As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

#31 Drift Away -- Dobie Gray (1973)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIuyDWzctgY

Dobie Gray had a wonderful voice but very little commercial success, so you have to be happy for him (and for the world) that he got this great song to record, hitting the top 10 with it in 1973. “Give me the beat boys and free my soul, I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away” has to be one of the greatest sets of lines to grace a set of pop music lyrics in the late 20th century. Unfortunately, the lyrics to his only other big hit, “The In Crowd” in 1965, were as forgettable as those of “Drift Away” were magnificent. (Jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis had the right idea later that year, ditching the lyrics entirely and hitting #5 with his instrumental version.)
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