Song · Crosby, Stills, and Nash
“Helplessly Hoping” by Crosby, Stills, and Nash
From the album Crosby, Stills & Nash (1969)
“Helplessly Hoping” by Crosby, Stills, and Nash appears on 4 radio countdowns from 1 station between 2004 and 2020. It was first released in 1969 on the album Crosby, Stills & Nash. Its best result is #412 on the WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,137 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"Helplessly Hoping" is a Stephen Stills song, and on Crosby, Stills & Nash, the trio's 1969 debut on Atlantic, it's built around Stills' acoustic guitar and the three voices of Stills, David Crosby and Graham Nash twining together. Stills had already put it on a 1968 demo, which finally surfaced in 2007 as Just Roll Tape.
The trio took their first crack at it in December 1968 at Wally Heider's Studio 3 in Hollywood, in their very first session as a group, with Paul Rothchild producing. The album take credits Crosby, Stills and Nash themselves as producers, with Bill Halverson recording, and it came out on May 29, 1969. That June it also turned up on the flip side of their debut single, "Marrakesh Express".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 691 | WXPN | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2004) | 885 |
| 2009 | 584 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009) | 885 |
| 2014 | 635 | WXPN | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2014) | 885 |
| 2020 | 412 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
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