--- title: Grandparents Play Carl and Ellie's Theme From Up: video description: Grab a tissue, and then watch their charming duet canonical: https://time.com/4083673/up-couple-anniversary-carl-ellie/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-22T21:28:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:26:16.018Z og:title: This Couple Celebrating Their Anniversary Is Basically 'Up' In Real Life og:description: Grab a tissue, and then watch their charming duet og:url: https://time.com/4083673/up-couple-anniversary-carl-ellie/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Couple Celebrating Their Anniversary Is Basically 'Up' In Real Life twitter:description: Grab a tissue, and then watch their charming duet twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Couple Celebrating Their 60th Anniversary Is Basically _Up_ In Real Life by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 22, 2015 9:28 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 22, 2015 9:28 PM UTC The opening montage of Pixar’s _Up_ is one of the few movies that can make a grown-up bawl hysterically, while children just look on quizzically. So grab a tissue before you watch this video of a real-life couple playing Carl and Ellie’s theme from _Up,_ because just a few strains of the song will make your eyes well up with tears. The likelihood of waterworks only increases when you read the comments on the YouTube video that reveal the couple playing the piano are celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary. The clip was posted by their grandson [Jason Lyle Black](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7BfQWuhJYAsxXUDaXaIrCQ), the YouTube star known as the backwards piano man for his incredible knack for playing the piano with his arms behind his back. (His [Taylor Swift cover](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss-FeWBqNWg) is particularly fun to watch). By getting his grandparents in costume, creating their own little ‘adventure book’, and having them play the heartbreaking-yet-lovely tune, Black devised the perfect homage to his grandparents—and to love. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4083673/up-couple-anniversary-carl-ellie/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4083673/up-couple-anniversary-carl-ellie/"},"headline":"This Couple Celebrating Their 60th Anniversary Is Basically Up In Real Life","datePublished":"2015-10-22T21:28:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:26:16.018Z","description":"Grab a tissue, and then watch their charming duet","url":"https://time.com/4083673/up-couple-anniversary-carl-ellie/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","viral","Disney","Pixar","Viral Videos"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4083673/up-couple-anniversary-carl-ellie/","name":"This Couple Celebrating Their 60th Anniversary Is Basically Up In Real Life"}}]}] ```