<P> In `` Space Oddity '' , from the album David Bowie ( 1969 , later retitled Space Oddity ) , Major Tom 's departure from Earth is successful and everything goes according to plan . At a certain point during the travel ( ' past one hundred thousand miles ' ) , he claims that `` he feels very still '' and thinks that `` my spaceship knows which way to go '' and proceeds to say `` Tell my wife I love her very much . '' Control then informs him , `` Ground Control to Major Tom : your circuit 's dead , there 's something wrong '' and attempts to reestablish contact with Major Tom . Tom 's final words in the song ( possibly not heard by Ground Control ) are : `` Here am I floating ' round my tin can , far above the moon . Planet Earth is blue , and there 's nothing I can do . '' </P>
<P> In `` Space Oddity '' , from the album David Bowie ( 1969 , later retitled Space Oddity ) , Major Tom 's departure from Earth is successful and everything goes according to plan . At a certain point during the travel ( ' past one hundred thousand miles ' ) , he claims that `` he feels very still '' and thinks that `` my spaceship knows which way to go '' and proceeds to say `` Tell my wife I love her very much . '' Control then informs him , `` Ground Control to Major Tom : your circuit 's dead , there 's something wrong '' and attempts to reestablish contact with Major Tom . Tom 's final words in the song ( possibly not heard by Ground Control ) are : `` Here am I floating ' round my tin can , far above the moon . Planet Earth is blue , and there 's nothing I can do . '' </P>
who wrote and sang ground control to major tom
who wrote and sang ground control to major tom
David Bowie
David Bowie