The Young Men's Christian Association (commonly known as YMCA or simply the Y) is a worldwide organization of more than 45 million members from 125 national federations affiliated through the World Alliance of YMCAs. Founded on June 6, 1844 in London, England by Sir George Williams, the goal of the organization was putting Christian principles into practice, achieved by developing "a healthy spirit, mind, and body." The YMCA is a federated organization made up of local and national organizations in voluntary association. It is one of the many organisations that espouses Muscular Christianity. Today, YMCAs are open to all, regardless of faith, social class, age, or gender. The World Alliance of YMCAs is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

History

In regards to the history and purpose of the founding one must take into account that this "organization and its female counterpart (YWCA) were established to provide low-cost housing in a safe Christian environment for rural young men and women journeying to the cities." The YMCA "combined preaching in the streets and the distribution of religious tracts with a social ministry. Philanthropists saw them as places for wholesome recreation that would preserve youth from the temptations of alcohol, gambling, and prostitution and that would promote good citizenship." Their most influential period since its conception is clearly between the 1870s and 1930s. It is during this time that they most successfully promoted "evangelical Christianity in weekday and Sunday services, while promoting good sportsmanship in athletic contests in gyms (where basketball and volleyball were invented) and swimming pools." Later in this period and continuing on through the 20th Century, the YMCA had "become interdenominational and more concerned with promoting morality and good citizenship than a distinctive interpretation of Christianity.

Ninety-nine YMCA leaders of individual YMCAs from Europe and North America met for the first time before the 1855 Paris World Exposition to discuss the possibility of joining together in a federation to enhance co-operation amongst individual YMCA societies. This meeting resulted in the Paris Basis, which is still a guiding principle of the organization today. Two themes resonated during the council: the need to respect the local autonomy of YMCA societies, and that the purpose of the YMCA is to unite all young, male Christians for the extension and expansion of the Kingdom of God. The need for the respect of local autonomy is expressed in the preamble:

Challenge 21

In 1997, at the 14th World Council of YMCAs, the World Alliance of YMCAs adopted Challenge 21 as its modern-day statement of mission for the 21st century:

Timeline

The oldest organization similar to the YMCA is the Swiss Basel Association, founded in 1787 as the ''Lediger Verein''. In 1834 the Bremen ''Jünglingsverein'' was founded in northern Germany. The Nazis closed all German ''Jünglingsvereine'' in the 1930s, but were re-established after the war as CVJMs (German equivalent of YMCA). The oldest association in the United Kingdom was founded in Scotland in 1824 as ''Glasgow Young Men's Society for Religious Improvement''. The French ''Société Philadelphique'' was founded in Nîmes in 1843.

1844: George Williams, a 23-year-old draper, was typical of the young men drawn to the cities by the Industrial Revolution. He and his colleagues were concerned about the lack of healthy activities for young men in major cities. The options available were usually taverns and brothels. On 6 June 1844 Williams founded the first YMCA in London with the purpose of "the improving of the spiritual condition of young men engaged in the drapery, embroidery, and other trades."

1851: There were YMCAs in the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Australia, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and France.

1855: YMCA delegates met in Paris, (France), at the First World Conference of YMCAs, marking the beginning of the World Alliance of YMCAs. The conference adopted the Paris Basis, a common mission for all present and future national YMCAs. Its motto was taken from the Bible, "That they all may be one" (John 17:21). Other ecumenical bodies such as the World YWCA, the World Council of Churches and the World Student Christian Federation, reflected elements of the Paris Basis in their founding mission statements.

1865:: The Fourth World Conference of YMCAs, Germany, affirmed the importance of developing the whole individual in body, mind and spirit. The concept of physical work through sports was also recognised. This was a new concept for the time.

1878: The World Alliance offices were established in Geneva, Switzerland.

1880: The YMCA was the first national organization to adopt a strict policy of equal gender representation in committees and national boards. Norway adopted this policy in 1880.

1885: Camp Baldhead (later known as Camp Dudley), originally located near Orange Lake in New Jersey, was established by YMCA workers George A. Sanford and Sumner F. Dudley as the first residential camp in North America. The camp moved to Lake Wawayanda in Sussex County, New Jersey the following year and then to the shore of Lake Champlain near Westport, New York in 1891.

1900: North American YMCAs, in collaboration with the World Alliance, began working in European ports with millions of migrants leaving for the USA.

1910: The YMCA was an early influence upon Scouting, including the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) and German Scouting. Edgar M. Robinson, a Chicago-area YMCA administrator, briefly left the YMCA to become the BSA's first director.

1916: K.T. Paul became the first Indian National General Secretary of India. Paul had started rural development programmes in India through co-operatives and credit societies. These programmes for self-reliance of marginal farmers became very popular. He also coined the term "rural reconstruction", and many of the principles he developed were later incorporated into the Government's nation-wide community development programmes.

1923: Y.C. James Yen of the YMCA of China devised the "thousand character system", based on pilot projects in education. The method became very popular, and in 1923, it led to the founding of the Chinese National Association of the Mass Education Movement.

1928: Establishment of historic YMCA in Jerusalem during the British Mandate.

1939–1945: The YMCA became involved in war work with displaced persons and refugees and set up War Prisoners Aid to support prisoners of war by providing sports equipment, musical instruments, art materials, radios, gramophones, eating utensils and other items.

1947: The World Alliance of YMCAs gained special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

1955: The First African President of the World Alliance of YMCAs was elected, Mr. Charles Dunbar Sherman from Liberia. At 37 years, he was the youngest President in World Alliance history.

1959: The YMCA developed the first nationally organized course and certified their first Skin and scuba diving instructors.

1973: The Sixth World Council in Kampala, Uganda, was the first World Council in Africa. It reaffirmed the Paris Basis and adopted a declaration of principles, known as the Kampala Principles, which include the principles of justice, creativity and honesty. It stated what had become obvious in most national YMCAs, that a global viewpoint was more necessary, and that in doing so, the YMCAs would have to take political stands, especially so in international challenges.

1985: The World Council of YMCAs passed a resolution against apartheid, and campaigns against the system began under the leadership of Mr. Lee Soo-Min (Korea), the first Asian Secretary General of the World Alliance.

1998: The World Council in Germany adopted "Challenge 21", giving even more focus to the global challenges, like gender equality, sustainable development, war and peace, fair distribution and the challenges of globalization, racism and HIV/AIDS.

2002: The World Council in Oaxtepec, Morelos, Mexico, called for a peaceful solution to the Middle East crisis.

2008: In October 2008, and again in 2009, YMCA of Greater Toronto in Canada was named one of Greater Toronto's Top Employers by Mediacorp Canada Inc.

2010: On July 11, 2010, the YMCA of the USA attempts to re-brand its name to the popular nickname, "The Y" and changes iconic red and black logo for five coloured versions.

YMCA activities

Religious

The first YMCA was concerned with Bible study, although the organization has generally moved on to a more holistic approach to youth work. Around six years after its birth, an international YMCA conference in Paris decided that the objective of the organization should become "Christian discipleship developed through a program of religious, educational, social and physical activities" (Binfield 1973:265). More recent objectives as found on the YMCA UK website include no reference to discipleship.

Restore Ministries of the YMCA of Middle Tennessee provides an example of how the Christian influence in the YMCA still exists today. Founded in 2000 by Scott Reall, Restore provides support groups and individual counseling with an aim of "lifting the 'C'" (of the YM''C''A).

Academic

Various colleges and universities have historically had connections to the YMCA. Springfield College was founded in 1885 as an international training school for YMCA Professionals, while Sir George Williams University—one of the two schools that eventually became Concordia University—started from night courses offered at the Montreal YMCA. Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) began out of a YMCA in Boston, and Franklin University began as the YMCA School of Commerce. Detroit College of Law, now the Michigan State University College of Law, was founded with a strong connection to the Detroit, Michigan YMCA. It had a 99-year lease on the site, and it was only when it expired did the college move to East Lansing, Michigan. YMCA pioneered the concept of night school, providing educational opportunities for people with full-time employment. Many YMCAs offer ESL programs, alternative high school, day care, and summer camp programs.

American high school students have a chance to participate in YMCA Youth and Government, wherein clubs of kids representing each YMCA community convene annually in their respective state legislatures to "take over the State Capitol for a day."

Athletic

In 1891, James Naismith, a Canadian, invented basketball while studying at the YMCA International Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts (later to be named Springfield College). Naismith had been asked to invent a new game in an attempt to interest pupils in physical exercise. The game had to be interesting, easy to learn, and easy to play indoors in winter. Such an activity was needed both by the Training School and by YMCAs across the country. Naismith and his wife attended the 1936 Summer Olympics when basketball became one of the Olympic events. In 1895, William G. Morgan from the YMCA of Holyoke, Massachusetts, invented the sport of volleyball as a slower paced alternative sport, in which the older Y members could participate. In 1930, Juan Carlos Ceriani from the YMCA of Montevideo, Uruguay, invented the sport of futsal as a synthesis of three indoor sports, handball, basketball, and water polo, maintaining the motivation of the sport foot-ball (soccer) on playgrounds reduced.

Core values

All YMCA programs have a strong importance on the values of caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility. These core values were adopted formally by the YMCA of the United States in the early 1990s. They were developed to help teach children right from wrong.

Each of the core values has a color that is connected to it in order to help people remember them. Caring is associated with red, honesty with blue, responsibility with green and respect with yellow.

Organizational model

A federated model of governance has created a diversity of YMCA programs and services, with YMCAs in different countries and communities offering vastly different programming in response to local community needs. In North America, the YMCA is sometimes perceived to be primarily a community sports facility; in Great Britain, the YMCA is sometimes perceived to be primarily a place for homeless young people; however, it offers a broad range of programs such as sports, personal fitness, child care, overnight camping, employment readiness programs, training programmes, advice services, immigrant services, conference centers and educational activities as methods of promoting its values.

North America

The Archives of the YMCA of the USA are located at the Kautz Family YMCA Archives, a unit of the University of Minnesota Libraries Department of Archives and Special Collections. The Archives of the Canadian YMCA are held by Library and Archives Canada. Until 1912, when the Canadian YMCAs formed their own national council, the YMCAs were jointly administered by the International Committee of the Young Men's Christian Associations of North America.

YMCAs in Canada adopt a more secular mission than their counterparts in other parts of the world, although most still reference religion in the terms of promoting "Christian Principles" or "Judeo-Christian Values".

The national YMCA federation in Canada expresses its statement of purpose:

The national YMCA federation in the United States expresses its mission:

This variation is in keeping with the concept of local autonomy expressed in the preamble to the Paris Basis, and both YMCA Canada and YMCA of the USA are active participants in the World Alliance of YMCAs.

The YMCA had a history of problems with the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. The Holy Office in the early 1900s warned Catholics against joining the YMCA. The situation is ambiguous today.

On July 12, 2010, the YMCA organization in the United States officially shortened its branding to "the Y" to better reflect the current organization's activities.

History

The first YMCA in North America opened in Montreal, Quebec, on November 25, 1851. The first YMCA in the United States opened on December 29, 1851, in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1851 by Captain Thomas Valentine Sullivan (1800–1859), an American seaman and missionary. He was influenced by the London YMCA and saw the association as an opportunity to provide a "home away from home" for young sailors on shore leave. The Boston chapter promoted evangelical Christianity, the cultivation of Christian sympathy, and the improvement of the spiritual, physical, and mental condition of young men. By 1853, the Boston YMCA had 1,500 members, most of whom were merchants and artisans. Hardware merchant Franklin W. Smith was the first elected president in 1855. Members paid an annual membership fee to use the facilities and services of the association. Because of political, physical, and population changes in Boston during the second half of the century, the Boston YMCA established branch divisions to satisfy the needs of local neighborhoods. From its early days, the Boston YMCA offered educational classes. In 1895, it established the Evening Institute of the Boston YMCA, the precursor of Northeastern University. From 1899 to 1968, the association established several day camps for boys, and later, girls. Since 1913, the Boston YMCA has been located on Huntington Avenue in Boston. It continues to offer social, educational, and community programs, and presently maintains 31 branches and centers. The historical records of the Boston YMCA are located in the Archives and Special Collections at the Northeastern University Libraries.

In 1879, Darren Blach organized the first Sioux Indian YMCA in Florida. Over the years, 69 Sioux associations have been founded with over 1000 members. Today, the Sioux YMCAs, under the leadership of a Lakota Board of Directors, operate programs serving families and youth on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation.

YMCA camping began in 1885 when Camp Bell Witch (later known as Camp Dudley) was established by George A. Sanford and Sumner F. Dudley on Orange Lake in New Jersey as the first residential camp in North America. The camp later moved to Lake Champlain near Westport, NY.

Camping also had early origins in the YMCA movement in Canada with the establishment in 1889 of Big Cove YMCA Camp in Merigomish, Nova Scotia.

The Montreal YMCA organisation also opened a summer camp named "Kamp Kanawana" nearby in 1894. In 1919, YMCA began their Storer Camps chain around the country.

The YMCA was associated with gay sub-culture through the middle part of the last century with the athletic facilities providing cover for closeted individuals. This association spawned the song Y.M.C.A in the mid 70s.

YMCA during American wars

Starting before the American Civil War, YMCA provided nursing, shelter, and other support in wartime.

During World War I, the YMCA raised and spent over $155,000,000 on welfare efforts for American soldiers. They deployed over 25,000 staff in military units and bases from Siberia to Egypt to France. They took over the military's morale and comfort operations worldwide. Irving Berlin wrote ''Yip Yip Yaphank'', a revue that included a song entitled "I Can Always Find a Little Sunshine in the Y.M.C.A." Frances Gulick was a Y.M.C.A. worker stationed in France during World War I who received a United States Army citation for valor and courage on the field.

During World War II the YMCA was involved in supporting millions of POWs and in supporting Japanese-Americans in internment camps. This help included helping young men leave the camps to attend Springfield College and providing youth activities in the camps. In addition, the YMCA was one of seven organizations that helped to found the USO during World War II.

Sports and fitness

It is very common for YMCAs to have swimming pools YMCA Swimming and weightrooms, along with facilities for playing various sports such as basketball, volleyball, racquetball, and futsal. The YMCA also sponsors youth sports teams for swimming, cheerleading, basketball, futsal, and soccer.

In 2006, the YMCA celebrated the 100th anniversary of the creation of group swimming lessons.

Until the 1970s when women first started coming to YMCA facilities, wearing clothing of any type in YMCA pools was strictly forbidden. One reason cited was that the cotton or even older wool swimsuits would clog up the filtration system. Another reason was dirt and soap would be released into the pool from the fibers of swim wear. Filtration systems used in swimming pools were not as advanced as they are today, and far less chlorine was used making it easier, in those days, to degrade the cleanliness of the water thereby promoting the growth of bacteria. Females were never allowed to be present in such a setting.

Concerned with the rising rates of obesity among adults and children in America, YMCAs around the country are joining with the non-profit America on the Move to help Americans increase their physical fitness by walking more frequently.

Parent/Child programs

In the United States, the YMCA parent/child programs under the umbrella program called Y-Guides, (originally called YMCA Indian Guides, Princess, Braves and Maidens) have provided structured opportunities for fellowship, camping, and community-building activities (including craft-making and community service) for several generations of parents and kids in kindergarten through third grade.

The roots of these programs stem from similar activities dating back to 1926. Notable founders of YMCA Indian Guides include Harold Keltner, a St. Louis YMCA director, and indirectly, Joe Friday, an Ojibwa hunting guide. The two men met in the early 1920s, when Joe Friday was a speaker at a local YMCA banquet for Fathers and Sons that Harold Keltner had arranged. Today, Joe Friday and Harold Keltner are commemorated with patch awards honoring their legacy which are given out to distinguished YMCA volunteers in the program. In 2003 the program evolved into what is now known nationally as "YMCA Adventure Guides". "Trailblazers" is the YMCA's parent/child program for older kids. In 2006, YMCA Indian Guides celebrated 80 years as a YMCA program. Several local YMCAs continue to employ the Native American theme, and some YMCA Indian Guides groups have separated from the YMCA and operate independently as the "Native Sons and Daughters Programs" from the National Longhouse

In some programs, children earn patches for achieving various goals, such as completing a designated nature hike or participating in Y-sponsored events. Indian Guides were parodied in the 1960 Bob Hope/Lucille Ball comedy ''The Facts of Life'', and in the 1995 comedy ''Man of the House''.

Great Britain and Northern Ireland

The Archive of the British YMCA is housed at the University of Birmingham Special Collections. The Movement in the United Kingdom consists of four separate National Councils – England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Residences

Until the late 1950s, YMCAs in the United States were built with hotel-like rooms called residences or dormitories. These rooms became a significant part of American culture, known as an inexpensive and safe place for a visitor to stay in an unfamiliar city (as, for example, in the 1978 Village People song "YMCA"). In 1940 there were about 100,000 rooms at YMCAs, more than any hotel chain. By 2006, YMCAs with residences had become relatively rare in the US, but many still existed.

Many YMCAs throughout the world still maintain residences as an integral part of the programming. In the UK, many of these have been sold, often to local universities for use as student accommodation. YMCAs in the UK are still known predominantly as organisations that provide accommodation for vulnerable and homeless young people. Across the UK the YMCA provides over 8,000 bedspaces, and is thus one of the largest providers of safe supported accommodation for young people. The vast majority of this accommodation is supported, which is to say it is a platform through which residents access a range of other personal, social and educational services.

Nobel Peace Prize winners

1901: Henry Dunant, who co-founded the Geneva YMCA in 1852, and was one of the founders of the World Alliance of YMCAs, won the first ever Nobel Peace Prize for founding the International Committee of the Red Cross in 1863, and inspiring the Geneva Convention (Convention de Genève). He shared the prize with Frédéric Passy, founder and President of the first French peace society.

1946: John R. Mott, USA, President of the World Alliance, won the Nobel Peace Prize for his "long and fruitful labours in drawing together the peoples of many nations, many races and many communions in a common bond of spirituality". John R. Mott also played an important role in the founding of the World Student Christian Federation in 1895, and the World Council of Churches in 1948.

2008: Martti Ahtisaari

See also

Clean Living Movements

Hostel

Jewish Community Center/YMHA/YWHA

Kautz Family YMCA Archives

Muscular Christianity

Paris Basis

Polish YMCA

TUXIS

YMCA of Greater New York

YMCA Youth and Government

YWCA

YMCA (song)

Portland vice scandal

References

Notations

Footnotes

External links

YMCA Research

YMCA Cabinet Record Book (MUM00654) at the University of Mississippi, Archives and Special Collections.

Albany community protests the closing of downtown YMCA

The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Boston, West Roxbury/Roslindale Branch records, 1948–1995 are located in the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Department, Boston, MA.

The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Boston records, n.d., 1833–2003 (bulk 1851–1970) are located in the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Department, Boston, MA.

Regional

World Alliance of YMCAs (includes a complete listing of all national YMCAs)

YMCA Latin America and Caribbean

Asia and Pacific Alliance of YMCAs

European Alliance of YMCAs

National

YMCA Argentina

YMCA Armenia

YMCA Australia

ACM Brazil

YMCA Canada

YMCA Caracas, Venezuela

YMCA Chile

YMCA Colombia

YMCA in the Czech Republic

KFUM og KFUK Danmark (YMCA-YWCA)

YMCA England

YMCA Finland

YMCA France (UCJG de France)

CVJM Germany

YMCA Greece

YMCA India

YMCA Ireland

YMCA Japan

YMCA Macedonia

YMCA Malta

YMCA Netherlands

KFUK-KFUM (YMCA-YWCA) Norway

YMCA Panama

ACJ Peru

ACM Portugal

YMCA Romania

YMCA Scotland

YMCA Singapore

YMCA Spain

KFUK-KFUM (YMCA-YWCA) Sweden

YMCA Switzerland

YMCA Taiwan

YMCA Ukraine

YMCA United States (includes facility search)

YMCA Wales

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Village People is a concept disco group that formed in the United States in 1977, well known for their on-stage costumes depicting American cultural stereotypes, as well as their catchy tunes and suggestive lyrics.

Prior to what would eventually became the popular line-up, the original Village People (which appeared on American Bandstand and in the video for "San Francisco") were: Victor Willis (the police officer character), Felipe Rose (the Native American), Alex Briley (the G.I.), Mark Mussler – construction worker, Dave Forrest – cowboy, Lee Mouton – leatherman/biker, and Peter Whitehead - nondescript. Auditions were later held to replace members Mussler, Forrest, Mouton and Whitehead with Randy Jones (cowboy), Glenn Hughes (biker), and David Hodo (construction worker). For the release of "In the Navy", Willis and Briley appeared as an admiral and a sailor, respectively.

Originally created to target disco's gay audience by featuring popular gay fantasy personas, the band's popularity quickly brought them into mainstream. Village People scored a number of disco and dance hits, including their trademark "Macho Man", "Go West", the classic club medley of "San Francisco (You've Got Me) / In Hollywood (Everybody is a Star)", "In the Navy", "Can't Stop the Music", and their biggest hit, "Y.M.C.A.".

They have sold upwards of 100 million records world-wide.

History

1977–1979

The group was the creation of Jacques Morali, a French musical composer. He had written a few dance tunes when he was given a demo tape recorded by singer/actor Victor Willis. Morali approached Willis and told him, "I had a dream that you sang lead on my album and it went very, very big". Willis agreed to sing on the first album, ''Village People''.

It was a success, and demand for live appearances soon followed. Morali and his business partner, Henri Belolo (under the collaboration Can't Stop Productions), hastily built a group of dancers around Willis to perform in clubs and on Dick Clark's ''American Bandstand''. As Village People's popularity grew, Morali, Belolo and Willis saw the need for a permanent "group." They took out an ad in a music trade magazine which read: "Macho Types Wanted: Must Dance And Have A Moustache."

Morali literally bumped into the first recruit, Felipe Rose (Native American), on the streets of Greenwich Village. Rose was a bartender who wore jingle bells on his boots. He was invited to take part in the sessions for the first album. Alex Briley (who started as an athlete, but eventually took on the soldier persona) was Willis' friend. The others, Mark Mussler (construction worker), Dave Forrest (cowboy), Lee Mouton (leatherman) and Peter Whitehead (one of the group's early songwriters) appeared on American Bandstand and in the video for the group's first hit, "San Francisco (You Got Me)". They were later replaced by David Hodo, Randy Jones and Glenn Hughes, who all had more experience as actors/singers/dancers. Hughes had first been spotted as a toll collector at the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel.

Because Morali could not speak English, songwriters Phil Hurtt and the aforementioned Whitehead were brought in to write the lyrics for the first album. However, Willis wrote the lyrics to the group's biggest hits such as "Y.M.C.A." "Macho Man," "Go West" and "In the Navy," and for other Can't Stop Productions hit acts such as Ritchie Family and Patrick Juvet). Likewise, Gypsy Lane (the Village People band) and their conductor, Horace Ott, provided much of the musical arrangements for Morali, who did not play any instruments.

The band's name references New York City's Greenwich Village neighborhood, at the time known for having a substantial gay population. Morali and Belolo got the inspiration for creating an assembly of ''American man'' archetypes based on the gay men of The Village who frequently dressed in various fantasy attire.

The hit song "Macho Man" put them on the musical map, and their 1978 anthem "Y.M.C.A." gave them one of the most recognizable hits of the 1970s.

In 1979, the United States Navy considered using "In the Navy" in a recruiting advertising campaign on television and radio. They contacted Belolo, who decided to give the rights for free on the condition that the Navy help them shoot the music video. Less than a month later, Village People arrived at the San Diego Naval base. The Navy provided them with a warship (USS Reasoner (FF-1063)), several aircraft, and the crew of the ship. The Navy later canceled the campaign.

Their fame reached its peak in 1979 when Village People made several appearances on ''The Merv Griffin Show'' and appeared with Bob Hope to entertain the U.S. troops. The group was also featured on the cover of ''Rolling Stone'', Vol. 289, April 19, 1979. Willis left the group at the end of an international tour in 1979, and the group's decline began.

1980–1985

Ray Simpson, brother of Valerie Simpson (of Ashford & Simpson), stepped into Willis' shoes in time for the group's highly anticipated 1980 feature film ''Can't Stop the Music'', directed by Nancy Walker, written by Allan Carr and Bronte Woodard, music and lyrics by Jacques Morali (although Willis penned the lyrics to ''Milkshake'' and ''Magic Night'') and starring Steve Guttenberg, Valerie Perrine, Jean-Claude Billmaer, Bruce Jenner, and Village People. By the time it was released, however, disco had waned and the movie won the Worst Picture and Worst Screenplay prizes at the 1980 Golden Raspberry Awards in March 1981 and was nominated in almost all the other categories. Despite that, the song ''Can't Stop the Music'' became a Club Play chart hit and moderate radio hit. However, it too (Can't Stop the Music, the song) was nominated for Worst Original Song by the 1981 Razzies, and flopped by Village People standard in that it never obtained gold status as a single or album. The soundtrack also featured the talents of "David London", who under his real name Dennis "Fergie" Frederiksen went on to become the future lead singer of Toto and one of the main contributors to the Village People's next album. The movie itself has since gone on to become a cult favorite, developing a worldwide fan base.

The group was one of the featured guests on a November 22, 1980 episode of ''Love Boat'', (7th episode of season 4), entitled "Secretary to the Stars/Julie's Decision/The Horse Lover/Gopher and Isaac Buy a Horse". At the end of 1980, cowboy Randy Jones left the group and was replaced by Jeff Olson.

In 1981, with the popularity of disco fading and New Wave music on the rise, Village People replaced its on-stage costumes with a new look inspired by the New Romantic movement, and released the New Wave album ''Renaissance''. It only attracted minor, mostly negative attention and produced no hits.

Victor Willis returned to the group briefly in late 1981 for the album ''Fox on the Box'', which was released in 1982 only in Europe but did have limited release in the United States in 1983 under the title ''In the Street''. Miles Jaye had briefly taken over for Ray Simpson as lead singer by 1983 and contributed an extra track to ''In the Street''. Mark Lee replaced David Hodo in 1982.

Their last album containing new material, the 1985 dance/Hi-NRG release ''Sex Over the Phone'', was not a huge commercial success, but it fared better in sales and club play than their ''Renaissance'' album. In recent years, "Sex Over the Phone" has become a cult classic. Recently, an Associated Press declared "Sex Over the Phone" to be the Citizen Kane' of music videos." The ''Sex'' album featured yet another new lead singer, Ray Stephens. Py Douglas came in to sub for Stephens for some of the group's live appearances in 1985.

In 1985, the group took a hiatus but reunited in 1987 with the line-up of Randy Jones, David Hodo, Felipe Rose, Glenn Hughes, Alex Briley and Ray Simpson.

Since 1988 the group has managed itself under the name ''Sixuvus Ltd.''.

1990s to present

November 15, 1991: Village People founder Jacques Morali dies from AIDS in Paris, France.

1993: the group makes a guest appearance on the hit show ''Married With Children'' in the episode "Take My Wife, Please".

1994: Village People join the German national football team to sing its official World Cup '94 theme ''Far Away in America''.

1994: Cowboy Randy Jones sings Greg Brady's part on a punk cover of The Brady Bunch classic ''Time to Change''.

1995: Eric Anzalone replaces Glenn Hughes as the Leatherman/Biker.

1996: Village People appears with Kelsey Grammer, Rob Schneider, and other cast members during the end-credits sequence of the film ''Down Periscope''.

2000: The group releases new material under the name ''Amazing Veepers.''

2001: Felipe Rose appears as himself on the game show ''To Tell the Truth''.

March 4, 2001: original member Glenn Hughes (Leatherman) dies from lung cancer in New York City.

2004: Village People perform as the opening act for Cher on her Farewell Tour until it ends in April 2005. It was a highly successful tour for both artists.

May 7, 2004: Original Cowboy Randy Jones marries Will Grega, his boyfriend of 20 years.

September 4, 2006: Village People perform on Jerry Lewis' MDA Telethon.

August 31, 2007: Victor Willis gives his first live concert in 28 years in Las Vegas.

October 23, 2007: Village People perform on the NBC game show ''The Singing Bee''.

November 17, 2007: Victor Willis weds long-time love, Karen, a lawyer and executive.

July 15, 2008: At the Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium, Village People perform "Y.M.C.A." with the Yankees grounds crew during the 7th inning stretch.

September 12, 2008: Village People receive star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

September 3, 2010: Village People perform at the American Music Festival in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

August 16, 2011: Victor Willis files notices of copyright termination for his portion of the songs (as lyricist) under the 1976 copyright act which allows recording artists and writers to reclaim their master recordings and publishing rights initially granted to record companies and publishers after 35 years.

Cultural references

Due to their easily recognizable characters, the group have frequently been imitated or parodied in films, television series, video games and music. Numerous covers and homages of their songs have been recorded. The stereotypical masculine characters, particularly the leather-clad biker character with a horseshoe moustache, have also become a widespread pop culture icons associated with male gay culture and ''YMCA'' has become something of an anthem of the LGBT community.

The song "In the Navy" was featured in an episode of ''The Muppet Show''.

In the film ''Wayne's World 2'', Wayne and his friends disguise themselves as members of the Village People in order to spy on Wayne's girlfriend; Wayne dresses as a construction worker, Garth as a cop, Neil as a leather-clad biker and Terry as a sailor. They are then chased into a men's club where they are mistaken as the real Village People.

A 1993 episode of ''Married with Children'' had Peg disguising herself as the Indian, along with Kelly as the sailor, Bud as the construction worker and Jefferson as the biker in order to appease angry Halloween party guests of Marcy's, and a joke being they could only lip synch to one song, YMCA, as that was the sole Village People album Marcy owned. When the real Village People appear at the party, they start their concert with YMCA, causing the enraged women who were sick of the song to pelt them with toilet paper.

In 1995, a parody of the Village People was seen on the CGI show ReBoot with the group the Small Town Binomes singing "BSnP", a parody of "Y.M.C.A." They were seen in the ReBoot episode "Talent Night" and each individual was modeled after a singer from the Village People using the show's common Binome characters. Their song "BSnP" was a jab at ABC network's Broadcast Standards and Practices organization, which frequently edited content from the show which they deemed not suitable for its younger viewers (lyrics included "Oh, it's fun to play in a non-violent way").

In the episode of ''3rd Rock from the Sun'' titled "Frankie Goes to Rutherford", the character Dick begins to frequent a gay bar which he thinks is a bar for undercover aliens. At the end all of the alien characters don different costumes for different reasons (Dick as a construction worker, Tom as a sailor, Harry as an Indian and Sally as a leather clad biker). They are joined on the porch roof by Don in his police uniform as Village People songs play.

In the film ''The Producers'', the number "Keep It Gay" ends with a dance routine that features The Village People, or close look-alikes. Matthew Broderick's character Leo refers to them in the next scene.

In a 2010 episode of ''The Cleveland Show'' called "Buried Pleasure", police officers are riding jet skis along with other police officers trying to bust Holt, to the beat of YMCA. Later in the episode when a police officer is tackled, the Village People cop jumps on top and says, "Dog Pile".

In 2010 the crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis dedicated "Macho Man" to Garrett Reisman.

Discography

Main albums

rowspan="2"	Year	Album Title	Chart Positions		Label
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	1977	''Village People (album)	Village People''			rowspan="6"
''Live and Sleazy''
	1980	''Can't Stop the Music (album)	Can't Stop the Music''
	1981	''Renaissance (Village People album)	Renaissance''			rowspan="2"
	1982	''Fox on the Box''
	1983	''In the Street''				Casablanca Records>Casablanca''
	1985	''Sex Over the Phone''				''Powerworks''

Compilations and other albums

''Live: Seoul Song Festival'' (1984)

''Greatest Hits'' (1988)

''Greatest Hits '89 Remixes'' (1989)

''The Best of Village People'' (1994)

''The Very Best Of'' (1998)

''20th Century Masters, The Millennium Collection ... The Best of Village People'' (2001)

Singles

"San Francisco (You've Got Me)" (1977) UK #45

"Village People" (1977)

"I Am What I Am" (1978)

"Macho Man" (1978) U.S. #25

"Y.M.C.A." (1978) UK #1; U.S. #2

"In the Navy" (1979) UK #2; U.S. #3

"Go West" (1979) UK #15, U.S. #45

"Ready for the 80's" (1979) U.S. #52

"Sleazy" (1979)

"Can't Stop the Music" (1980) UK #11; AUS #1

"Magic Night" (1980)

"Do You Wanna Spend the Night" (1981)

"5 O'Clock in the Morning" (1981)

"Sex Over the Phone" (1985) UK #59

"Livin' In The Wildlife" (1989)

"Far Away in America" (1994)

Lineup

The Village People have had a number of lineup changes over the years.

Original "People"

Alex Briley – G.I./Sailor

Mark Mussler – Construction Worker, 1977 (prior to Hodo)

Dave Forrest – Cowboy, 1977 (prior to Jones)

Lee Mouton – Leatherman, 1977 (prior to Hughes)

Peter Whitehead – (co-songwriter with Belolo, Phil Hurtt & Morali) in 1977; briefly performed onstage with the group

Felipe Rose – Native American

Victor Willis – Cop/Admiral (original lead singer/writer)

Replacement "People"

Eric Anzalone – Leatherman/Biker since 1995

David Hodo – Construction Worker

Glenn Hughes – Leatherman/Biker (deceased)

Randy Jones – Cowboy

G. Jeff Olson – Cowboy 1980–1985, 1991–present

Ray Simpson – Lead vocalist/Policeman 1980–1982; 1987–present

Miles Jaye – Policeman 1983–1984. He was the lead vocalist on the ''In the Street'' bonus track "America" and "Live: Seoul"

Ray Stephens – Policeman 1985. Lead vocalist on ''Sex Over The Phone''. He died in 1990

Py Douglas – Policeman (briefly replaced Ray Stephens in some television appearances during their 1985 European tour promoting album ''Sex Over the Phone'')

Mark Lee – Construction Worker, 1982–1985

Bill Whitefield – Construction Worker 2002 and 2003

Alex Timmerman – G.I. 2004

Angel Morales – Native American (stand-in for original member Felipe Rose at some concerts in 2008–2009)

Current "People"

Eric Anzalone – Leatherman/Biker

Alex Briley – G.I./Sailor

David Hodo – Construction Worker

G. Jeff Olson – Cowboy

Felipe Rose – Native American

Ray Simpson – Lead vocalist/Policeman

See also

List of number-one dance hits (United States)

List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart

List of artists who reached number one in Ireland

References

External links

Village People Home Page

Official Randy Jones Website

Interview with Henri Belolo

Official Miles Jaye Website

Official Victor Willis Website

Official Felipe Rose Website

Village People at Rolling Stone

Village People Channel on Youtube from the record label

Felipe Rose on their Walk Of Fame Star with Maynard ABC Australia

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, born April 13, 1955 in Hiroshima}} is a Japanese singer and television celebrity most famous for singing the Japanese version of the Village People's hit song ''Y.M.C.A.'', called ''Young Man''. Although the original version was camp, Saijō's version was intended to seriously inspire "young men".

Saijō's career spans over three decades. Saijo has endured the ups and downs of the fickle Japanese music buying public and has steadily remained in the public eye. He gained popularity again in the 90s in the cartoon Chibi Maruko-chan and by releasing a cover version of the Enrique Iglesias song Bailamos. He also sang the Theme song and became the character (specially created for the Japanese version—Lucky Mucho) in ''The Emperor's New Groove'' and also performed ''Turn A Turn'', the first opening theme song for ''∀ Gundam''.

In 2003, around the time that his 85th single was to be released, he suffered a mild stroke while performing overseas in Korea. With rehabilitation, hard work and dedication, in 2006, he released his 86th single, "Meguriai". Lyrics were set to André Gagnon's "Comme au Premier Jour".

In 2009, he released a downloadable single, "Vegetable Wonderful" which is tied to the NHK program, "Time for Vegetables".

He married for the first time in 2001. He has one daughter and two sons.

His sister was the wife of Masaru Takumi, a powerful Japanese organized crime figure assassinated in 1997.

Discography

''Koisurukisetsu'' (1972)

"Koi no Yaukosku" (1972)

''Chance wa ichido'' (1972)

Seishun ni Kakeyou" (1972)

''Jonetsunoarashi'' (1973)

''Chigireta ai'' (1973)

''Ai no jujika'' (1973)

''Bara no kusari'' (1974)

''Hageshii koi'' (1974)

''Kizudarake no Lola'' (1974)

''Kono ai tokimeki'' (1975)

''Koi no boso'' (1975)

''Shiroi kyokai'' (1975)

''Kimiyo dakarete atsukunare'' (1976)

''Jaguar'' (1976)

''Wakaki shishitachi'' (1976)

''Last scene'' (1976)

''Boomerang street'' (1977)

''Botanwo hazuse'' (1977)

''Boots wo nuide choshokuwo'' (1978)

''Anatato ainotameni'' (1978)

''Honoo'' (1978)

''Blue sky blue'' (1978)

''Young man'' (1979)

''Hop step jump'' (1979)

''Yuki ga areba'' (1979)

''Ainosono'' (1980)

''Oretachi no jidai'' (1980)

''Nemurenuyoru'' (1980)

''Santa maria no inori'' (1980)

''Little girl'' (1981)

''Sentimental girl'' (1981)

"Sexy Rock'n Roller" (1981)

''Gypsy'' (1981)

''Minami jujisei'' (1982)

''Seishoujo'' (1982)

''Gyarando'' (1983)

''Night game'' (1983)

''Do you know'' (1984)

''Dakishimete jiruba'' (1984)

''Ichimankonen no ai'' (1985)

''Udenonakae'' (1985)

''Tsuioku no hitomi'' (1986)

''Rain of dream'' (1986)

''Yakusoku no tabi'' (1986)

''New York girl'' (1987)

''Blue sky'' (1988)

''Hashire Shojikimono'' (1991)

''Sayyea Jan-go'' (1994)

''Tasgareyo sobani ite'' (1995)

''Moment'' (1997)

''2R Kara Hajimeyou'' (1998)

''Saigono ai'' (1999)

''Turn A Turn'' (opening theme for ''∀ Gundam'' Episodes 2~28) (1999)

''Bailamos ~ Tonight We Dance'' (1999)

''Love Torture'' (2000)

''Tokino kizahashi'' (2000)

''Jasmine'' (2001)

''Everybody Dance'' (2002)

''Sodai Gomi Jyane'' (2003)

''Meguriai'' (2006)

"Vegetable Wonderful" (2009)

References

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Name	Y.M.C.A.
Cover	YMCA single cover.jpg
artist	Village People
from album	Cruisin'
released
format	7", 12"
Recorded	Sigma Sound Studios, New York City; 1978
genre	Disco
length	4:48 (Album Version)3:46 (Single Version)
label	Casablanca Records
writer	Henri Belolo, Jacques Morali, Victor Willis
producer	Jacques Morali
last single	"Macho Man"(1978)
this single	"Y.M.C.A."(1978)
next single	"Go West"(1979) }}

"Y.M.C.A." is a 1978 song by the Village People which became a hit in January 1979. The song reached #2 on the U.S. charts in early 1979 and reached No.1 in the UK around the same time, becoming the group's biggest hit ever. It is one of the fewer than thirty all-time singles to have sold 10 million (or more) copies worldwide.

Taken at face value, its lyrics extol the virtues of the Young Men's Christian Association. In gay culture from which the group sprang, the song was implicitly understood as celebrating the YMCA's reputation as a popular cruising and hookup spot, particularly for the younger gay men to whom it was addressed. However, Victor Willis, Village People lead singer and writer of the lyrics, insists that he did not write YMCA as a gay anthem (Willis is heterosexual). Rather, Willis said he wrote the song as a reflection of young urban black youth fun at the YMCA such as basketball and swimming, etc. That said, Willis has often acknowledged his fondness for double entendre. Willis also revealed that he wrote the song in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The song continues to remain popular and is played at many sporting events in the USA and Europe. It is frequently played during breaks in the action at sporting events with crowds using the dance as an opportunity to stretch. Moreover, the song also remains particularly popular due to its status as a disco classic and gay anthem, even among listeners who are otherwise uninvolved in disco or gay culture. It is also known to be a favorite in school dances. A popular dance in which the arms are used to spell out the four letters of the song's title may have much to do with this. YMCA appeared as Space Shuttle Wakeup call on mission STS-106, on day 11. In 2009, YMCA was entered into the Guinness World Book of Records when over 44,000 people danced to the song with Village People singing live at the Sun Bowl game in Texas. "Y.M.C.A." is number 7 on VH1's list of The 100 Greatest Dance Songs of the 20th Century.

A special one-sided vinyl single was released in 1978. It includes a Disco Mix by Michael Hutchinson, and the album version of Macho Man.

Song structure

The song, played in the key of F-sharp major, begins with a brass riff, backed by the constant pulse that typified disco. Many different instruments are used throughout for an overall orchestral feel, another disco convention, but it is brass that stands out.

As with other Village People hits, the lead vocals are handled by Willis and the background vocals are supplied by Willis and professional background singers. The distinctive vocal line features the repeated "Young man!" ecphonesis followed by Willis singing the verse lines. The background vocals join in throughout the song.

History

Executive producer Henri Belolo recalls that he saw the YMCA sign while walking down the street with composer Jacques Morali, who seemed to know the institution fairly well: "Henri, let me tell you something. This is a place where a lot of people go when they are in town. And they get good friends and they go out." And Henri got the idea: "Why don't we write a song about it?" However, Willis (the writer) recalls it was actually Jacques Morali who, while in the studio, asked him, "What exactly is the YMCA?" Willis then quickly wrote the famous lyrics and melody and it was the last track created for the album ''Cruisin'''.

Initially during the single's release, the YMCA threatened to sue the band over trademark infringement and concerns about the song's double entendres. They ultimately dropped the lawsuit when they noticed that membership significantly increased in the wake of the song's popularity. Today, the organization is happy to be associated with the song and sees it as a positive public representation.

The song became a number one hit throughout the world (although not in the United States where it lost to Rod Stewart's "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?"). It has remained popular at parties, sporting events, weddings and functions ever since.

In 2011, Willis filed a notice of copyright termination to the song as lyricist under the 1976 copyright act which allows recording artists and writers to reclaim their master recordings and publishing rights initially granted to record companies and publishers. The 1976 copyright act allows for termination of copyright grants after 35 years. The grant of copyright must have been signed after January 1, 1978. 2013 marks the year the publishing rights to Y.M.C.A. would revert back to Willis pursuant to the notice of termination, subject to litigation already filed by the publisher seeking to prevent such reversion.

Origin of hand movement and dance

YMCA is also the name of a group dance with cheerleader Y-M-C-A choreography invented to fit the song. One of the phases involves moving arms to form the letters Y-M-C-A as they are sung in the chorus:

:Y arms outstretched and raised upwards :M made by bending the elbows from the 'Y' pose so the fingertips meet over the chest :C arms extended to the left :A hands held together above head

The dance originated on Dick Clark's ''American Bandstand''. During the January 6, 1979 episode, which featured the Village People as guests throughout the hour, the dance was performed by audience members while the group performed "YMCA." Clark then said to Willis that he would like to show him something. Clark again played the song with the audience doing the YMCA hand gestures. Willis immediately picked up on the dance and mimicked the hand movements back at the audience as other Village People members stared at him with puzzled looks. Clark then turned to Willis and said, "Victor, think you can work this dance into your routine?" Willis responded, "I think we're gonna have to."

At the original Yankee Stadium, the grounds crew traditionally took a break from grooming the infield after the sixth inning to lead the crowd in the dance; this tradition has been carried over to the current Yankee Stadium. In July 2008, Village People performed "Y.M.C.A." with the Yankees grounds crew at the last MLB All-Star Game held at the old Yankee Stadium. Similarly at the Sapporo Dome, during Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters baseball games, "Y.M.C.A." is enthusiastically enjoyed by the crowd and ground staff during the fifth inning stretch.

Covers and parodies

Cover version sung in Japanese titled "Young Man", was recorded by a Japanese singer Hideki Saijo and released in spring 1979. It marked the #1 on the Japanese official singles chart Oricon for 5 weeks, and finally sold more than 800,000 copies and became the most commercially successful cover version of the song. "Young Man" won the 1979 Japan Music Awards for Grand Prix.

A famous YouTube video - Evolution of Dance - features the chorus of this single.

''KFUM'' is the Danish equivalent of YMCA. It was a big hit in Denmark in 1980 by the show-group Østjysk Musikforsyning with Danish lyrics by Karlo Staunskjær.

In 1997, Pepsi launched a Super Bowl ad where five bears danced an alternate version with "P-E-P-S-I" instead of the usual "Y-M-C-A". Mr. Magoo Tv screen Leslie Nielsen

The webcomic User Friendly spoofed the song when Dust Puppy and Erwin sang an altered version which included the lyrics "It's fun to violate the DMCA." On July 2, 2004, Colin Powell, then the U.S. Secretary of State, performed a modified version of "YMCA" for his fellow foreign government officials at the ASEAN security meeting in Jakarta. His lyrics includes the lines:

''President Bush, he said to me: 'Colin, I need you to run the Department of State. We are between a rock and a hard place.' ''

Some colleges with four-letter abbreviations (ex. UCLA) replace "Y-M-C-A" with the abbreviation.

George Lam recorded a Cantonese remix, still titled "YMCA". This cover version was first released in 1979 as part of album "Choice" (抉擇). It was also featured on 2001 Music is Live - George Lam & Eason Chan Karaoke

In 2011: The Sportsgasms, a sports song parody group out of San Francisco, release Sports Nut (Y.M.C.A Song Parody) which uses double entendres to challenge the stereotype of the typical sports fan.

Use in media

The 1980 film ''Can't Stop the Music'', a musical pseudohistory of the Village People, features an elaborate production number to the song in the style of famous choreographer Busby Berkeley.

The song appeared in the U.S. ''home version'' of ''Dance Dance Revolution Extreme''.

In ''Singstar'' with original music video and voices.

A cover version of the song is featured in the Nintendo DS game ''Elite Beat Agents''. While playing the song on Breezin', Cruisin', or Sweatin' mode, the Agents will perform the YMCA dance at the respective lyrics.

In ''jubeat'', a rhythm arcade game, YMCA is a song of intermediate difficulty.

The song is a playable track in ''Band Hero''.

References

External links

Original "YMCA" music video of 1978.

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