• Writer: Graham Nash
• Producers: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
• Recorded: Oct. 24, 1969 at Wally Heider’s Studio C in San Francisco, Calif.
• Released: March 11, 1970
• Players:
  Graham Nash — vocals, guitar, tambourine
  David Crosby — vocals
  Stephen Stills — vocals, guitar, bass
  Jerry Garcia — pedal steel guitar
  Dallas Taylor — tambourine
• Album: Deja Vu (Atlantic, 1970)
• Also on:
  4 Way Street (Atlantic, 1971)
  So Far (Atlantic, 1974)
  Crosby, Stills & Nash (box set) (Atlantic, 1991)
  Another Stoney Evening (Crosby-Nash) (Arista, 1998)
• One of rock’s first “supergroups,” CSN formed in 1968 after Stephen Stills left Buffalo Springfield and David Crosby left the Byrds, while Graham Nash was planning to leave the Hollies.
• Neil Young, who was in Buffalo Springfield with Stills, joined the group in June 1969 at the suggestion of Atlantic Records chairman Ahmet Ertegun.
• The group’s legendary appearance at the first Woodstock festival was only its second live performance.
• Although it’s part of the Deja Vu album, “Teach Your Children” was recorded without Young.
• Nash says that with this song, he wanted “to write something so personal that every single person on the planet can relate to it. Once it’s there on vinyl it unfolds, outwards, so that it applies to almost any situation.”
• Nash adds that, musically, “‘Teach’ started out as a slightly funky English folk song but Stephen put a country beat to it and turned it into a hit record.”
• The Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia had only been playing pedal steel guitar for two weeks when he played on the song.
• “Teach Your Children” peaked at Number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts and has gone on to be an enduring singalong at the group’s concerts and at campfires everywhere.
• Deja Vu, the first full-fledged CSN&Y album, hit Number One on the Billboard Top 200 chart and was certified gold after its first week of release.
• The album has sold more than 7 million copies.
• After Deja Vu was recorded, sidemen Greg Reeves and Dallas Taylor were replaced by Calvin “Fuzzy” Samuels and ex-Turtles/future Jefferson Starship drummer John Barbata.

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• Crosby, Stills & Nash — with and without Young — have recorded and toured off-and-on since their inception.
• The trio has the distinction of being one of a handful of acts to perform at the first two Woodstock festivals, in 1969 and in 1994.
• Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young reunited on March 31, 1990 for a benefit concert for drummer Dallas Taylor, who was in need of a liver transplant, which he received the following month. Taylor joined the group on “Wooden Ships.”
• Crosby has survived debilitating drug addictions that resulted in a short imprisonment during 1986. He underwent a liver transplant in 1994.
• In 1997, Stills became the first musician inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice on the same night — with Buffalo Springfield and with CSN.