For What It’s Worth
~ Song
Annotation
The CSN&Y album Déjà Vu Live credits this work to Stephen Stills and Richard Furay. This is apparently in error; no other source, including the Buffalo Springfield album where it first appeared, credit RIchie (Richard) Furay as writer.
Annotation last modified on 2013-09-09 18:08 UTC.
Relationships
| lyricist and composer: | Stephen Stills |
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| publisher: | Cotillion Cotillion Music Inc. (BMI) Richie Furay Music (BMI) Springalo Toones (BMI) Ten East Ten‐East Music (BMI) |
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| SecondHandSongs: | https://secondhandsongs.com/work/5471 [info] |
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| Wikidata: | Q2551974 [info] |
| later parody versions: | For What It's Worth (Louder With Crowder) |
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| later translated versions: | Menschenskinder Мгновенье, стой |
| is the basis for: | He Got Game Stop and Bust a Move (Bill McClintock mashup) What’s Goin’ Down |
| music quoted in: | AMERIICAN REQUIEM |
| lyrics quoted in: | I Wish |
Recordings
| Date | Title | Attributes | Artist | Length |
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| recordings | ||||
| 1966-12-05 | For What It’s Worth (mono) | Buffalo Springfield | 2:41 | |
| 1966-12-05 | For What It’s Worth (stereo) | Buffalo Springfield | 2:37 | |
| 1967-02-26 | For What It’s Worth (live, 1967-02-26: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour S01E04) | live | Buffalo Springfield | 2:56 |
| 1967-06-18 | For What It's Worth | live | Buffalo Springfield | ?:?? |
| 1967-06-18 | For What It’s Worth (live, 1967-06-18: Monterey Pop Festival, CA, USA) | live | Buffalo Springfield | 2:44 |
| 1967-06-18 | For What It’s Worth (live, 1967-06-18: Monterey County Fairgrounds, Monterey, CA, USA) | live | Buffalo Springfield | 3:00 |
| 1967-06-18 | For What It’s Worth (live, 1967-06-18: Monterey County Fairgrounds, Monterey, CA, USA) | live | Buffalo Springfield | 2:48 |
| 1967-06-18 | For What It’s Worth (live, 1967-06-18: Monterey County Fairgrounds, Monterey, CA, USA) | live | Buffalo Springfield | 2:54 |
| 1967-06-18 | For What It’s Worth (live, 1967-06-18: Monterey County Fairgrounds, Monterey, CA, USA) | live | Buffalo Springfield | 2:46 |
| 1967-08-11 | For What It’s Worth (live, 1967-08-11: Teen & Twenty Club, Huntington Beach, CA, USA) | live | Buffalo Springfield | ?:?? |
| 1967-08-14 | For What It’s Worth (broadcast, 1967-10-28: Mannix S01E07, CBS, Los Angeles, CA, USA) | Buffalo Springfield | ?:?? | |
| 1968-01-20 | For What It’s Worth (live, 1968-01-20: Whittier High School, Whittier, CA, USA) | live | Buffalo Springfield | 3:46 |
| 1968-04-20 | For What It’s Worth (live, 1968-04-20: Dallas Market Hall, Dallas, TX, USA) | live | Buffalo Springfield | 3:21 |
| 1968-04-20 | For What It’s Worth (live, 1968-04-20: Dallas Market Hall, Dallas, TX, USA) | live | Buffalo Springfield | 3:30 |
| 1968-05-05 | For What It’s Worth (live, 1968-05-05: Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, CA, USA) | live | Buffalo Springfield | 3:49 |
| 1968-05-05 | For What It’s Worth (live, 1968-05-05: Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, CA, USA) | live | Buffalo Springfield | 3:29 |
| 1969-07-21 | How Many More Times (live, 1969‐07‐21: Schaefer Music Festival, Wollman Rink, New York, NY, USA) | cover, live and medley | Led Zeppelin | 16:36 |
| 1969-12-18 | For What It's Worth / America's Children (live, 1969-12-18: Hofheinz Pavilion, Houston, TX, USA) | live and medley | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | ?:?? |
| 1969-12 | For What's It Worth / America's Children | live, medley and partial | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | 2:08 |
| 1970-06-03 | 49 Bye-Byes - For What It's Worth (live, 1970-06-03: Lakehurst, NJ, USA) | live and medley | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | 6:44 |
| 1970-09-04 | Communication Breakdown: Good Times Bad Times / For What It’s Worth / I Saw Her Standing There (live, 1970‐09‐04: The Forum, Inglewood, CA, USA) | cover, live and medley | Led Zeppelin | 11:19 |
| 1970-09-04 | Medley: Communication Breakdown / Good Times Bad Times / For What It's Worth / I Saw Her Standing Here (live, 1970‐09‐04: The Forum, Inglewood, CA, USA) | cover, live, medley and partial | Led Zeppelin | 10:56 |
| 1970 | For What It’s Worth (live, 1970: BBC Radio session, London, England, UK) | live | Stephen Stills | 4:03 |
| 1971-04-01 | Medley: Whole Lotta Love / That’s All Right Mama / For What It’s Worth / Mess of Blues / The Lemon Song / Whole Lotta Love (live, 1971‐04‐01: Paris Theatre, London, England, UK) | cover, live, medley and partial | Led Zeppelin | 22:37 |
| 1971-08 | 49 Bye‐Byes / For What It’s Worth (live, 1971-08: Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley, CA, USA) | live | Stephen Stills | 5:20 |
| 1972-03-22 | For What It’s Worth (live, 1972-03-22: Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands) | live | Stephen Stills & Manassas | ?:?? |
| 1976-10-25 | 49 Bye – Byes / For What It’s Worth (live, 1976-10-25: Palladium, New York City, NY, USA) | live | Stephen Stills | 4:25 |
| 1978-09-04 | 49 Bye Byes / For What It’s Worth (live, 1978-09-04: Bread and Roses Festival, Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA, USA) | live | Stephen Stills | 16:00 |
| 1979 | For What It’s Worth (live, 1979: Havana, Cuba) | live | Stephen Stills | 5:24 |
| 1982-11 | For What It's Worth (live, 1982-11: New Universal Ampitheatre, Los Angeles, CA, USA) | live | Crosby, Stills & Nash | 5:50 |
| 1982 | For What It's Worth (live, 1982: Universal Ampitheatre, Universal City, CA, USA) | live | Crosby, Stills & Nash | 5:45 |
| 1985-09-24 | For What It’s Worth (live, 1985-09-24: The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA, USA) | live | Stephen Stills | 8:42 |
| 1987-06-24 | For What It’s Worth | cover and live | Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers | ?:?? |
| 1987-07-24 | For What It’s Worth | cover and live | Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers | ?:?? |
| 1987-07-24 | For What It’s Worth (live, 1987-07-24: The Coliseum, Jacksonville, FL, USA) | cover and live | Tom Petty | 5:10 |
| 1987-07-25 | For What It’s Worth (live, 1987-07-24: The Coliseum, Jacksonville, FL, USA) | cover and live | Tom Petty | 5:10 |
| 1990-02-24 | For What It's Worth | cover and live | The Radiators | 8:26 |
| 1995-05-06 | For What It’s Worth (live, 1995‐05‐06) | live | Crosby, Stills & Nash with Tom Petty | 5:31 |
| 1995-07-21 | For What It’s Worth (live, 1995-07-21: The Joint, Hard Rock Hotel And Casino, Las Vegas, NV, USA) | live | Stephen Stills | 5:11 |
| 2000-02-01 | For What It's Worth (live, 2000-02-01: Tacoma Dome, Tacoma, WA, USA) | live | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | ?:?? |
| 2000-02-02 | For What It's Worth (live, 2000-02-02: Rose Garden, Portland, OR, USA) | live | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | 5:01 |
| 2000-02-09 | For What It’s Worth (live, 2000-02-09: Arco Arena, Sacramento, CA, USA) | live | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | 5:40 |
| 2000-03-14 | For What It’s Worth (live, 2000-03-14: Philips Arena, Atlanta, GA, USA) | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | ?:?? | |
| 2000-03-26 | For What It's Worth (live, 2000-03-26: Fleet Center, Boston, MA, USA) | live | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | 6:12 |
| 2001-10-21 | For What It’s Worth (live, 2001-10-21: Bridge Benefit XV, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, USA) | live | Neil Young & Billy Idol | ?:?? |
| 2002-04-14 | For What It’s Worth (live, 2002-04-14: Ryman Auditorium, Nahsville, TN, USA) | cover and live | Willie Nelson with Sheryl Crow | 4:25 |
| 2002-04-19 | For What It’s Worth (live, 2002-04-19: First Union Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA) | live | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | 4:56 |
| 2003-09-24 | Jimi Thing (live, 2003‐09‐24: Central Park, New York, NY, USA) | cover, live and partial | Dave Matthews Band | 16:39 |
| 2003-10-25 | For What It's Worth (live, 2003-10-25: Bridge School Benefit 17, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, USA) | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | 5:44 | |
| 2003-10-26 | For What It's Worth (live, 2003-10-26: Bridge School Benefit 17, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, USA) | live | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | 4:52 |
| 2004-03 – 2004-04 | For What It’s Worth | cover | Rush | 3:31 |
| 2005-09-10 | Jimi Thing | cover, live and partial | Dave Matthews Band | 19:19 |
| 2006-03-15 | For What It's Worth | cover and live | Fdel | 3:30 |
| 2006-07-06 | For What It's Worth (live, 2006-07-06: Tweeter Center at the Waterfront, Camden, NJ, USA) | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | 5:01 | |
| 2006-08-25 | For What It’s Worth (live, 2006-08-25: Hersheypark Stadium, Hershey, PA, USA) | live | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | 4:49 |
| 2006 | For What It's Worth (live, 2006: Freedom of Speech Tour) | live | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | 4:50 |
| 2007-11-29 | For What It's Worth (live, 2007-11-29: Trusts Stadium, Auckland, New Zealand) | live | Crosby, Stills & Nash | ?:?? |
| 2008-02-03 | For What It’s Worth (tease) (live, 2008‐02‐03: Palamalaguti, Casalecchio di Reno, Bologna, Italy) | cover, live and partial | The Smashing Pumpkins | 3:29 |
| 2008-02-18 | For What It’s Worth (tease) (live, 2008-02-18: Brabanthallen, Den Bosch, Netherlands) | cover, live and partial | The Smashing Pumpkins | 3:16 |
| 2008-10-20 | For What It’s Worth (live, 2008-10-20: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, England, UK) | live | Stephen Stills | ?:?? |
| 2008-10-20 | For What It’s Worth (live, 2008-10-20: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, England, UK) | live | Stephen Stills | 7:19 |
| 2008 | For What It's Worth | cover | Brothers of the Baladi | 3:48 |
| 2010-11-19 | Jimi Thing | cover, live and partial | Dave Matthews Band | 16:32 |
| 2011-06-04 | For What It’s Worth (live, 2011-06-04: Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, USA) | live | Buffalo Springfield | 5:21 |
| 2011-06-11 | For What It’s Worth (live, 2011-06-11: Great Stage Park, Manchester, TN, USA) | live | Buffalo Springfield | 6:43 |
| 2015-03-08 | For What It’s Worth (live, 2015‐03‐08: Texas Union Ballroom, Austin, TX, USA) | instrumental and live | Bill Frisell | 6:09 |
| 2021-06-20 | For What It's Worth (live, 2021-06-20: Telluride Town Park, Telluride, CO, USA) | cover and live | Mavis Staples | ?:?? |
| 2025-01-30 | For What It’s Worth (live, 2025-01-30: Kia Forum, Inglewood, CA, USA) | live | Stephen Stills feat. Mike Campbell & Dawes | ?:?? |
| 49 Bye Byes / America’s Children / For What It’s Worth | live and medley | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | 7:51 | |
| Down by the River - What It's Worth (Medley) | cover | The Majic Ship | 10:46 | |
| For What It's Worth | cover | Vera | 4:48 | |
| For What It's Worth | cover and live | Lucinda Williams | 4:33 | |
| For What It's Worth | Jacqui Naylor | 3:26 | ||
| For What It's Worth (stereo) | cover | King Curtis & The Kingpins | 2:33 | |
| For What It's Worth | cover | Ron LaSalle | 2:44 | |
| For What It's Worth | Rhythms del Mundo feat. OneRepublic | 3:13 | ||
| For What It's Worth | cover | MonaLisa Twins | 4:08 | |
| For What It's Worth | cover | The Reputation | 3:49 | |
| For What It's Worth | cover | D.I. | 2:03 | |
| For What It's Worth | cover and instrumental | Sex Mob | 8:25 | |
| For What It's Worth | cover | Rhythms del Mundo feat. OneRepublic | 3:13 | |
| For What It's Worth | cover | Lou Rawls | 2:54 | |
| For What It's Worth | cover | Lou Rawls | 2:48 | |
| For What It's Worth | cover | Lou Rawls | 2:56 | |
| For What It's Worth | cover | Lou Rawls | 2:53 | |
| For What It's Worth | cover | Lou Rawls | 2:55 | |
| For What It's Worth | cover | Lou Rawls | 2:54 | |
| For What It's Worth | cover | Lou Rawls | 2:53 | |
| For What It's Worth | cover | Lou Rawls | 2:49 | |
| For What It's Worth | cover | Lou Rawls | 2:55 | |
| For What It's Worth | cover | Lou Rawls | 2:47 | |
| For What It's Worth (live) | cover and live | Tom Petty | 4:14 | |
| For What It's Worth | cover | Society Burning | 3:26 | |
| For What It's Worth | cover | Queensrÿche | 2:34 | |
| For What It's Worth | cover | Kory & the Fireflies | 4:39 | |
| For What It's Worth | cover | Girl in a Coma | 3:27 | |
| For What It's Worth | live | Crosby, Stills & Nash | 5:15 | |
| For What It's Worth | cover and instrumental | George Winston | 4:57 | |
| For What It's Worth | cover | Marc Carroll | 3:45 | |
| For What It's Worth | cover | Eero Raittinen & The Noisy Kinda Men | 4:27 | |
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