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3 unusual facts about The Go-getter


The Go-getter

Part of the Blandings Castle canon, it features the absent-minded peer Lord Emsworth, and was included in the collection Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (1935), although the story takes place sometime between the events of Leave it to Psmith (1923) and Summer Lightning (1929).

The Go-Getter

Getter Robo Go (also known as Gettā Robo Gō? or Getter Robot Go), a 50-episode Japanese mecha anime and manga series

"The Go-getter", short story by English-American author P. G. Wodehouse


Before Too Long

The album was co-produced by Kelly with Alan Thorne (Hoodoo Gurus, The Stems) who, according to music journalist Robert Forster (former The Go-Betweens singer-songwriter), helped the band create "a sound that will not only influence future roots-rock bands but, through its directness, sparkle and dedication to the song, will also come to be seen as particularly Australian. Ultimately, it means the records these people made together are timeless".

Best Coast

Rolling Blackouts by The Go! Team (2011, Memphis Industries) (Bethany Cosentino only, on tracks "Buy Nothing Day" and "Rolling Blackouts")

Bruce Rowland

Some of his early work was in television, where he was musical director for ATV0's The Go!! Show, Fredd Bear's Breakfast-A-Go-Go and the Magic Circle Club, then Adventure Island for the ABC.

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

In January 2012, the show was renamed Bullseye, and began featuring The Go! Team's "Huddle Formation" as its theme song.

Chi-Pig

Unfortunately, the band fell apart just as other female led groups such as The Go-Go's and The Pretenders were breaking out.

Cleopatra Wong

Moreover, Cleopatra Wong's influence extended beyond film, reaching out to the music industry, when Australian musician and composer Amanda Brown, following the breakup of The Go-Betweens, formed with former Go-Betweens drummer Lindy Morrison as well as with Michael Armiger, Colin Bloxsom and Mark Moffatt, a band called Cleopatra Wong which was active from 1991 to 1992.

Corey O'Brien

In the Democratic primary, O'Brien finished with the second-highest vote total, narrowly ahead of former county chief of staff Elizabeth Randol, but behind the top vote getter, former State Representative James Wansacz.

Costa Zouliou

He was recently behind a campaign to change the name of the Go Between Bridge in Brisbane to The Go-Betweens Bridge, to correctly refer to the iconic Brisbane band, The Go-Betweens.

Cousin Creep

Between the years of 1990–1995 he ran independent label Hippy Knight Records known for releasing a number of Superchunk singles and Right Here A Tribute To The Go-Betweens which featured Frente, The Meanies, Snout & Smudge.

Doll Squad

The band list their influences, both past and present, as Sweet, Redd Kross, The Go-Gos, X, The Clash, Joan Jett, The Bangles, The Runaways and Sonny and Cher.

Drools

The purpose of dialect "mvel" is to point the Getter and Setters of the variables of your Plain Old Java Object (POJO) classes.

Edie and the Eggs

Edie and the Eggs included future Go-Go's drummer Gina Schock and Ann Collier, guitar player of Rhumboogie, a well-known all-female Rock and Roll band during 1974-78 from Baltimore.

El Perro del Mar

From 2004 to late 2005, her records had only been released by the Swedish label, Hybris, but in 2006, Sarah experienced a host of newfound success when her self-titled album El Perro del Mar was picked up by UK-based label, Memphis Industries, under which Dungen and The Go! Team also release.

Even As We Speak

They were among the few Australian bands to record Peel Sessions – others were The Birthday Party, The Triffids, The Go-Betweens and Laughing Clowns.

Everybody's Talkin'

It was sampled in 2002 by Paul Oakenfold in "Starry Eyed Surprise", in 2004 by The Go! Team in "Everyone's a V.I.P. to Someone" and in 2007 by Mika in his Live in Cartoon Motion DVD.

Fate to Fatal

It was recorded in three different locations by multiple engineers; the title track was recorded at The Fortress Studios, London with producer Gareth Parton (The Go! Team, Foals); "The Last Time", which features lead vocals by Mark Lanegan, and "Pinnacle Hollow" were recorded by Ben Mumphrey in Dayton, OH; "Chances Are", a cover of a Bob Marley song, was recorded by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago.

George Washington Wright

He was the leading vote getter in a November 1849 at-large election for California's first two Representatives in the 31st United States Congress serving from September 11, 1850, to March 3, 1851.

Go Records

label was established by the producers of the similarly named The Go!! Show, Horrie Dargie, Arthur Young and Johnny Tillbrook (known as 'DYT Productions').

God Bless The Go-Go's

It was their first studio album in 17 years since the release of Talk Show in 1984.

Gogolfest

Headliner included Spanish Theatre La Fura Dels Baus, Finnish duo Kimmo Pohjonen Kluster, Italian theatre of athletic dance Kataklo, ethnic ensemble from Tuva (Russia) Huun-Huur-Tu, Russian chamber orchestra «Opus Posth.», Jazzsteppa, The Go! Team from UK.

Heydon, Norfolk

Films partly shot in the village include The Go Between (1970), Riders (1993), Hitler's Britain (2002), Vanity Fair, The Woman in White, The Moonstone, The Peppermint Pig, and A Cock and Bull Story (2005).

Home Swinger

Several known artists, such as David Holmes, Wu Fei, Dustin Wong, Jad Fair, Thread Pulls, These Are Powers, The Go! Team, The Luyas, Micachu, A Place To Bury Strangers, Killed By 9V Batteries attended one of the workshops and have copies of the instrument.

John Willsteed

As a musician, he is best known as a member of the iconic Brisbane band The Go-Betweens, in which he played bass guitar from 1987–1989, most notably on the album 16 Lovers Lane.

KBTE

Before the station acquired the urban contemporary format, KBTE was an active rock station as "The Bat"; however the station began stunting with loops of The Go-Go's 1980s song We Got The Beat before the launch of The Beat.

Marty Kristian

He played with local bands in his spare time and his big break came when he was offered a contract to appear on The Go!! Show.

Mazinger Z

The team-up anime Grendizer & Getter Robo G & Great Mazinger vs. The Giant Sea Monster is very similar to tokusatsu films like Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster.

Promise Lands

The album was recorded at The Dairy, Brixton, London and at Darren Ford's home studio, co-produced by Ford and Dan Roe and mixed by Gareth Parton who has previously worked with The Go! Team.

Punkara

It was recorded with The Go! Team producer, Gareth Parton at The Fortress Studios, London.

Radio Rebel

Debby Ryan recorded two songs to promote the film: a cover of The Go-Go's' "We Got the Beat" and a collaboration with Chase Ryan and Chad Hively called "We Ended Right".

Ramnad Raghavan

His students have included Glen Velez, Jamey Haddad, David Nelson, Patricia Shehan Campbell, Frank Bennett, and Joseph M. Getter.

Raucous Records

The label was formed in 1987 by Howard Raucous, initially to release a vinyl EP by his psychobilly band The Go-Katz, Initially based in Loughborough, Leicestershire, relocating in the early 1990s to Fleetwood, Lancashire.

Rawalpindi Rams

The top run-getter for the club was Tahir Mughal who racked up 92 runs at an impressive average of 46.

Shin Getter Robo vs Neo Getter Robo

Shin Getter Robo vs Neo Getter Robo draws heavily from Ken Ishikawa's manga Getter Robo Go.

Super Extra Bonus Party

Aside from headline shows, the band played with the likes of The Go! Team, Cadence Weapon, Bonde do Rolê, Subtle and Alec Empire as well as slots at Electric Picnic in 2007 and 2008.

The Go! Team

Team contributed the song "Templates from Home" to Bruce Parry's Survival International charity album, Songs for Survival.

They achieved further popularity when their song "Get It Together" from Thunder, Lightning, Strike was featured in trailers for the video game LittleBigPlanet, with the song eventually becoming identified with the game.

The Heathens

Building momentum on the success and release of their first music video for the song "Stickin' Around," the video was accepted at the Los Angeles Film Fest in May 2006, where it played alongside the likes of other such notable artists as Beck, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The White Stripes, Nine Inch Nails, Death Cab for Cutie, The Go! Team, The Shins, and Bright Eyes.

The Kimberly Trip

The Kimberly Trip cites a diverse array of bands and artists as influences on its sound and style, including Tori Amos, Garbage, The Go-Go's, Cyndi Lauper, Nerf Herder, No Doubt, Rush, The Smiths, and Sugar Ray.

The Outsiders Album 2

Cool Jerk – which is, incidentally, one of the few covers recorded by the Go-Go's – was a popular pop and R&B hit that was released by the Capitols in July 1966, again within weeks of the release of this album.

The Sharks

With the success of the Elektra release and the support of MTV, the Sharks toured and shared the stage with The Go-Go's, A Flock of Seagulls, Robert Palmer, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts, The Romantics, Night Ranger, The Fixx, and The Stray Cats.

The Uptones

With this success, Bill Graham Presents started booking the band as support for major acts such as the Go-Go's and UB40 at the Greek Theater in Berkeley; X, Madness and the English Beat at the Kabuki; Oingo Boingo at the Warfield; General Public at the Henry J. Kaiser Center; and Billy Idol at the Oakland Coliseum.

The Whole World Lost Its Head

"The Whole World Lost Its Head" is one of three new songs from all-female pop rock/New Wave band The Go-Go's 2-disc retrospective Return to the Valley of The Go-Go's.

Unmukt Chand

India won the tournament under Chand's captaincy, who ended with 281 runs from 5 matches, only six runs short of the tournament's highest run-getter Daniel Bell-Drummond.

Vance DeGeneres

In the mid-1980s, DeGeneres co-founded the short-lived rock band called House of Schock with The Go-Go's drummer Gina Schock.

Zach Slater and Kendall Hart

Thorsten Kaye, Zach's portrayer, was their #1 vote getter, and beat out runner-ups such as "McDreamy" Patrick Dempsey.


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