Comments on: The Going Thing

By: Sqaat

Sqaat — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:48:43 +0000

> 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

Harry Shannon — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:14:53 +0000

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

Rusty — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:03:09 +0000

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.

By: Ty

Ty — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:38:06 +0000

It’s taken months to track down any referance to the Australian TGT group! They were sponsored by Ford Australia. My mum was one of the singers - guilty as charged of leaving the band and moving to the UK with my dad! She’s still in contact with several of the others from the group most of who settled in the US after their tour there in the 70’s. If anyone has access to any of their records I’d be really interested to purchase them. Thanks Derrick for bringing the international TGT family together!!

By: Stephen H. Wilkinson

Stephen H. Wilkinson — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:22:04 +0000

My first grade teacher was a member, at one time, of The Kids Next Door. Her name was Janenne Ogletree (sp). That was in 1966. I wonder if anyone knows anything of her now?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:44:54 +0000

I have a copy of the Australian Going Thing album that I picked up when I was down there several years ago. It is really good. They also released a couple of non-LP singles, of which I believe I have 1 of the 2.

By: sis

sis — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:53:23 +0000

Christie posted on 29th September,2007. There was a singer called Megan. They did go to England early 70’s. My brother was the drummer.
Sis.

By: Derrick Bostrom

Derrick Bostrom — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:20:11 +0000

Though there has been a sighting on the web of an Australian TGT, I have never seen nor heard anything about them. The “thing” in question here is the group from Los Angeles, put together by Tom and John Bahler for Ford. If you read through all the comments on this page, however, you’ll discover some other members of the Australian GT family.

By: sis

sis — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:20:09 +0000

Derrick, I guess there was more than one “The Going Thing”. the group I refer to was an Australian group started in the late 60’s. It had Athol Guy from the original Seekers as the main music source. Are you talking about a group from wherever you are?
sis

By: Derrick Bostrom

Derrick Bostrom — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:39:29 +0000

I’m talking about this Going Thing:

http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/02/17/the-going-thing/