BREAD - MAKE IT WITH YOU

MAKE IT WITH YOU

BREAD

SONGWRITER: DAVID GATES

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: ON THE WATERS

LABEL: ELEKTRA RECORDS

GENRE: SOFT ROCK

YEAR: 2019

 

           Bread was an American soft rock band from Los Angeles, California. They had 13 songs chart on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1970 and 1977.

       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, guitar, flute, keyboards, percussion, recorder, backing vocals). On their first album session musicians Ron Edgar played drums and Jim Gordon played drums, percussion, and piano. Mike Botts became their permanent drummer when he joined in the summer of 1969, and Larry Knechtel replaced Royer in 1971, playing keyboards, bass guitar, guitar, and harmonica.

           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.

        "Make It with You" is a song written by David Gates and originally recorded by the pop-rock group Bread, of which Gates was a member. Gates and drummer Mike Botts are the only members of the group to appear on the recording which was a #1 hit.

          The song first appeared on Bread's 1970 album, On the Waters. Released as a single that June, it was the group's first top-ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and spent the week of August 22, 1970, at number one, their only single to do so; it also reached #5 on the UK Singles Chart. Billboard ranked "Make It with You" as the Nº. 13 song of 1970, and it was certified gold by the RIAA for sales of over one million copies.

Hey have you ever tried

Really reaching out for the other side?

I may be climbing on rainbows

But baby, here goes

 

Dreams are for those who sleep

Life is for us to keep

And if you're wondering what this song is leading to,

I want to make it with you

I really think that we could make it, girl

 

Though you don't know me well

And every little thing only time will tell

If you believe the things that I do,

And we'll see it through

 

Life can be short or long

Love can be right or wrong

And if I chose the one I'd like to help me through

I'd like to make it with you

I really think that we could make it, girl

 

Baby you know that dreams there for those who sleep

Life is for us to keep

And if I chose the one I'd like to help me through

I'd like to make it with you

I really think that we could make it, girl.