Comments on: The VII Greatest Super Bowl Halftime Shows Of Never

By: jessica

jessica — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:28:04 +0000

Not saying the last 4-5 SB half-times haven't been great, but come on! Which dinosaur, old fart band will they dig up next? I'm not a teeny-bopper (if that term is still used) by a long shot, but at least pick someone more relevant to today's music. There's the “safe-choice” and there's the “metamucil choice.”

By: Lucas Jensen

Lucas Jensen — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 02:26:10 +0000

@cheesebubble: Wow. That's awesome. Please do report back!

By: cheesebubble

cheesebubble — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:19:00 +0000

I had to return and file another report. This eve, whilst perusing the vinyl at a local thrift shop, I encountered an Up With People album from 1965! It's the very one that The Illiterate mentioned, featuring the "Green Glenn Singers" which include a Vee Entwistle (a killer bass player, no doubt). This quartet claim "to write and sing songs which give people a purpose and inspire them to live the way they are meant to live." It cost me a whopping $1.99 and I'm going to give this thing a listen. If I was able to sit through the videos posted in this article then by god I'm primed for this.

By: The Illiterate

The Illiterate — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:47:38 +0000

@Lucas Jensen: Well, the group I saw definitely wasn't as large as those you see in most pictures, maybe eight or ten as I remember. I do remember that not only were they performing, but they were actively recruiting, talking about how wonderful it was to be a member of UWP. Maybe that's how they kept up their ranks, splitting up into platoons in the off-season and trolling small town high schools.

@cheesebubble: That's a great clip. I actually found out that Close had been a member when I came upon one of those albums in a thrift store. As I remember, the photo caption spells her name Gleen Close.

By: Lucas Jensen

Lucas Jensen — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:37:00 +0000

@Cam/ron: Genius. Do you remember when Springfield was trying to get the Olympics and the kids sang that song "Children Are The Future" where the only lyrics were variations of "Children Are The Future"? Also genius.

By: Cam/ron

Cam/ron — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:00:05 +0000

@Lucas Jensen: I believe they were Hooray for Everything.

By: Lucas Jensen

Lucas Jensen — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:42:49 +0000

@cheesebubble: YouTube rarely disappoints. Amazing.

@Cam/ron: I think the name of that UWP group was Hooray For Everyone or Hooray For Everything, right?

By: cheesebubble

cheesebubble — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:31:16 +0000

@The Illiterate: Wow. Thanks for that bit of trivia. Who'd have thought that Fatal Attraction's crazy Alex Forrest was once a chanteuse in Up With People?! I felt compelled to troll the innernets for proof. YouTube didn't disappoint. Glenn's song clip around the 2:20 mark...

By: Cam/ron

Cam/ron — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:45:10 +0000

Up with People? Ha, I recall that Simpsons parody where they had a UwP-like group perform Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side” in the Duff Gardens episode.

Anyhow, I still recoil in horror over the Indiana Jones show – dance-fighting just doesn’t work. I can’t forget the “When is this goddamn show over?” look on Tony Bennett’s face

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:41:32 +0000

@Lucas Jensen: Yeah, I'm not sure they performed *anybody's* songs. Meaning, I've got this memory of the musical material being a really generic stereotype of '50s rock-&-roll, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was a medley designed just for the halftime show. (On a side note, the medley is the foulest creation in the history of rhythmic sound.)

On the other hand, my memory could be faulty, since the link says that was part of the '89 Super Bowl, which would've made me barely eight years old! Holy crap. I can remember those three-dimensional spinning vinyl records like it was yesterday. My brain is officially useless.