Artist · chart history
Dobie Gray
Solo artist Simonton United States
Dobie Gray is an artist from Simonton. Dobie Gray has 12 chart appearances on 12 radio countdowns from 6 stations on RockLists, spanning 1997–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Drift Away”, which appears on 12 lists with a best position of #219. The station that charted Dobie Gray most often is Q104.3 (New York, NY), with 5 appearances.
Dobie Gray, born Lawrence Darrow Brown in 1940, was a singer who never let a genre fence him in: soul, country, pop and even musical theater all fell within his reach. He first scored with "The 'In' Crowd" in 1965, a strutting, finger-popping slice of cool, and spent 1968 and 1969 in the cast of Hair at the Aquarius Theater in Hollywood.
Then came "Drift Away", written by Mentor Williams, and Gray made it entirely his own. It's a warm, easy-rolling soul song with a country heart, sung with an ache that never tips into self-pity. Few records owned 1973 the way it did, and it moved more than a million copies, and it has never really left the airwaves since. Gray died in 2011.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Dobie Gray on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drift Away | 12 | #219 | – | – |
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