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2 unusual facts about Ballad of Easy Rider


Ballad of Easy Rider

Grant McLennan included a recording of the song on his 1994 album Horsebreaker Star and British Singer-songwriter Kathryn Williams covered "Ballad of Easy Rider" on her 2004 album, Relations.

CBS Records in the United Kingdom went a step further by reissuing "Wasn't Born to Follow" as the A-side of a single in September 1969, in the hopes that it might provide The Byrds with a fluke hit.


Oil in My Lamp

The song has been recorded many times and was a hit in Jamaica in 1964 for Eric "Monty" Morris, as well as appearing on The Byrds' 1969 album Ballad of Easy Rider.


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