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In the World War II era the slang term re-emerged with a modified meaning, where G.I.s on extended deployment in Asia or Europe (unofficially) employed children to perform the daily mundane tasks so common in the military like tending to barracks, shining boots, and the like, so a G.I. who employed a houseboy coasted through this work and had an "easy ride".
Easy Rider. Easy Rider is a 1969 American independent [3][4] road drama film written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda, and directed by Hopper. Fonda and Hopper play two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and South, carrying the proceeds from a cocaine deal. The success of Easy Rider helped spark ...
"See See Rider" is a traditional song that may have originated on the black vaudeville circuit. It is similar to "Poor Boy Blues" as performed by Ramblin' Thomas. [3]Jelly Roll Morton recollected hearing the song as a young boy sometime after 1901 in New Orleans, Louisiana, when he performed with a spiritual quartet that played at funerals.
Easy Rider is the soundtrack to the cult classic 1969 film Easy Rider.The songs that make up the soundtrack were carefully selected to form a "musical commentary" within the film. [1]
Songwriter (s) Roger McGuinn. Bob Dylan (uncredited) " Ballad of Easy Rider " is a song written by Roger McGuinn, with input from Bob Dylan (although Dylan is not credited as a co-writer), for the 1969 film Easy Rider. [1] The song was initially released in August 1969 on the Easy Rider soundtrack album as a Roger McGuinn solo performance. [2]
Ballad of Easy Rider is the eighth studio album by the American rock band the Byrds and was released in November 1969 on Columbia Records. [1] The album was named after the song "Ballad of Easy Rider", which had been written by the Byrds' guitarist and singer, Roger McGuinn (with help from Bob Dylan), as the theme song for the 1969 film, Easy Rider. [2]
World War II. The term most certainly did not originate during World War II. It may have come into the vocabulary of a new group of people at that time, but at least for a number of African Americans of the U.S. South, the expression was already old. If it can only be doccumented back to the 1920s, that may be because we don't have earlier ...
Shelton Brooks. " I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone? " is a ragtime/blues song written by Shelton Brooks in 1913. Sometimes categorized as hokum, [1] it led to an answer song written in 1915 by W.C. Handy, " Yellow Dog Rag ", later titled " Yellow Dog Blues ". Lines and melody from both songs show up in the 1920s and 1930s in such songs as "E ...