The Easy Riders perform "The Sky Is High" (theme song from TV show "The Ballad of Yermo Red"). <br /><br />The Easy Riders perform music that was added to a TV show in 1956.<br /><br />This is music from an hour-long "Studio One" production of "The Ballad of Yermo Red," which aired on CBS on July 30, 1956. <br /><br />The episode starred Arch Johnson. <br /><br />Terry Gilkyson wrote the two songs featured in the program. <br /><br />Rich Dehr sings lead on "The Sky Is High." Group members Dehr and Frank Miller were listed in the cast credits.<br /><br />"The Sky Is High" is a song written by Gilkyson<br /><br />The Easy Rider group is a trio.<br /><br />The first session was May 1956--the groups sound was fully formed at this debut session.<br /><br />The musicians are Gilkyson, Dehr, and Miller. <br /><br />You might call them Frank Miller's Easy Riders at the start of their career.<br /><br />Gilkyson's made solo recordings for Decca from 1949 through 1951.<br /><br />Gilkyson's baritone singing has a trained, dramatic quality--not what we nornmally hear in folk music.<br /><br />
