Drift Away Dobie Gray 1973 ☮♥ ☺  ♪♫

RIP Dobie Gray
July 26, 1940 - December 6, 2011


Drift Away Dobie Gray 1973

Day after day, I'm more confused
Yet I look for the light through the pourin' rain
You know that's a game that I hate to lose
And I'm feelin' the strain
Ain't it a shame

Oh, give me the beat boys and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock n roll
And drift away
Oh, give me the beat boys and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock n roll
And drift away

Beginnin' to think that I'm wastin' time
I don't understand the things I do
The world outside looks so unkind
Now I'm countin' on you
To carry me through

Oh, give me the beat boys and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock n roll
And drift away
Yea, give me the beat boys and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock n roll
And drift away

And when my mind is free
You know a melody can move me
And when I'm feelin' blue
The guitar's comin' through
To soothe me

Thanks for the joy that you've given me
I want you to know I believe in your song
And rhythm and rhyme and harmony
You help me along
Makin' me strong

Oh, give me the beat boys and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock n roll
And drift away
Give me the beat boys and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock n roll
And drift away

Oh-ho, ah-no
Give me the beat boys and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock n roll
And drift away

Hey, hey, hey, yeah
Give me the beat boys and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock n roll
And drift away

Na, Na, now won't ya
Won't ya take me
Oh-ha, take me

When songwriter Mentor Williams came to Nashville from L.A. in 1972, he was looking at an interesting proposition. After several years of studio experience limited to songwriting demos in L.A., his naturally entrepreneurial inclination led him to strike out on his own as a producer. He was able to cut a deal with Nashville-based Decca (soon to be acquired by MCA) for his fledgling production company, Third Son. Williams had chosen as his first album project a try at restarting the career of Dobie Gray, the son of a Texas sharecropper whose previous chart success had been nearly a decade earlier with the Top 20 R&B version of Ramsey Lewis' jazz classic, The In Crowd. Engineer Gene Eichelberger, at Quadrafonic Sound (now Quad Recording) remembers Williams as anxious about his freshman project: Some of the songs took longer to mix than they did to record, he recalls, as Williams sought to make good on his first major-label outing.

Talk about hitting a grand slam on your first at-bat in the majors. The album's first single, Drift Away, penned by Williams, topped out at Number 5 on the pop charts in '73 and became an instant classic, a staple of oldies radio that generated scores of genre-hopping covers by artists ranging from Michael Bolton to Narvel Felts. TO read more... visit http://mixonline.com/recording/tracking/classic-tracks-dobie-gray-drift-away/...

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[Jasminne2009]

☮♥ ☺  ♪♫ One of THE very BEST of ALL Time. I know every word by heart. ♪♫♪♫ I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and ............ ♫♪♫ 'Cheers' ♥ Rest in PEACE Dobie Gray

[nagoodson]

Day after day, I'm more confused

Yet I look for the light through the pourin' rain

You know that's a game that I hate to loose (should be lose)

And I'm feelin' the strain

Ain't it a shame

[Jasminne2009]

@nagoodson That's what happens when I copy and paste...thanks ☮♥ ☺  ♪♫

[Jasminne2009]

☮♥ ☺  ♪♫

[Texas21FD]

This is music when music was music, long live the 70's,

[shygirl311]

this song makes me feel like nothing can stop me :)

[TriniSplash1]

R.I.P Dobie.. just found out through the Grammys. I grew up jamming to this song on the porch..

[MegaRam77]

Great song RIP

[MyGuitarman55]

RIP Dobie Gray may God Bless you your memory will live on in your wonderful music Thx for what you gave me the love of music we will all miss you

[Jimbo4theearth]

RIP Dobie Gray

July 26, 1940 - December 6, 2011

[betgray]

oh if we could only go back and relive those days.they were some of the best days of my life.

[cyberties]

@TonyMontague

Not sure why you reference Seger, but he had a hit in 1968 ...Ramblin Gamblin Man.

[tmccarty100]

one of my fav songs of all time

i will be singing it for days now

thank you

[novamcfann]

I agree!!! Long Live the 70's!!!