Many FM radio stations played the album cut. The single is three minutes shorter then the album version. I was left with all these pieces of song and I said, ‘Let’s sing them together and call it a suite,’ because they were all about the same thing and they led up to the same point.” I had a hell of a time getting the music to fit. It poured out of me over many months and filled several notebooks. Stephen Stills: “It started out as a long narrative poem about my relationship with Judy Collins. Graham Nash: “When Stephen Stills first played me this song, I wondered what planet he was from,” The song peaked at #21 in the Billboard 100 and #11 in Canada in 1969. Stills put that part in simply because the song had gone on forever and he didn’t want it to just lay there at the end. Here’s the translation: “How nice it will (or would) be to take you to Cuba The queen of the Caribbean Sea I only want to visit you there And how sad that I can’t, damn!”
It was sung in Spanish because Stephen Stills didn’t want it easily understood since it had little to do with the theme of the song. The last verse is in Spanish and is about Cuba. It has four distinct sections that are woven together with an acoustic and those harmonies holding it all together. Judy Collins titled her 2011 autobiography, Sweet Judy Blue Eyes.Suite: Judy Blue Eyes is an epic song. It is a magnificent song, let there be no doubt, but you have to smile when considering the satisfaction that the dumped Stills must’ve known when “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” became a staple of FM radio play, literally for decades afterwards. So the legacy of our relationship is certainly in that song.” And so he wove that all together in this magnificent creation.
And of course it has lines in it that referred to my therapy.
“ came to where I was singing one night on the West Coast and brought his guitar to the hotel and he sang me “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” the whole song. Judy Collins (recently seen in a very controversial episode of Girls) told of her reaction to hearing the song for the first time: He wrote the song as a way of working through his sadness over their impending break-up. Stills had dated Collins for two years and was well aware that he was probably about to lose her to actor Stacy Keach. The song was the first number that Crosby, Stills & Nash performed when they took the stage at Woodstock (Neil Young bailed on most of the acoustic numbers) and indeed it was only the second time they’d ever played together in public, as they nervously admitted to the vast Woodstock audience. “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” is a suite of four short songs written by Stephen Stills about his soon-to-be-former girlfriend, folk singer Judy Collins, known for her piercing blue eyes.
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