I Love to Boogie, released as a single in 1976, also appeared on the 1977 T.Rex album Dandy in the Underworld, neither of which charted in Australia. However, it remains one of T.Rex’s more popular songs. The song peaked at #13 in the UK singles chart.
Songwriter:
Marc Bolan
Producer:
Marc Bolan
Record label of Australian release:
T.Rex (via EMI)
On Top of the Pops, BBC, 17 June 1976:
BONUS VIDEO BELOW – Jamie Bell dancing to I Love to Boogie in Billy Elliot
Wikipedia:
I Love to Boogie was released to controversy due to its resemblance to Webb Pierce’s Teenage Boogie. When Pierce’s publishers contacted Marc Bolan’s London office, Bolan’s manager Tony Howard employed a musicologist to analyse both songs. The musicologist noted that Teenage Boogie was itself based on a riff that had been around long before the song was written.
I Love to Boogie features in the 2000 film Billy Elliot as the music for a dance routine with Julie Walters and Jamie Bell.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_to_Boogie
Lyrics:
We love to boogie, we love to boogie
Jitterbug boogie, Bolan pretty boogie
We love to boogie on a Saturday night
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BONUS
Jamie Bell and Julie Walters dancing to I Love to Boogie in the 2000 film Billy Elliot:
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