The dance troupe Legs & Co. first appeared on "Top of the Pops" dancing to what song?
Legs & Co. was a dance troupe created in 1976 for the BBC's weekly "Top of the Pops" programme. They had made over three hundred appearances on this show by the time of their last performance in 1981. The six-girl dance troupe replaced Ruby Flipper on "Top of the Pops", representing a reversion to the earlier all-female format for troupes on this show, and covering the time period when the disco, punk and new wave music fashions were at their chart peak.
The three remaining female Ruby Flipper members were retained for the new group. These were: Lulu Cartwright, Patti Hammond and Sue Menhenick. Following a set of auditions, the following dancers were added: Rosemary Hetherington, Pauline Peters and Gill Clark.
By the time of the new troupe's first appearance on "Top of the Pops" on 21 October 1976, dancing to the Average White Band's "Queen of My Soul", the group was still unnamed. For their first appearances, they were introduced as the "Top of the Pops" dancers, while their name was listed as "??????" on the end credits of three editions. The BBC decided to allow viewers to select a name for the new dance troupe via a competition promoted on "Top of the Pops" by Ed Stewart after the girls made their dancing debut, and on the BBC children's programme "Blue Peter". The name "Legs & Co." was chosen as the successful name. This was announced on the "Top of the Pops" of 4 November 1976, with the competition winner in attendance, Elaine Coombes.
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