Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The term appears in the famous "See See Rider Blues" song recorded by Ma Rainey in 1925. The song and others like it used the loneliness of a rider of the rails or wanderer as a theme in their music. The 1969 movie Easy Rider was in 1967 initially conceived as The Loners with Hopper directing, Fonda producing, and both starring and writing.
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.
"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 ...
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]
A widely known cover of "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" is that performed by Roger McGuinn for the soundtrack of the 1969 film, Easy Rider. One of the film's scriptwriters, the star, Peter Fonda , had originally intended to use Dylan's version of the song in the film but after failing to secure the appropriate licensing he asked McGuinn ...
Uneasy Rider. " Uneasy Rider " is a 1973 song written and performed by American singer and multi-instrumentalist Charlie Daniels. [3] It consists of a narrative spoken over a guitar melody, and is sometimes considered a novelty song. [4] It was released as a single and appeared on Daniels' album Honey in the Rock which is also sometimes known ...
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 ...