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Teach Your Children

Music by Graham Nash

Originally Performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

"Teach Your Children" is a song by Graham Nash. Although it was written when Nash was a member of the Hollies, it was never recorded by that group in studio (although a live recording does exist), and first appeared on the album Déjà Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young released in 1970. The recording features Jerry Garcia on steel guitar. Garcia did not know how to play the steel guitar. He told Lon Goddard of the British music newspaper Record Mirror in an interview, that he recorded a series of pieces on the steel guitar and spliced them together in the studio to create the backing and solo. Garcia had made an arrangement that in return for his playing steel guitar on "Teach Your Children," CSNY would teach the members of the Grateful Dead how to sing harmony for their upcoming albums, Workingman's Dead and American Beauty. Released as a single, the song peaked at #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts that year. On the Easy Listening chart, "Teach Your Children" peaked at #28. In Canada, "Teach Your Children" reached number 8.

Release Date: 1970

Songbooks, Arrangements and/or Media

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Various Arrangers : Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young A Cappella

Here is the 1970 pop hit by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young "Teach Your Children" in an a cappella setting that is fresh and unique! Rhythmically free and expansive, the melody harmonized in triads is juxtaposed against long accompanying vocal lines to highlight the powerful message inherent in the text. The Crosby, Stills and Nash song from their debut 1969 album "Helplessly Hoping" translates perfectly to the signature vocal style of the King's Singers. "After The Gold Rush" is the haunting song by Neil Young in a richly expressive a cappella setting. Audiences love these pop classics and great for the parents to sing along with.

Songlist: Helplessly Hoping, After The Gold Rush, Teach Your Children

Various : Singer-Songwriter Collection

Sixty beloved favorites from the singer-songwriter genre: American Pie - Blowin' in the Wind - Doctor, My Eyes - Everybody's Talkin' - Fast Car - It's Too Late - Jessie - Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard - Ol' 55 - Year of the Cat - Your Song - more.

Songlist: Dimming Of The Day, I'd Love You To Want Me, Precious And Few, Hello, It's Me, You're Only Lonely, Pancho And Lefty, Chevy Van, I'm In You, It's Too Late, On And On, Romeo's Tune, American Pie, Everyday I Write The Book, And When I Die, Magnet And Steel, Poetry Man, A Song For You, Anticipation, At Seventeen, Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me, I Ain't Marching Anymore, Peace Train, It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go, Jackie Blue, Blowin' In The Wind, By The Time I Get To Phoenix, I Go Crazy, Do You Wanna Make Love, Doctor, My Eyes, Everybody's Talkin' (Echoes), and more

Susan Anders : More Harmony Singing By Ear

The follow-up to Susan Anders' popular Harmony Singing by Ear uses the same effective method with seven new harmony songs and accompanying teaching segments. Singers who have used Harmony Singing by Ear as well as singers with beginning harmonizing skills can deepen their harmonizing ability with this new set of songs and harmony instruction. One, two or more singers can learn two and three-part harmony singing above and below a melody. More Harmony Singing by Ear includes:Three CDs with nearly four hours of instructional narration and fully produced music tracks. Music tracks with and without guide vocals. The music-only tracks can be used for rehearsal and performances. Seven pop, rock, and jazz songs; six songs arranged for 3 part harmony, one for 2 part harmony.

Songlist: Lean On Me, Proud Mary, It Doesn't Matter Anymore, Teach Your Children, Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On), Baby, Baby All the Time, Drive My Car

Individual Folios

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Philip Lawson : Teach Your Children

Here is the 1970 pop hit by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in an a cappella setting that is fresh and unique! Rhythmically free and expansive, the melody harmonized in triads is juxtaposed against long accompanying vocal lines to highlight the powerful message inherent in the text.

Arranger: Philip Lawson | Composer: Graham Nash Performed By: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young