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"Expecting to Fly" is a song written by Neil Young and performed by Buffalo Springfield. The song reached #98 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1968.[1] The song appeared on their 1967 album, Buffalo Springfield Again.[2] Producer Jack Nitzsche provided the orchestral arrangement featuring a string section plus an oboe. Live versions from Young's early solo performances appear on the albums Live at the Riverboat 1969, Sugar Mountain – Live at Canterbury House 1968, and Live at the Cellar Door.

"Expecting to Fly"
Single by Buffalo Springfield
from the album Buffalo Springfield Again
B-side	"Everydays"
Released	December 16, 1967
Genre	Psychedelic rock
Length	3:39 2:45 (single edit)
Label	Atco
Songwriter(s)	Neil Young
Producer(s)	Jack Nitzsche
Buffalo Springfield singles chronology
"Rock 'N' Roll Woman" (1967) "Expecting to Fly" (1967) "Un-Mundo" (1968)

In the 2018 music documentary film, Echo in the Canyon, it is suggested "Expecting to Fly" marks and exemplifies a shift in a late 1960s's movement from group-oriented folk rock compositions toward more individualized performances and single-artist recordings.

Other versions

• Thirteen Senses released the song in 2005 in the United Kingdom as the B-side to their single "The Salt Wound Routine".[3]
• Metric recorded a version in 2011.
• Emily Haines occasionally played it live during her Knives Don't Have Your Back shows.
• of Montreal released the song as a single in 2011 in Norway.[4]
• Tom Wilson recorded the song for the Neil Young Tribute Album Borrowed Tunes II: A Tribute to Neil Young, released in 2007.

In media

• Buffalo Springfield's version appears in the films Coming Home (1978), Purple Haze (1982), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), and Joy (2015), as well as in the Lillyhammer Season 3 episode "Foreign Affairs" (2014).

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