SINGLES DISCOGRAPHY

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T-REX SINGLES 1970 - 1977

Released: 2 Oct 1970 Highest Chart Position #2: 23 Jan 1971 For 1 Week 20 weeks in the charts Full Songbook Available in the Members Section.	Released: 19 Feb 1971 Highest Chart Position #1 from: 20 March 1971 17 weeks in the charts Full Songbook Available in the Members Section.	Released: 2 July 1971 Highest Chart Position #1 from: 24 July 1971 12 weeks in the charts Full Songbook Available in the Members Section.
Released: 1 Nov 1971 Highest Chart Position #2 from: 18 dec 1971 15 weeks in the charts Full Songbook Available in the Members Section.	Released: 21 Jan 1972 Highest Chart Position #1 from: 5 Feb 1972 12 weeks in the charts Full Songbook Available in the Members Section.	Reissued: 24 March 1972 Highest Chart Position #7 on 29 Apr 1972 10 weeks in the charts Full Songbook Available in the Members Section.
Released: 5 May 1972 Highest Chart Position #1 from: 20 May 1972 14 weeks in the charts Full Songbook Available in the Members Section.	Released: 8 Sept 1972 Highest Chart Position #2 on 23 Sept 1972 10 weeks in the charts Full Songbook Available in the Members Section.	Released: 1 Dec 1972 Highest Chart Position #2 on 6 Jan 1973 Also #3 for 3 weeks too! 11 weeks in the charts Full Songbook Available in the Members Section.
Released: 2 March 1973 Highest Chart Position #3 from 10 March 1973 9 weeks in the charts Full Songbook Available in the Members Section.	Released: 1 June1973 Highest Chart Position #4 on 23 June For 1 week 9 weeks in the charts Full Songbook Available in the Members Section.	Released: 16 Nov 1973 Highest Chart Position #12 from 22 Dec 1973 11 weeks in the charts Full Songbook Available in the Members Section.
Released: 9 Feb 1974 Highest Chart Position #13 on 16 Feb 1974 5 weeks in the charts Full Songbook Available in the Members Section.	Released: 13 July 1974 Highest Chart Position #22 5 weeks in the charts	ZIP GUN BOOGIE Released: 1 Nov 1974 Highest Position #41 3 weeks in the charts NO SCAN YET
Released: 21 June 1975 Highest Position #15 8 weeks in the charts Full Songbook Available in the Members Section.	Released: 26 Sept 1975 Highest Position #30 5 weeks in the charts Full Songbook Available in the Members Section.	Released: 5 June 1976 Highest Position #13 9 weeks in the charts Full Songbook Available in the Members Section.
Released: 17 Sept 1976 Highest Position #41 4 weeks in the charts Full Songbook Available in the Members Section.	TO KNOW YOU IS TO LOVE YOU Released: 14 Jan 1977 Didn't Chart NO SCAN YET	THE SOUL OF MY SUIT Released: 12 March 1977 Highest Position #42 3 weeks in the charts NO SCAN YET
DANDY IN THE UNDERWORLD Released: 30 May 1977 Didn't Chart NO SCAN YET	CELEBRATE SUMMER Released: 5 Aug 1977 Didn't Chart NO SCAN YET

DETAILED SINGLES LISTINGS

EARLY SOLO RECORDINGS

1963 Mark Feld Mrs. Jones
Acetate recorded with Joe Meek of one of Marc's own songs. There is the possibility that he also may have recorded vocals for a version of "Telstar" with lyrics also with Joe Meek.

1964 Toby Tyler The Road I'm On (Gloria) (EMIDISC )
Producer: Jim Economedies. One-sided acetate, only two copies known. One passed down from June Bolan to Paul Sinclair (a.k.a. Paul Roland) and is currently in the hands of Marc Arscott Producer is Jim Economedies. It has since been given wide release in 1989 on Archive Jive Records (TOBY 1).

1964 Toby Tyler The Road I'm On (Gloria)/Blowin' In The Wind(EMIDISC)
This acetate was auctioned in Sept. 1992 and was claimed by a winning bid of Ł4,200 . The A-side is identical to the previous entry and both tracks were recorded in Dec. of 1964 along with a version of "The Perfumed Garden of Gulliver Smith" at Maximum Sound Studios, 47 Dean St. London (ref. Rumblings Newsletter of the Tyrannosaurus Rex Appreciation Soc., Oct., 1991).According to the July and August 1991 issues of Record Collector, this was originally presented to a dee jay and has the name Marc Feld crossed out on the printed label and the name Toby Tyler handwritten over it.
19/11/65 Marc Bowland The Wizard /Beyond the Risin' Sun (Decca F12288)
This and the following single were produced by Jim Ecconomedies. This single is more common as a promo. A group called The Ladybirds are on backing vocals.

3/6/66 Marc Bolan (Decca F12413) The Third Degree/San Francisco Poet
Produced by Jim Ecconomedies

3/67 Marc Bolan Hippy Gumbo/Misfit (Parlophone R5539)
Produced by Simon Napier-Bell.

WITH JOHN'S CHILDREN

24/5/67 John's Children Desdemona/Remember Thomas A. Beckett (Track 604003)
This and the other John's Children singles were produced by Simon Napier-Bell. Bolan is only on the A-side here and some copies have a pic sleeve. The John's Children line up with Bolan was: Andy Ellison on lead vocals; Marc Bolan on lead guitar and backing vocals; John Hewlett on guitar; Chris Townson on drums.

?/67 John's Children Midsummer Night's Scene/Sarah Crazy Child (Track 604005)
This did not receive official release, but between 25-50 copies were pressed and personally distributed by the band at their club in Leatherhead. It has since become the most expensive and sought after British single.

14/7/67 John's Children Come and Play with Me in the Garden/Sarah Crazy Child (Track 604005)
Repeats the catalogue # of the previous single. Bolan appears on the B-side only. Some copies have an art sleeve

12/67 John's Children Go Go Girl/Jagged Time Lapse (Track 604010)
Bolan may appear on the A-side since it is his "Mustang Ford" with changed lyrics, but probably not!

TYRANNOSAURUS REX

1968? Marc Bolan Sleepy Maurice (EMIDISC-SPOT)
This record is signed and credited to Marc Bolan and features Steve Peregrin Took on bongos, making it one of the earliest known Tyrannosaurus Rex 'Session' recordings (as opposed to the 'There Was A Time' Middle Earth Debut Live Gig released by TAG in 2000 & reissued by Voiceprint in 2002.

1968 Tyrannosaurus Rex - Hot Rod Momma/Sarah Crazy Child (EMIDISC-SPOT)
Tracks are as they appear of the Beginning of Doves LP. This was to be the first Tyrannosaurus Rex single

19/4/68 Tyrannosaurus Rex Debora/Child Star (Regal Zonophone RZ 3008)
(Highest Chart Position #34, 7 weeks in the charts) A few came with a pic sleeve. This and subsequent Tyrannosaurus singles were produced by Tony Visconti. 23/8/68 - One Inch Rock (#1)/Salamanda Palaganda (Regal zonophone RZ 3011)
(Highest Chart Position #28, 7 weeks in the charts) A few with pic sleeve. 14/1/69 Pewter Suitor/Warlord of the Royal Crocodiles (Regal Zonophone RZ 3016)
Just prior to this release the Regal Zonophone label changed from blue to red.

25/7/69 King of the Rumbling Spires/Do You Remember? (Regal Zonophone RZ 3022)
(Highest Chart Position #44, 1 week) This is the last single with Steve Peregrin Took and has the rarest pic sleeve even though it's a pic that doesn't feature Bolan.

20/1/70 By the Light of a Magical Moon/Find a Little Wood (Regal Zonophone RZ 3025)
This is the first single to feature Mickey Finn.

DIB COCHRAN

8/70 Dib Cochran & the Earwigs Oh Baby/Universal Love (BELL Records Bell 1121)
Group consists of Tony Visconti (lead vocals, back up vocals and bass), Marc Bolan (lead guitar and back up vocals), Jim Cambridge (percussion), and Rick Wakeman (piano). Recorded at Air Studios, London.

T-REX

1970 Ride A White Swan/Jewel, Summertime Blues (Octopus, OCTO 1)
Octopus Records (an attempt to mimic the American Tarantula Label) had its name changed to Fly while trying to work out a distribution deal with Island Records. The deal fell through and Fly connected with EMI, who officially released the record as BUG 1. (See the letter by Malcolm Jones, who ran Fly Records then, in Record Collector #91, March 1987)

2/10/70 Ride a White Swan/Is It Love, Summertime Blues (FLY BUG 1)
(Highest Chart Position #2, 20 weeks in the charts)
Comes in mustard or lilac, using paper from the defunct Immediate label and the rarer of the coloured labels with some having pic sleeves.

19/2/71 Hot Love/Woodland Rock, King of the Mountain Cometh (FLY BUG 6)
(Highest Chart Position #1, 17 weeks in the charts)
Early pressings have a circular FLY logo on a mustard label, while later pressings have a hovering FLY logo. Some came with pic sleeves. First single with Steve Currie on bass and Bill Legend on drums as well as Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman (Flo & Eddie) on backing vocals. Recorded at Trident Studios, London

2/7/71 Get It On/There Was a Time, Raw Ramp (FLY BUG 10)
(Highest Chart Position #1, 12 weeks in the charts)
There are some label variations here: a) hand-written, white fly and no credit for "There was a Time" on side-B; b) handwritten, silver fly, listing "There Was A Time; c) capital letters, silver fly, no credit for "There Was A Time." Rick Wakeman is on piano. Recorded at Trident Studios, London.

1/11/71 Jeepster/Life's A Gas (FLY BUG 16)
(Highest Chart Position #2, 15 weeks in the charts)
This has a picture label on the B-side. Some copies have BUG 16 (GRUB 1 A) as the catalogue number, probably alluding to the promo only release. Bolan didn't intend general release of this single.

21/1/72 Telegram Sam/Cadillac,Baby Strange (EMI T. Rex 101)
(Highest Chart Position #1, 12 weeks in the charts)
The first record on Bolan's own label and has what was to become the standard Bolan portrait on the label and on the stock sleeve. Recorded at Rosenberg Studios in Copenhagen and at Chateau D'Hierouville in Paris.

24/3/72 Debora, One Inch Rock/Woodland Bop, Seal of Seasons (FLY Magnifly Echo 102)
(Highest Chart Position #7, 10 weeks in the charts)
Re-issue, compilation EP with a pic sleeve that features The Move, Procul Harum, and Joe Cocker along with an Early portrait of Bolan.

5/5/72 Metal Guru/Thunderwing, Lady (EMI Marc 1)
(Highest Chart Position #1, 14 weeks in the charts)
The label incorrectly lists track order on B-side.

8/9/72 Children of the Revolution/Jitterbug Love, Sunken Rags (EMI Marc 2)
(Highest Chart Position #2, 10 weeks in the charts)
Sleeve and label released in red and white instead of the usual blue and red. Some B-sides have "From the Motion Picture Born to Boogie" on them. Recorded at Chateau D'Hierouville in Paris.

1/12/72 Solid Gold, Easy Action/Born to Boogie (EMI Marc 3)
(Highest Chart Position #2, 11 weeks in the charts)
The B-side is introduced by a short Christmas greeting absent from LP versions. Recorded and pressed in Holland.

12/72 T. Rex Christmas Record (No Record Label or cat. #)
A two-sided 7inch flexi-disc with a portrait of Bolan etched in the label area. It was issued free to Fan Club members. It was recorded in Holland and consists of the band ad-libbing in the studio. Tracks are: Intro from Children of the Revolution, Christmas Time, Christmas Messages (spoken by the group), Wanna Spend My Christmas with You, Nobbly Wobbly, A Christmas Play (spoken), Christmas Poem (read by Marc), Everybody, Close from Solid Gold, Easy action.

2/3/73 20th Century Boy/Free Angel (EMI Marc 4)
(Highest Chart Position #3, 9 weeks in the charts)
Marc claimed Mickey O'Halloran (the group's road manager) produced the A-side even though Visconti is credited. Recorded in Germany.

1/6/73 The Groover/Midnight (EMI Marc 5)
(Highest Chart Position #4, 9 weeks in the charts)
Recorded at Rosenberg Studios in Copenhagen.

8/73 Big Carrot Blackjack/Squint Eye Mangle (EMI 2047)
Two mainly instrumentals, though the A-side does have a repetitive chorus. with backing vocals from Gloria Jones and Pat Hall. This is T. Rex, with both songs written by Bolan and the record produced by Bolan.

16/11/73 Truck On (Tyke)/Sitting Here (EMI Marc 6)
(Highest Chart Position #12, 11 weeks in the charts)
Some labels credit Marc Bolan and Visconti as co-producers. Recorded in Germany.

9/2/74 Teenage Dream/Satisfaction Pony (EMI Marc 7)
(Highest Chart Position #13, 5 weeks in the charts)
Label production credits vary as in previous single. Recorded in Los Angeles.

6/74 Marc Bolan Jasper C. Debussy/Hippy Gumbo (Track 2094013)
The Perfumed Garden of Gulliver Smith Though the label says 1972, these songs from 1966 were released to coincide with the Beginning of Doves LP, The single was released against Marc's wishes. Comes with a pic sleeve.

13/7/74 Light of Love/Explosive Mouth (EMI Marc 8)
(Highest Chart Position #22, 5 weeks in the charts)
Recorded at Music Recorders Inc., Hollywood.

1/11/74 Zip Gun Boogie/Space Boss (EMI Marc 9)
(Highest Chart Position #41, 3 weeks in the charts)
Recorded at Music Recorders Inc., Hollywood.

21/6/75 New York City/Chrome Sitar (EMI Marc 10)
(Highest Chart Position #15, 8 weeks in the charts)
Recorded at Music Recorders Inc., Hollywood.

26/9/75 Dreamy Lady/Do You Wanna Dance, Dock of the Bay (EMI Marc 11)
(Highest Chart Position #30, 5 weeks in the charts)
The collective title for this release is "T. Rex Disco Party" with "Dock of the Bay" being a Gloria Jones solo. Recorded at Music Recorders Inc., Hollywood.

21/2/76 London Boys/Solid Baby (EMI Marc 13)
(Highest Chart Position #40, 3 weeks in the charts)

6/4/76 Hot Love/Get It On (Cube Bug 66) Reissue

5/6/76 I Love to Boogie/Baby Boomerang (EMI Marc 14)
(Highest Chart Position #13, 9 weeks in the charts)

17/9/76 Laser Love/Life's An Elevator (EMI Marc 15)
(Highest Chart Position #41, 4 weeks in the charts)

14/1/77 Marc Bolan and Gloria Jones To Know You Is To Love You/City Port (EMI 2572)
Produced by Bolan and B-side written by Bolan. Did not chart.

12/3/77 Soul of My Suit/All Alone (EMI Marc 16)
(Highest Chart Position #42, 3 weeks in the charts) Last single to chart during Marc's lifetime.

30/5/77 T. Rex Dandy in the Underworld/Groove a Little, Tame My Tiger (EMI Marc 17)
Single version of "Dandy..." is different from the LP cut changing the phrase "cocaine nights" from the LP cut. Comes in a pic sleeve.

5/8/77 Celebrate Summer/Ride My Wheels (EMI Marc 18)
Comes in a Pic sleeve. Bolan's last original single release.

5/8/77 Ride A White Swan, The Motivator/Jeepster, Demon Queen (Cube ANT 1)
Collectively called "Bolan's Best Plus One". "Demon Queen" is previously unreleased. Comes in a pic sleeve.

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