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Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing

… the two Americans proceeded to play to their awestruck Canadian friends a song that one of the Canadians, Neil Young, had composed six months earlier up in Toronto. Unbeknownst to Neil, Richie [Furay] had brought Neil’s intensely personal song of angst and frustration, “Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing,” out to LA, where he and Stephen [Stills] had worked up their own arrangement, complete with sweet harmonies and shifting time signature. Hearing his own creation performed so well by these two talented singers sealed the deal: they would form a group then and there.

Furay, Richie and with John Einarson, 1997, from the book For What It’s Worth: The Story of Buffalo Springfield