Talk:Up with People

Bankruptcy

Should their bankruptcy be mentioned? Selling their headquarters building in Broomfield? Nospamtodd 00:50, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

It is significant to their history - getting bankrupt and shutting down in 2001, restarting as WorldSmart in 2004, taking a break in early 2006 and relaunching in mid 2006 as Up With People. However, I'm not sure how this would fit into the "quoting your sources" thing as all this information comes firsthand (I travelled with them as WorldSmart in 2005) and while there are sources for the current incarnation, there's hardly anything that references the connection between UWP and WorldSmart.

Any advice on that? Tiara 11:26, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Up with People never filed bankruptcy. The board acted with deligence and care when it decided to shut down operations in 2000 in order to avoid bankruptcy, sell various assets including the headquarters, and re-organize the programme in the following years. "GlobeSmart" was its new name under new leadership for a while; yet the current programme - re-named Up with People - is a return to the concept that Up with People had prior to 2000, yet organised differently (shorter tours, longer stays in each city, less production cost).

A. Grige (member/staff 1984 - 1995) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.242.175.206 (talk) 22:58, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Use of lyrics

Normally I would delete the lyrics of the "Up with People" theme song on the grounds of copyvio and wikipolicy, however the statement about them not being allowed for commercial use is a bit confusing. Are the lyrics, therefore, public domain? If so this should be noted. Otherwise they might not be allowed to stay since usually only PD lyrics can be used on Wikipedia. 23skidoo 20:59, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Much about this group is somewhat confusing. It evolved from a deeply spiritual movement into a peppy light frothy show, it has several names, and the entry looks contrived. It is unsure whether the lyrics are in the pd. Best to remove them in theses circumstances, as I have done, until clarification is given. GRANBRO 22:36, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

159.134.146.106 18:17, 23 September 2007 (UTC)°== Whence Came Sing Out America! ?? ==

If I am not mistaken, Up With People! morphed into Sing Out America! at some point, or perhaps the latter was an offshoot of the former. At any rate, that needs to be researched and included, methinks. The "peppy light frothy show" mentioned above was inherent in these shows from the beginning. I attended one of the early shows in 1965 and it was certainly "peppy"! -- Glacierman 05:23, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

I was a member of a local Sing Out in Florissant, MO back in the early 70's. At that time the Sing Outs were the local organizations and Up With People was the global organization that you strove to become a part of. I would love to be able to locate anyone from Sing Out Florissant if there is a web site that has any of that info. ````

I was a member of a local Sing Out in Dublin, Ireland back in the Mid 70's and I would love to be able to obtain a cd of Up with People as a momento as I thought the music and lyrics were fab and gave me a great start to music appreciation. - Jackie

I was a member of Sing Out Dearborn (MI/USA) - from 1981 until the group disbanded in the late 1990s. Was also a member of People International from 1983 until the early 90's as well - Kept alot of historical stuff on them (which is why I wanted to post the reference here) Applied (and was accepted) into UWP around 1989 - but ended up not joining due to other obligations... - Jeff —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jwiertalla (talk • contribs) 14:41, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Greetings:

I remember seeing the SING OUT '66 show at a coliseum in Raleigh, North Carolina, and I loved that show.

One of the songs they did, which really impressed me, was WHICH WAY, AMERICA?

It was allegedly based on a final letter to his wife from a United States soldier in Viet Nam, just before he was killed.

The chorus went something like this:

"Which way, America? Which way, America, is going to go? This is my country and I want to know, which way America is going to go?"

Does anybody remember that song?

Where can I find a copy of the lyrics?

I wonder if that show was filmed and recorded for posterity?

I'd love to purchase a copy on CD or DVD.

I did an Internet search, but found nothing, not even at the UP WITH PEOPLE official web site.

Thank you.

John Robert Mallernee, Armed Forces Retirement Home, Washington, D.C. 20011-8400 Writesong (talk) 12:55, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

I was a member of the Sing Out St. Louis-South County back in the early 70's prior to me going to Vietnam. You can find the words to the song Which way America @musicnotes.com

Japan Tour

"... to Tokyo and by train past Hiroshima to Kobe ..."

The geography is wrong. Coming from Tokyo by train, one arrives at Kobe well before Hiroshima, which is some hours further on. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 207.10.35.10 (talk) 20:20, 30 January 2007 (UTC).

Home page for Up With People

http://www.upwithpeople.org/ Unfortunately I have not been able to search songs for lyrics. One would be relevant to a class project. It was out near the time of their beginings - "Give the children back their childhood", ends in a very relevant "and they just may, forget someday, to carry on our wars".