Greatest Hits is the fifteenth Crosby, Stills & Nash album, and their fifth compilation, released by Rhino Records in 2005. It peaked at No. 24 on the Billboard 200, debuting at that position on April 2, 2005 with first week sales of 33,000 copies, and spending eight weeks on the chart. Its current sales sit at over 640,000.[3] The album was dedicated to Cass Elliot with great thanks to Neil Young.
The title is somewhat of a misnomer since two of the band's nine Top 40 hits from the Billboard Hot 100, "Woodstock" and "Ohio", do not appear. Both of these tracks feature Neil Young, who does not appear on any track on this set. Although "Our House", "Teach Your Children", and "Carry On" are on the Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young album Déjà Vu, Young was not involved in those songs, allowing Greatest Hits to authentically be considered specifically a "Crosby, Stills & Nash" collection. The selections derive from the group's first four studio albums (Crosby, Stills & Nash, Déjà Vu, CSN, Daylight Again), but nothing from their last four (American Dream, Live It Up, After the Storm, and Looking Forward).
David Crosby – vocals; rhythm guitar on "Wooden Ships" and "Long Time Gone"; acoustic guitar on "Just A Song Before I Go" and "Guinnevere"; keyboards on "Delta"
Stephen Stills – vocals; guitars all tracks except "Guinnevere", "Delta" and "Cathedral"; bass on "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes", "Long Time Gone", "Marrakesh Express", "Teach Your Children", "Wooden Ships", "49 Bye-Byes" and "Carry On/Questions"; keyboards on "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes", "Long Time Gone", "Marrakesh Express", "Wooden Ships", "49 Bye-Byes" and "Carry On/Questions"; percussion on "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" and "Carry On/Questions"; banjo on "Daylight Again"
Graham Nash – vocals; rhythm guitar on "Marrakesh Express" and "Teach Your Children"; piano on "Just a Song Before I Go", "Our House" and "Cathedral"; percussion on "Carry On" and "Teach Your Children"
Additional personnel[]
Timothy B. Schmit – vocals on "Southern Cross" and "Wasted on the Way"
Art Garfunkel – vocals on "Southern Cross" and "Daylight Again"
Michael Stergis – guitars on "Southern Cross" and "Wasted on the Way"
Joe Vitale – drums on "Southern Cross" and "Cathedral"; organ, flute on "Shadow Captain"; electric piano on "Just a Song Before I Go"; percussion, timpani on "Cathedral"
Craig Doerge – keyboards on "Shadow Captain", "Delta" and "Wasted on the Way"
Mike Finnigan – keyboards, backing vocals on "Southern Cross"
Richard T. Bear – keyboards on "Southern Cross"
George Perry– bass on "Southern Cross", "Shadow Captain" and "Cathedral"
Dallas Taylor – drums on "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes", "Long Time Gone", "Our House", "Wooden Ships", "49 Bye-Byes" and "Carry On/Questions"; tambourine on "Teach Your Children"
Russ Kunkel – drums on "Just a Song Before I Go", "Shadow Captain", "Delta" and "Wasted on the Way"; congas on "Shadow Captain"; percussion on "Just a Song Before I Go"
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