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Originally posted by perripken
I'm back..... and I know this one. Dobie Gray was friends with songwriter, Paul Williams, who's brother was also a songwriter and producer. His brother, Mentor Williams wrote the song and asked Dobie Gray to sing it and he'd produce the album.
That's the story, and I'm stickin' to it!
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Close...I mean, what you said is true. But, the song was actually written for Elvis...Dobie was a demo singer. When Elvis heard Dobie's demo version, he said "I like...but that Dobie guy can sing it just as good as I can. You should just have him do it."
Granted, I did have some inside info on that question...Uncle Kracker told me that story when I interviewed him a couple months ago...but good job perripken.