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

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[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

I remember my family going to an Up With People concert when I was very young. This particular video UWP performance was from 1965. It'd be nice if Donald Trump could work something like this into his rallies starting next month. The songs are patriotic, spirit-filled and very inspiring! It'd even be way too cool to get together some of the original cast members too!

Links to the complete list of songs (all in monotone...sorry about that) here: https://archive.org/details/lp_pace-magazine-presents-up-with-people-the_up-with-people-charles-woodard-effie-galle

[Migraine]

Owwww! You are right!

How about just Christie? My absolute favorite 1970s song “Yellow River”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxu5zyUnVzE

[Terry L Smith]

For a short while, I was with the local group in Stamford, Ct, during my high school time there, 1968 to 1970.

[SMARTY]

Glenn Close was in that group, right?

[JonPreston]

There are still 400 people in jail who attended his last rally, so count me out.

[JonPreston]

I'm going with this toe tapper

Washington Square - The Village Stompers 1963 {Stereo}

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

BTW, I've already forwarded the suggestion to Donald J. Trump HERE. I hope he/his people take the UWP suggestion seriously.

[hoe_cake]

“...UWP theme at a Trump rally. Really would.”

The pendulum can only swing so far to the left before it has to come back right. Or so I’ve been telling myself - for years.

Still, it could happen. Many of us would be relieved for a good sense of wholesomeness.

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

The name of Donald Trump’s website it “Save America”. What better way of saving it than by going back to the virtues that made it great in the first place?

[sport]

And they are going to remain there , too.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Just no.
Nor should trump pose with any Model T cars.
Nor wear clothes from the 60s.

Time has passed this by.

[Az Joe]

I HATED that song

[Az Joe]

Up With People! (1968)

It happened just this morning I was walking down the street
The milkman and the postman and policeman I did meet.
There in ev’ry window and ev’ry single door
I recognized people I’d never noticed before.

Up! Up with people!
You meet ‘em wherever you go
Up! Up with People!
They’re the best kind of folks we know.

If more people were for people
All people ev’rywhere
There’d be a lot less people to worry about
And a lot more people who care.

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

The lyrics to the 1965 songs can be found at THIS LINK, (interspersed with the lyrics from UWP songs from later years)

[abigkahuna]

Didnb’t like them bvack in the 60s and not in favor of them now...its old folks sappy jingo-istic rap music....bah!

[hoe_cake]

“...t than by going back to the virtues that made it great in the first place?”

Wishful thinking. Too much damage. Too much water under the bridge. We have evolved into a people who don’t know ‘wholesome’ any longer. Just IMO. And I am a positive person albeit a practical one.

I am hopeful you will make an impact, my friend. I’d get on your team.

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

Actually it’s for America’s team. Bring back the country we remember. It’s not too late. Trump is the one to do it. He did it for 4 years (very well too). He can/will do it again.

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

Hope to hear back from Trump 45 AND 46!

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

Review of Vintage concert: Up with People brings clean-cut show to Syracuse in 1968.

1968 was a tumultuous year in the United States.

It would see the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, and widespread protests in cities against racism and the war in Vietnam.

This ad for the Up with People concert at the War Memorial ran in the Post-Standard on the day of the concert, April 30, 1968. "Had it with Hippies, Burnt-out on Beatniks" was how the clean-cut, wholesome concert was marketed.

Young people found their voice and were instrumental in leading protests in the streets and on college campuses.

But there was a growing backlash to the protests among people who Richard Nixon would later call the "silent majority."

On April 30, 1968, the same day that 720 Columbia University students were arrested at a sit-in, the Onondaga County War Memorial had a concert that catered to that audience.

Up with People, an organization which promoted good will and community service, promised a clean-cut and wholesome concert.

The Herald American called Up with People a "demonstration of songs instead of signs, fun instead of faultfinding."

Hailed as a "sing-out explosion," the group starred 180 high school and college students, described as "non-hippie" and "clean-cut," who were rebelling against "cynicism and slip-shod morality." Their songs were about compassion, understanding, humor and patriotism.

Begun about two years before in Mackinaw, Michigan, Up with People's basic principle was described by the Herald American as a "determination on the part of youth to take a responsible part in the task of society and nation building."

They were seen across the country, in stadiums, campuses and auditoriums, and had done concerts around the world. More than 100 million people had witnessed their shows on television.

The cast for the Syracuse show would be made up of 180 youths, representing 45 states and 26 countries, selected for their talent and leadership. (Up with People had three groups traveling in the U.S. at a time.)

In an April 27, 1968 article, the Post-Standard wrote that the group had "become the answer to the contrasting image established by hippies, draft-card burners and rioters."

Their two-hour performance promised 30 of the group's original songs including "I Want to be Strong," "A New Tomorrow," "What Color is God's Skin" and "You Can't Live Crooked and Think Straight."

For two days prior to their concert, the cast would visit city and county school performing an abbreviated version of their "sing-out."

During their stay in Syracuse, the group's members would be housed in private homes, including at the residences of Syracuse's own local version of Up with People, Sing-Out Syracuse.

(The local organization was formed by the Rev. John Morse, assistant pastor at St. Ann's Church on Onondaga Boulevard. They had performed for over 20,000 people in the Syracuse-area by April 1968 and had appeared with Lionel Hampton and the "Lawrence Welk stars" at the New York State Fair.)

If you would renew your faith in the younger generation, this concert is one of the best ways of doing so. Syracuse is fortunate to have the singers here," it said.

More than 7,000 people turned out for the show, including the city's mayor, William Walsh.

"If the "Up with People" cast of youths leaves its audiences with just a fraction of its vitality, good will and 'plug into something positive' feeling, the world will be a better place to live in," said the Post-Standard's review.

The group's singers appeared "clean and scrubbed" in their blue, green and red jumpers with white blouses for the girls and blue or gold suit jackets for the boys.

An Italian medley, from their recent two-month visit there, a Korean dance and Hawaiian songs gave the concert an "international feeling."

"Up with People" pulls an audience like a magnet. It's all energy, vitality and sheer good will," the paper's review concluded.

The group is still performing to this day, in the United States and around the world.

The group achieved its most notoriety for being the halftime entertainment at four Super Bowls between 1976 and 1986.

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

There’s a lot of similarities between what was happening in the US in the 60’s and what is happening in the US now (under sleepy joe).

[hoagy62]

Remember Up With People being there for the entire run of Expo 74 in Spokane. You could see them do their show once or twice s day every day.