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The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders

1968 studio album by the Holy Modal Rounders

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal Rounders is the fourth studio album by the folk band the Holy Modal Rounders, released in 1968 through Elektra Records. Since its release, the album has received positive reviews and its opener, "Bird Song," was notably included in the 1969 film Easy Rider.

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The public source identifies “The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders” as 1968 studio album by the Holy Modal Rounders. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Moray, Eels and Holy.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1968, 1969—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Moray, Eels and Holy providing the first useful test.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 26, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1968 and 1969.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.