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Buffalo Springfield
Band Los Angeles United States Active 1966–1968
Buffalo Springfield formed in 1966 in Los Angeles, United States and was active until 1968. Buffalo Springfield has 79 chart appearances on 66 radio countdowns from 25 stations on RockLists, spanning 1982–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “For What It's Worth”, which appears on 61 lists with a best position of #39. The station that charted Buffalo Springfield most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 8 appearances.
Buffalo Springfield lasted barely 2 years, from 1966 to 1968, and they packed more into that stretch than most bands manage in 10. They came together in Los Angeles, 3 Canadians and 2 Americans: Neil Young on guitar, harmonica and piano, Bruce Palmer on bass and Dewey Martin on drums, with Stephen Stills and Richie Furay on guitars and vocals. They named themselves after a steamroller parked outside their house.
Their sound took folk and country and ran them through the British Invasion and the first flush of psychedelia, and along with the Byrds they helped build folk rock from the ground up. "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing" was a hit around Los Angeles in 1966, and the following January came "For What It's Worth", a protest song with a slow, watchful groove that became a counterculture anthem and their only big American hit. Buffalo Springfield Again pushed out into psychedelia and hard rock with "Bluebird", "Mr. Soul" and the woozy, drifting "Expecting to Fly".
It couldn't hold. Palmer was arrested multiple times and deported, engineer Jim Messina stepped in on bass in 1968, and the band fell apart soon after, with Last Time Around pieced together once they were gone. The scattering was fruitful: Stills co-founded Crosby, Stills and Nash, Young went solo and later joined him in Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, and Furay and Messina started Poco. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted them in 1997, and they reunited briefly for a tour in 2011.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Buffalo Springfield on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | For What It's Worth#471 of all time | 61 | #39 | – | – | |
| 2 | For What It's Worth (Stop, Hey What's That Sound) | 4 | #181 | – | – | |
| 3 | Mr. Soul | 6 | #610 | – | – | |
| 4 | Bluebird | 3 | #717 | – | – | |
| 5 | Rock And Roll Woman | 2 | #364 | – | – | |
| 6 | Expecting to Fly | 1 | #1298 | – | – | |
| 7 | One The Way Home | 1 | #695 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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