DAVID GATES - NEVER LET HER GO

NEVER LET HER GO

DAVID GATES

SONGWRITER: DAVID GATES

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: NEVER LET HER GO

LABEL: ELECTRA RECORDS

GENRE: SOFT ROCK

YEAR: 1975

 

              David Ashworth Gates (born December 11, 1940) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, musician and producer, frontman and co-lead singer (with Jimmy Griffin) of the group Bread, which reached the tops of the musical charts in Europe and North America on several occasions in the 1970s. The band was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame.

           Originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, Gates was surrounded by music from infancy, as the son of Clarence, a band director, and Wanda Gates (née Rollins), a piano teacher. He became proficient in piano, violin, bass and guitar by the time he enrolled in Tulsa's Will Rogers High School. Gates formed his first band, The Accents, with other high school musicians which included a piano player, Claude Russell Bridges, who later in life changed his name to Leon Russell. During a concert in 1957, the Accents backed Chuck Berry. In 1957, David Gates and the Accents released the 45 "Jo-Baby"/"Lovin' at Night" on Robbins record label. The A-side was written for his sweetheart, Jo Rita, whom he married in 1959 while enrolled at the University of Oklahoma studying law and pre-med. At Oklahoma he became a member of Delta Tau Delta International Fraternity.

             In 1961, he and his family moved to Los Angeles, where Gates continued writing songs, and he worked as a music copyist, as a studio musician, and as a producer for many artists – including Pat Boone. Success soon followed. His composition "Popsicles and Icicles" hit Nº. 3 on the US Hot 100 for The Murmaids in January 1964. The Monkees recorded another of his songs, "Saturday's Child". By the end of the 1960s, he had worked with many leading artists, including Elvis Presley, Bobby Darin, Merle Haggard, Duane Eddy and Brian Wilson. In 1965, Gates arranged the Glenn Yarbrough hit, "Baby the Rain Must Fall". In 1966, he produced two singles on A&M Records for Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band which were hits in the Los Angeles area.

           Never Let Her Go is the second solo album by David Gates of the American soft rock band Bread.

Everybody needs a someone

Waitin' to be there when things are

a-lookin' down

So if you feel a little lonely

Go out, find your one and only

Somewhere out there

Someone will care for you

and then...

Never Let Her Go

Never Let Her Go

 

You may wonder how you know love

When the moment comes that you've

been a-dreamin' of

Well true love takes a little longer

Your heart beats a little stronger

You'll know it's real

Inside you'll feel you're home at

last... then

Never Let Her Go

Never Let Her Go

 

So if you feel a little lonely

Go out, find your one and only

Open your heart

Give love a start and watch it

grow... and

Never Let Her Go

Never Let Her Go.