This record was a hit when I was two years old but (as I’ve mentioned before) in the 1970s records seemed to ‘hang around’ and have a much longer shelf life than they do now and I remember hearing this as well as other Marc Bolan songs on Marc’s TV show which I remember watching and singing along to in the early seventies. I can’t exactly remember when it was on but it must have been after 1973 because that was when we bough our colour television which was made by Hitachi!
As I now have an iphone and tend to leave my ipod at home I can only carry a limited number of songs around with me personally so these days if I want to listen to something specific and it’s not on my iphone I have to re sync it with my computer and this was a song (along with Metal Guru) which I added to my iphone last week so I could listen to it as I walked to work.
We have recently moved house from Essex to Kent and instead of the tube I now catch the Hitachi High Speed train into St. Pancras. I leave the house, cross the railway bridge at the end of the street, pass the Hitachi train depot and cut through the houses to the station and while I was doing this walk the other day
I suddenly found myself singing this song and wanting to hear it so I added it to my iphone playlist that night.
This song reminds me of the 1970s (which was a great time in my childhood), colour television and glam rock, ’Supersonic’ with Kid Jensen and flares. I love Marc Bolan and I love ‘Ride A White Swan’. Thanks to Hitachi as well for our colour tv and my journey to work.
Now listen to the song….
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