Bolan Boogie Album News Article : 1972

Fly Records cash in on T.Rextasy – Bolan Boogie incoming!

Bolan Boogie – the cheeky title chosen by Fly Records, former T. Rex label, for a new album of Marc Bolan material released next month. The move follows Fly’s reissue of the four-year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex classic “Debora,” currently storming the charts.

One-page article in Disc music paper, April 29, 1972.

More T.Rex cash-ins unearthed weekly.

"Bolan Boogie," out May 5, contains all Fly smashes never before released on one LP-classic tracks like "Ride A White Swan," "Hot Love," "Get In On" and "Jeepster," mammoth-selling singles for the band.

The album is described by Fly's David Ruffell as breath of fresh and very welcome air brought to fans as "Bolan Boogie' by T. Rex."

Also included on the album are: The King Of The Mountains Cometh (flip of "Hot Love"), Woodland Rock (from "Hot Love"), Summertime Blues (off "Ride A White Swan"), Raw Ramp (off "Get It On"), Beltane Walk and Jewel (off "T. Rex" LP), She Was Born To Be My Unicom (off "Unicorn" album, originally recorded as Tyrannosaurus Rex), and Dove and Fist Heart Mighty Dawn Dart (from "Beard Of Stars" as Tyrannosaurus Rex), plus By The Light Of A Magical Moon (also on "Beard Of Stars" and a Regal Zonophone single). All tracks feature Mickey Finn, except "She Was Born To Be My Unicom."

Said T. Rex spokesman B. P. Fallon: "Marc feels the same way about this album as he did about the 'Debora' single. If people want to buy it-fine; but it's nothing to do with us, not what the group's doing now. He doesn't even know what the tracks are himself. We feel Fly aren't doing this for ethnic reasons, rather because of the success of Т. Rex. 1 relate it to release of 'Tony Sheridan And The Beatles' records; that sort of thing."

Meanwhile, Marc Bolan has revealed that a few selected T. Rex concerts-one probably in Manchester-are being arranged for the near future, following the phenomenal success of the Wembley Empire Pool gig.