Scranton Time - bits and pieces from Tom Flannery

Scranton Time - bits and pieces from Tom Flannery

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The Super Bowl halftime show

The Super Bowl halftime show

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Tom Flannery
Feb 15, 2022
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The Super Bowl halftime show
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Check out this setlist....

Medley: "The Twist"/"Cool Jerk"/"Monster Mash"/"Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini"/"Wipeout"/"Surfin' USA"
Medley: "Little GTO"/"Dancing in the Street"/"Uptight (Everything's Alright)"/"Stop in the Name Of Love"/"I Heard It Through The Grapevine"/"Ain't No Mountain High Enough"
Medley: "Scarborough Fair"/"Michael Row The Boat Ashore"/"Abraham, Martin & John"
Medley: "Can't Buy Me Love"/"All You Need Is Love"/"Hey Jude"/"Let The Sunshine In

It's badass. Set list from the 1982 Super Bowl halftime show. Performed by "Up With People", a non-profit organization of impossibly earnest and squeaky clean volunteers who might’ve made Pat Boone blush. They are by far the kings and queens of the Super Bowl halftime show, headlining four times. Suck it Springsteen.

I feel like this was the pinnacle.

Unless of course you consider "Elvis Presto", the Elvis impersonator who slayed at the 1989 game, to be the GOAT. You could be forgiven for that. The guy took the gig 3 days before the game when the initial Elvis quit to film a Lee jeans commercial…so don’t ever tell me you know what pressure is because you don’t.

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