Anyone else remember "Up With People?"

[Archae]

It was from the late 60's to early 70's, I remember seeing it during a Super Bowl halftime show.

It really was corny and clichéd.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. one of my high school classmates was part of that, played trumpet.

I don't think I ever saw one of the shows though

[CrispyQ]

2. I do!

Up, up with people
You meet the wherever you go.
Up, up with people
They're the best kind of folks to know.
If more people were for people
more people everywhere
There'd be a lot less people to worry about
and a lot more people who care.

[Merlot]

9. People: They're the best kind of folks to know.

I'd like to meet some of those folks who aren't people.

Or would that be folks who aren't people?

[CrispyQ]

10. Dogs. I think you're thinking of dogs.

[avebury]

3. I went to one of their shows years ago.

The organization is still around.

[tymorial]

4. I do I think someone from my department in college did that.

I remember him talking about it. Ugh I cant remember his name.

God damn it now this is going to bother me all day LOL

[Yonnie3]

5. Yes

In the 60s it was associated with Moral Re‐Armament which seemed Fascist to me. I worked with a local group who wanted to go on tour when I developed that attitude about MRA and quit (1967?). The two split in 1968.

https://tucson.com/news/blogs/morgue-tales/moral-re-armament-sing-out-and-up-with-people/article_2c7f3a38-3691-5d8a-8653-32ef30f627c8.html

[jpak]

11. It always creeped me out

Plastic

[FakeNoose]

12. I bet they're all ChumpHumpers now

You left at the right time.

[Yonnie3]

15. Yes, indeed

I rapidly became someone that they frowned upon.

It was some of the locals that caused me to leave, but a further look showed me it was the same nationally.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

6. Yup. Parents took sister and me to see it at DAR Constitution Hall

When we were 14 in 1967.

We were not impressed, LOL. At all.

They bought the album too. And for some reason the Up With People song was going through my head the other day. I can't believe there's a post about it now!

[hlthe2b]

7. Bet you didn't know, that actress Glenn Close was raised in the group that became UP WITH PEOPLE

She had a fascinating childhood. Her father was a physician who worked in Africa during the earliest Ebola outbreak and ultimately retired as a small-town physician in Wyoming. I'm not quite sure how the MRA group fed into that, but it seems her father, at least pulled away eventually, so maybe it was just her Mother?

[customerserviceguy]

8. You meet 'em wherever you go

They're the best kind of folks I know!

Yeah, I remember...

[demmiblue]

13. Our family hosted a few "Up With People" participants in our home.

It was a great way to learn about different cultures.

[Demovictory9]

14. yes.

[Brother Buzz]

16. No, but I remember Pat Paulsen's campaign slogan

"I've Upped My Standards, Now Up Yours."