Greatest Hits (Crosby, Stills & Nash album)

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Greatest Hits
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Compilation album by
ReleasedMarch 15, 2005 (2005-03-15)
RecordedJune 26, 1968 – December 1, 1981
Genre Folk rock
Length77:30
Label Rhino
Crosby, Stills & Nash chronology
Looking Forward
(1999)
Greatest Hits
(2005)
Déjà Vu Live
(2008)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Greatest Hits is a compilation album by Crosby, Stills & Nash, released by Rhino Records in 2005. It peaked at No. 24 on the Billboard 200, debuting at that position on April 2, 2005 with first week sales of 33,000 copies, and spending eight weeks on the chart. Its current sales sit at over 640,000. [3] The album was dedicated to Cass Elliot with great thanks to Neil Young.

Contents

Content

Although "Our House", "Teach Your Children", and "Carry On" are on the Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young album Déjà Vu , Young was not involved in those songs, allowing Greatest Hits to authentically be considered specifically a "Crosby, Stills & Nash" collection, and as such does not contain any songs featuring Young. The selections derive from the group's first four studio albums ( Crosby, Stills & Nash , Déjà Vu , CSN, Daylight Again ), but nothing from their last four (American Dream, Live It Up, After the Storm, and Looking Forward).

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" (from Crosby, Stills & Nash , 1969) Stephen Stills 7:22
2."Long Time Gone" (from Crosby, Stills & Nash) David Crosby 4:17
3."Just a Song Before I Go" (from CSN , 1977) Graham Nash 2:12
4."Southern Cross" (from Daylight Again , 1982)Stills, Richard Curtis, Michael Curtis4:40
5."Marrakesh Express" (from Crosby, Stills & Nash)Nash2:36
6."Helplessly Hoping" (from Crosby, Stills & Nash)Stills2:37
7."Shadow Captain" (from CSN)Crosby, Craig Doerge 4:32
8."Our House" (from Déjà Vu , 1970)Nash3:01
9."Guinnevere" (from Crosby, Stills & Nash)Crosby4:43
10."See the Changes" (from CSN)Stills2:56
11."Teach Your Children" (from Déjà Vu)Nash2:55
12."Wooden Ships" (from Crosby, Stills & Nash)Crosby, Stills, Paul Kantner 5:22
13."Delta" (from Daylight Again)Crosby4:12
14."49 Bye-Byes" (from Crosby, Stills & Nash)Stills5:15
15."Wasted on the Way" (from Daylight Again)Nash2:51
16."Carry On/Questions" (from Déjà Vu)Stills4:25
17."In My Dreams" (from CSN)Crosby5:10
18."Cathedral" (from CSN)Nash5:15
19."Daylight Again" (from Daylight Again)Stills2:28

Personnel

Additional personnel

  • Timothy B. Schmit – vocals on "Southern Cross" and "Wasted on the Way"
  • Art Garfunkel – vocals on "Southern Cross" and "Daylight Again"
  • Michael Stergis – guitars on "Southern Cross" and "Wasted on the Way"
  • Jerry Garciapedal steel guitar on "Teach Your Children"
  • Dean Parks – electric guitar on "Delta"
  • Joel Bernstein – acoustic guitar on "Wasted on the Way"
  • Wayne Goodwin – fiddle on "Wasted on the Way"
  • Joe Vitale – drums on "Southern Cross" and "Cathedral"; organ, flute on "Shadow Captain"; electric piano on "Just a Song Before I Go"; percussion, timpani on "Cathedral"
  • Craig Doerge – keyboards on "Shadow Captain", "Delta" and "Wasted on the Way"
  • Mike Finnigan – keyboards, backing vocals on "Southern Cross"
  • Richard T. Bear – keyboards on "Southern Cross"
  • George Perry– bass on "Southern Cross", "Shadow Captain" and "Cathedral"
  • Tim Drummond – bass on "Just a Song Before I Go"
  • Greg Reeves – bass on "Our House"
  • Leland Sklar – bass on "Delta"
  • Bob Glaub – bass on "Wasted on the Way"
  • Dallas Taylor – drums on "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes", "Long Time Gone", "Our House", "Wooden Ships", "49 Bye-Byes" and "Carry On/Questions"; tambourine on "Teach Your Children"
  • Russ Kunkel – drums on "Just a Song Before I Go", "Shadow Captain", "Delta" and "Wasted on the Way"; congas on "Shadow Captain"; percussion on "Just a Song Before I Go"
  • Jim Gordon – drums on "Marrakesh Express"
  • Joe Lala – percussion on "Southern Cross" and "Wasted on the Way"
  • Mike Lewis, Joel Bernstein, David Crosby, Graham Nash – string arrangements on "Cathedral"

Charts

Chart performance for Greatest Hits
Chart (2023)Peak
position
Hungarian Physical Albums (MAHASZ) [4] 27

References

  1. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2011). "The Greatest Hits - | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved July 26, 2011.
  2. Metzger, John (2011). "Crosby, Stills & Nash - Greatest Hits (Album Review)". musicbox-online.com. Retrieved July 26, 2011.
  3. "RIAA - Soundscan". Greasylakes. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
  4. "Album Top 40 slágerlista (fizikai hanghordozók) – 2023. 40. hét". MAHASZ . Retrieved October 11, 2023.