Up with People

Up with People is a Founded in 1965, US- based non - profit educational organization to the movement Moral Re - Armament (MRA, German: Moral Re-Armament ) is due.

Up with People is known for its music shows, where between 70 and 100 young people aged 18-29 years occur for up to 20 different countries. In these " casts" the group for one or two semesters traveled at least three continents to participate locally in public life to give social support and perform their music show. Until 2000 such a trip took a whole year. There were five annual " casts" that in January ( three groups) and in July launched (two groups ).

The students live during their time with Up with People in host families. The show is on the one hand, to thank their host families for their hospitality. On the other hand, the students announce their ( non-religious ) message in the form of music and point to social, ethical, cultural and other problems, but also opportunities for mankind. The music is intended to be used as an international language that everyone understands.

Up with People is based in Denver in the USA. The European headquarters is in Brussels. As founder J. Blanton Belk applies. After discontinuing the program in 2000, 2004 saw the time being under the new name " Smart World " to restart. Soon it was but again worked with the famous name Up with People.

Known participants

Reception

The groups were 1976, 1980, 1982 and 1986 in the halftime show of the Super Bowl. In the West German television had existed since the 1970s and 1980s appearances on Saturday evening shows. Under its own music label, Up With People! Records were published up to 1998 records.

The Simpsons episode Selma wants a baby shows as an allusion to Up with People made ​​an appearance the group Hooray for Everything.

In 2009, the documentary film Smile ' Til It Hurts appeared: The Up with People Story by director Lee Storey. The film documents the history of the group from its origins in the late 1950s. He works out that the group whose founding of companies such as Halliburton, General Motors, Exxon and Searle was supported, was designed as a counter movement to the hippie culture. Despite some criticism of the religious roots of the organization, its politically conservative message and the simple-minded music, so a discussion of New York's Village Voice, he portray the parties with respect for their good intentions.

Discography

  • Up With People! In Hollywood, Pace Records, 1965
  • Up With People, Pace Records, 1970
  • Let All The People In, Up With People! Records, 1971
  • The Up With People show, Up With People! Records, 1972
  • The Up With People CBS TV Special, Up With People! Records, 1972
  • Livin 'On, Up With People! Records, 1974
  • The '75 / '76 show album, Up With People! Records, 1975
  • Up With People, Up With People! Records, 1977
  • Up With People - Times Of Your Life - A 100 - Year Start On Tomorrow, Kodak, 1979
  • People Are The Energy, Up With People! Records, 1979
  • Encore!, Up With People! Records, 1981
  • Super Bowl XVI, Up With People! Records, 1981
  • Live In Concert, Up With People! Records, 1983
  • Beat Of The Future, Up With People! Records, 1985
  • Time For The Music - The World Tour, Up With People! Records, 1987
  • Roads, Up With People! Records, 1998

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Record label The Village Voice
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