Pop singer Dobie Gray of ‘Drift Away’ and ‘In Crowd’ fame dead in Nashville at age 69

Associated Press ^ | December 7, 2011

[ConservativeStatement]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Dobie Gray, who hit the top of the music charts in 1973 with “Drift Away,” has died in Nashville. He was 69.

[SamiGirl]

Thank you for the link. What a great song!

[Emmett McCarthy]

I thought I read elsewhere that he was 71?

[wizr]

I was ‘in’ with the Out Crowd. I’m no better than anyone else.

[BerryDingle]

RIP Dobie Gray.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[I Drive Too Fast]

Didn't that alternate version go like this? - - - "Gimme the Beach Boys, and free my soul, I wanna get lost in your rock n' roll, and SURF TODAY".

Drift Away was and is a classic.

[Fiji Hill]

In early 1965, our local AM rock blasters KRLA and KFWB began playing Dobie Gray's The "In" Crowd, and it became a local hit. However, KRLA was soon playing a different version, one which praised KRLA in its lyrics. I haven't heard that version since 1965.