R.I.P. Dobie Gray

Niall Crowley Who’s in the ‘In Crowd’ these days? The late US soul singer Dobie Gray provided the theme tune for uppity working-class kids in 1960s Britain.

Dobie Gray, the US soul singer who provided the theme tune for a new generation of uppity British working-class youth in the 1960s, has died. Gray’s 1965 underground dance hit, ‘The “In” Crowd’, fitted like a bespoke Italian suit for the swanky and urbane kids who had even the upper classes chasing their shirt tails. Future-oriented and cosmopolitan, with little time for the outmoded conventions and deference that had choked the country for so long, they were the ‘in’ crowd.


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