2003 APRIL 10 #100
Ford - It's The Going Thing/Warranty Rock/It's The Going Thing
Dig this record for the 100th download. A "product music" promotional record from Ford. Suzanne Baumann sent me over this LP and it simply rocks my ever changing musical world. The record notes, "A medley of songs by Ford Division's New Singing Group, The Going Thing".
Enjoy!
- Otis Fodder
TT-3:48 / 5.2MB / 192kbps 44.1khz
from the one-sided Ford promo, "It's The Going Thing"
The TOD writes:
I Just Downloaded The Ford Promo "It's The Going
Thing" And Realized I Have A Full Length Recording
Of This Stuff. If I Am Not Mistaken Larry The Young
Larry Coryell Plays Guitar On Those Recordings.
Tom writes:
Thank you for posting the Ford songs. I remember "The
Going Thing." It was the jingle in the Ford commercials
that appeared on National Football League telecasts during
- I'm guessing - the 1967-68 season. The group's sound
is very Association, very, very "Windy," which
charted in the spring of '67. (Or play "The Going
Thing" and then dig out "Time For Livin'"
or "Enter The Young.") From the era when commercial
jingles could hold their own against the hit songs of
the day.
Jonathan Ward writes:
There were actually 2 one-sided "Going Thing"
LPs, one from 1969 and one from 1970. The '69 one tends
to turn up the most, but the second one has a nice song-parody
of the song "Happiness", from the "You're
a Good Man, Charlie Brown" musical. I believe that
it's Larry Carlton in the band, not Larry Coryell. And
if that weren't enough for you, there was a late-60s outfit
called "The 5th Street Exit" that appears on
an in-house 7-UP 7" where they sing a song called ""It's a Going Thing"...which I guess makes all
this info even more ridiculously arcane. Almost forgot
- after the first 2 "Going Thing" LPs, Ford
released an in-house "Christmas With The Going Thing"
LP! Christ!
Eric Morin writes:
This group was led by the brothers Baehler (John and Tom)
who were responsible for a little-known 60s band called
The Love Generation. They were pretty dang adept at aping
the styles of the day, as can be heard on "Love
and Sunshine - The Best of the Love Generation"
on Sundazed. Highly recommended for the general Mamas
and Papas style harmonies, the Eleanor Rigby cop "World
Without Love," and the very special "Montage."
What is really keen about the Baehlers, though, is that
after the Going Thing, they went on to be the studio vocalists
for the Partridge Family recordings! Yikes!