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Roger McGuinn originally did The First Noel, Children Go Where I Send Thee, Love Me Tonight, Why Baby Why and other songs. Roger McGuinn wrote Mr. Spaceman, Eight Miles High and It Won't Be Wrong.
- July 13, 1942
- In The Beginning
- Moving Around
- The Byrds
- Going Solo
- Reunions
- The Folk Den
- Roger Mcguinn Legacy
- The Water Is Wide
- Someone to Love
- 5 D
While growing up in Chicago, McGuinn was exposed to the music scene that featured post-WWII blues and the emergence of a new genre called rock and roll. Elvis Presley was the key influencer as “Heartbreak Hotel” triggered the young man to ask his parents for a guitar. Elvis Presley, along with Johnny Cash, The Everly Brothers, Carl Perkins, and Gen...
Not long after graduation and performing, McGuinn moved to the West Coast before eventually settling in Los Angeles. In 1962, McGuinn was hired by Bobby Darinto serve as his backup guitarist and harmony singer. It was Darin’s desire to add folk music to his recording repertoire. However, a year later Darin retired from singing due to medical issues...
By the time Roger McGuinn was invited to work at a Los Angeles nightclub, he was already playing Beatles songs as part of his own musical act. The fusion of folk and rock McGuinn embedded in his material piqued the interest of fellow Beatles fan, Gene Clark. In July 1964, the two men partnered up as a musical act that would lead to the founding of ...
Although still a band member with the Byrds, Roger McGuinn also performed as a solo artist. In 1969, he wrote the song “Ballad of Easy Rider,” with some lyrical help from Bob Dylan. The song was featured in the movie, Easy Rider. The Byrdsversion was the title track for the movie soundtrack that same year. Also on that soundtrack was McGuinn coveri...
In 1977, McGuinn released Thunderbyrd before teaming up with former Byrds band members, Gene Clark and Chris Hillman. As a trio, they recorded an album in 1979 that led to several performances on televised rock shows, including The Midnight Special. In what was regarded as the Byrds reunited, complications arose after Clark’s drug addiction affecte...
Starting in 1995, Roger McGuinn’s Folk Den website utilized the internet to carry on the legacy of folk music by recording a different folk song each month. This led to the CD release Treasures from the Folk Den in 2001. It did earn a 2002 Grammy Award nomination for Best Traditional Folk Album but the win that year went to the 2000 documentary alb...
Before becoming Roger McGuinn, the artist from Chicago originally went by the name of Jim. However, he felt as an aspiring musician looking to make a name for himself it was too plain. In 1967, a spiritual advisor he was associated with suggested going with a name that started with the letter “R.” After rolling off a series of name possibilities, “...
“The Water is Wide” was a song Roger McGuinn released in 1973 that originally came as a folk song of Scottish origin. 1906 marked the year the lyrics for this song were consolidated and named by Cecil Sharp of southern England. Over the stretch of time, the lyrics would be arranged that would include Christian-related material and blues. For Roger ...
On the US Billboard Mainstream Rock chart, “Someone to Love” became a number twelve hit after it was released as a single in 1991. It came from Roger McGuinn’s comeback album, Back from Rio. This would be the third and final occasion McGuinn released a hit single that would make an official appearance on the US Billboard charting system. The appeal...
Written by Roger McGuinn, “5 D (Fifth Dimension)” was a tune that was performed by the Byrds as they lyrically explained Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. McGuinn’s vocal interpretation combined folk and psychedelic rock that was further accentuated by Van Dyke Parks’s baroque organ. This song was released in 1966 as a single that had the fan...
James Roger McGuinn / m ə ˈ ɡ w ɪ n / (born James Joseph McGuinn III; July 13, 1942) is an American musician, best known for being the frontman and leader of the Byrds. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work with the Byrds.
Roger McGuinn, bis 1968 bekannt als Jim McGuinn, ist ein US-amerikanischer Musiker. Er war in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren eine der einflussreichsten Persönlichkeiten der amerikanischen Folkrock-Szene. Bekannt wurde er vor allem als Gründungsmitglied und Frontmann der Byrds.
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Roger McGuinn (1942- ) is a folk songwriter best known as the bandleader of The Byrds. Born and raised in Chicago, McGuinn came of age performing in the burgeoning folk club.
The song was initially released in August 1969 on the Easy Rider soundtrack album as a Roger McGuinn solo performance. It was later issued in an alternate version as a single by McGuinn's band the Byrds on October 1, 1969.
