Our House ( Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song ) - wikipedia Our House ( Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song ) This article is about the song performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. For the song with the same title, see Our House ( Madness song ). `` Our House '' Single by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young from the album Déjà Vu B - side `` Deja Vu '' Released September 1970 Format Single Recorded November 5, 1969 Genre Baroque pop, soft rock, folk rock Length 2 : 59 Label Atlantic Songwriter ( s ) Graham Nash Producer ( s ) Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young singles chronology `` Ohio '' ( 1970 ) `` Our House '' ( 1970 ) `` Ohio '' ( 1970 ) `` Our House '' ( 1970 ) `` Our House '' is a song written by British singer - songwriter Graham Nash and recorded by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young on their album Déjà Vu ( 1970 ). The single reached # 30 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and # 20 on the Cash Box Top 100. The song, `` an ode to countercultural domestic bliss '', was written while Nash was living with Joni Mitchell, recording both Crosby, Stills & Nash and Déjà Vu. Contents 1 Origins 2 Legacy and adaptations 3 Chart performance 3.1 Weekly charts 3.2 Year - end charts 4 Personnel 5 Additional musicians 6 References 6.1 Notes 6.2 Bibliography Origins The song originates in a domestic event that took place while Graham Nash was living with Joni Mitchell ( and her two cats ) in her house on Laurel Canyon ( Los Angeles ), after they had gone out for breakfast and had bought an inexpensive vase on Ventura Boulevard. Nash wrote the song in an hour, on Mitchell 's piano. In October 2013, in an interview with Terry Gross on NPR 's `` Fresh Air '', Nash elaborated : Well, it 's an ordinary moment. What happened is that Joni ( Mitchell ) and I -- I do n't know whether you know anything about Los Angeles, but on Ventura Boulevard in the Valley, there 's a very famous deli called Art 's Deli. And we 'd been to breakfast there. We 're going to get into Joan 's car, and we pass an antique store. And we 're looking in the window, and she saw a very beautiful vase that she wanted to buy... I persuaded her to buy this vase. It was n't very expensive, and we took it home. It was a very grey, kind of sleety, drizzly L.A. morning. And we got to the house in Laurel Canyon, and I said -- got through the front door and I said, you know what ? I 'll light a fire. Why do n't you put some flowers in that vase that you just bought ? Well, she was in the garden getting flowers. That meant she was not at her piano, but I was... And an hour later ' Our House ' was born, out of an incredibly ordinary moment that many, many people have experienced. In the same interview, Nash was asked about the harmonies in the song : `` It 's me and David ( Crosby ) and Stephen ( Stills ) doing our best. That 's all we ever do. You know, we 're lucky enough to be able to do, you know, anything that we want to do, musically. And, you know, these two guys are incredible musicians. Crosby is one of the most unique musicians I know, and Stephen Stills has got this blues - based, South American kind of feeling to his music. And I 'm this, you know, Henry VIII guy from England... You know, it 's not supposed to work, but it does, somehow ''. Legacy and adaptations Graham Nash once admitted that he was `` bored with ' Our House ' the day after ( he ) recorded it '', but will play it occasionally `` because it does mean so much to so many people ''. It is praised for its `` innocent elegance '', though Barney Hoskyns called it a `` trite ditty '' and wondered what Neil Young, whose protest song `` Ohio '' was recorded and released by CSNY in June 1970, would have thought of it : `` the journey from ' Ohio ' back to ' Our House ' seemed to sum up a general failure of nerve in the LA music scene ''. The song has been covered by a number of artists, including Helen Reddy, The Onyx, Phantom Planet, Sheena Easton, Kidsongs and Sharon, Lois & Bram. It was also used as a commercial jingle for Eckrich sausage in the 1980s, and has appeared in various television shows and films, most notably in the 1996 Only Fools and Horses Christmas special, `` Time on Our Hands '', which was watched by 24.3 million viewers when it was broadcast in the United Kingdom. It was also used in an advert for Halifax Building Society in the 1990s. A portion of the song 's lyrics were spoken in The Simpsons episode `` Bart After Dark '', by Reverend Lovejoy. The song was featured in the fifth season of How I Met Your Mother, in an episode called `` Home Wreckers ''. It also appeared as a cover in a Target commercial from 2013, for its `` Threshold '' brand for house and home. It was also featured as the closing song on The Blacklist, season 3 episode 2 ( `` Marvin Gerard '' ), which aired on October 9, 2015. Chart performance Weekly charts Chart ( 1970 ) Peak position Canada RPM 13 Netherlands 9 New Zealand ( Listener ) 19 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 30 U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary 20 U.S. Cash Box Top 100 20 Year - end charts Chart ( 1970 ) Rank U.S. ( Joel Whitburn 's Pop Annual ) 196 Personnel Graham Nash -- lead vocals, piano, harpsichord David Crosby -- harmony vocals Stephen Stills -- harmony vocals Additional musicians Dallas Taylor -- drums Greg Reeves -- bass References Notes Jump up ^ Lonergan 169. Jump up ^ http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/70s_files/19701031.html Jump up ^ Walker xii. Jump up ^ Bego 65. Jump up ^ Walker 112 - 13. Jump up ^ Bego 65. ^ Jump up to : `` Graham Nash Has ' Wild Tales ' To Spare ''. NPR. 2013 - 10 - 15. Retrieved 2014 - 05 - 26. Jump up ^ Zimmer 222. Jump up ^ Perone 76. Jump up ^ Hoskyns 204. Jump up ^ http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.3712&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.3712.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.3712 Jump up ^ Flavour of New Zealand, 7 Dec 1970 Jump up ^ ( Joel Whitburn 's Top Pop Singles 1955 - 2002 ) Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 1993 ). Top Adult Contemporary : 1961 -- 1993. Record Research. p. 61. Jump up ^ http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/70s_files/19701031.html Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 1999 ). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin : Record Research Inc. ISBN 0 - 89820 - 142 - X. Bibliography Bego, Mark ( 2005 ). Joni Mitchell. Taylor Trade. ISBN 9781461662020. Hoskyns, Barney ( 2009 ). Waiting for the Sun : A Rock ' n ' Roll History of Los Angeles. Backbeat Books. ISBN 9780879309435. Lonergan, David F. ( 2005 ). Hit Records, 1950 - 1975. Scarecrow. ISBN 9780810851290. Perone, James E. ( 2006 ). The Words and Music of Carole King. Greenwood. ISBN 9780275990275. Walker, Michael ( 2010 ). Laurel Canyon : The Inside Story of Rock - and - Roll 's Legendary Neighborhood. Faber & Faber. ISBN 9781429932936. Zimmer, Dave ( 2004 ). Four Way Street : The Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Reader. Da Capo. ISBN 9780786748532. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young David Crosby Stephen Stills Graham Nash Neil Young Studio albums Crosby, Stills & Nash Déjà Vu CSN Daylight Again American Dream Live It Up After the Storm Looking Forward Live albums 4 Way Street Allies Déjà Vu Live CSN 2012 CSNY 1974 Compilation albums So Far Replay CSN Carry On Greatest Hits Demos Songs `` Suite : Judy Blue Eyes '' `` Marrakesh Express '' `` Guinnevere '' `` Wooden Ships '' `` Lady of the Island '' `` Helplessly Hoping '' `` Woodstock '' `` Helpless '' `` Teach Your Children '' `` Almost Cut My Hair '' `` Our House '' `` Ohio '' `` Just a Song Before I Go '' `` Wasted on the Way '' `` Southern Cross '' Related bands The Byrds Buffalo Springfield The Hollies CPR Crosby & Nash The Stills - Young Band Manassas Crazy Horse Related people Joni Mitchell Judy Collins Chris Hillman Cass Elliot Timothy B. Schmit Greg Reeves Dallas Taylor Other related articles Discography CSNY / Déjà Vu Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Our_House_(Crosby,_Stills,_Nash_%26_Young_song)&oldid=816737173 '' Categories : 1970 singles Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young songs Songs written by Graham Nash Atlantic Records singles Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles Hidden categories : Articles with hAudio microformats Talk Contents About Wikipedia Brezhoneg Nederlands 日本 語 Norsk nynorsk Edit links This page was last edited on 23 December 2017, at 09 : 07. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. About Wikipedia

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