WCSX Classic Cuts
Crosby, Stills and Nash: “Just a Song Before I Go”
The Hook: Nash wrote it on a dare.
Album: CSN
Year: 1977
Writer: Graham Nash
Stats: CSN’s highest-charting hit on the Billboard Hot 100, it peaked at number-seven.
Background: Graham Nash and David Crosby may not be communicating these days, but back in the day Crosby told us how Nash came to write “Just a Song Before I Go.”
David Crosby on how Graham Nash came to write “Just a Song Before I Go.” OC:…like that. :19
“He was at a friend of his’ house and he was waiting to go to the airport, and the friend was, y’know, a little bit of a smart aleck and said, ‘Hey, you know we got 20 minutes before we have to leave, you’re such a hot songwriter, why don’t you just toss one off?’ Sort of as a challenge. He wrote that bang, just like that.”
