TEACH YOUR CHILDREN

CROSBY, STILL, NASH AND YOUNG

SONGWRITER: GRAHAM NASH

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: CROSBY, STILLS & NASH

LABEL: ATLANTIC RECORDS

GENRE: FOLK ROCK

YEAR: 1969

 

           Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN) were a folk rock supergroup made up of American singer-songwriters David Crosby and Stephen Stills, and English singer-songwriter Graham Nash. When joined by Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young as a fourth member, they are called Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY). They are noted for their intricate vocal harmonies, often tumultuous interpersonal relationships, political activism, and lasting influence on American music and culture.

             CSN formed in 1968 shortly after Crosby, Stills and Nash performed together informally in July of that year, discovering they harmonized well. Crosby had been asked to leave The Byrds in late 1967, and Stills' band Buffalo Springfield had broken up in early 1968; Nash left his band The Hollies in December, and by early 1969 the trio had signed a recording contract with Atlantic Records. Their first album, Crosby, Stills & Nash, was released in May 1969, from which came two Top 40 hits, "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" [#21] and "Marrakesh Express" [#28]. In order to tour the album, the trio hired drummer Dallas Taylor and session bassist Greg Reeves, though they still needed a keyboardist; Ahmet Ertegun suggested Neil Young, who had played with Stills in Buffalo Springfield, and after some initial reluctance, the trio agreed, signing him on as a full member. The band, now named Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, started their tour, and played their second gig at Woodstock Festival in the early morning hours of August 18, 1969. The first album with Young, Déjà Vu, reached number one in several international charts in 1970, and remains their best selling album, going on to sell over 8 million copies with three hit singles. Four singles were released from the album including "Woodstock", "Teach Your Children", and "Our House". The group's second tour, which produced the live double álbum 4 Way Street (1971), was fraught with arguments between Young and Taylor, which resulted in Taylor being replaced by John Barbata, and tensions with Stills, which resulted in his being temporarily dismissed from the band. At the end of the tour the band split up. The group have since reunited several times, sometimes with and sometimes without Young, and have released eight studio and four live albums.

           Crosby, Stills & Nash were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and all three members were also inducted for their work in other groups (Crosby for the Byrds, Stills for Buffalo Springfield and Nash for the Hollies). Neil Young has also been inducted as a solo artist and as a member of Buffalo Springfield but not as a member of CSN. They have not made a group studio album since 1999's Looking Forward, and have been inactive as a performing unit since the end of 2015. Whether or not this break is permanent remains to be seen, as the group has often been inactive for years at a time.

        Crosby, Stills & Nash is the first album by Crosby, Stills & Nash, released in 1969 on the Atlantic Records label. It spawned two Top 40 hit singles, "Marrakesh Express" and "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes", which peaked respectively at No. 28 the week of August 23, 1969, and at No. 21 the week of December 6, 1969, on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The album itself peaked at Nº. 6 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart. It has been certified four times platinum by the RIAA for sales of 4.000.000.

You who are on the road

Must have a code that you can live by

And so become yourself

Because the past is just a good bye

 

Teach your children well

Their father's hell did slowly go by

And feed them on your dreams

The one they picked, the one you'll know by

 

Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry

So just look at them and sigh and know they love you

 

And you, of tender Years

Can't know the fears that your elders grew by

And so please help them with your youth

They seek the truth before they can die

 

Teach your parents well

Their children's hell will slowly go by

And feed them on your dreams

The one they picked, the one you'll know by

 

Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry

So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

KING OF NOTHING

SEALS AND CROFTS

SONGWRITER: JAMES SEALS

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: UNBORN CHILD

LABEL: WARNER BROS

GENRE: SOFT ROCK

YEAR: 1974

 

              Seals and Crofts were an American soft rock duo made up of James Eugene "Jim" Seals (born October 17, 1941) and Darrell George "Dash" Crofts (born August 14, 1938). They are best known for their Hot 100 Nº. 6 hits "Summer Breeze" (1972), "Diamond Girl" (1973), and "Get Closer" (1976). Both members have long been public advocates of the Baháʼí Faith. Though the duo disbanded in 1980, they reunited briefly in 1991–1992, and again in 2004, when they released their final album, Traces.

       Unborn Child is the sixth studio album by American pop/folk duo Seals and Crofts. It included two low-charting singles, the title track (which reached Nº. 66) and "The King of Nothing", which reached Nº. 60.

When I was 17, I dreamed of being king. And having everything I wanted.

But that was long ago and my dreams did not unfold, so I'm still the King of Nothing.

When I was 17, I dreamed I gave a ring to a pretty queen and then I held her.

But that was slumber's fault for I have no love at all. And I'm still the King of Nothing.

 

If I could rule, I'd dance my cares away, find romance everyday.

I wouldn't have to listen to this poor fool say,

"I'm the King, I'm the King, I'm the King of Nothing." 

EARLY MORNIN’ RAIN

PETER, PAUL & MARY

SONGWRITER: Gordon Lightfoot

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: GOLDEN STAR PORTRAIT

LABEL: WARNER RECORDS

GENRE: FOLK

YEAR: 1975

 

        Peter, Paul and Mary was an American folk group formed in New York City in 1961, during the American folk music revival phenomenon. The trio was composed of tenor Peter Yarrow, baritone Noel Paul Stookey and contralto Mary Travers. The group's repertoire included songs written by Yarrow and Stookey, early songs by Bob Dylan as well as covers of other folk musicians. After the death of Travers in 2009, Yarrow and Stookey continued to perform as a duo under their individual names.

           Mary Travers said she was influenced by Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and the Weavers. In the documentary Peter, Paul & Mary: Carry It On — A Musical Legacy, members of the Weavers discuss how Peter, Paul and Mary took over the torch of the social commentary of folk music in the 1960s.

         The group was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1999. Peter, Paul and Mary received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2006.

In the early mornin' rain with a dollar in my hand

And an aching in my heart, and my pockets full of sand

I'm a long way from home, and I miss my loved one so

In the early mornin' rain with no place to go.

 

Out on runway number nine, big seven-o-seven set to go

But I'm out here on the grass where the pavement never grows

Well the liquor tasted good and the women all were fast

There she goes my friend, she's rollin' down at last.

 

Hear the mighty engine roar, see the silver wing on high

She's away and westward bound far above the clouds she'll fly

Where the mornin' rain don't fall and the sun always shines

She'll be flyin' o're my home in about three hours time.

 

This old airport's got me down, it's no earthly good to me

Cause I'm stuck here on the ground,

Cold and drunk, as I might be.

Can't jump a jet plane like you can a freight train

So I'd best be on my way in the early mornin' rain.

So I'd best be on my way in the early mornin' rain.

I NEVER CRY

ALICE COOPER

SONGWRITERS: ALICE COOPER & DICK WAGNER

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: ALICE COOPER GOES TO HELL

LABEL: WARNER BROS.

GENRE: SOFT ROCK

YEAR: 1976

 

         Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spans over 50 years. With a raspy voice and a stage show that features numerous props, including pyrotechnics, guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, reptiles, baby dolls, and dueling swords, Cooper is considered by music journalists and peers to be "The Godfather of Shock Rock". He has drawn equally from horror films, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a macabre and theatrical brand of rock designed to shock audiences.

           Originating in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1964, "Alice Cooper" was originally a band consisting of Furnier on vocals and harmonica, Glen Buxton on lead guitar, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar, Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar, and Neal Smith on drums. The original Alice Cooper band released their debut album in 1969, and broke into the international music mainstream with the 1971 hit song "I'm Eighteen". The band reached their commercial peak in 1973 with their sixth studio album, Billion Dollar Babies. They broke up in 1975 and Furnier adopted the band's name as both his legal name and his stage name, beginning his solo career with the 1975 concept album Welcome to My Nightmare.

               Expanding from his Detroit rock roots, Cooper has experimented with a number of musical styles, including art rock, hard rock, heavy metal, new wave, glam metal, and industrial rock. He helped to shape the sound and look of heavy metal, and has been described as the artist who "first introduced horror imagery to rock and roll, and whose stagecraft and showmanship have permanently transformed the genre". He is also known for his wit offstage, with The Rolling Stone Album Guide calling him the world's most "beloved heavy metal entertainer". Away from music, Cooper is a film actor, a golfing celebrity, a restaurateur, and, since 2004, a radio DJ with his classic rock show Nights with Alice Cooper.

              "I Never Cry" is a song by American singer Alice Cooper. It was originally released on his Alice Cooper Goes to Hell album in 1976.

         The song was written by Cooper and Dick Wagner. The song peaked at Nº. 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and at Nº. 9 on Cash Box in January 1977. In Canada, it spent two weeks at Nº. 5.

          "I Never Cry" was performed live by Cooper, though not consistently, during all tours up to his break in touring due to his addiction to crack cocaine and eventual relapse into alcoholism following 1981’s Special Forces tour. When Cooper returned to touring after Constrictor, "I Never Cry" was never again performed until the 2002 ‘Descent into Dragontown’ tour, following which the song became was a regular part of setlists on the 2005–06 ‘Dirty Diamonds’ and 2009–10 ‘Theatre of Death’ tours.

If there is a tear on my face

It makes me shiver to the bones

It shakes me, Babe

It's just a heartache that got caught in my eye

And you know: I never cry, I never cry?

 

Sometimes I drink more than I need

Until the TV's dead and gone

I may be lonely

But I'm never alone

And the night may pass me by

But I never cry

 

Take away, take away my eyes

Sometimes I'd rather be blind?

Break a heart, break a heart of stone

Open it up but don't you leave it alone

 

'Cause that's all I got to give to you

Believe me Babe, ain? T it been used

My heart's a virgin, ain? T never been tried

And you know I never cry

And you know I never cry

And you know, And you know, And you know

Never cry, I never cry

 

Break a heart, break a heart of stone

Open it up but don't you leave it alone

'Cause that's all I got to give to you

Believe me Babe, ain't it been used

My heart's a virgin, its never been tried

And you know: I never cry!

I never cry!