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The Easy Riders were a U.S. folk music band that operated from 1956 to 1959, consisting of Terry Gilkyson
Terry Gilkyson

Hamilton H. "Terry" Gilkyson III was a singer, composer, and lyrics....
, Richard Dehr, and Frank Miller
Frank Miller (singer)

Frank Miller is a singer and songwriter. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.With Terry Gilkyson and Richard Dehr, he wrote the song "Marianne ." As a group called The Easy Riders , Dehr and Miller accompanied Gilkyson on the best-selling recording of the song in 1956 in music....
. Their career was guided by Mitch Miller
Mitch Miller

Mitchell William Miller is an United States musician, singer, Conductor , record producer, A&R man and record company executive. He was one of the most influential figures in American popular music during the 1950s and early 1960s, both as the head of Artists & Repertoire at Columbia Records and as a best-selling recording artist....
, who had them under contract for Columbia Records
Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
.

Their greatest hit, in early 1957, was the song Marianne
Marianne

Marianne, a national emblem of the French Republic, is, by extension, an personification of Liberty and Reason. She represents France as a state, and its values ....
. The group also composed some tunes for the 1958 cinemiracle
Cinemiracle

Cinemiracle was a widescreen cinema format competing with Cinerama developed in the 1950s. It was ultimately unsuccessful, with only a single film produced and released in the format....
-documentary Windjammer
Windjammer (film)

The 1958 film Windjammer recorded an actual voyage of the Norway sail Windjammer training ship Christian Radich . It was the first, and only, movie to be shot in Cinemiracle with 7-track stereophonic sound and gave the viewers a panoramic image of the voyage....
, such as Kari waits for me and Sugar cane. One of Gilkyson's songs was a number one hit for Frankie Laine
Frankie Laine

Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful United States musician, singer and songwriter whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire " in 2005....
, "The Cry Of The Wild Goose".






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The Easy Riders were a U.S. folk music band that operated from 1956 to 1959, consisting of Terry Gilkyson
Terry Gilkyson

Hamilton H. "Terry" Gilkyson III was a singer, composer, and lyrics....
, Richard Dehr, and Frank Miller
Frank Miller (singer)

Frank Miller is a singer and songwriter. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.With Terry Gilkyson and Richard Dehr, he wrote the song "Marianne ." As a group called The Easy Riders , Dehr and Miller accompanied Gilkyson on the best-selling recording of the song in 1956 in music....
. Their career was guided by Mitch Miller
Mitch Miller

Mitchell William Miller is an United States musician, singer, Conductor , record producer, A&R man and record company executive. He was one of the most influential figures in American popular music during the 1950s and early 1960s, both as the head of Artists & Repertoire at Columbia Records and as a best-selling recording artist....
, who had them under contract for Columbia Records
Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
.

Their greatest hit, in early 1957, was the song Marianne
Marianne

Marianne, a national emblem of the French Republic, is, by extension, an personification of Liberty and Reason. She represents France as a state, and its values ....
. The group also composed some tunes for the 1958 cinemiracle
Cinemiracle

Cinemiracle was a widescreen cinema format competing with Cinerama developed in the 1950s. It was ultimately unsuccessful, with only a single film produced and released in the format....
-documentary Windjammer
Windjammer (film)

The 1958 film Windjammer recorded an actual voyage of the Norway sail Windjammer training ship Christian Radich . It was the first, and only, movie to be shot in Cinemiracle with 7-track stereophonic sound and gave the viewers a panoramic image of the voyage....
, such as Kari waits for me and Sugar cane. One of Gilkyson's songs was a number one hit for Frankie Laine
Frankie Laine

Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful United States musician, singer and songwriter whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire " in 2005....
, "The Cry Of The Wild Goose". Gilkyson wrote many tunes for Laine, and he & The Easy Riders were also featured on Frankie's 1957 hit, "Love Is a Golden Ring", having also penned the number for Laine.

Many songs of the group became more known through the interpretation of other singers, such as the Kingston Trio, Gale Storm
Gale Storm

Josephine Owaissa Cottle , better known as Gale Storm, is an American actress and singer, who starred in two popular television programs of the 1950s, My Little Margie and The Gale Storm Show....
, Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte

Harold George Belafonte, Jr. is a Jamaican American musician, actor and social activist. One of the most successful popular singers in history, he was dubbed the "King of Calypso music" a title which he was very reluctant to accept for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s....
, Doris Day
Doris Day

Doris Mary Anne von Kappelhoff is a German-American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate known as Doris Day. Able to sing, dance, and play comedy and dramatic roles, she became one of the biggest box-office stars....
, Burl Ives
Burl Ives

Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives was an United States actor, writer and folk music singer. The prominent music critic John Rockwell has been quoted in the New York Times as saying that "Ives's voice......
 and the The Brothers Four
The Brothers Four

The Brothers Four are an United States folk music musical ensemble founded in 1957 in Seattle, Washington. The Brothers Four bear a distinction as one of the longest surviving groups of the late 1950s and early 1960s folk music revival, and perhaps the longest running 'accidental' music act in history....
. Their song Memories Are Made of This
Memories Are Made of This

"Memories Are Made of This" is a popular music song written by Terry Gilkyson, Richard Dehr, and Frank Miller in 1955 in music.History...
 became a top hit through the interpretation by Dean Martin
Dean Martin

Dean Martin was an United States singer, film actor and comedian of Italians descent. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s....
. After the Easy Riders made a single with the 1927 song Tell The Captain, the Beach Boys adapted it and made of it their hit Sloop John B.

Terry Gilkyson left the group in the early 1960s to work for Disney-Films and eventually write the Oscar-nominated The Bear Necessities for Disney's The Jungle Book
The Jungle Book (1967 film)

The Jungle Book is a 1967 in film Animation feature film, released on October 18, 1967. The 19th animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, it was the last to be produced by Walt Disney, who died during its production....
.

In the 1960's, Rich Dehr ran a unique restaurant, The Discovery Inn, in Topanga Canyon, near Los Angeles, and had some of his gold records on the wall.

Discography

  • Marianne and other songs (Columbia 1957)
  • Wanderin' Folk Songs (CBS 1959)
  • Easy Riders (Epic 1960)

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