Dobie Gray - Drift Away (1995)(Music City Tonight 720p)

Dobie Gray performing his 1973 hit ''Drift Away'' live on Music City Tonight with Crook & Chase.

[constantinejones]

this gentleman hasn't lost anything he sounds just like his recording so many years ago, I'd listen to this song every single day

[tonylennon]

Dobie could sing, rock and roll, country, blues . One of the greatest voices ever.,

[grimori]

Don't need to make a ton of hits. Make one incredible song and you've left your mark forever. A song like this will be appreciated forever.

[j.p.]

Now that our band is playing this, I really appreciate what a fantastic song it is 👌👌👌

[randymiller]

I'm sitting here at my house & crying right now because of this AWESOMELY GREAT AMAZING SONG...
I'm 53 yrs old...so I have GREAT GREAT MEMORIES of this song from my childhood.
This song has got to be in the top 10 greatest songs every recorded. It is in my opinion!!!
Much love from Mobile Alabama

[evahanson]

This is the only song I ever remember listening to with my dad as a kid before he died. (RIP dad)

We were in the car and he looked at me and said "kid, this is music" and man, I cry every time I hear it when I'm driving. This was wonderful.

[martinm]

One of those songs that was given us to help lift people up. A Blessing.

[Kevin-mxvi]

That was no lip-synch fakery, that was REAL talent. So absolutely note perfect that I'm choked up.

[kevintupper]

This is my go to song when I'm feeling down for whatever reason. It ALWAYS works

[charlesbeall]

A blind person can see this class! God bless, Mr. Gray!

[chitownbear]

Don't care how many covers they do, Dobie is the greatest and he did a great job here decades after he made this hit

[neilrgrigg]

This live version is simple the best! Unreal song & never gets boring. A true classic👏🏻👏🏻

[robertryan]

May Almighty God have mercy on Mr. Dobie Gray. May he rest in peace. What a fantastic song. From Ireland ☘️

[ronaldcrenfro]

Dobie Gray was born on July 26, 1940, to a family of sharecroppers in Simonton, Texas (some sources cite Brookshire, Texas, as Gray's place of birth, but he claimed on his official website that he hails from Simonton. Moreover, his birth name has been variously cited as either Lawrence Victor Ainsworth or Laurence Darrow Brown). Gray's Baptist minister grandfather introduced him to gospel music. Dobie also listened to country/western and rhythm-and-blues music as a kid.

He moved to Los Angeles in the early 1960s. His seventh recorded single, "Look at Me", was his first chart success. Dobie had a top-20 hit with the catchy "The 'In' Crowd" in 1965. The follow-up song, "See You at the Go-Go", was only a modest success. While in Hollywood Gray took acting classes and acted in stage productions of "A Raisin in the Sun, " "The Amen Corner, " "Look Homeward Angel, " "Rhinoceros, " and the hugely popular hippie counterculture musical "Hair" (he stayed with this play for two and a half years). He sang with the band Pollution in the early 1970s. In 1973 he scored his biggest and most beloved smash with the supremely mellow and soothing "Drift Away", which reached #5 on the pop charts, has been covered by many major artists (among them Elvis Presley and Ray Charles) and has since become a staple on classic rock radio stations. Dobie played a lead role in the blaxploitation feature Mean Mother (1973) and appeared as himself in the comedy Out of Sight (1966).

Dobie's sound changed from soul to country in the mid-'70s. He relocated to Nashville, Tennessee, and had modest country chart hits with such songs as "That's One to Grow On" and "From Where I Stand." In addition, Gray enjoyed a nice sideline career as a songwriter; among the artists he penned songs for are Charley Pride, George Jones, Johnny Mathis, Conway Twitty, John Denver, B.J. Thomas and Tammy Wynette. Moreover, Dobie did radio and TV commercial work for such high-profile companies as Budweiser, Coca-Cola, Allstate, Chevrolet, Buick, and Kraft. He toured in Europe, Australia, and Africa (he performed for integrated audiences in South Africa during the apartheid era). His songs are featured on the soundtracks to such movies as Uptown Saturday Night (1974) (in which he sings the titular theme song), Casey's Shadow (1978), Casino (1995) and Wonderland (2003). In 2003 he sang a duet with rap artist Uncle Kracker on a hip-hop cover of "Drift Away;" the cover peaked at #1 on the charts for 28 weeks. Gray died at age 71 from cancer on December 6, 2011 in Nashville, Tennessee.

[marksheeran]

This song touches my soul like no other..

[Achevymanm]

This was my son's favorite karaoke song. It's the last one saw him sing before he passed away Nov. 2020.

[brentmason]

This is when artists used their “talent” to make music! Not the crap “rap” of todays so called artist! This is vocal mastery along with musicians actually playing instruments and creating a masterpiece!

[lyndamccormick]

I have loved this song since the first time I heard it, I used to play it over and over again, I still feel warm all over when I hear it. I still have my original 45 I bought back in the early 1970's.

[sess]

Easily one of the greatest rock songs EVER written and very little, if anything compares to songs of this caliber today.

[TheJonCarrollMusic]

Mr. Gray looks like a really great dude, who's singing wonderfully here. And his recording is not only the defining version, but the best version. None others hold a candle, as far as I'm concerned.