Dobie Gray (born Lawrence Darrow Brown; July 26, 1940 - December 6, 2011) was an American singer and songwriter, whose musical career spanned soul, country, pop, and musical theater. His hit records included "The 'In' Crowd" in 1965 and "Drift Away", which was one of the biggest hits of 1973, selling over one million copies, and remains a staple of radio airplay. Gray's "Out On The Floor", a 1966 recording become a British top 50 pop chart hit in 1975 and is considered to be a Northern Soul classic by UK fans of the genre. "Drift Away" became a hit again in 2003, when he covered the song as a duet with Uncle Kracker on the latter's No Stranger to Shame album. The re-recording hit #9 and placed at #19 in the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2003 as well as logging a record-setting 28 weeks atop the Adult Contemporary chart in 2003-2004.
Below is a list of Dobie Gray songs, sorted by the most popular first. Place mouse on
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(Song are sorted in highest US R&B Top 100 and/or UK Top 100 chart position order)