Street Corner Symphony also sang a version of this song as their swan song on the season 2 finale of the NBC series, The Sing-Off; that version is arranged by Deke Sharon.
Although he had a top 40 hit with “Yeah, Yeah, Yeah” in 1988 and also had a minor hit with “Drift Away” from The Wonder Years soundtrack, Spence was dropped from Atlantic before completing his second album in 1991.
He is best known for writing "Drift Away", a middle-of-the-road playlist classic performed by Dobie Gray in 1973.
In 1991, Parkin teamed up with fellow Taos resident and internationally known songwriter and producer, Mentor Williams (Drift Away), to write “The Last Time,” a contemporary country ballad purchased by Warner Bros. for a Vince Gill and Patty Loveless duet album that was later scrapped.
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Now, many Chinese-Australian residents including people from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and China have started to drift away from Chinatown and settle around the favourable Feng shui Sunnybank area located south of the CBD.
"Drift Away" features Dobie Gray, who previously had a major hit with the song, in a vocal duet.