Up With People's Super Bowl X Halftime Show, "200 Years and Just a Baby: A Tribute to America's Bicentennial", in the Orange Bowl, Miami, Florida on January 18, 1976.
Holy cow! 2:35 was my grandfather on cowbell! He got to keep the bell and my uncle did a video of him restoring it into a headlight cover for his Honda bike.
@CreatureFeatureFred Are you kidding about the 1970s? The 1970s, not jaded or angry or hopeless? You must not have been alive then. Vietnam, the energy crisis, Iran hostages, environmental mess, blackouts, gas shortage, population explosion...you may not remember Carter and the "national malaise" but I do. We were plenty jaded and hopeless back then. In fact I remember the Bicentennial celebrations being rather bleak because the country was such a mess.
At 2:01, perhaps the only Super Bowl half time broadcast mention of "cole slaw" in the illustrious game's history. I think this spectacle was the inspiration for the Simpsons Super Bowl episode half-time show: "People of Earth, we've come millions of miles to bring you this message: One o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock rock!...."
A bit corny, yeah. But the choreography was excellent and some people were actually singing. After suffering through some of the recent overhyped and gaudy halftime shows (except for my babe Shakira!) this one is actually refreshing to watch.
@kknotes How did you feel when you first found out that you would be featured in front of millions of television viewers during halftime of Super Bowl X? Did they give you enough time to practice? I noticed that you all sat on bleachers at one endzone. What else do you remember from that day?
Despite many critics' negative reviews of the "Up With People" halftime shows, I think this is a lot of fun to watch, especially having performed in a high school show choir myself for a couple of years. That's basically what this is--a large show choir. IMHO, the Super Bowl halftime show jumped the shark BIG TIME in the early 1990's. A minority opinion, I know, but I definitely prefer these old-school halftime shows from the early years of the Super Bowl.
0:01 It's a good thing Rollen Stewart wasn't behind them; the cops would have a hard time trying to restrain him while seated behind the crew. Now media types and bloggers are knashing their teeth over whether there will be a halftime show for next year's game in New Jersey. Far as I know, none of these kids would mind dancing and singing in a blizzard. So how about it, NFL? We're getting SICK AND TIRED OF DANCE POP ACTS every year! UWP cast won't dress provocatively or flip off the camera.
I'm willing to bet after the camera's left Brent Musberger he was pulling out a flask. I am also willing to bet that this made Pat Summerall's alcoholism worse.
Brings back memories of being a little kid in the 70's. I like that the girls still wore dresses. Today girls dress like guys and have tattoos like them too and it's not feminine at all. Sad
This isn't half bad. They got more lame and cheesy in later Super Bowls. They are at least singing current popular music of the era. I did hate that Up With People theme, however.
I just wish they hadn't ruined it by using the word "damn" during the opening medley. It kind of spoiled it for me, but I'll admit I'm kind of old fashioned. I just don't understand why young people feel the need to use profanity.
I'm torn on this halftime show because from a technical standpoint, it's fine. These people are good singers, the choreography is fine, and there are some songs I like mixed in there (Rock around the Clock, Take Me Home Country Roads, Philadelphia Freedom). However, I think this hits the musical equivalent of the uncanny valley. A big part of my brain is telling me that people this chipper should not be singing these songs. The 1970s seemed defined by a lack of self-awareness and Up with People seemed to be cut from the same mentality that allowed love songs sung by siblings (Donny and Marie Osmond, Richard and Karen Carpenter) to become big hits with no controversy whatsoever. Also, this halftime show seemed to embody the mentality that would eventually evolve into modern Republicanism. I'm willing to guess that most of these performers who aren't dead voted Trump (then again, I've heard that there was a disproportionate amount of gay people in this group). If you like this, I have no problem with you. There's some quality here. However, just know that popular sensibilities have long since moved on from saccharine stuff like this.
"I've heard that there was a disproportionate amount of gay people in this group" Um, yeah, they were. I'm really not sure why it would matter one way or another. It's hilarious that you think a bunch of happy, singing teenagers from the 70s automatically turned into Trump voters 4o years later. You seem deeply upset that people could be happy.
Since UWP, the Superbowl halftime shows have always been the radio at a muffler shop made manifest. UWP was the same kind of thing. The teenagers were just a sanitization filter/stand-in for the real people that wrote these songs. Then they started getting the real people and it was lame for a whole lot of new reasons. Except for Michael Jackson. He got a 2 minute ovation before he even sang while he just stood in the same pose. I wasn't even a big fan of him in the 80s, but we'll never see another like him. If UWP were getting 2 minute pose ovations, the Vietnam War would have never ended.
So many prudes in the comments! These kind of Super Bowl halftime shows were just plain cringe. Don’t @ me 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 this one wasn’t as bad as the creepy Charlie Brown and Disney ones tho 😅
Why use the song Philadelphia Freedom? Simply because it refers to Philadelphia? Admittedly it's a great song but it was written by 2 Englishmen! There is a rich tapestry of American music that could have been used instead and I believe, would have been more honest and real.
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Holy cow! 2:35 was my grandfather on cowbell!
He got to keep the bell and my uncle did a video of him restoring it into a headlight cover for his Honda bike.
That's my mom dancing on top of the podium...thanks for sharing! We've been looking for this video for YEARS!
very cool!
Which one? They all did a great job. Congrats to your mother. It must of been an honor to be asked.
My dad was in this!!!
U.W.P. is one of my favorite cults.
Mine is the one that made Cathy Don't Go
Those technicolor turtlenecks make it look like a swarm of Bond villain henchmen in the long shots.
It took the NFL 27 years to figure out that these shows were unwatchable.
Oddity Archive brought me here
@CreatureFeatureFred Are you kidding about the 1970s? The 1970s, not jaded or angry or hopeless? You must not have been alive then. Vietnam, the energy crisis, Iran hostages, environmental mess, blackouts, gas shortage, population explosion...you may not remember Carter and the "national malaise" but I do. We were plenty jaded and hopeless back then. In fact I remember the Bicentennial celebrations being rather bleak because the country was such a mess.
"Hey, will someone pass the coleslaw?" 1:48
Love it....my 5 secs of fame many moons ago...."country road, take me home"....
Was quite an experience to be there.
I was there...10 years old.
From this to Janet Jackson's nipple in only 28 years... What a time to be alive!!
Now I want a light blue turtleneck.
This halftime show was better than yesterday's!
Come a long way from The Wkeend..
About the same amount of talent as the people currently performing at the super bowl
The 200 years and just a lady song, was it based on something? the melody seems familiar to me
My Uber driver was in this!
At 2:01, perhaps the only Super Bowl half time broadcast mention of "cole slaw" in the illustrious game's history. I think this spectacle was the inspiration for the Simpsons Super Bowl episode half-time show: "People of Earth, we've come millions of miles to bring you this message: One o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock rock!...."
This seems light years away from the half-time shows of today. What we have here is the gae of innocence.
Innocence my ass
@@DetdoncarterReply checks out. He did say "gae".
A bit corny, yeah. But the choreography was excellent and some people were actually singing. After suffering through some of the recent overhyped and gaudy halftime shows (except for my babe Shakira!) this one is actually refreshing to watch.
I was hoping that one of the Up with People dancers would fall off the giant cake.
OMG Both my grand-parents were in this !!!!
@kknotes How did you feel when you first found out that you would be featured in front of millions of television viewers during halftime of Super Bowl X? Did they give you enough time to practice? I noticed that you all sat on bleachers at one endzone. What else do you remember from that day?
I LOVE UWP! I AM CYRRENTLY ON TOUR AS A SOLOIST IN DA SHOOWWWW!!!
Black Sunday; the deleted scenes :P
This really would be a great accompaniment to Bruce Dern losing his grip.
It probably helped push him over the edge just a little bit more.
This must've been before lip synking was used at live performances.
This sucks
Despite many critics' negative reviews of the "Up With People" halftime shows, I think this is a lot of fun to watch, especially having performed in a high school show choir myself for a couple of years. That's basically what this is--a large show choir. IMHO, the Super Bowl halftime show jumped the shark BIG TIME in the early 1990's. A minority opinion, I know, but I definitely prefer these old-school halftime shows from the early years of the Super Bowl.
I mean,the fact that Up With People is a cult makes them way worse then most performers of half time shows
0:01 It's a good thing Rollen Stewart wasn't behind them; the cops would have a hard time trying to restrain him while seated behind the crew.
Now media types and bloggers are knashing their teeth over whether there will be a halftime show for next year's game in New Jersey. Far as I know, none of these kids would mind dancing and singing in a blizzard. So how about it, NFL? We're getting SICK AND TIRED OF DANCE POP ACTS every year!
UWP cast won't dress provocatively or flip off the camera.
I'm willing to bet after the camera's left Brent Musberger he was pulling out a flask.
I am also willing to bet that this made Pat Summerall's alcoholism worse.
lol
Brings back memories of being a little kid in the 70's. I like that the girls still wore dresses. Today girls dress like guys and have tattoos like them too and it's not feminine at all. Sad
Back when America wasn't so slick. I think this was when America was great. Except for the stagflation and malaise of course.
Couldn't Bruce Dern have crashed the blimp at THIS point, and not during the actual game?
This isn't half bad. They got more lame and cheesy in later Super Bowls. They are at least singing current popular music of the era. I did hate that Up With People theme, however.
None of that Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, Lady Gaga bs, this is REAL American Superbowl entertainment! We need to go back to this!
legasiguy lol
Are you sniffing glue?
I just wish they hadn't ruined it by using the word "damn" during the opening medley. It kind of spoiled it for me, but I'll admit I'm kind of old fashioned. I just don't understand why young people feel the need to use profanity.
Prude ass
I'm torn on this halftime show because from a technical standpoint, it's fine. These people are good singers, the choreography is fine, and there are some songs I like mixed in there (Rock around the Clock, Take Me Home Country Roads, Philadelphia Freedom). However, I think this hits the musical equivalent of the uncanny valley. A big part of my brain is telling me that people this chipper should not be singing these songs. The 1970s seemed defined by a lack of self-awareness and Up with People seemed to be cut from the same mentality that allowed love songs sung by siblings (Donny and Marie Osmond, Richard and Karen Carpenter) to become big hits with no controversy whatsoever. Also, this halftime show seemed to embody the mentality that would eventually evolve into modern Republicanism. I'm willing to guess that most of these performers who aren't dead voted Trump (then again, I've heard that there was a disproportionate amount of gay people in this group).
If you like this, I have no problem with you. There's some quality here. However, just know that popular sensibilities have long since moved on from saccharine stuff like this.
"I've heard that there was a disproportionate amount of gay people in this group" Um, yeah, they were. I'm really not sure why it would matter one way or another. It's hilarious that you think a bunch of happy, singing teenagers from the 70s automatically turned into Trump voters 4o years later. You seem deeply upset that people could be happy.
Since UWP, the Superbowl halftime shows have always been the radio at a muffler shop made manifest.
UWP was the same kind of thing. The teenagers were just a sanitization filter/stand-in for the real people that wrote these songs.
Then they started getting the real people and it was lame for a whole lot of new reasons.
Except for Michael Jackson. He got a 2 minute ovation before he even sang while he just stood in the same pose. I wasn't even a big fan of him in the 80s, but we'll never see another like him.
If UWP were getting 2 minute pose ovations, the Vietnam War would have never ended.
So many prudes in the comments! These kind of Super Bowl halftime shows were just plain cringe. Don’t @ me 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 this one wasn’t as bad as the creepy Charlie Brown and Disney ones tho 😅
Why use the song Philadelphia Freedom? Simply because it refers to Philadelphia? Admittedly it's a great song but it was written by 2 Englishmen! There is a rich tapestry of American music that could have been used instead and I believe, would have been more honest and real.
"200 years and just a baby" ????? I don't think so. That's hilarious !!!!