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Who's playing on the song? I remember reading an interview in Record Collector with a keyboard player (Rick Wakeman?) who was hired to play the minimal keyboard part in the bridge because he was a friend of Tony Visconti and Marc Bolan, they wanted to give him a session every week so he could pay his rent. Flo and Eddie sing backing vocals, sez the Flo and Eddie page. Mickey Finn contributes subliminal percussion, I assume, and Marc Bolan sings lead and plays guitar. Anyone else? Juryen ( talk) 03:46, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
I always thought it was Elton John who played the keys on this song - he appears with Marc et al., on TOTP as you can see on YT. Maybe on the Bolan Boogie film too. I love this song.... so did my first ever girlfriend. Happy memories from 1971. BTW there should also be mention of the other version of the song on the re-issue of the EW CD where you hear Marc counting them in. Fantastic. Royzee ( talk) 11:02, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Could somebody please provide a cover image from the 45 and infobox for this article? And some real info 'bout the riff wouldn't go amiss around these parts.
Thanks!
Wasn't the real reason for the decision to change the name of the track to Bang A Gong in the US, that there was a chart hit called Get It On in the Morning by Chase?
Any substantial interpretation of lyrics requies a direct citation. I removed the following tex:
To suggest that the lyrics are in any way "outrageous" for their time (1971) is ridiculous. The lyrics are no more than suggestive in a manner fairly common to the time. Comparing a woman to car is also a common metaphor: "Little Red Corvette," "Jeepster," "Maybeline," etc. Prior to T-Rex their were plenty of much more directly sexual lyrics in mainsteam music. "Shake, Rattle & Roll" (c.1955) is in itself a sexual reference, and the actually outrageous lyric "I'm like a one-eyed cat, peeping in a seafood store" somehow made it past the censor in the Pat Boone cover of the song (though the follow-up line "I can look at you 'till you ain't no child no more" didn't. Years before "Get in on" the Stones were telling us to "spend the night together" and don't forget "Starfucker," which was listed on the album and single as "Star Star."
The line (shouted, not "moaned": "Take Me!" isn't in the main lyric. It is a stage interjection not present in other versions. And "extremely risqué"? Wow. Was the writer around in 1971? I could go on and on.... -- Cecropia
I've added a reference to the Bus Stop cover version of the song that was included in the G.I. Joe Rise of Cobra movie. The DVD commentary says that the song was used as a temp track and it became so popular with the post-production staff, they ended up marrying it to the final cut. However, I did not add that to the article itself because I'm unsure how to cite it as verifiable. Medleystudios72 ( talk) 16:19, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
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At Flo & Eddie, it states: 'They were backing vocalists on the T. Rex song " Get It On", singing the inadvertent extra chorus that "worked".' There's no explanation in this article what that refers to, but it sounds interesting and probably worth covering, if there's something unusual about the chorus lines in this song and how they developed. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 06:03, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
Still anybody here to answer my question? I own a single by T.Rex, A Get it on - B Hot Love. Cube Records 2016 011. I own it for about 50 years. Now my question, which may be important for this article: When was this single released: before or after Hot Love/Woodland Rock? Rudihaase ( talk) 11:16, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
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Who's playing on the song? I remember reading an interview in Record Collector with a keyboard player (Rick Wakeman?) who was hired to play the minimal keyboard part in the bridge because he was a friend of Tony Visconti and Marc Bolan, they wanted to give him a session every week so he could pay his rent. Flo and Eddie sing backing vocals, sez the Flo and Eddie page. Mickey Finn contributes subliminal percussion, I assume, and Marc Bolan sings lead and plays guitar. Anyone else? Juryen ( talk) 03:46, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
I always thought it was Elton John who played the keys on this song - he appears with Marc et al., on TOTP as you can see on YT. Maybe on the Bolan Boogie film too. I love this song.... so did my first ever girlfriend. Happy memories from 1971. BTW there should also be mention of the other version of the song on the re-issue of the EW CD where you hear Marc counting them in. Fantastic. Royzee ( talk) 11:02, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Could somebody please provide a cover image from the 45 and infobox for this article? And some real info 'bout the riff wouldn't go amiss around these parts.
Thanks!
Wasn't the real reason for the decision to change the name of the track to Bang A Gong in the US, that there was a chart hit called Get It On in the Morning by Chase?
Any substantial interpretation of lyrics requies a direct citation. I removed the following tex:
To suggest that the lyrics are in any way "outrageous" for their time (1971) is ridiculous. The lyrics are no more than suggestive in a manner fairly common to the time. Comparing a woman to car is also a common metaphor: "Little Red Corvette," "Jeepster," "Maybeline," etc. Prior to T-Rex their were plenty of much more directly sexual lyrics in mainsteam music. "Shake, Rattle & Roll" (c.1955) is in itself a sexual reference, and the actually outrageous lyric "I'm like a one-eyed cat, peeping in a seafood store" somehow made it past the censor in the Pat Boone cover of the song (though the follow-up line "I can look at you 'till you ain't no child no more" didn't. Years before "Get in on" the Stones were telling us to "spend the night together" and don't forget "Starfucker," which was listed on the album and single as "Star Star."
The line (shouted, not "moaned": "Take Me!" isn't in the main lyric. It is a stage interjection not present in other versions. And "extremely risqué"? Wow. Was the writer around in 1971? I could go on and on.... -- Cecropia
I've added a reference to the Bus Stop cover version of the song that was included in the G.I. Joe Rise of Cobra movie. The DVD commentary says that the song was used as a temp track and it became so popular with the post-production staff, they ended up marrying it to the final cut. However, I did not add that to the article itself because I'm unsure how to cite it as verifiable. Medleystudios72 ( talk) 16:19, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
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At Flo & Eddie, it states: 'They were backing vocalists on the T. Rex song " Get It On", singing the inadvertent extra chorus that "worked".' There's no explanation in this article what that refers to, but it sounds interesting and probably worth covering, if there's something unusual about the chorus lines in this song and how they developed. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 06:03, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
Still anybody here to answer my question? I own a single by T.Rex, A Get it on - B Hot Love. Cube Records 2016 011. I own it for about 50 years. Now my question, which may be important for this article: When was this single released: before or after Hot Love/Woodland Rock? Rudihaase ( talk) 11:16, 25 November 2023 (UTC)