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  • 'Drift Away' songwriter Mentor Williams has died

    11/16/2016 5:38:24 PM PST · by EveningStar · 10 replies
    The Taos News ^ | November 16, 2016 | Rick Romancito
    Mentor Williams, a longtime Taos resident and nationally known singer-songwriter, died at 6:15 a.m. Wednesday (Nov. 16), according to a family source. Williams was best known for writing "Drift Away", a middle-of-the-road playlist classic performed by Dobie Gray in 1973. He is the brother of songwriter-actor Paul Williams, according to an online biography.
  • Dobie Gray dies at 71; singer later became a songwriter ('Drift Away')

    12/08/2011 2:05:05 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 20 replies
    LA Times ^ | 12/8/11 | Times staff and wire reports
    Dobie Gray, a smooth balladeer and soul singer who scored his biggest hit in the early 1970s with "Drift Away," has died. He was 71. Gray, who had cancer, died Tuesday at his Nashville home, said Charlie Andrews, his attorney. Before he adopted the name of Dobie Gray — a nod to sitcom character Dobie Gillis — the singer recorded under other names before breaking through with 1965's "The 'In' Crowd," which became a top 20 hit. He also had success that year with "See You at the Go-Go." The silky-voiced tenor was best known for his progressive rock and...