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Judy Collins, was putting together the new album that would be following up her 1967 hit “Both Sides Now,” and she had asked Stephen Stills to play some guitar on it. On one occasion when Judy had finished for the day, Stephen found himself in a studio with a guitar and a head full of songs he’d written but hadn’t yet committed to tape. So he paid the engineer to stay late and run some tape for him.

But wrap your head around this: not only did CSNY make an appearance on an episode of the Tom Jones TV show, they served as Jones’ backing band as he sang the living daylights out of one of their songs!

You think of Crosby, Stills & Nash as a folk rock group. But according to David Crosby, the song “Pre-Road Downs” is a tune that Graham Nash put together “after he realized he could write fierce rock and roll.”

“For What It’s Worth” is a classic. A moving message song written by Stephen Stills that married a sinister arrangement to a set of lyrics that perfectly summed up the anxiety of the uncertain ‘60s.

Someday there will be a blog post about how a Great Moments in Vinyl show goes from one band member’s bright idea to a stage full of musicians taking their final bow.