Single:
Ride a White Swan entered the Australian singles chart* on 8 February 1971 and peaked at #68.
Songwriter:
Marc Bolan
Producer:
Tony Visconti
Record label of Australian release:
Parlophone
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
Ride a White Swan was the first single credited under the band’s new shorter name T.Rex, after starting out as Tyrannosaurus Rex.
The song was the band’s first hit and, according to Ned Raggett of AllMusic, the song “inadvertently founded glam rock mania” although Bolan did not wear characteristic glam stage clothing until the promotion of follow up single Hot Love.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ride_a_White_Swan
Lyrics:
Ride it on out like a bird in the sky ways
Ride it on out like you were a bird
Fly it all out like an eagle in a sunbeam
Ride it on out like you were a bird
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