įour singles were released from the album with all but the last, 'Carry On', charting on the Billboard Hot 100. It was certified Gold in the US, 14 days after release on March 25, 1970, spending 88 weeks in the Billboard 200 charts. It was re-released in 1977 as SD-19188 and the cover was changed from black to brown in some foreign releases. Déjà Vu was released on March 11, 1970, under Atlantic Records, catalogue SD 7200. Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia plays pedal steel guitar on ' Teach Your Children', and former Lovin' Spoonful leader John Sebastian plays harmonica on the title track.īy January 1970, Atlantic records had taken in $2 million in preorders anticipation for the album was very great. ĭrummer Dallas Taylor and bassist Greg Reeves play on the majority of tracks, and are credited on the cover with their names in slightly smaller typeface. Then later on were in the studio nitpicking Stephen erased the vocal and put another one on that wasn't nearly as good.' Stills also made Nash change 'Teach Your Children' from a 'Henry VIII' style song to a hit record with a 'country swing'. Later the original lead vocal by Stills was partly replaced with a later vocal recorded by Stills, who recalled: 'I replaced one and a half verses that were excruciatingly out of tune.' Neil Young disagreed, saying that 'the track was magic. 'Woodstock' was one of the few Déjà Vu tracks where Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young all performed their parts in the same session. The final version had Stills singing a slightly rearranged version of Mitchell's lyrics. Stills brought 'Woodstock' into the band, having already worked out the arrangement for it while playing with Jimi Hendrix in September 1969 this was released on the 2018 Hendrix album Both Sides of the Sky. ĭuring this time members were not getting on as they would critique each other's contributions causing friction, with Crosby stating to Rolling Stone 'I kept 'Almost Cut My Hair' in there over the protestations of Stephen, who didn't want me to leave it in 'cause he thought that it was a bad vocal'. Nash stated to Music Radar, 'the mood was different from the first album, which was recorded while the band members were in relationships, and by the second Joni and I had split up, Stephen and Judy had split up, and Christine had just been killed. It was during these sessions that Crosby would break down and cry due to the recent death of his girlfriend Christine Hinton, telling Crawdaddy in 1974 'I was not at my best as a functioning person. But 'Carry On' happened in a grand total of eight hours from conception to finished master. The track 'Déjà Vu' must have meant 100 takes in the studio. His other contribution, 'Country Girl', combined two Buffalo Springfield songs, 'Down, Down, Down' and 'Whiskey Boot Hill,' (also released on his Archives) with a recently written title chorus.Ĭommenting on the album to Hit Parader in 1971, Stills stated 'getting that second album out of us was like pulling teeth, there was song after song that didn't make it. 1 (1963-1972) in 2009 in a different mix with a harmonica introduction. Young's 'Helpless' was released on his Neil Young Archives Vol. Young appears on only half of the tracks with Nash stating he 'generally recorded his tracks alone in Los Angeles then brought them back to the recording studio to put our voices on, then took it away to mix it'. The songs, except for 'Woodstock', were recorded as individual sessions by each member, with each contributing whatever was needed that could be agreed upon. Stephen Stills estimates that the album took around 800 hours of studio time to record this figure may be exaggerated, even though the individual tracks display meticulous attention to detail. It was produced by all four members of the band. The album was recorded between July 1969 and January 1970 at Wally Heider's Studio C in San Francisco, and Wally Heider's Studio 3 in Hollywood. It remains the highest-selling album of each member's career to date. Certified 7× platinum by RIAA, the album's sales currently sit at over 8 million copies. 148 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and later was ranked No. It was re-released in 1977 and an expanded edition was released in 2021 to mark its fiftieth anniversary. It topped the pop album chart for one week and generated three Top 40 singles: ' Woodstock', ' Teach Your Children', and ' Our House'.

It was released in March 1970 by Atlantic Records. Déjà Vu is the second studio album by the American folk rock group Crosby, Stills & Nash, and their first as a quartet with the addition of Neil Young.

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