“Ohio” #24 8/8/1970

Record labels usually won’t issue or promote more than one single at a time from an act, not wanting to saturate the market. (As always, the Beatles were an exception.) That made this CSN&Y single unusual, rush-released while “Teach Your Children” was still climbing the charts. The band, writer/singer Neil Young and Atlantic Records felt they couldn’t wait, given a sense of urgency after the Kent State shootings in May 1970. Perhaps one of the most political records ever made.