David gates bread biography
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Bread (band)
American soft rock band
Bread was an American soft rock grupp from Los Angeles, California. They had 13 songs chart on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1970 and 1977.[2]
The band was fronted by David Gates (vocals, bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, violin, viola, percussion) with Jimmy Griffin (vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion) and Robb Royer (bass guitar, gitarr, flute, keyboards, percussion, recorder, backing vocals). On their first skiva session musicians Ron Edgar played drums and Jim Gordon played drums, percussion, and piano. slang för mikrofon Botts became their permanent drummer when he joined in the summer of 1969, and Larry Knechtel replaced Royer in 1971, playing keyboards, bass guitar, gitarr, and harmonica.[3][4][5]
Beginnings and fame
[edit]David Gates is from Tulsa, Oklahoma.[4] He released a song in the late 1950s entitled "Jo-Baby"/"Lovin' at Night".[citation needed] Gates knew Leon Russell a
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If you were listening to Top 40 radio in the U.S. throughout the ’70s, chances are you’d hear a song by the band with the bland name Bread. The group, fronted bygd David Gates, their songwriter, producer and primary guitarist and vocalist, earned six Top 10 singles on the Hot 100 including the soft-rock favorites “Baby I’m-a Want You,” “If” and the 1970 #1 hit, “Make It With You.”
Gates, a multi-instrumentalist who also played keyboards and percussion, founded the popular group in Los Angeles in 1968 as a vehicle for singing his own songs. He wrote most of their trademark hits including “The Guitar Man,” “It Don’t Matter To Me” and “Lost Without Your Love.”
Gates was born December 11, 1940, the son of musicians in Tulsa, Okla. His first band, the Accents, inc
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A member of the popular group Bread, David Gates is also a songwriter, keyboardist, vocalist and producer. His first hit as a songwriter came with the popular Mermaids song Popsicles and Icicles.
David Gates was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma to a band director and a piano teacher on December 11, 1940. Surrounded by music from birth, he was proficient in piano, bass and guitar by the time he was in high school. In 1957, he received a musical break when Chuck Berry came to Tulsa; Gates had his first hit, Jo-Baby, with Chuck Berry. The song was written for Gates' high school sweetheart Jo Rita, whom he married and had children with while enrolled at the university of Oklahoma. In 1961, the family moved to Los Angeles, and Gates embarked on a career of songwriting and producing. By the end of the '60s, he had worked with Elvis Presley, Bobby Darin and Merle Haggard, and produced the 1965 Glenn Yarbrough hit Baby the Rain Must Fall. Realizing that the only way his songs were sure to