The Michigan Marching Band. Undefeated, since 1896. YUBA AND ALWAYS, GO BLUE!!!

Now this is a blast from the past! In recent years, watching these old halftime shows from the 1960's, 70's and 80's around Super Bowl time has been one of my guilty pleasures. To see this show in its entirety, start here and then go to youtube.com:/watch?v=vEcId2tXuh4 for part 2.

Sure glad to have some of these old shows on KZbin. IMHO, the Super Bowl halftime show jumped a HUGE shark in the early 1990's. A minority opinion, I'm sure, but I like these old-school halftime shows from the early years of the Super Bowl much better.

TBDBITL

Wow. Woody Herman fronting a world class University Marching Band. Now THATs entertainment!

They said even Michigan gets up on there feet for the script Ohio..HA..Not now, they Boo each others bands lol wish i could have grew up in the 70's 80's

andy had a fantastic voice

My husband had the privilege of being part of this band and marching at this Super Bowl halftime. Go Blue

Woody Herman with Cavender conducting the band. Amazing!

Just noticed the title: it's not a football game. LOL (MMB eupher, and somewhere in this vid)

Flag is at half-mast in memory of Harry Truman, who died Dec. 26, 1972.

why cant we still do this today but noo instead celebs steal the super bowl half time from us marchers and you know what we should take it back

@efrem1 No, LBJ died on January 22, 1973, 8 days AFTER this game which was January 14, 1973. Also on January 22, 1973 Roe v Wade was passed and American involvement in Vietnam ended.

@jjs022478 It's been a long time, but it was actually LBJ who died in early 1973 a few days just before this game.

@gino454 It was Journey, and it was outside the stadium.

I thought this was the one in the RWJ video... I guess not. Still cool though

This is the '72 game in Columbus. As Chris Schenkel notes, OSU led that game 7-3 at the half. At the 4:40 mark the camera shows the entire "Love" formation by TBDBITL and you can clearly see the smaller "south stands" that Ohio Stadium had back then

Clearly the wrong date - that's Ann Arbor - the 72 game was in Columbus.

George Cavender conducted the Michigan Band at the Super Bowl. William Revelli had retired as band director a couple years earlier.

Who directed the band, Revelli or Cavender?

That girl is probably close to 60 years old now hahaha. She's probably 20 there, add 35 years.

Man...too bad we didn't have Hi Def back then, woulda been cool to see everything. Lots of history with the band, interesting to see teh uniforms in detail, and even the different hair cuts etc. Different times I guess.

Wow woody herman...nice....

Thanks for posting this!

Nice to see the Michigan band in southern California during the 70's. They did not get there very often after all of their losses to Ohio State. Then again, nothing much has changed.

what was the pregame for super bowl 43??? i don't remember seeing any kind of pregame show since super bowl 41....maybe they don't do anything anymore?

That's a VERY cute girl at 1:35 with the long brown hair!

His partner was the late Al deRogotis

The intro by legendary sportscaster Curt Gowdy.

great to hear replay from the old days especially with Bob Ufer in the backround

Our first Super Bowl. Sure wouldn't be our last! :-)

great performance by Michigan band & Andy Williams! Ahhh the sights & sounds of BigTen bands & autumn! GO MICHIGAN STATE!

Thanks for posting!Love the helmet cars & football when it was a game! PS: GO MSU Spartans!!!

Gotta love the helmet cars...grew up watching '70's football & wanted one then.Still do!!!

Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, future U.S Senator from New Mexico for one term (1977-83).

Sorry, I do not have the game video

This was one of the greatest halftime shows of all time. I've searched for years for the Song, "Marmalade, Molasses and Honey" by Andy Williams because I rememberred it from this half time show. I finally found it still in print by a music company in Germany. Was the most expensive 45 rpm I've ever bought, but worth it.

I don't appreciate that.

Even the Simpsons edisode before the SuperBowl totally ripped into Halftime shows. this is really funny

BEFORE THAT IDIOT!

Oh,my! I was in the flag corps, waaaay back then. We marched with the Big Ten flags. I carried the very heavy, triple layered, white Wisconsin flag. The lighter Maize and Blue flags came out in 1976. I recall how we blew out the field mics when we open halftime with the 20th Century FOX theme. My goodness, how time flies. GO BLUE

Touche. Oh well...hopefully, our teams will return to the top of the heap in the near future.

Yes, I know you guys had the perfect season, but don't forget...we only lost by a touchdown and a PAT :-) Go Skins!

Grambling/Southern Florida A&M/Bethune-Cookman

The '73 Super Bowl band was not the full Michigan Band, but a scaled-down block of about 120 musicians.

At the time, I don't think there was a band in the country that could play and march as well as Michigan. Listen to how tight they are; even with the old-school microphones and sound system they still sound great.

Great choir, Citrus College Singers and great band Michigan.

Back when the Super Bowl Entertainment was for your grandparents! That all changed finally in 1991.

Awesome!