Flying Easy

"Flying Easy"
Song by Donny Hathaway
from the album Extension of a Man
Released June 18, 1973
Recorded January 8, 1973
Genre Soul
Length 3:13
Label Atco Records
Songwriter(s) Donny Hathaway, Walter Lowe, Franklin Moss, Jr.
Producer(s) Arif Mardin
Extension of a Man track listing
"Someday We'll All Be Free"
(2)		 "Flying Easy"
(3)		 Valdez In The Country
(4)

"Flying Easy" is a song from Donny Hathaway's 1973 album, Extension of a Man.

Hathaway originally recorded the song as an instrumental with the Woody Herman band on a Chess release from 1969 titled 'Heavy Exposure' in a somewhat less polished form. It was recorded in the hopes that United Airlines might use is for a national advertising campaign. Donny redeemed the Herman take with a smooth and easy version that used the brass sparingly and added the mellowing presence of strings. Combined with the lyrics of Walter Lowe and Franklin Moss, Jr., it became the version heard on "Extensions..."

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