Dobie Gray RIP

Go easy Dobie and thanks for Out On The Floor which always packed the floor at Scooterist do's.

However, this seems more appropriate.

Dobie Gray - Drift Away

A Bit Of Soul For A Monday

A bit of northern soul to start the week off.

I'm going to be in the big smoke for a couple of days this week, at a company meeting, so probably no posts 'til Thursday when it will undoubtably be a rant about corporate bullshit and the waste of money that company meetings are.

Not that much to look forward to really!

Dobbie Gray - Honey You Can't Take It Back.

Drift Away

Midweek and the weather up here is miserable.

I hate the first week after the clocks go back not least as I have to try and remember how to reset the bloody timer on the boiler, you think that I would be able to remember as it's only been six months since I last had to do it but no!

Time for a bit of life affirming soul music I think.

First up we have Dobie Gray with his version of the song first recorded by John Henry Kurtz, me neither, Drift Away. This song has been covered by hundreds of people, however I think out of the versions I have heard this is my favourite. Gray's name will forever to me at least be synonymous with Out On The Floor a classic northern tune.

Dobie Gray - Drift Away

Secondly we have another cover, this time a duet from Jerry Butler and Betty Everett another two very well known voices to the soul fraternity. Here they cover Let It Be Me, best known version to me is by the Everley Brothers whom I must confess, I thought wrote it until I thought that I better check  before posting. It turns out that it was originally a French song first performed by Jill Corey in 1957. Another track which has been covered extensively and probably extremely badly by David Hasselhoff.

Jerry Butler & Betty Everett - Let It Be Me

Now isn't that better.