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Bridges featured a collection of 12 country gospel tracks. One song, "Drift Away Gospel", was penned by Anderson's domestic partner Mentor Williams. [1] The song was a gospel reworking of the original track first recorded in the 1970s. "He rewrote it for our little church in Taos, New Mexico. We’d been singing it in church for a couple of years.
"Drift Away" was released as a single on 16 March 2018. [6] A music video was released for the song in April, which featured a couple enjoying the end of summer at the beach. [4] The song was a commercial success, becoming the number one most performed song on New Zealand radio for 11 weeks, [7] and becoming double platinum certified.
A country version was recorded by American country music and rockabilly singer Narvel Felts in 1973. Felts' version — which changed the lyrics "I wanna get lost in your rock and roll" to "I wanna get lost in your country song" — peaked at number 8 on the US Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in mid-August 1973, about three months after Gray's version reached its popularity peak. [14]
Drift Away "Drift Away" 8 — 48 "All in the Name of Love" 13 — 63 1974 "When Your Good Love Was Mine" 14 — 14 When Your Good Love Was Mine "Until the End of Time" (w/ Sharon Vaughn) 39 — — single only "I Want to Stay" 26 — 35 Greatest Hits Vol. 1 "Raindrops" 33 — — 1975 "Reconsider Me" 2 67 1 Narvel Felts "Funny How Time Slips ...
Mentor Ralph Williams (June 11, 1946 – November 16, 2016) was an American songwriter and producer. He is best known for writing "Drift Away", a popular song first performed by Mike Berry in 1972 and popularized by Dobie Gray the following year, and has since been covered by multiple artists.
"Steal Away" is a standard Gospel song, and is found in the hymnals of many Protestant denominations. An arrangement of the song is included in the oratorio A Child of Our Time, first performed in 1944, by the classical composer Michael Tippett (1908–98). Many recordings of the song have been made, including versions by Pat Boone [6] and Nat ...
A Normandy-set cop movie with far more on its mind than simply solving the case, Xavier Beauvois’ Berlinale competition entry “Drift Away” examines the toll that law enforcement takes on an ...
On the same day, at Abbey Road Studios, Starr, and Mark and Scott Gordon, via telephone, recorded Petty's (who is assisted by Greedy) vocals for the song "Drift Away", who was at Village Recorder Studios in Los Angeles. [6] "Drift Away" was remastered, now with Petty's vocals for the song in the mix, on 12 May. [6]