Billy’s title is a re-working of the song’s original title See See Rider – see below
Album:
Aztecs Live! At Sunbury entered the Australian albums chart* on 28 August 1972 and peaked at #4.
Songwriter:
Ma Rainey
Producer:
Aztecs
Record label of Australian release:
Havoc
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
CC Rider:
Also from the live album – Most People I Know Think That I’m Crazy:
Bonus audio below – the full album
Wikipedia – See See Rider:
See See Rider is a popular American 12-bar blues song that became a standard in several genres. Gertrude “Ma” Rainey was the first to record it in 1924, in New York. The song uses mostly traditional blues lyrics to tell the story of an unfaithful lover, commonly called an “easy rider”: “See see rider, see what you have done”, making a play on the word “see” and the sound of “easy”.
Recorded by many artists over the years (including Elvis Presley, Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels, and The Animals), the song has also been known as C.C. Rider, See See Rider Blues or Easy Rider.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See_See_Rider
Wikipedia – Aztecs Live! At Sunbury:
Aztecs Live! At Sunbury was a double live album released in August 1972 by Australian rock group Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, which was recorded at the inaugural Sunbury Pop Festival in late January.
Aztecs Live! At Sunbury included eight tracks from their set.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztecs_Live_at_Sunbury
Track listing – original 1972 double LP:
C C Rider
Be-Bop-a-Lula
Momma
Rock Me Baby
Most People I Know Think That I’m Crazy
Time to Live
Jump Back
Ooh Poo Pa Doo
Lyrics:
Oh see, see see rider
Girl see, what you’ve done
Oh, oh, oh see see rider
See what you’ve done now
You’ve gone away and left me,
Lord, now and now the blues they come, oh yes, they do
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CC Rider is also on our Spotify playlist Bang a Gong – rockin’ the 60s & 70s
Also on Bang a Gong: See See Rider by The Animals
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Bonus audio – the full album Aztecs Live! At Sunbury:
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