| LC control no. | n 92100938 |
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| Personal name heading | Gray, Dobie |
| Variant(s) | Ainsworth, Leonard Victor Brown, Lawrence Darrow |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1946-07-26 |
| Death date | 2011-12-06 |
| Place of birth | Brookshire (Tex.) |
| Field of activity | Popular music |
| Profession or occupation | Singers Composers Actors |
| Found in | His Love's talkin' [SR] p1987: label (Dobie Gray) All music guide, c1994 (Dobie Gray (Leonard Victor Ainsworth); b. Jul. 26, 1943, Brookshire, Texas; singer, composer, actor) Hip-O Records WWW site, Mar. 18, 2003 (Dobie Gray; b. Lawrence Darrow Brown, July 26, 1942) New York times WWW site, Dec. 8, 2011 (in obituary published Dec. 7: Dobie Gray; d. Tuesday [Dec. 6, 2011], Nashville, believed to be 71; versatile singer and songwriter who had a handful of hits in various pop genres but who was probably best known for his enduring 1973 soul anthem Drift away; different sources give the year of his birth as 1940, 1942, or 1943, though all agree on the date of Sept. 26; his given name has been reported as Leonard Victor Ainsworth and Lawrence Darrow Brown; by all accounts he was born into a sharecropper family outside Houston, in Brookshire or Simonton, Tex.) |
| Invalid LCCN | no 98035017 |
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