamed the Beat Girls following the commencement of their residence on ''[[The Beat Room]]'' in July 1964, subsequently appeared on many music and light entertainment TV programmes in the UK and Netherlands.

Following numerous line-up changes, by December 1966 only [[The Beat Room#The Beat Girls after the Beat Room|two members were left who had appeared in ''The Beat Room'']], which ended in January 1965:
* '''Barbara (Babs) Lord''',<ref name="Girls Who Bring Glamour"/> who appeared from September 1964
* ''' Diane South''' – despite having appeared in the Katy-Dids and Beat Girls since 1964, she was never a regular, for she frequently stood in as choreographer when their choreographer/manager, Gary Cockrell, was unavailable.<ref name="DianeS"/>
The other members at this time were:
* '''[[Flick Colby|Felicity (Flick) Colby]]'''<ref name="Girls Who Bring Glamour">{{cite web |title=Top Of The Pops Annual 1974: The Girls Who Bring Glamour To The Show |url=http://www.panspeople.freeserve.co.uk/totp1974.htm |website=the Unofficial Pan's People Homepage |access-date=19 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322144634/http://www.panspeople.freeserve.co.uk/totp1974.htm |archive-date=22 March 2012}}</ref> (1946–2011) – recruited in January 1966, though she already had a Dutch TV special, featuring the Beat Girls, built around her.
* '''Patricia (Dee Dee) Wilde'''<ref name="Girls Who Bring Glamour"/> – joined in March 1966; she had attended the Elmhurst School for Dance in Surrey.<ref>{{cite news |title=Dee Dee Wilde remembers getting her kicks in 1973 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/11058597/Dee-Dee-Wilde-remembers-getting-her-kicks-in-1973.html |date=28 August 2014 |access-date=13 June 2017}}</ref>
* '''Lorelly Harris''' – joined around May 1966
* '''Penelope (Penny) Fergusson''' – joined around May 1966; a former member of the [[Royal Ballet School]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Royal Opera House Collections Online |url=http://www.rohcollections.org.uk/performance.aspx?performance=16152&row=1 |website=Royal Ballet school |access-date=3 June 2017}}</ref>

Following an [[Equity (trade union)|Equity]]-backed dispute with their management over pay rates for Dutch shows,<ref>{{cite web |title=Watervlugge Beat-Girls niet meer voor AVRO |url=http://one-for-the-dads.979225.n3.nabble.com/The-Beat-Girls-tp3027945p4128322.html |website=One for the Dads |access-date=12 June 2017}}</ref> three members, Colby, Lord and Wilde, walked out and formed a new group on 8 December 1966 in London.<ref name="dee_dees">{{cite news |title=Dee Dee's Top of the Pops memories |url=http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/848408.dee_dees_top_of_the_pops_memories |newspaper=Wiltshire Gazette and Herald |access-date=26 July 2014}}</ref> After considering other names, including ''Dionysus's Darlings'' they agreed on the name ''Pan's People'', named after the Greek god [[Pan (god)|Pan]] as the "god of dance, music and debauchery".<ref name="Express"/> By 18 December, they were joined by two of the remaining three Beat Girls, Harris and Fergusson. This marked the end of the Beat Girls as a regular act on British television; however, with new recruits joining Diane South,<ref>{{cite news |title=The new beat girls |url=http://one-for-the-dads.979225.n3.nabble.com/The-Beat-Girls-tp3027945p4127617.html |newspaper=De Telegraaf |date=14 January 1967 |access-date=9 June 2017}}</ref> that group continued their Dutch engagements from January 1967, finally ceasing to perform in May 1968.<ref>{{cite web |title=List of Moef Ga Ga performances |url=http://hardprog.pagesperso-orange.fr/moef_ga_ga_episode_guide_1895.htm |url-status=dead |website=Hardprog |access-date=12 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916092132/http://hardprog.pagesperso-orange.fr/moef_ga_ga_episode_guide_1895.htm |archive-date=16 September 2016}}</ref>

By Christmas 1966 Pan's People recruited '''Felicity Balfour''' (sometimes called Felicity Balfour Smith), who had briefly been in the Beat Girls, and had been a schoolfriend of Dee Dee Wilde. Thus they formed a [[sextet]],<ref name="sextet">{{cite web |last=Rose |first=Gary P. |title=Felicity Isabelle Colby – Her Story in Words and Pictures |url=http://www.panspeople.com/?q=node/1168 |website=PansPeople.com |date=26 December 2011 |access-date=26 July 2014}}</ref> with Colby also acting as choreographer.

Press accounts during the lifetime of the group omit the Beat Girls involvement from Pan's People's history;<ref name="Throw">{{cite web|title=Don't Throw This Away|url=http://one-for-the-dads.979225.n3.nabble.com/Pans-People-Promo-Brochure-Don-t-Throw-This-Away-tp4115119.html|access-date=5 June 2017|quote=She...appeared for a year and a half in the BBC TV series Beat Room and Gadzooks}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Fabulous 208 magazine|url=http://missingepisodes.proboards.com/thread/8377/offer-research-nmes-disc-show?page=7|website=Missing Episodes|access-date=5 June 2017|date=23 September 1967|quote=The six met while rehearsing (separately) at rooms in Covent Garden and decided to join up.}}</ref> however, modern-day recollections include this time<ref>{{cite news|title=Dee Dee Wilde and Babs Powell: how we made Pan's People|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/sep/02/how-we-made-pans-people-dee-dee-wilde-babs-powell|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=5 June 2017|quote=Three of us had previously been in a dance group called the Beat Girls on the BBC2 programme The Beat Room.|date=2 September 2014|last=Simpson|first=Dave}}</ref> though sometimes incorrectly as a continuation of the previous group.<ref>{{cite news|title=Dee Dee's Top of the Pops memories|url=http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/848408.dee_dees_top_of_the_pops_memories/|website=Newsquest|access-date=12 June 2017|quote=The Beat Girls, as we were known then, had just walked out of their head quarters, The Dance Centre ... Flick Colby who was to be our new choreographer, Babs Lord and I, sat up all night reforming the group & creating a new name for it.}}</ref>