Up With People (VERY PATRIOTIC): Could Donald Trump include this in his upcoming rallies?

YouTube ^ | 1965 | 1965 Up With People

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

[DIRTYSECRET]

Doodletown Pipers. U must be joking.

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

link to all UWP songs here

[Migraine]

Hmm. That picture looks a lot like the Christie Minstrels. I seem to remember them from the 70s wearing red/white/blue and doing speedskating moves on stage while they sang.

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

Actually, I’m not kidding. Think about it - THE remedy for all this BLM, divest, “touchy-feely” stuff under sleepy joe.

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

[bigbob]

Problem?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWQ0X3Hua58

[EasySt]

I played Trumpet for Up With People during my last year in high school.

(Long, LONG ago...)

~Easy

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

I've been looking at the UWP website. No, it's not the same non-partisan kind of group it was back at the time of the above video in 1965. What I'm proposing is something similar to the 1965 UWP version: patriotic, proud Americans, and God-fearing stuff.

UWP link

[OKSooner]

Don't want to hurt your feelings bro, but just... no.

Way too cheesy and artificially wholesome. Trying too hard to be too clean and too "nice"... not sure how else to put it...

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

Look at the titles of the songs. Down-to-earth stuff. Nothing touchy and feely here.

1. Don't Stand Still-Showboat-Go Boat - The Colwell Brothers 2. Design for Dedication - The Colwell Brothers 3. Run and Catch the Wind - The Green Glenn Singers 4. The Ride of Paul Revere - The Colwell Brothers 5. Somewhere - Linda Blackmore 6. You Can't Live Crooked and Think Straight - The Colwell Brothers 7. Up With People - The Colwell Brothers 8. A New Tomorrow - The Colwell Brothers 9. The Ballad of Joan of Arc - The Colwell Brothers; Linda Blackmore 10. The Spirit of the Green - Effie Galletly 11. Don't Stand Still - The Colwell Brothers 12. What Color is God's Skin? - The Colwell Brothers 13. The Happy Song - The Green Glenn Singers 14. Freedom Isn't Free - The Colwell Brothers 15. Which Way America? - Charles Woodard

[hoe_cake]

This is a great suggestion. I wanted so badly to audition for UWP. Donald Trump’s platform is just the venue for this.

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

I see your point. It was an “idealistic” time back in 1965. Any way that could be updated for 2021?

[Artemis Webb]

I’m with you on this. Up With People was like being force fed sugar coated molasses.

[hoe_cake]

“Way too cheesy and artificially wholesome. Trying too hard to be too clean and too “nice”... not sure how else to put it.”

Agreed, but the idea could be updated. IMO

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

I’ve been thinking about sharing this idea with the FReepers since President Trump was in office. I’m a transplanted US citizen living in Canada. Married and living here in Toronto since 2003. My heart YEARNS for the type of (relatively) “unspoiled” America that came out in these UWP songs. I love the country of my birth, even though I’m living in Canada. Still well up in tears when I hear the US national anthem. Honest-to-God, I do.

[hoe_cake]

“I’m with you on this. Up With People was like being force fed sugar coated molasses.”

Yeah, it was. In the middle of the Viet Nam war. Still it made an impact on many of us growing up then.

At the end of 1965 I became a ‘hippie’ (who secretly voted conservative). I may have gone ‘the other way’ for a while, but UWP was joyous. Why can’t we find middle ground, without being cheesy?

[hoe_cake]

“. My heart YEARNS for the type of (relatively) “unspoiled” America that came out in these UWP songs.”

Many of us do. The idea is great. It just needs to be updated.

And I don’t think we will ever go back to the good life of the 1960s. Too much bad juju. But we can try. We can always try.

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

...and there’s already thousands of patriotic Americans that turn out for Trump rallies. I would PAY to watch something like an UWP theme at a Trump rally. Really would.

[brianr10]

Christie MINSTRELS? Racist.