Stephen Stills - Church (Part Of Someone) - Solo album 1970

This video, for the purpose of music history and education, is a tribute to Stephen Stills' remarkable contributions and collaborations with other notable musicians in the '60s and '70s. "Church (Part Of Someone)" is from Stills' self-titled album released on November 16, 1970 on Atlantic Records. The album reached #3 on the Billboard album chart on December 5, 1970 and was certified Gold. Its first track "Love The One You're With" peaked at #14 on the Billboard singles charts and "Sit Yourself Down" went to #37. Stills composed all the songs on the album but had a number of well-known artists assist him on various tracks; Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, David Crsoby, Graham Nash, John Sebastian, Ringo Starr, Booker T. Jones, Cass Elliot, Rita Coolidge, to name a few. Stills dedicated the album to James Marshall Hendrix whom he had been close friends with prior to Hendrix's guitar work in the recording of "Old Times Good Times." Hendrix died on September 18, 1970 and therefore never heard the completed album.

Stills, born January 3, 1945, was in several start-up bands in the early 60s. When he was 19 yrs-old he joined the Au Go Go singers which was the house band at the famous Cafe Au Go Go in New York City. There he met Richie Furay, his future bandmate of Buffalo Springfield which was formed in April 1966 with Stills, Richie Furay, Dewey Martin, Bruce Palmer and Neil Young. Their first album released December 5, 1966 created the #7 Billboard hit "For What It's Worth." Their album Retrospective: The Best Of Buffalo Springfield went Platinum and remains on Top Albums Of All Time lists.

When Buffalo Springfield disbanded, Stills joined with David Crosby (previously of The Byrds) and Graham Nash (previously of The Hollies) to form Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN). CSN's first self-titled album released May 29, 1969 generated two Top 40 hits and peaked at #6 on the Billboard Top Albums chart. A Multi-Platinum record, it too remains on All-Time Great Albums lists. Later Neil Young joined CSN as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young for their album Deja Vu released on March 11, 1970. That album spawned three Top 40 singles and ranked #14 on the Top Albums of 1970 list.

By the time Stills created his remarkable 1970 solo album he had also performed at three of the most iconic concerts of the late '60s: The Monterey Pop Festival (June 16-18, 1967) with Buffalo Springfield and where Jimi Hendrix had his biggest US break-out performance; the Woodstock Festival (August 15-18, 1969) with Crosby, Stills & Nash (their second live performance in front of thousands of people & with Neil Young on an acoustic version of "Mr. Soul"); and with CSN&Y at the infamous Altamont Speedway Free Concert (December 6, 1970) in California which was captured in the Rolling Stones documentary 'Gimme Shelter'. Stills is known for his diverse musical skills and influences, his lyric and arrangement compositions, as well as his ability to play guitar, piano, organ, bass, and some drums, most of which he provided on CSN's first album. Stills is currently listed as #28 on Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time.

Both Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 1997. Stephen Stills' work with both groups, his solo works, and his 1971-formed group Manassas have been a culmination of his superb musical talents and experience, especially at a time when so much great music in the late '60s and early '70s was exploding in many directions. His solo music and collaborations have indeed withstood the test of time. He has been touring or will be touring with both original members of Crosby, Stills & Nash and Buffalo Springfield in 2010 and 2011.

Tracks on the album:

Love The One You're With
Do For The Others
Church (Part Of Someone)
Old Times Good Times
Go Back Home
Sit Yourself Down
To A Flame
Black Queen
Cherokee
We Are Not Helpless

On "Church (Part Of Someone)":

Piano, organ & vocals - Stephen Stills
Drums - Conrad Isedor
Bass - Calvin "Fuzzy" Samuels
Voices - The Chorus (Judith Powell, Liza Strike, Larry Steele, Tony Wilson)
Arranged by Stephen Stills & Arif Mardin

Contributors to the album:

John Barbata, Eric Clapton, Rita Coolidge, David Crosby, Cass Elliot, Sidney George, Jimi Hendrix, Conrad Isedore, Andy Johns, Booker T. Jones, Priscilla Jones, Claudia Lanier, Arif Mardin, Shirley Matthews, Graham Nash, Judith Powell, Calvin "Fuzzy" Samuels, John Sebastian, Ringo Starr (listed as "Richie"), Larry Steele, Liza Strike, Dallas Taylor, Jeff Whitaker, Tony Wilson, We Were Looking For Cyrus Faryar & Henry Diltz.

Produced by Stephen Stills & Bill Halverson
Cover photo: Henry Diltz

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[ekahiway]

Always wondered how he got Eddie Hutt's jersey... Eddie Hutt was #41, played DB for UCLA back in the 60's... same team as Gary Beban, '67 Heisman Trophy winner. Thanks for posting... bunch of those photos I've never seen before either.

[Grendelmonster8u]

@ekahiway You know, I'm pretty clueless about old sports teams and I always wondered why he wore all these numbered jerseys into the 70s. He wore that #7 one frequently that's in the video. He doesn't have anything to do w/ UCLA...he dropped out of Lousiana State Univ., moved around a lot as a kid, so I don't know about this part of him.

[ekahiway]

@Grendelmonster8u You know, I forgot he went to LSU. I think I'm wrong in assuming it was a UCLA jersey (LSU is purple & gold; UCLA at the time had similar dark blue & gold striped jerseys) cause he lived in LA most of the time from '66 on... brought his mother & sister to live in LA at the time as I recall. It probably is a LSU jersey, makes more sense reppin' LSU on the back cover of his first solo album.

[Grendelmonster8u]

@ekahiway The #7 jersey at 3:35 is like the #21 on the cover of his Turnin' Back the Pages album. Read that where he played concerts for univ. students he'd wear the local team shirt given to him. He liked the comfort of them, and he liked football. He said Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone magazine would get on his case about the shirts..."What's with these football jerseys?" Jann said he looked like Popeyes, whatever that is. I also saw Stephen recently & uploaded a video.

[whasudr]

one of the best line ups of collaborating artists ever I think

[Grendelmonster8u]

@whasudr Yes, definitely. It's too bad Jimi Hendrix didn't get to hear the finished product. Some solo efforts don't always take off, but he used great people, this wonderful chorus, and the album is as meaningful to me as the Buffalo Springfield and Crosby Stills & Nash (and Young) albums. Thanks for watching.

[clayopalstar]

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[Grendelmonster8u]

@clayopalstar Thank you so much. I don't know how to connect your video to this one so that others may see another great song from this Stills solo album that has such great choral backing. I hope people will check out this album because it's got a little bit of everything and great collaborators to boot.

Here's your video of "Sit Yourself Down": watch?v=FwttKbqk8WQ&feature=re­lated

[clayopalstar]

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I saw a few pics in there that I had never seen before...

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