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This version, which featured Dobie Gray singing the bridge and singing backing vocals and the final verse with Kracker, reached number nine on the Hot 100. The song was in the year-end top 20 just like the original 1973 version. It spent a then-record-setting 28 weeks atop the adult contemporary chart in the US.
Dobie Gray (born Lawrence Darrow Brown; July 26, 1940 – December 6, 2011) was an American singer and songwriter. Gray's music spanned multiple genres, including soul , country , pop , and musical theater .
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.
Dobie Gray - “Drift Away” (from Season 1, Episode 13) Edward Bear - "Last Song" (from Season 1, Episode 7) January 5, 1974 18 Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show January 12, 1974 19 Smokey Robinson January 19, 1974 20 Steve Miller January 26, 1974 21 Helen Reddy [5]
The song combines country and hip-hop elements, [1] opening with acoustic guitar strums and audio samples of people talking in a bar. Dustin Lynch recounts a romantic encounter in the opening verse and sings in the melody of "Drift Away" during the chorus, [2] in which he describes his ideal environment to spend time with a "country girl": a six-pack, some Brooks & Dunn and a Chevrolet.
John Henry Kurtz (1945 – March 8, 2008) was an American singer-songwriter and actor best known for performing the song "Drift Away", though the most popular version of it is recorded by Dobie Gray. Biography
Sounds of the Seventies was a 40-volume series issued by Time-Life during the late 1980s and early-to-mid 1990s, spotlighting pop music of the 1970s.. Much like Time-Life's other series chronicling popular music, volumes in the "Sounds of the Seventies" series covered a specific time period, including individual years in some volumes, and different parts of the decade (for instance, the early ...
The other artists featured on this album are Wet Willie, Dobie Gray, Jimmy Hall, L.A. Reflection Section, Ted Nugent, Louisiana's LeRoux, Willie Nelson, Delbert McClinton, and Al Kooper. Volunteer Jam/Classic Live Performances: Volume Two was released on June 1, 1999, courtesy of Blue Hat records. [1]