The Best of Crosby & Nash

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The Best of Crosby & Nash
AlbumcoverTheBestofCrosbyNash.jpg
Compilation album by
Released1978
Recorded1971–76
Genre Classic rock
Label ABC Records
Atlantic
Producer Stephen Barncard
Bill Halverson
David Crosby
Graham Nash
Crosby & Nash chronology
Crosby-Nash Live
(1977)
The Best of Crosby & Nash
(1978)
Another Stoney Evening
(1998)

The Best of Crosby & Nash is a compilation album by Crosby & Nash released in 1978. It features tracks from the artists' solo albums as well as by the duo, although does not contain their biggest hit as a pair, "Immigration Man." Their final album on ABC Records, it is out of print, superseded in 2002 by a survey of their work for ABC released on compact disc.

Contents

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Love Work Out"Graham Nash4:45
2."The Wall Song"David Crosby4:37
3."Wild Tales [1] "Graham Nash2:18
4."Carry Me"David Crosby3:35
5."Out of the Darkness"David Crosby, Graham Nash, Craig Doerge 4:24
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Southbound Train"Graham Nash3:54
2."Laughing [2] "David Crosby5:20
3."Chicago [3] "Graham Nash2:55
4."Bittersweet"David Crosby2:39
5."To the Last Whale... (A. Critical Mass/B. Wind on the Water) [4] "David Crosby, Graham Nash5:35

Personnel

Additional personnel

Charts

Chart (1978)Peak

position

US Billboard Top LPs [5] 150
US Cash Box Top 100 Albums [6] 145

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References

  1. Originally released on Graham Nash's Wild Tales, January 2, 1974.
  2. Originally released on David Crosby's If I Could Only Remember My Name, February 22, 1971.
  3. Originally released on Graham Nash's Songs For Beginners, May 28, 1971.
  4. Planer, Lindsay. "The Best of Crosby & Nash: Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved 3 July 2009.
  5. "Stephen Stills". Billboard. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  6. "CASH BOX MAGAZINE: Music and coin machine magazine 1942 to 1996". worldradiohistory.com. Retrieved 5 July 2020.