Ballad of Easy Rider is the eighth album by the American rock band The Byrds and was released in October, 1969 (see 1969 in music) on Columbia Records, catalogue item CS 9942. The album peaked at #36 on the Billboard 200 album chart, during a chart stay of seventeen weeks, a substantial improvement over its predecessor, Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde. The reverse was true in the United Kingdom, however, where the album reached #41 on the UK Albums Chart, w...
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Ballad of Easy Rider is the eighth album by the American rock band The Byrds and was released in October, 1969 (see 1969 in music) on Columbia Records, catalogue item CS 9942. The album peaked at #36 on the Billboard 200 album chart, during a chart stay of seventeen weeks, a substantial improvement over its predecessor, Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde. The reverse was true in the United Kingdom, however, where the album reached #41 on the UK Albums Chart, while Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde had reached #15. The album's title track, "Ballad of Easy Rider", was released as a preceding single on October 1, 1969, backed with "Oil in My Lamp" (or "Wasn't Born to Follow" on some copies), and reached #65 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Although this single was issued in most international territories, it was not released in the United Kingdom. A second single from the album, "Jesus Is Just Alright", was released on December 15, 1969 and reached #97 on the Billboard Hot 100 but failed to chart in the UK. The...
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