Easy Riders

There is more than one artist with this name: 1)The Easy Riders were a US folk music band that operated from 1956 to 1959, consisting of Terry Gilkyson, Richard Dehr, and Frank Miller. Their greatest hit, in early 1957, was the song Marianne. The group also composed some tunes for the 1958 cinemiracle-documentary Windjammer, such as Kari waits for me and Sugar cane. Many songs of the group became more known through the interpretation of other singers, such as the Kingston Trio, Gale Storm, Harry Belafonte, Doris Day, Burl Ives and the Brothers Four. Their song Memories Are Made of This became a top hit through the interpretation by Dean Martin. After the Easy Riders made a single with the 1927 song Tell The Captain, the Beach Boys adopted it and made of it their hit Sloop John B. Terry Gilkyson left the group in the beginning 1960ies to work for Disney-Films and eventually write the Oscar-nominated The Bear Necessities for Disney's The Jungle Book. 2)Progressive psytrance from Israel with Yoni Oshrat (Ace Ventura) and Roy Tilbor (Rocky). 3)Easy Riders is the side project of Micheal Krohn, who is most known as frontman and vocalist in Raga Rockers Micheal has also played in Kjøtt, Mickey Faust and Krohn & co. Band members: Michael Krohn: (Vokal) Eivind Staxrud:(Gitar) Johnny Skalleberg: (Gitar) Henning Sandsdalen: (Bass) Ole Tom Torjussen: (Trommer) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.