Comments on: The Going Thing http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/02/17/the-going-thing/ Trash, Treasure, Oddities, Obsessions and Obligations Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:52:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Derrick Bostrom http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/02/17/the-going-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-33235 Derrick Bostrom Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:44:59 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/?p=25#comment-33235 Man, now I'm getting the urge to dig out my "Love Generation" MP3s...! Man, now I’m getting the urge to dig out my “Love Generation” MP3s…!

]]> By: Robrt Pela http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/02/17/the-going-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-33234 Robrt Pela Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:35:31 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/?p=25#comment-33234 Postscript: Derick, I've just listened to all three of the TGT albums, and wanted to mention something you probably already know: "The Warranty Song" from TGT 1969 is a re-record of the Love Generation's "The Pill," from Love Gen's final LP recorded the same year. Cheers, Robrt Postscript:

Derick, I’ve just listened to all three of the TGT albums, and wanted to mention something you probably already know: “The Warranty Song” from TGT 1969 is a re-record of the Love Generation’s “The Pill,” from Love Gen’s final LP recorded the same year.

Cheers,
Robrt

]]> By: Derrick Bostrom http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/02/17/the-going-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-33227 Derrick Bostrom Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:03:46 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/?p=25#comment-33227 Thanks very much, Robrt! It's my particular fetish, I guess, but I've always had a much greater fondness for The Going Thing than the Love Generation. Shame on John Bahler for trying to sneak that part of his history under the rug! Thanks very much, Robrt! It’s my particular fetish, I guess, but I’ve always had a much greater fondness for The Going Thing than the Love Generation. Shame on John Bahler for trying to sneak that part of his history under the rug!

]]> By: Robrt Pela http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/02/17/the-going-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-33226 Robrt Pela Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:52:21 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/?p=25#comment-33226 Derrick, Thank you for your fine article on The Going Thing, and for making their keen tunes available again. When I wrote the liner notes for the Love Generation compilation on Sundazed, I had the pleasure of interviewing John Bahler, who glossed over his post-Love Gen work with The Going Thing as "some industrial work for Ford." You've filled in that (arguably) musical gap between the Love Gen and the Partridge Family with this great article. You've also saved me and other faux-rock fans a bundle by creating the music downloads here. Thanks again. Robrt Pela Derrick,
Thank you for your fine article on The Going Thing, and for making their keen tunes available again. When I wrote the liner notes for the Love Generation compilation on Sundazed, I had the pleasure of interviewing John Bahler, who glossed over his post-Love Gen work with The Going Thing as “some industrial work for Ford.” You’ve filled in that (arguably) musical gap between the Love Gen and the Partridge Family with this great article. You’ve also saved me and other faux-rock fans a bundle by creating the music downloads here. Thanks again.
Robrt Pela

]]> By: Julie Swarsbrick http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/02/17/the-going-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-32973 Julie Swarsbrick Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:05:32 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/?p=25#comment-32973 Hi everyone, I am a 59 year old Australian, and my brother Geoff Pretty was the drummer in the Aussie Going Thing band in the 70's. If you go onto YouTube, you will find this band doing the Ford advert. Also, if look for THE GOING THING - WE CAN ALL WORK IT OUT on YouTube; that was when they were on an English TV show. (they were obviously miming at the time, but that song was one of their singles.) They were quite successful here and in England. They no longer exist of course. My brother died in 1985 at the age of 41, with cancer. The rest of the band are working and living all over the world, and one of the female singers - Di Turner, is a presenter on a Foxtel shopping channel. Hope you enjoy the Aussie version!! Hi everyone, I am a 59 year old Australian, and my brother Geoff Pretty was the drummer in the Aussie Going Thing band in the 70’s. If you go onto YouTube, you will find this band doing the Ford advert. Also, if look for THE GOING THING – WE CAN ALL WORK IT OUT on YouTube; that was when they were on an English TV show. (they were obviously miming at the time, but that song was one of their singles.) They were quite successful here and in England. They no longer exist of course. My brother died in 1985 at the age of 41, with cancer. The rest of the band are working and living all over the world, and one of the female singers – Di Turner, is a presenter on a Foxtel shopping channel. Hope you enjoy the Aussie version!!

]]> By: Jar http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/02/17/the-going-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-29231 Jar Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:52:17 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/?p=25#comment-29231 Holy shit! Thank you for making this stuff available. Now I don't have to try and record my worn out copy on my worn out needle. I had no idea there was three. Holy shit! Thank you for making this stuff available. Now I don’t have to try and record my worn out copy on my worn out needle. I had no idea there was three.

]]> By: Duncan http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/02/17/the-going-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-19632 Duncan Thu, 07 May 2009 10:18:09 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/?p=25#comment-19632 I am an old Ford Salesman from Melbourne Aus,and I am really over the top at finding all this as I remenber the group doing their thing at the release of new models at Camberwell Town Hall. I thought they were just great. I am an old Ford Salesman from Melbourne Aus,and I am really over the top at finding all this as I remenber the group doing their thing at the release of new models at Camberwell Town Hall. I thought they were just great.

]]> By: Sqaat http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/02/17/the-going-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-18250 Sqaat Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:48:43 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/?p=25#comment-18250 > At the end of tijuana taxi they proclaim that “Herbie Alpert you’re Jewish now you say you’re spanish why didn’t you change your name.” Wow, is this a carry over from the old days at Ford when Henry was famously anti-semitic? I don't see how that is Anti-Semitic, it's humor about ethnicity, and I think it makes a mockery out of pressure to professionally change one's name. I'm very easily offended by anything racist, anti-semitic, anti-gay, sexist, etc., and this line didn't hurt me in the slightest. > At the end of tijuana taxi they proclaim that “Herbie Alpert you’re Jewish now you say you’re spanish why didn’t you change your name.” Wow, is this a carry over from the old days at Ford when Henry was famously anti-semitic?

I don’t see how that is Anti-Semitic, it’s humor about ethnicity, and I think it makes a mockery out of pressure to professionally change one’s name. I’m very easily offended by anything racist, anti-semitic, anti-gay, sexist, etc., and this line didn’t hurt me in the slightest.

]]> By: Harry Shannon http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/02/17/the-going-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-18161 Harry Shannon Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:14:53 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/?p=25#comment-18161 For some reason I think we did signing Up Up and Away once in a while, so it may have been on the first LP, the year before me. I believe we did a Ford parody of "Age of Acquarius," too. I only remember that because the Eb chord gave me fits on a Rickenbacker 12 string :) For some reason I think we did signing Up Up and Away once in a while, so it may have been on the first LP, the year before me. I believe we did a Ford parody of “Age of Acquarius,” too. I only remember that because the Eb chord gave me fits on a Rickenbacker 12 string :)

]]> By: Rusty http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/02/17/the-going-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-18001 Rusty Tue, 13 May 2008 02:03:09 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/?p=25#comment-18001 I have been looking for The 1970 album off and on for like 10 years! Never thought to do a non Ebay web search. John Morrisey, who put them together and head of marketing at Ford at the time, lived down the street with his family in Bloomfield Village. The guys had a Ford-Lotus Grand Prix Go cart! It was awsome. I won the 1970 album at a school carnival and that image of those orange jumpsuits was forever burned into my noggin. I never put the relationship to the Partridges, Monkees, Love American Style, Gary Putmam Union Gap, Paul Revere and the Raiders etc, until a search amongst other pop freak's postings like this! For some reason I thought 'Up Up and Away' (5th Dimension) was on that album? huh... oh well, THANKS! for the download and the connection. You are Super Dyanamite in a Groovy kind of way. I have been looking for The 1970 album off and on for like 10 years! Never thought to do a non Ebay web search. John Morrisey, who put them together and head of marketing at Ford at the time, lived down the street with his family in Bloomfield Village. The guys had a Ford-Lotus Grand Prix Go cart! It was awsome. I won the 1970 album at a school carnival and that image of those orange jumpsuits was forever burned into my noggin. I never put the relationship to the Partridges, Monkees, Love American Style, Gary Putmam Union Gap, Paul Revere and the Raiders etc, until a search amongst other pop freak’s postings like this! For some reason I thought ‘Up Up and Away’ (5th Dimension) was on that album? huh… oh well, THANKS! for the download and the connection. You are Super Dyanamite in a Groovy kind of way.

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