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.