The Ballad of Easy Rider was an album by the rock band The Byrds in October1969 on Columbia Records. It also appeared in Easy Rider. The song is about the will to be free. ....................................................................................................................together with vinyl records Manufacturers put records inside protective and decorative cardboard jackets and an inner paper sleeve to protect the grooves from dust and scratches. ... L-R: David Crosby, Gene Clark, Michael Clarke, Chris Hillman, Roger McGuinn The Byrds were an American rock music group founded in Los Angeles, California in 1964 by singers and guitarists Jim McGuinn (he later changed his name to Roger McGuinn), Gene Clark, and David Crosby. ... October is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... Columbia Records is the oldest continually used brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888. ...
EASYRIDER (1969) Directed by: Dennis Hopper Produced by: Peter Fonda Executive Producer: Bert Schneider Screenplay: Hopper, Fonda, and Terry Southern Photography: Laszlo Kovacs Art Direction: Jerry Kay Editor: Donn Cambern "Ballad of EasyRider" by Bob Dylan and Roger McGuinn.
"EasyRider" carried the social message that to be a young radical in America of the 1960s was to invite ridicule, repression, violence, and even death.
Credits roll, and we hear "Ballad of EasyRider." "All I wanted was to be free," the song says, "And that's the way it turned out to be." - David Zinman, "Fifty Grand Movies of the 1960s and 1970s" (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1986).
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