Easy Rider (Soundtrack)

The album Easy Rider is the soundtrack to the film of the year 1969.

History

Originally, the folk-rock band Crosby, Stills and Nash should replacement delivery, the music for the film Easy Rider. Provisionally used Peter Fonda, co-producer and ( with Dennis Hopper) screenwriter of the film and co-star some of his former favorite songs ( other sources indicate that the U.S. Cutter Thu cambers is responsible for the music selection). They fit so well that the planned overdubbed sound no longer took place. David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash expressed after viewing a rough cut of the film, they would not have him better musical accompaniment. The license fees for the music topped with more than one million U.S. dollars, the film budget.

The soundtrack was released in August 1969 by the record company ABC Records and distributed 1970 Reprise Records. The LP reached number 6 in 1969 on the Billboard Album Charts in September.

The songs appear, with few exceptions, largely in the same arrangement as in the movie. Two pieces, Let's Turkey Trot by Little Eva and Flash, Bam, Pow by The Electric Flag was not performed, the twice played Was not Born to Follow by The Byrds occurs only once. For licensing reasons, the original of the song The Weight by The band could not appear on the LP, instead, found there a very similar cover version of Smith.

Bob Dylan, who had been asked to contribute, contented himself to write the first lines of Ballad of Easy Rider. He gave the task to the Byrds frontman Roger McGuinn further heard ( the original could not be used for legal reasons ) is also the soundtrack whose recorded for the film cover version of Dylan songs It's Alright, Ma ( I'm Only Bleeding ).

In contrast to the original edition songs and transitions later pressings and in the CD have been partially filed with motorcycle noises.

Title list

1 Steppenwolf: The Pusher ( Hoyt Axton ) - 5:49

2 Steppenwolf: Born to Be Wild (Mars Bonfire ) - 3:37

3 Smith: The Weight ( Robbie Robertson) - 4:29

4 The Byrds: Was not Born to Follow ( Carole King / Gerry Goffin ) - 2:03

6 The Fraternity of Man: Do not Bogart Me ( Elliot Ingber / Larry Wagner) - 3:05

7 The Jimi Hendrix Experience: If 6 Was 9 ( Jimi Hendrix ) - 5:35

8 The Electric Prunes Kyrie Eleison / Mardi Gras (Traditional, arranged by David Axelrod ) - 4:00

9 Roger McGuinn: It's Alright, Ma ( I'm Only Bleeding ) (Bob Dylan ) - 3:39

10 Roger McGuinn: Ballad of Easy Rider ( Roger McGuinn / Bob Dylan ) - 2:14