[NormsRevenge]

RIP Dobie Gray

[NormsRevenge]

Dobie Gray - Drift Away (Original Official Video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIuyDWzctgY

[Vaquero]

great voice....died too young...

Drift Away Dobie

RIP

[svcw]

Sad day.
Drift Away, one of my all time favorite songs.

[RightOnline]

“Drift Away” happens to be the primary ringtone on my girlfriend’s cell phone....I literally hear it every day. I love this song.

Rest in peace, Mr. Gray. Into God’s loving arms with you. Thanks for the joy you brought on this earth in your own small way.

[waterhill]

RIP Dobie, and thanks.

Drift Away is one of my favorite songs of all time.

[pgobrien]

“Day after day, I’m more confused”

Perhaps the DaliBama could use this as his re-election theme song. Just sayin’

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Wow, my prayers for him. 1970s were without a doubt the greatest decade for music. Turn on the radio you could hear anything. If it was good it got played. None of this anti-trust/payola crap that you got today that our lovely Congress makes pretend to do something about every few years until they are paid off. “Jennifer Lopez is #1!!” Yeah, sure she is.

Back in the 1970s you use to have songs like this as #1. Why? Because it was good. Competition was real, didn’t matter what kind of music it was as long as it was good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUQcnfwUUM

[Revolting cat!]

Misheard lyrics:

give me the Beach Boys and free my soul....
I wanna get lost in your wheelbarrow and...

[Fiji Hill]

I remember Dobie Gray for his early 1965 release The "In" Crowd, which was a big hit in Southern California, but I don't believe it scored anywhere else in the country. Shortly after it began to get airplay locally, KRLA, the 50,000-watt rock blaster out of Pasadena began playing a different version of the song--one that was essentially a hymn to KRLA. I haven't heard that version since 1965.

Incidentally, if you listened to KRLA in early 1965, the version of the Trade Winds' New York's a Lonely Town the version played over the station contained a couple of lines praising KRLA.

[SamAdams76]

I used to listen to "Drift Away" when it came on the radio. Can't believe the guy that sang it is dead and that he was 71. It sure make me feel old. Well, at least Terry Jacks, the singer of "Seasons In The Sun" is still alive.

Every hear the flip side of Bobby Helms "Jingle Bell Rock"?

Well the song is called "Captain Santa Claus and His Reindeer Space Patrol" and it is a pretty awesome song.

Bobby Helms...he died back in 1997 and I'm still bummed about that. I guess we are all going to die someday and that's even a bigger bummer. Well, let's have fun while we still can.