The Go-Go's Lingo 6 Trivia Quiz

Answer: I'm with You

Jane Wiedlin and Gina Schock co-wrote the song "I'm with You" on the album "Talk Show" in 1984.

According to a review of the album "Talk Show" on The Daily Vault, "Next up, 'I'm With You' is as close as they come to a ballad, a beautifully arranged mid-tempo number with terrific harmonies and Schock rock-solid behind the kit. (With The Go-Gos I tend to favor the heavier rockers, but this is among their best deep tracks)" (Warburg, 2021).

Gina is the only Go-Go with no songwriting credits on their debut album "Beauty and the Beat" in 1981. However, Gina earned her first credit, also with Jane, on their second album "Vacation" with "It's Everything but Partytime" in 1982.

Answer: Jane Wiedlin

Jane Wiedlin and Margot Olavarria formed The Go-Go's in January 1978 and 43 years, nine months and 16 days later, The Go-Go's were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 30 Oct 2021.

Of The Go-Go's 61 songs on seven albums and 16 singles, Jane contributed the most lyrics (36%) by solely writing eight and co-writing 33 tracks. In addition to her eight sole-writing credits, Jane teamed with four outside writers on three more songs to be the only Go-Go with lyrical credit on 11 tracks.

Of The Go-Go's 11 chart hits, Jane has lyrical credit on eight (73%), and these eight hits ranked on 24 music charts in nine countries for 166 weeks peaking at number two on the Kent Music Report.

As a solo artist, Jane released five studio albums, one compilation album and four singles. Two of her albums ranked on four music charts in four countries peaking at number 48 on two charts, and three of her singles ranked on five charts in four countries peaking at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100.

Jane performed her smash hit "Rush Hour" on four TV shows in 1988: "Top of the Pops" (UK), "Hey Hey It's Saturday" (Australia), "Smash Hits Poll Winners Party" (UK) and "Club MTV" (US). Jane also performed her duet "Cool Places" with Sparks on "American Bandstand" and "Solid Gold" in 1983. According to IMDb, Jane is featured in 21 movies, 15 music videos, 15 TV series, three short films and the video game "Lands of Lore III" (1999).

Jane released the album "Cold" with her band froSTed in 1996 and the album "If You're a Boy or a Girl" with her band Elettrodomestico in 2017. She capitalized the "S" and "T" in "froSTed" as a tribute to Star Trek, and "elettrodomestico" means "household appliance" in Italian, while the Italian word for "frosted" is "glassata."

Answer: Jim Vallance

Jim Vallance co-wrote the song "Here You Are" with Jane Wiedlin and Charlotte Caffey on the album "God Bless The Go-Go's" in 2001.

According to his website, Jim co-wrote 294 songs with an impressive list of 159 artists, such as Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Laura Branigan, Alice Cooper, Lita Ford, Joan Jett, Loverboy, Anne Murray, Ozzy Osbourne, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Scorpions, Rod Stewart, Tina Turner...and Jane Wieldin on the song "Fallen" from her album "Kissproof World" in 2000.

According to the Music VF database, Jim Vallance (aka Rodney Higgs) has lyrical credit on 70 chart hits performed by 30 artists with eight peaking at number one.

Answer: Lust to Love

Jane Wiedlin and Charlotte Caffey co-wrote the song "Lust to Love" on the album "Beauty and the Beat" in 1981.

Six months before being offered a record deal, The Go-Go's originally recorded "Lust to Love" and four other songs on a demo tape at Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles, California in October 1980. According to Music Connection magazine, radio DJ Rodney Bingenheimer played songs from The Go-Go's demo tape during his show "Rodney on the Roqs" at KROQ-FM in Pasadena, California (Kubernik, 2021).

During her interview with Vulture, Belinda Carlisle's revealed her favorite song by The Go-Go's: "The lyrics to 'Lust to Love' are amazing and it captures our attitude towards romance in those early days, when we were in our late teens and early twenties. And I love the chord progression, how it drops out in the beginning and then kicks in. It's probably my favorite song to perform live" (Ivie, 2021).

Answer: Peter Stuart

Peter Stuart co-wrote the song "Stuck in My Car" with Jane Wiedlin and Charlotte Caffey on the album "God Bless The Go-Go's" in 2001.

While with his band Dog's Eye View, Peter wrote the chart hit "Everything Falls Apart" on their debut album "Happy Nowhere" in 1995, and this song ranked on 15 music charts in three countries peaking at number one on the Radio & Records Active Rock Top 50 chart: Canada (4), New Zealand, United States (10).

Answer: Perfect View

Charlotte Caffey's band, The Graces, released their debut album "Perfect View" on 15 Jun 1989.

After The Go-Go's disbanded on 11 May 1985, Charlotte, Meredith Brooks and Gia Ciambotti formed The Graces in 1987.

The Graces' "Perfect View" ranked on the Billboard 200 for nine weeks from 9 Sep to 4 Nov 1989 peaking at number 147. The song "Lay Down Your Arms" on the album ranked on the Billboard Hot 100 also for nine weeks from 12 Aug to 7 Oct 1989 peaking at number 56 and on the Cash Box Top 100 Singles for eight weeks from 26 Aug to 14 Oct 1989 peaking at number 62.

Answer: Santa Monica

Charlotte Caffey was born in Santa Monica, California and 24 years, seven months and ten days later, Charlotte debuted with The Go-Go's on 31 May 1978 at the Masque in Hollywood, California.

According to Charlotte's interview with Guitar Girl Magazine, "Belinda [Carlisle] asked me to be in the band in April of 1978. She said 'oh, do you play lead guitar?' and of course I lied at the time and said 'yeah!' because I was thinking, 'I play bass, I play piano, how hard can lead guitar be?' I just said yes and I joined the band. I actually went to England a month later and missed that [Go-Go's] first show at the Masque, but we started playing together after I got back. The way that I approached lead guitar is interesting because I didn't really 'noodle around' or play the fast stuff. I just wrote melodies...that's where all my melodic guitar parts come from" (Windsor, 2021).

Answer: Seaside Tour

After opening for Madness at the Whisky a Go Go in West Hollywood from 28 Nov to 2 Dec 1979, The Go-Go's were invited to join Madness and The Specials on their Seaside Tour in the UK.

According to Ginger Canzoneri, The Go-Go's manager, in the documentary "The Go-Go's," "Somebody from The Specials came to me and said, 'We're planning a seaside tour in England. Do you think your band might be able to get over there?' And I said, 'Yes!' I did a lot of pawning of jewelry and selling a lot of things to be able to get the girls over on that trip" (Ellwood, 2020).

According to Setlist.fm, The Go-Go's performed ten shows during the Seaside Tour from 21 Apr to 22 Jun 1980 in nine cities throughout England.

The Go-Go's also released their first record during the Seaside Tour. On 9 May 1980, The Go-Go's released their non-album single "We Got the Beat" backed with "How Much More" on Stiff Records in London. This initial version of "We Got the Beat" ranked on the Billboard Disco Top 100 for 19 weeks from 9 Aug to 13 Dec 1980 peaking at number 35.

Answer: Star Trek IV

Jane Wiedlin appeared in the film "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" as Trillya, the communications officer assigned to the USS Shepard.

According to Jane's interview with the "Star Trek" website, "Oh, my God! 'Star Trek' was the highlight of the week for my family when I was growing up. I have older brothers and sisters, otherwise I don't know if I ever would've heard about the show. But we watched every episode when they were originally aired, and then we would recreate the episodes. We even made our own 'Star Trek' movies with Super 8 cameras, and I'd kill to get copies of those films. I don't know what became of them. But, yeah, I've been a geek girl since the 60's" ("Star Trek" Staff, 2011).

Answer: Anna Waronker

Anna Waronker is the only outside writer with multiple lyrical credits with The Go-Go's.

Anna first teamed with Charlotte Caffey to write "I Think I Need Sleep" on the Japanese edition of the album "God Bless The Go-Go's" on 23 May 2001. Anna's second co-write is with all five Go-Go's on their non-album single "Club Zero" on 31 Jul 2020.

Anna released four albums with her band That Dog: "That Dog" (1993), "Totally Crushed Out!" (1995), "Retreat from the Sun" (1997) and "Old LP" (2019). While with her side project, Ze Malibu Kids, Anna also released the album "Sound It Out" in 2002.

As a solo artist, Anna released a self-titled album in 2002 and "California Fade" in 2011.

Anna's "Never Say Never" on "Retreat from the Sun" ranked for six weeks on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks from 24 May to 28 Jun 1997 peaking at number 27.

Anna, Jimmy Harry and Greg Kurstin co-wrote Lisa Loeb's collaborative song "Anti Hero" on Japanese pop star Rin's album "Inland Sea" and this song ranked on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart for the week of 20 May 2006 at number 36.