Songs for Beginners

Tracklist

• 1
  Military Madness
  3:30
• 2
  Better Days
  3:52
• 3
  Wounded Bird
  2:11
• 4
  I Used to Be a King
  4:45
• 5
  Be Yourself
  3:11
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Simple Man
  2:21
• 7
  Man in the Mirror
  2:41
• 8
  There’s Only One
  3:57
• 9
  Sleep Song
  3:03
• 10
  Chicago
  2:54
  4.5 ★
• 11
  We Can Change the World
  1:17

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Release credits

• Bill Halverson
  recording [2, 6]
• Bobby Keys
  saxophone [8], solo [8]
• Calvin Samuels
  bass [1, 5], electric bass guitar [2]
• Chris Ethridge
  bass [7-8, 10-11]
• Clydie King
  background vocals [8, 10-11]
• Dallas Taylor
  drums (drum set) [2]
• Dave Mason
  guitar [1]
• David Crosby
  electric guitar [4]
• David Lindley
  violin [6]
• Dorian Rudnytsky
  cello [6, 9]
• Dorothy Morrison
  background vocals [8, 10-11]
• Glyn Johns
  mix [1]
• Graham Nash
  Hammond organ [2], acoustic guitar [1-5, 7-11], background vocals [2, 6], lead vocals [2, 4-6, 8-11], mix [2], organ [8, 10], percussion [9], piano [2, 6, 10-11], producer, tambourine [10-11], vocal [1, 3, 7]
• Jerry Garcia
  piano [4], steel guitar [4, 7]
• Joe Yankee
  piano [2, 7]
• Joel Bernstein
  piano [1]
• John Barbata
  drums (drum set) [1, 4-5, 7-8, 10-11], tambourine [10]
• Larry Cox
  mix [2], performer [2], recording [2]
• Larry Cox
  engineer [1]
• Nathaniel Kunkel
  mix [6]
• P.P. Arnold
  background vocals [1]
• Phil Lesh
  bass [4]
• Rita Coolidge
  background vocals [1-2, 6, 8, 10-11], electric piano [5], piano [5, 8]
• Sherlie Matthews
  background vocals [8, 10-11]
• Simon Posthuma
  bass clarinet [2], solo [2]
• Venetta Fields
  background vocals [8, 10-11]
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Issues

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  Songs for Beginners

  12" Vinyl
  1971
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  Songs for Beginners

  12" Vinyl (Original UK release)
  1971
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  Songs for Beginners

  CD
  1988
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  Songs for Beginners

  Digital Media
  8 February 2005
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  Songs for Beginners

  12" Vinyl
  2005
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  Songs for Beginners

  CD, DVD-Audio
  2008
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  Songs for Beginners

  12" Vinyl
  2010
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  Songs for Beginners

  CD (wea mfg. Olyphant)