Ballad of Easy Rider is the eighth album from the influential folk rock group The Byrds, released in October 1969 on Columbia Records, catalogue item CS 9942 in stereo. It peaked at #36 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums during a chart stay of seventeen weeks, a substantial improvement over its predecessor, but not in the United Kingdom where it only made it to #41. A single released ahead of the album, "Ballad of Easy Rider," peaked at #65 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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  • Ballad of Easy Rider is the eighth album from the influential folk rock group The Byrds, released in October 1969 on Columbia Records, catalogue item CS 9942 in stereo. It peaked at #36 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums during a chart stay of seventeen weeks, a substantial improvement over its predecessor, but not in the United Kingdom where it only made it to #41. A single released ahead of the album, "Ballad of Easy Rider," peaked at #65 on the Billboard Hot 100. It is the second album featuring the new line-up of Roger McGuinn, Clarence White, Gene Parsons and John York. Bob Dylan had been asked by the producers of Easy Rider to compose a theme song for their film; but, apparently disapproving of the ending, he merely wrote out a couplet on a cocktail napkin and had it sent to Roger McGuinn with the instructions to flesh it out. The result was the film's exit music (in a solo, bluesy version by McGuinn), and, eventually, the ensuing Byrds album's title track. It was to be McGuinn's sole songwriting contribution to the LP; at the time McGuinn was preoccupied with composing the music for Broadway impresario Jacques Levy's pop-music adaptation of Peer Gynt, cheekily entitled Gene Tryp by the pair. The play was never completed, but most of the songs would see release on the next two Byrds albums. The album's programme consists mostly of covers. The group's earlier days are harkened back to in a version of Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue," which the original quintet configuration first recorded in 1965. Every member of the band penned an original: White contributed a loud, deliberately-paced, harmony-laden arrangement of a Baptist hymn, "Oil In My Lamp;" York offered "Fido," making this the second Byrds album in a row with a paean to a canine friend; and Parsons's "Gunga Din" would become something of a signature song. McGuinn also arranged and sang a highly influential version of "Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)". Terry Melcher, producer of The Byrds' first two albums in 1965, returned to the dials to produce Ballad of Easy Rider, beginning an association that would last even longer than their first one - three albums up until Byrdmaniax in 1971. It revived The Byrds' commercial fortunes, giving them their first U.S. Top 40 album in two years. Two singles were released - the abovementioned title track and "Jesus Is Just Alright," which topped out at #97 in the US. The latter received some airplay, and went on to inspire a hit version by the Doobie Brothers. "Jesus Is Just Alright" was covered once more in 1992 by dc talk. Ballad of Easy Rider was remixed and remastered at 20-bit resolution as part of the Columbia/Legacy Byrds series, reissued in an expanded form on March 25, 1997. The seven bonus tracks include a song taken from an album by the British folk-rock band The Pentangle, "Way Beyond the Sun" (John York on lead vocal), "Fiddler a Dram" (another of Roger's moog synthesizer genre experiments), "Tulsa County", and a number by then little-known songwriter Jackson Browne, "Mae Jean Goes to Hollywood."
  • Ballad of Easy Rider ist das achte Studioalbum der US-amerikanischen Folk-Rock-Band The Byrds, das neunte, wenn man ihr Greatest Hits-Album mitzählt. Es erschien am 29. Oktober 1969 auf dem Label Columbia Records. In den Vereinigten Staaten erreichte das Album #36 der Pop-Charts, in Großbritannien #41. Dank der Rückkehr Terry Melchers, des Produzenten der ersten beiden Byrds-Alben, war Ballad of Easy Rider unter Fans und Kritikern ein weit größerer Erfolg als der Vorgänger Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde. Da Roger McGuinn in der Entstehungsphase des Albums hauptsächlich damit beschäftigt war die Musik für Jacques Levys Pop-Version von Peer Gynt zu komponieren und die drei anderen Mitglieder im Songs schreiben wenig Erfahrung hatten, besteht Ballad of Easy Rider hauptsächlich aus Coverversionen von Songs anderer Interpreten. Von jedem Bandmitglied ist nur je ein selbstverfasstes Lied enthalten. McGuinn steuerte den Titeltrack bei, der in einer Solo-Version von ihm schon auf dem Easy Rider-Soundtrack erschienen war. Zwei Singles wurden von dem Album ausgekoppelt. Ballad of Easy Rider mit der B-Seite Oil in My Hand erschien am 1. Oktober, noch vor Veröffentlichung des Albums, und erreichte in den amerikanischen Single-Charts #65. Jesus Is Just Alright, das die Doobie Brothers 1972 zum Hit machten, kam erst am 15. Dezember auf den Markt und kam nur bis #97. B-Seite war eine neue Version des Bob Dylan-Songs It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue, den die Byrds in der Originalbesetzung 1965 schon einmal aufgenommen, damals aber nicht veröffentlicht hatten.
  • Ballad of Easy Rider est le huitième album du groupe américain The Byrds, paru en 1969. La chanson-titre fut écrite pour la bande originale du film Easy Rider.
  • Ballad of Easy Rider è il nono album del gruppo folk rock statunitense The Byrds.
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  • Ballad of Easy Rider is the eighth album from the influential folk rock group The Byrds, released in October 1969 on Columbia Records, catalogue item CS 9942 in stereo. It peaked at #36 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums during a chart stay of seventeen weeks, a substantial improvement over its predecessor, but not in the United Kingdom where it only made it to #41. A single released ahead of the album, "Ballad of Easy Rider," peaked at #65 on the Billboard Hot 100.
  • Ballad of Easy Rider ist das achte Studioalbum der US-amerikanischen Folk-Rock-Band The Byrds, das neunte, wenn man ihr Greatest Hits-Album mitzählt. Es erschien am 29. Oktober 1969 auf dem Label Columbia Records. In den Vereinigten Staaten erreichte das Album #36 der Pop-Charts, in Großbritannien #41. Dank der Rückkehr Terry Melchers, des Produzenten der ersten beiden Byrds-Alben, war Ballad of Easy Rider unter Fans und Kritikern ein weit größerer Erfolg als der Vorgänger Dr.
  • Ballad of Easy Rider est le huitième album du groupe américain The Byrds, paru en 1969. La chanson-titre fut écrite pour la bande originale du film Easy Rider.
  • Ballad of Easy Rider è il nono album del gruppo folk rock statunitense The Byrds.
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