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I always liked that song, but I tend to think of it as one of CSN's more lightweight ditties. I was one who preferred CSN with Y.
Huh. I was going to say that Y played on that song, but Wikipedia says that Neil only played on 5 out of 10 songs on Deja Vu. He doesn't play on Carry On either, really?
Apparently Deja Vu was a more popular album than any of its songs was as a single. Lots of people stopped buying singles in the late '60s. I didn't even know they made 45s after, say, 1968, until I read about it on an audiophile website in 2007. I just looked on Wikipedia, which says none of the singles -- which, btw, I did not know existed as 45s until today -- cracked the top ten, though the album was #1: Déjà Vu (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I liked Our House. Perhaps it was the harpsichord that gave it that homespun feel. In fact quite a few of the songs on the DV album had sort of a living room sound to them...not much echo?
I liked S&Y back with Buffalo Springfield, and also prefer Y with the other three.
Love the sound of the B-3 throughout Country Girl (and pretty much any other song it’s played on!), especially in the spots where its only playing one note held for several bars, and Y’s harmonica playing.
John Sebastian –played harmonica on the album's title track and Jerry Garcia added the polished pedal steel guitar playing on "Teach Your Children”.
Graham Nash at his most cutesy and twee. Nothing really wrong with it, if you like that kind of stuff or if you are a very nostalgic old post-hippie. It used to get tons of airplay on adult contemporary stations in the 70's and 80's, but as the era fades into history, so does the song. Generation X and Millennial listeners haven't seemed to embrace the kind of precious domesticity it projects very much, and nothing about Nash's subsequent biography suggests he embraced the sentiments of the song either...
As for its #30 chart action, it was the third single released from the Deja Vu album (and the fourth to appear after the album's release, after "Ohio" was rush-released) In 1970, it was extremely rare to release three singles from one album, let alone place all three in the top-40. So in that respect, the song was a smash hit for making the top-40 at all almost a year after it appeared on a multi-million selling album. Thriller and Born in the USA changed the singles game; after that, taking 5 or more singles from an album and charting them became more common.
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