Omigod, Susan -- I was IN Up with People. Not for long -- I sort of ended up thinking some of the mucky mucks were, mmm, taking the kids and their parents for a bit of a ride, moneywise. And I got in trouble for sitting next to a GUY, fer gawdsakes, on the bus. But, hey, I got three months touring the U.S. in a bus with a bunch of very perky kids. Quit just before they went to Italy, idiot that I am.

And forever and ever and ever I have that darned song, the Perky Anthem (Up, UP with pee-PUL, you meet 'em whereever you goooo...) imbedded in my memory, which now has reasserted itself after lying dormant in my brain for 30 YEARS!!!! ACCCKKKK.

(I came straight home from Up with People and became a hippie -- an Oklahoma hippie, but a hippie nonetheless. Getting stoned and doing really loud Janis Joplin-esque music was tonic after all that blasted enthusiasm.)

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