Dobie Gray - The In Crowd (Shindig)
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Best known for his 1973 smash "Drift Away," Dobie Gray was a versatile vocalist who could handle soul, country, and pop, not to mention musical theater. Gray's origins are somewhat ill-defined; different sources alternately list his birth name as Leonard Victor Ainsworth or Laurence Darrow Brown, and his Texas birthplace as Brookshire or Simonton. His likely birth date is July 26, 1940 (though some sources list 1942 or 1943). Whatever the case, Gray grew up in a family of sharecroppers, and discovered gospel music through his grandfather, a Baptist minister. He also soaked up the R&B and country music of his surroundings, and in the early '60s he moved to Los Angeles to seek his fortune.
Before adopting the name Dobie Gray, he recorded several singles under the names Leonard Ainsworth, Larry Curtis, and Larry Dennis. His seventh single, "Look at Me," became his first chart hit in 1963, but his true breakout was a 1965 recording of "The 'In' Crowd," whose Motown-style bounce distinguished it from jazzman Ramsey Lewis' celebrated version. Gray hit the Top 20 with "The 'In' Crowd" and also had some success with the follow-up, "See You at the Go-Go"; this period -- spent mostly on the small, poorly distributed Cordak, Charger, and White Whale labels -- was the most soul-oriented of his career. It would be some time before Gray returned to the charts; in the meantime, he pursued a concurrent acting career, eventually spending two and a half years with the Los Angeles production of +Hair. During his +Hair years, Gray also sang with the band Pollution, which recorded two albums on Prophecy beginning in 1971.
In 1972, Gray resurfaced as a solo artist on MCA, with producer/songwriter Mentor Williams in his camp. Gray promptly scored the biggest hit of his career with the Williams-penned "Drift Away," which hit the Top Five in early 1973 and remains an oldies-radio staple today. The subsequent "Loving Arms," written by Tom Jans, grew into a much-covered repertory item, recorded by singers from the realms of rock, country, and R&B. Gray's own sound was shifting more toward country as well, and when he moved to Capricorn in 1975, he recorded in Nashville with new songwriting collaborator Troy Seals (he eventually relocated there permanently). Gray's popularity in Europe and Africa was growing steadily, and he managed to talk South African authorities into allowing him to play to integrated audiences during the apartheid era.
Gray's tenure in Nashville was marked by a commercial downturn, but his increased activity as a songwriter -- mostly in a country vein -- resulted in covers by the likes of Don Williams, Charley Pride, George Jones, and John Denver, among others. The disco-flavored "You Can Do It" became his final Top 40 hit in 1978, the same year he recorded the first of two LPs for Infinity. When Infinity went bankrupt, Gray concentrated exclusively on songwriting for a few years, then re-emerged on Capitol in the mid-'80s as a full-fledged country artist. He made the lower reaches of the country charts with singles like "That's One to Grow On" and "From Where I Stand," but found it impossible to break through to a wider country audience, and again faded from view after two albums. In 1997, Gray released Diamond Cuts, a mix of new songs and re-recorded past hits. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide
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Dobie Gray could sing the telephone book and make it sound good. Great natural voice ❤
Hung out with Dobie back in the 60's in Hollywood. Made a lot of sweet sounds with him and my gut-string guitar back then. Beautiful voice, talented guy. Miss him.
This takes me back to Wigan Casino! I was only 16 when I 1st went! I'm 64 now and still playing Northern soul (and the occasional dance when there's a gig on) happy days and happy memories 🤗💕
This was a HUGE HIT when I was young. Dobie knew who to connect with the people of his day. Just like his hit - Drift Away - back in the early 70's. RIP Dobie.
Great song! Same chords as "Dancing In The Street". This was when soul music was great. Dobie sure could sing and he looked like Curt Flood!
Certainly could sue
you're right. Not many of us remember Curt Flood.
Also, the little instrumental prelude before the announcer speaks sounds like "Nowhere to Run" to me!
All pro sports players owe Curt Flood, for he gave up his baseball career for them. Curt Flood St. Louis Cardinals!
Fun fact, this song was written by VAN McCOY (yes, who composed the disco instrumental THE HUSTLE about a decade later!) who tragically died of a heart attack at only 39 in 1979!
I went to ShinDig when I was a kid. Saw some of the greatest performers. The 60's was a great time to be alive.
j20tower lucky
I was~8yo when heard in crowd tune and was watching shindig in chitown
I am so glad to hear that you actually went to a Shindig taping. I had "heard" that the audience was fake and that the visuals, clapping and screaming of the audience was inserted later after the taping of each number. In fact, I also heard that the host recorded all of his introductions at a separate taping without even being in front of an audience or near the guest stars.
@@jackjules7552 it was definitely real. It was great
Motown sending nothing but ❤
Dobie will always be in the in crowd! God Bless Dobie!
They look so damn cool! What a fabulous voice, the whole thing is just fantastic, thanks for uploading it!
This song holds up very well in 2021.
Talented, charismatic, and handsome. Despite the boastful lyrics, to me the performance doesn't come across as smug or condescending. Dobie Gray isn't posturing with attitude. To my ears, The In Crowd is primarily a good dance song. Then again, people believe what they want to believe, and I'm no exception.
The song wasn't about what you think. This song was made at a specific time line. It was the beginning of time for the children of America, to have a voice and their own world recognized. Before this it was only adults that were viewed and recognized. But things were changing because of rock and roll. And that's who he's talking about the "in crowd" being America's new hip scene. One of many mantras was
" Don't trust anybody over 30". Who were deemed the adults in other words mom and dad.
Casino. Panning camera shot of De Niro an the In crowd playing. Amazing
Always think of Casino when I hear this
Wow!! check out the people in the background, Darlene & The Blossoms, Pat and Lollie Vegas. thats a lotta talent on one stage
jonny chingas I was wondering who these background singers were. Thank you so much.
jonny chingas boy if you knew that by looking, I would love to pick your mind. I love these songs. I knew princes and Timberlake’s drummer (Jon Blackwell jr. RIP) but these older groups are the best.
Darlene Love!!!
That girl can sing!
Lmfaooooo hahahaha
Love the song, the singer, the band and the backup singers. Everything!
Totally agree !!!!
backup singers better looking than those Supremes, aka, Diana Ross, et. al.
The Blossoms.
Darlene Love in the middle!
Cant be bettered 🇬🇧
Smooth as butter
DOBIE had a MONSTER HIT in The 60’s with “THE IN CROWD….Then CAME BACK in the 70s with still ANOTHER MONSTER HIT…”DRIFT AWAY !!”
Great song! In 1965 I was 10 and just getting into listening to cool music on my transistor radio. My dad was a classical radio DJ who also loved African percussion, Miriam Makeba, Yma Sumac, Bix Beiderbecke and lots more... but it was Susie Shipman, our lovely and very hip babysitter, who turned me on to Shindig, Soul Train and the Beatles. She spent hours teaching me dance steps and trying to make my crazy curly hair look good by ironing it and setting it on huge rollers using Dippity-Do. She taught me how to choose cute clothes and use makeup, how to stand up to bullies, and how to carry myself so the boys would notice me. She even explained the birds and bees to me a couple of years before my prudish mom broached that taboo subject. To this day, I’m grateful to Susie for turning a shy, geeky wallflower into a girl who was asked to dance to this amazing song.
In '65' I was 12 - close to the same age - Motown sending nothing but ❤
Out of sight!
Dobie Gray was a fine singer and presents himself in a very classy way.
Still listening in 2024
Facts
Me too!
I think I was always in with the out crowd.
Same here. I was never with the "IN" crowd, but I knew people that were.
Dave
Me too, Donald. In hindsight, I'm glad I was. Besides, I'm 64 and have a selective memory these days.
I was a jock, thank God! I also would fight if pushed. Those two facts saved me from a lot of problems. I loved my school years!
+Donald King same here
There were a lot of cool people in the outcrowd.
You ain't been nowhere til you been in.
I doubt any of you bought the 45 single when it came out in 64. I did. The orchestral arrangement, I thought at the time, was pretty tight and the lyrics, well everyone had a different opinion, some people thought it referred to Sinatra's gang. I always thought it was slightly reflective and maybe a bit down-key. Above it all was Grays voice. Excellent. The jacket he wears in the video, I had the same damn shortie back in 59. Different times folks. But anything that ever happened in the 60's will never be repeated in this crummy century.
What a time to love dancing and music. Amazing!
Yep & Still got it on the London American Label
I bought the 45 back then, still love the song.
I still have it! ( and little Stevie Wonders uptight everything's alright, lil Evas locomotion , jr Walkers shotgun, C Cs ponytime,etc.
I still have a turntable,too.
It was a great time (for music).
Nothing better than the original!
Take me back to the black-and-white TV shows like shindig and hullabaloo
Funny I was a little girl back then, but we watched these shows I have vivid memories with my Oder siblings ❤❤❤❤❤nothing like the sixties 😊
Another great non-American Bandstand teen show that died before its time.
I was livid when it was taken off the air. However, the show did go downhill in quality in its final months. They even had Zsa Zsa Gabor sing a song...now that is desperate!
❤️💕 🐅 thankyou uploader 💝
If it's square, we ain't there!
1960’s happy happy days dancing to this !!
Nothing was better for my teenage ego, than stepping on the dance floor (gym) at the local community center just as this song began to play. In my thick mohair sweater, and shoes that could glide, I would break through a circle of adoring girls, acknowledging each one, before steering myself into the light to reclaim my imagined status of truly being “In”. Nearly 70 now, there’s far less gliding, for fear I’ll fall on my Senior ass and break a hip.
Hahahaha, it’s good that you have a sense of humor about it.😂
Even if you broke your hip you’d still be hip
@@Billyshears93 Love ya!
@@skyavalanchepeace and love✌️
@@Billyshears93 With Thanks, from one hipster to another
Thanks much for this one, "The Original is still the GREATEST "
My generation's music!!! LOVE IT!! nothing like it! Senior '66!!!
Even now Dobie Gray is definite IN, now and for all time.
Great song with the Blossoms singing background.
Rest in peace, Dobie Gray, thanks for all the great music.
Written by my dear friend Billy, I think he was 14 when he wrote this. He passed away, sadly, about 1997.
Franklin Jenkins I thank God for UA-cam you guys come on here and give us the history behind the songs is amazing. Thank you I’m 61 yrs old and music was a gift that moved your soul.
Not being funny but do you mean Billy No Mates ? Really.
Great lyrics, rhythm and soul. Excellent arrangement and live performance.
Spyder Logan Indeed!
Yeah, it's really great to see a real live performance, and I like it better than the studio version. Dobie Gray's voice responds to the organic environment of a live performance.
coolest song ever....
"Cassino" brought me hear.
When we had real music. Real musicians.
Its hard to believe how much has come and gone since then. 99.999% of life is memories. Its all behind us. All we have is this very second of life. The rest is dreams of the future and memories of the past. Enjoy every moment of your precious lives. Lets all stop fighting and dance more. Do the Jerk!
DOBIE GRAY WAS THE MAN THEN ,HE COULD SING THAT OTHER SUNG (DRIFT AWAY) MY OLD ARMY BUDDY REALY LOVED THAT SONG BACK IN 1972 WHEN WE WERE IN FRANKFORT GERMANY AT THE (TOPPERS CLUB} CSM .
RAMSEY WAS THE MAESTRO BACK THEN , THAT NIGHT IN THE BOHEMIAN CAVERN IN DC ON THE BIG U ST NW WHEN HE RECORDED THE IN CROWD!!!!! I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER
What great lines. If it's square, we ain't there. Spending cash, talking trash. Classic.
I REMEMBER this song when it was a cool tune, back in the early 60's. The in Crowd. People judged you by the company you kept. Sure. Same way today. Who your friends?
Just a great, timeless song...55 years later!
nah man you got it all wrong about life.. be your own then no one can judge you but yourself.
Handsome man!
this was when brothers were smooth...
explain yourself!!!!
@@RICHBLACKCOCK no!!!!
And 30 years later someone else will be saying the same thing you're saying but in reference to the videos today!!
It's called evolution
@@LogiQ1911 devolution you mean
blackology29560 Smooth was highly talented singers that lifted us every time we heard their smooth Music, we need it back.
As for evolution, the human race has De-volved, and so has music.
A wonderful Classic
what a great voice
A great song even for people who weren't in the in crowd. But wondered what it would like.
This is a super song sung by a great guy. I loved it when I was young still love it today!!
Best version IMHO. Bryan Ferry did a great version in the 70's which was the first I heard .... brought me to this.
Dobie Gray 🎶🎵 great singer ❤️ Dec 6 remember.Ripx
No lip Sync here- very unusual for Shindig or any show of its time
Actually Shindig and Hullabaloo had up to date sound systems and could handle completely live performances. However; it was a transition period where some of the bands weren't ready for the change. Sometimes the lead singer traveled without the band. Sometimes the studio recording had a lot more back up singers and musicians than the actual band members. Over time it all got sorted out and live became the norm.
Shindig did a lot of live stuff. The Shindogs were the house band - at times James Burton, Delaney Bramlett, Rich Frost, and Billy Preston played with them. Because of the quality of the house band, Shindig was able to present a large variety of performers.
Don't forget Leon Russell.
Just a perfect, beautiful video, of an incredible performance!
@@bigkahuna4826 I used to see Billy Preston's name on the lighted sign board at the Parisian Room, on La Brea and Washington in Los Angeles. I was a tad to young, at the time, to go in, lol. R.I. P Mr. Preston.
This cat was smooth!!! Af!!!
Reminds me of Mr. Thackery in To Sir With Love.
sure does...brilliant
I recall seeing To Sir With Love upon it's release, at a theatre! Good movie, incredibly hep song. Dobie's entire set-up in this wonderful video is stunning! His voice excellent.
This song was so dam cool to be in the in crowd. Man I wanted to be a teen so bad back in the 60’s. I remember seeing the cool guys and girls doing the Jerk to this song and the Mash Potatoes. Music!❤️
saw him in melbourne australia = came right out into the crowd = sang 1 meter away from me and my girlfriend ! i was so super nervous ! love love love mr dobie gray sir !
What a voice!
Fantastic beautiful voice!!!
Heard this song on the documentary Beautiful Darling and had to come check it out!
Always loved this tune.
Vocals like Buttah.
Dancing was so much fun
The Brits on BBC-6 Radio LOVE this song. They call Motown, "Northern Soul". Totally cool.
'Northern Soul' is an interesting term indeed. It was a dance and even youth movement that emerged in Northern England. In these clubs they used to dance to lesser known soul songs (mostly uptempo with a driving beat).
There is a blurry line between 'Motown' and 'Northern Soul'.
A few of the most popular Northern Soul songs did come from Motown, such as 'Do I Love You' (Frank Wilson; released on Motown's subsidiary 'Soul' label), but many were released on other labels, like Dobie Gray's 'Out on The Floor'.
Nice intro, by my late friend Jimmy O'Neill...
Great Song ❤❤
Love Dobie Gray his music just got better as he aged 💕
Cheap Trick covers this song on their latest album, "Bang, Zoom, Crazy, Hello."
Good song underated
Um, no, he is best known for THIS song...
WOWWWWWWWWWWW 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Best song he ever recorded by far.
I will be singing this one to myself on my way to the voting booth on Thursday. I am totally in with the in crowd.
Dobie they still in the in crowd but we were and still is the Original and you is still with us it's just a different incrowd you will live on in up keeping your music 🎶🎵 alive in our hearts 💕💞will never be forgotten RIP 🙏My Brother and the sister real classes
We thought he was singing about us, we were the cool kids back then!
Ima play this when get my Button
I remember this from the time it hit the airwaves. The word SHINDIG is still a part of my vocabulary.
dobie gray he sing like a white people
"The original's still the greatest"
Now WE ARE TALKING ! ....Quality sound, quality video....very characteristic of John's boatload of uploads for us to enjoy here on UA-cam!
Fabulous song and singer.
casino
One of the best videos I ever have come across on you tube.What a great live performance.Wow!!
Before I was born
But still good music don’t die
This is a good song, to be honest, I'm surprised none of the young modern singers ie. Justin Timberlake, etc, haven't picked this up and made something modern out of this. The 'in' crowd usually refers to teens, right?
UNcle Kracker did bring Dobie back to the conscience a few years ago, so he got to see how much his hits were remembered by the next generation.
Smooth as silk.
The Shin Dogs sucked on this, missed the backgrounds at about 1:36, routine timing is way off. By contrast, Blossoms routine is sexy, well executed and poised aside from perfect vocals. Pat and Lolly Vegas (Redbone) on guitar ( I think) to left. Fanita was always the sexiest looking and well endowed Blossom!!! (far right). Always reminded me of Jackie Kennedy.
Honestly I'm loving this. It reminds me of the kid that chose drugs and nazism. And witchcraft and stopped the prostitute and blacks. And I go back to church - and they taunt me "you think you are IN - well by Jesus Christ I know I really am! Amen Brothers and Sisters, I'm being stalked and harrassed and hacked by nazis and drug gangs. Be Safe!
RIP Dobie Gray.
For some reason this came to mind this morning. My Dad used to play it. I knew I'd find it on UA-cam - Thank You!
Great song, great singer, and what a great performance!
Very cool, a real talent...I lived in Brookshire ,Tx..
Fantastic. This is an amazing song that never ages and numerous singers have covered it and always turns our great! I first heard it done by Roxy Music.
This song should have been on Mad Men when Peggy got promoted.
The original and the greatest
Reminds me a little of Harry Belafonte in features. Ever since I learned that American Bandstand and other shows seated African American audience members so the audience didn't look too dark to the tv viewers, I take a good look.
So GOOD :) Top vocalist.
R.I.P.- Dobie Gray
I loved this song and always sing it in my head so you did touch the world mister :)
I don't think he is trying to come across as cool. The tall white in the background reminds me of a former colleague who I showed one evening around a new building we had moved to; not long after I dreamt I was sitting in a place similar to where I had sat with him and a doctor was telling me I had cancer, so I hope he didn't take out a contract. If this seems a personal comment I will take the opportunity to say that a year or so later I was diagnosed with a treatable cancer and a year or so later guessed that no cancers were 'real' ,that along with other diseases or viruses such as HIV they were a fraud 'diagnosed' so as to reduce populations or for whatever reason, but I have not for more than a second doubted i was correct since then or that the tools used to diagnose them, such as microscopes, are also fake. I can't imagine what it is like to receive a 'terminal' diagnosis without knowing that it is a fake disease: I had three investigations and was very scared during the months in each case I was waiting. The first turned out to be benign, the second the least advanced and aggressive sort; the third I decided not to go ahead with the beheading. In the dream I was told 4-5 years and I said, no, I'm going to fight it, etc, which I could not imagine thinking or saying in real life, although this may have made me slightly less scared during the wait.
This man black?! I never knew that!! Not that it matters at all! I'm just surprised for some reason I thought this guy was white.