Who Is Super Bowl Halftime Show

11/30/2009

Let's examine the history of those halftime performances to date... we've come a long way since that memorable Carol Channing appearance...

By Blurt Staff

The Who will do the halftime show at the Super Bowl (officially it is going by the name "The Bridgestone Super Bowl XLIV Halftime Show"). The event will be broadcast on CBS Sports at Dolphin Stadium in South Florida on Sunday, February 7.

We are advised that "The Bridgestone Super Bowl halftime show is one of the most anticipated musical events of the year. More than 151 million viewers in the U.S. watched last year's show. The Super Bowl and halftime show will be broadcast worldwide in more than 230 countries and territories."

Well, there ya go - only a chump would pass up the gig, and recent non-chumps include Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Prince, the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, U2, and, uh, Janet Jackson's tit. Last year the Who became the first rock band ever to be awarded the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors.

HISTORY OF SUPER BOWL HALFTIME ENTERTAINMENT

SUPER BOWL	HALFTIME
I	Universities of Arizona and Michigan Bands.
II	Grambling University.
III	"America Thanks" with Florida A&M University.
IV	Carol Channing.
V	Florida A&M Band.
VI	"Salute to Louis Armstrong" with Ella Fitzgerald, Carol Channing, Al Hirt and U.S. Marine Corps Drill Team.
VII	"Happiness Is..." with University of Michigan Band and Woody Herman.
VIII	"A Musical America" with University of Texas Band.
IX	"Tribute to Duke Ellington" with Mercer Ellington and Grambling University Bands.
X	"200 Years and Just a Baby" Tribute to America's Bicentennial.
XI	"It's a Small World" including crowd participation for first time with spectators waving colored placards on cue.
XII	"From Paris to the Paris of America" with Tyler Apache Belles, Pete Fountain and Al Hirt.
XIII	"Super Bowl XIII Carnival" Salute to the Caribbean with Ken Hamilton and various Caribbean bands.
XIV	"A Salute to the Big Band Era" with Up with People.
XV	"A Mardi Gras Festival."
XVI	"A Salute to the 60's and Motown."
XVII	"KaleidoSUPERscope" (a kaleidoscope of color and sound).
XVIII	"Super Bowl XVIII's Salute to the Superstars of the Silver Screen."
XIX	"A World of Children's Dreams."
XX	"Beat of the Future."
XXI	"Salute to Hollywood's 100^th Anniversary."
XXII	"Something Grand" featuring 88 grand pianos, the Rockettes and Chubby Checker.
XXIII	"Be Bop Bamboozled" featuring 3-D effects.
XXIV	"Salute to New Orleans" and 40^th Anniversary of Peanuts' characters, featuring trumpeter Pete Fountain, Doug Kershaw & Irma Thomas.
XXV	"A Small World Salute to 25 Years of the Super Bowl" featuring New Kids on the Block.
XXVI	"Winter Magic" including a salute to the winter season and the winter Olympics featuring Gloria Estefan, Brian Boitano and Dorothy Hamill.
XXVII	"Heal the World" featuring Michael Jackson and 3,500 local children. Finale included audience card stunt.
XXVIII	"Rockin Country Sunday" featuring Clint Black, Tanya Tucker, Travis Tritt, Wynonna & Naomi Judd. Finale included flashlight stunt.
XXIX	"Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Forbidden Eye" featuring Tony Bennett, Patti LaBelle, Arturo Sandoval, the Miami Sound Machine and stunts including fire and skydivers. Finale included audience participation with light sticks.
XXX	Diana Ross celebrating 30 years of the Super Bowl with special effects, pyrotechnics and stadium card stunt. Finale featured Diana Ross being taken from the stadium in a helicopter.
XXXI	"Blues Brothers Bash" featuring Dan Akroyd, John Goodman and James Belushi. Also featuring "The Godfather of Soul" James Brown and ZZ Top.
XXXII	"A Tribute to Motown's 40^th Anniversary" including Boyz II Men, Smokey Robinson, Queen Latifah, Martha Reeves and The Temptations.
XXXIII	"Celebration of Soul, Salsa and Swing" featuring Stevie Wonder, Gloria Estefan, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and tap dancer Savion Glover.
XXXIV	"A Tapestry of Nations" featuring Phil Collins, Christina Aguilera, Enrique Iglesias, Toni Braxton and an 80-person choir.
XXXV	"The Kings of Rock and Pop" featuring Aerosmith, *N'SYNC, Britney Spears, Mary J. Blige and Nelly
XXXVI	U2
XXXVII	Shania Twain, No Doubt and Sting
XXXVIII	Janet Jackson, Kid Rock, P. Diddy, Nelly and Justin Timberlake
XXXIX	Paul McCartney
XL	The Rolling Stones
XLI	Prince
XLII	Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
XLIII	Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
XLIV	The Who

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