Here's one of the first songs I ever wrote in my whole life and one of the first songs we ever recorded and this is one of the first songs I'm gonna play tonight. Neil Young Fox Theatre, Atlanta, Georgia, USA November 24, 1976, Early Show

NK: Legend has it that Don't Cry No Tears from Zuma is the first song you ever wrote... NY: No, that was only one of the first 30 or 40 songs I wrote! Oh yeah, there were a lot of them from back then. Unfortunately, we only have 'glimmers' of most of them but we do have actual recordings of five of them which you're going to hear when the Archives finally appear. I really love these tracks, by the way, I'm not embarrassed by them or anything because I was so young. I mean, some of them I wanted to hear over and over again, whereas others were clearly not so successful. I think it's real interesting when you hear the 'bad' ones with the good ones... Neil Young Mojo/Nick Kent December 1995

‘Don’t Cry No Tears’ has been around for a long time. This may be the best ‘live’ version of this song, according to The Horse [from 1990-11-13 - Way Down In The Rust Bucket]. I wrote it in high school under the name ‘I Wonder’, and added the don’t cry no tears verse around 1974 for ZUMA, where it first appeared on record, aside from two versions of “I Wonder’ by the Squires in 1964 that first appeared on record in ‘Disc 0’ of the ‘Archives Volume1.’ Neil Young NYA - Now Showing in the Hearse Theater July 3, 2020