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"Easy" is a song by American band Commodores from their fifth studio album, Commodores (1977), released on the Motown label. Group member Lionel Richie wrote "Easy" with the intention of it becoming another crossover hit for the group given the success of a previous single, "Just to Be Close to You", which spent two weeks at number one on the US Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart (now known as ...
"Easy to Be Hard" is a song from the 1967 rock musical Hair. It was written by Galt MacDermot , James Rado , and Gerome Ragni , who put the musical together in the mid-1960s. The original recording of the musical featuring the song was released in May 1968 with the song being sung by Lynn Kellogg , who performed the role of Sheila on stage in ...
"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 ]
The Band - Music From Big Pink (1968) "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" (Bob Dylan) The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo (1968) "Time Has Come Today" (Willie Chambers/Joseph Chambers) The Chambers Brothers - The Time Has Come (1967) "With a Little Help from My Friends" (John Lennon/Paul McCartney) Joe Cocker - With a Little Help from My Friends (1969)
I wonder where my easy rider's gone today He never told me he was goin' away If he was here he'd win the race If not first he'd get a "place" Cash in our winnings, on a "joy-ride" we'd go, right away I'm losing my money that's why I am blue To win a race, Lee knows just what to do I'd put all my junk in pawn To be on any horse that jockey's on
Chicago-based Vee-Jay Records head A&R man, Calvin Carter, brought back "Make It Easy on Yourself" from a trip to New York City where he scouted song publishers.Carter played the demo, featuring Dionne Warwick's vocal, for Vee-Jay artist Jerry Butler who commented: "Man, it's a great song, and the girl who's singing it, and the arrangement, is a hit."
The song was recorded on March 18, 1962, at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee. The song was published by Elvis Presley Music, Inc. It was written by Otis Blackwell and Winfield Scott. It was first released on the Pot Luck album in 1962 and again in 1965 as a single due to its inclusion in the Elvis Presley movie Tickle Me.
There are at least 150 recorded versions of the song. [6] The inversion of the phrase, as "A hard man is good to find", is generally attributed, though with some uncertainty, to Mae West, or possibly to Sophie Tucker. [3] [7] The song's title was used as the title of a 1953 short story by Flannery O'Connor.