Legs & Co / Mike Oldfield Portsmouth¬ -

[@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw]

Portsmouth was one of the dance melodies in John Playford's The English Dancing Master. First edition was published in 1651; it ran to 18 editions up to 1728. Playford died in 1686. It's quite an old melody.

[@DuncanGazoo]

This is one of the most beautiful songs I've heard, Mike Oldfield is a genius and this adaption is a piece of art too, thank God for the true music.

[@frankmageean6027]

Milton represents Portsmouth. Best city in naval England. I miss my pompey

[@alanprior7650]

I now live in New England and there is a Portsmouth, New Hampshire...I take great pride in saying I'm from the original Portsmouth!

[@drtrekwars]

Fucking hell, the 70's looked great

[@keithmatthews9043]

You’re not wrong

[@59patrickw]

you do not know what you missed

[@Wolfspiderxl]

Cracking good tune and dance routine, fair warmed the cockles of me heart, shipmates, hahar!!

[@movesky6696]

well captain jack sparrow

[@paulcrisp9861]

Ye old English 🇬🇧 through and through, beautifully heart ❤️ warning and poignant decades later. Keep the spirit of folk music alive. Feb twenty three 🙏❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧❤️🙏 even the parrot looked like it was having fun 🙄🤣😂

[@Aidankiwi]

Ye old English? Then why do you follow that with the flag of the United Kingdom?

[@paulcrisp9861]

@@Aidankiwi maybe a saint Georges flag would have been better 👍😎👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@PiotrJanPluta]

Mike Oldfield jest moim ulubionym

[@cochachoca552]

Mon dieu que j'aime ça !!! Merci merci merci

[@nebojsatomcic]

Loved video, superb music by Mike Oldfield and nice presentation by girls

[@leonskum.5682]

It's disappointing how far we've come.

[@williamgrant2815]

Love Mike Oldfield but I would I have loved to be a pirate on their ship back then

[@buzzabuzza3494]

That parrot was blessed that day 😄Legs &co wow they made top of the pops extra special has a young lad😄

[@pascalgallez1126]

Captain Jack Sparrow would be very happy among those damsels.

[@evgeniiliu7512]

Класс! Я бы тоже хотел поучаствовать!)😊Как у нас в Цирке на Фонтанке!)

[@steveduncan7637]

I remember first watching this on totp when I was a kid . The presenter was David Hamilton if I remember correctly .

[@alancorbett1361]

David 'Diddy' Hamilton if I recall was his on air broadcasting nickname.

[@alanoneill3065]

Ooh-arr me hearties....gorblimey!!!!

[@simongee8928]

With the timing, this can easily be danced to using step or rant style. Both great fun - !

[@Dudleymiddleton]

Poor 'ol Chalky was going "Cwooarhh!" thank you for uploading ! :)

[@nunyabusiness5400]

Beautiful!!

[@xorberates]

WOW! WOW! WOW! I Love it! Amazing!

[@petercroft1901]

How wonderful

[@julianparrett9005]

Best city in the UK by a mile!! Pompey play up

[@aliasdeputydog]

If you take the trouble to research properly you will find that most of the time these girls were called out to dance as a"filler" for groups that for some reason or another couldnt appear live to perform. More ofter than not they only had a couple of hours at the most to come up with a routine for a song,rehearse, then perform it live on stage thats why occasionally they might make slight errors. All of those girls were in-fact trained dancers. Cowell and BGT are crap anyway

[@pompey_latest4466]

Play up pompey💙We will never die💙

[@jonnybrick7473]

For all you fellas out there...

[@willobi]

Give a harty Yarrgh mateys!!! "YARRGH!!"

[@evansmith3589]

Mentioned in Richard Thompson's autobio Beeswing!

[@derekthesec]

These girls were hot. Would be an ideal song if Portsmouth FC did well in the league.

[@tizianomontanari3956]

Mike si a genius!!

[@virtualatheist]

Both Pan's People and Legs & Co deserve MAXIMUM RESPECT in my opinion. They were treated like shit by the production company and were given very little notice as to what would be expected of them from week to week. Sometimes they had as little as 2 hours notice to come up with a routine for a live TV performance. Like I said, MAXIMUM RESPECT!

[@wiesawdobrzynski8059]

❤ cud

[@ENGBriseB]

The Pride of the South. PUP.

[@digitalsoldier3894]

Just as well Savile wasnt presenting that night

[@MickB235]

What wierd looking boots

[@chopinchrist5513]

j adore

[@helenrudd7842]

a top 10 hit

[@annemariecharron3293]

😍😍👏🏻👏🏻

[@alanoneill3065]

Roger the Cabin Boy...

[@royfinch8644]

I'll bet that poor parakeet was frightened out of it's wits. Stupid idea. Legs great of course!

[@MrMittens1974]

It's an Amazon parrot. It's not displaying any fear behaviour.

[@Gman1044]

Hold your tongue and say Pirate Ship.

[@gouvyrock]

gorgeous girls

[@andrewpearson8496]

Play up Pompey

[@steveforster9764]

Woof down boy down

[@kirstymackenzie2437]

When I heard it on the radio just now I expected more of a stomping dance, not the dainty steps they were dancing - but as someone said they didn’t usually have time to rehearse.

[@alanoneill3065]

them cabin boys look ok to me

[@drspaseebo410]

Weird costumes but they kinda work. The danciing is disjointed, however the overall effect is pretty good. Must admit I'm not a Legs & Co. fan.

[@TheSmithDorian]

The presenter here was talking shit. That wasn't Chalky the parrot. It was another parrot made up to look like him. Chalky wouldn't do commercial stuff like this - no way. Of course back in those days it wasn't considered unusual for an avian performer at Chalky's level to have a couple of body doubles to help him out at the weekends. One would do Chalky's charity appearances and the other would do the after dinner speeches and motivational speaking engagements - also signing the odd autograph or two. Chalky himself would typically spend his weekends down the Old Kent Road gambling on the unlicensed pigeon fighting circuit.

[@grantross2609]

one can only imagine what female pirates really looked like tho.....

[@kevinadamson5768]

Used to love pans people.

[@horaciovf]

Original.

[@Matt63491]

What the heck has a tune called 'Portsmouth' got to do with that ? Incongruous !

[@jorgelodwick4429]

Play,,,up.POMPEY!!!!

[@effyleven]

Either those panto-boots turned out to be harder to dance in than they'd reckoned on... ... or they were under rehearsed for some other reason. Shame. The routine was a Good Idea that didn't quite come off on the day.

[@simdel70]

Great song...and not a Muslim in sight!

[@robcaldwell4010]

simdel70 I'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with your racist agenda quite the opposite actually. I'm amazed you even linked the two.

[@pratt11111]

NO WERE NEAR AS GOOD AS PANS PEOPLE

[@SalimKhan-gk1fh]

graham yogibear . Well said Graham they were not even a patch over pans people pans people were better dances more classy and more sexy ladies!!

[@pratt11111]

all sparrow legs not as good as pans people

[@or8m8]

This would never get sed by an announcer these days, incase it offended lesbians or summat

[@coleallen3895]

0:12

[@aidy2073]

Massive hairy snatch back then

[@Dermot2927]

I don't recall them - did they have many hits?

[@phildog1960]

god they were crap wouldn't get through the 1st round on bgt.

[@TheZandernator]

And the British wonder why no one respects them