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Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
Band Bethel United States Active 1969–2015
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young formed in 1969 in Bethel, United States and was active until 2015. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young has 182 chart appearances on 77 radio countdowns from 28 stations on RockLists, spanning 1982–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Ohio”, which appears on 50 lists with a best position of #24. The station that charted Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young most often is 100.7 WZLX (Boston, MA), with 33 appearances.
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young was less a band than a summit meeting. David Crosby had been fired from the Byrds, Stephen Stills had come out of the wreckage of Buffalo Springfield, and Graham Nash had quit the Hollies, and when the three of them sang together informally in 1968 the harmonies locked so tightly there was no going back. Atlantic signed them early in 1969, the first trio album gave them "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" and "Marrakesh Express", and to take it on the road they brought in Neil Young, Stills's old Buffalo Springfield partner. That August the four of them played Woodstock.
Déjà Vu in 1970 was the first album with Young, and it went to number one in several countries and sold more than 8 million copies, the biggest record any version of the group ever made. It is a glorious tug-of-war: the sunlit harmony of "Teach Your Children" and "Our House" against the drive of "Carry On", the defiance of "Almost Cut My Hair", the ache of "Helpless" and the electric charge of "Woodstock".
The strain showed fast. The next tour, captured on the live double album 4 Way Street in 1971, was full of arguments, drummer Dallas Taylor was replaced by John Barbata, and when it ended so did the band. They kept reconvening in one combination or another, releasing six more studio albums up to Looking Forward in 1999 and touring until 2015. Crosby died in 2023.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ohio | 50 | #24 | – | – | |
| 2 | Woodstock | 39 | #51 | – | – | |
| 3 | Carry On | 30 | #74 | – | – | |
| 4 | Teach Your Children | 23 | #152 | – | – | |
| 5 | Our House | 11 | #224 | – | – | |
| 6 | Helpless | 6 | #178 | – | – | |
| 7 | Almost Cut My Hair | 12 | #199 | – | – | |
| 8 | Country Girl | 3 | #494 | – | – | |
| 9 | Deja Vu | 4 | #350 | – | – | |
| 10 | Carry On/Questions | 1 | #506 | – | – | |
| 11 | Marrakesh Express | 1 | #696 | – | – | |
| 12 | Long Time Gone | 1 | #799 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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