In 1972 I was flying from Norfolk Va. to Pittsburgh sitting next to a guy carrying a briefcase. We talked a bit, and I noticed a small brass plaque on the briefcase "Bread". I asked him what that meant. He said it was his band, who all were also on the flight. He shook my hand and told me he was David Gates. I was a music major in college at the time, and of course recognized 'the name' although I didn't recognize him. He was very nice and we talked 'music' for much of the flight. I doubt he would remember this meeting, but I will never forget it as he was the only 'famous' person I have ever met in my 70+ years.

That second voice sung by James is poetry in itself RIP The three deceased members of this great band. Mike Botts Larry knechtel and James griffin Mr gates still among us I believe he’s 83 by now salute and respect to you Sir.

@margueritemazzeo2904

Ай бұрын

Yes..James was great ..in perfect harmony to David.🥺💖🌹

I love how David and James blend together. It's so beautiful.

@pmsfar-outgrooviness8025

2 жыл бұрын

it's a good blend because on the record, David is doing both voices

@FYMASMD

11 ай бұрын

Lyp-synching

Saw David Gates perform live back in 2000 he still sounded excellent. Bread were one of the early 70's best soft rock bands.

Yeah! Wonderful! I used to float on this music every day in the ‘70s. I was home from Vietnam, married to a beautiful, brown eyed Mexican American girl, and life was wonderful!

@scotteranger4524

5 ай бұрын

Sounds like it. Thanks for your service.

It's not the same without Bread. I love them forever.

So underrated.... this song is a masterpiece

@anthonytaylor4968

6 жыл бұрын

Diego tze Magalhãe

@seanjohngaming1582

5 жыл бұрын

ITS NOT UNDERRATED IN ASIA

@daisyx60

2 жыл бұрын

it truly is 💓

@Chechula1000

2 жыл бұрын

Everything David Gates wrote is a mastetpiece

@miguelpatrick6192

Жыл бұрын

I Agree!

This songs brings back memories of my childhood from the day I was adopted by my late parents. Both my father and mother shower me with lots of love. Eventhough both had passed away peacefully many years ago till today I still remember missed them in my heart and I know one day I'll see them again and this time I'll tell them again I Love Them Both So Much ❤

@TinekeWilliams

2 жыл бұрын

How sweet of you to write this. I adore my children and hope they always feel much wanted

@Myronkline

Жыл бұрын

God bless you Ricky. What a wonderful thing to write about your parents. I have a wonderful son whom I love dearly. He's about 42 years old now and hasn't seen me for years. Doesn't want anything to do with me. So hard to understand, and such a terrible pain to live with.

Greatest band ever. Timeless and classic.. met my wife at a Bread concert

@ChamarSenja

5 жыл бұрын

So sweet both of you sir!

@rolandoaponte214

4 жыл бұрын

Certainly a good band in his own MOR niche, but to say the "greatest band ever" is unheard of....I'll assure you they won't ever be inducted into the RRHF...not that I don't think they deserve it.

@sirhccwileyyy8534

4 жыл бұрын

It's amazing that my friend...

@elitepremium2981

4 жыл бұрын

I bet you have every one of their albums. Happy marriage. Blessings for a happily ever after.

@jarenzyap1875

4 жыл бұрын

@@rolandoaponte214 it was his opinion Lol

David Gates writes the most beautiful soft music of the 70s: he dominated the industry. And yet some critics scoff at his lyrics. Shame on them!

@fifthof1795

2 жыл бұрын

When did critics do anything of worth ?

@James.Fife05

Жыл бұрын

Well said Petr, agree totally!

@johannej3241

Жыл бұрын

Sour grapes. Those people don’t know how to write music let alone beautiful melodies.

@ThePatricio1955

6 ай бұрын

Que hermosa musica

@jordan-xe2yb

4 ай бұрын

Yeah babay!

This song melts my heart. Truly a classic. The best song ever written

omg,,, I am so enjoying this music,,, holy cow,, were has all this good music gone??? the 70's was it!!!!!

@robertthorpe2722

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds great at night songs of old school not listening to kind for a long time. But goodnight.

@claudiamorgana7836

5 жыл бұрын

The 70´s was the best!

@cinematic35

4 жыл бұрын

The 70's was it as far as world class song writers, musicians, and performers go. We have often discussed this among friends and fellow musicians in light of the mundane racket on the airwaves today. It was a MINDSET that produced this kind of legendary artistic compositions. There was a standard of musical excellence, beauty, technique etc. which is been abandoned by the talent mocking buffoons of today. And some of the stuff I've heard on the radio lately is insulting that it reminds me of some kind of initiation into a mental health clinic. I'm convinced that no one will be able to rival this kind of phenomenal music the next 1000 years!

@rosarkp

3 жыл бұрын

70's and also 80's!♥️🌹

@stonyxpress7079

3 жыл бұрын

Totally agree Kim, u kno we wuld never see Olivia Newton John or Nicolette Larson sitting on a wrecking ball naked to score a hit!! The stuff u hear today is shiittt

Bread especially James Griffin never got the praise they really deserve. They were the best. Rest in peace James. You left us to soon.

@lbangelesyt

4 жыл бұрын

Lisa Sanders

@johnheah1526

3 жыл бұрын

So so sad

@kroakie4

3 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful voice he had!

@veramalta5943

3 жыл бұрын

@@kroakie4 Sweet Voice! IT makes me cry! I LOVE BREAD! MISS THEM! 07/02/2021, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRASIL! 💚💛💚💛💚💛💚💛❤❤❤

Oh 😮 I just found this gem was 20 years old now 68 and can’t stop crying best years ever thanks 🤩

@garryford1216

3 жыл бұрын

Actually this song came out in 1971. So it is 50 years old now and still one of the best songs.

I still get a lump in my throat hearing this song.

All of their songs have such a sweetness about them...not saccharin or overly-sentimental. Just sweet and poignant. I love them so much!!!

@camlendrim7609

Жыл бұрын

Bread songs are very sentimental to me. Melancholy in brief doses can be cathartic. Memories are the sweetest pain. ❤

One of the most recognizable guitar solos in the history of pop music.

Listening to Bread reminds me of what a great childhood I really had. I sure miss those days and music.

@usmc-veteran73-77

4 жыл бұрын

Me too, sounds like Im a little older I was 17 yrs old kid dating the girls and having a great time.

@robertvillarreal4525

4 жыл бұрын

The summer breeze so gentle and free, when this music played. Life seemed quite amazing.

" You're the only one I care enough to hurt about." Brilliant. Simply brilliant. Finally men wore their hearts on their sleeves..

One of the most beautiful love songs ever written with equally as beautiful music.

@jakeblack212

4 жыл бұрын

Next to Aubrey

@stonyxpress7079

3 жыл бұрын

Hello yeah it is ,there's a special person that I hope she thinks of me as I do her everytime I hear it on the radio

This song brought me back to those innocent days.

Nothing like today. This was real music.

I remember hearing this song on the radio at the age of 6. My parents marriage still had two more unhappy years to run, and school entailed simple lessons and occasionally going AWOL to hide in the coat trolley. I had sandwiches for lunch with Penguin biscuits, and I remember the smell of Tarmac as the workmen fixed the potholes in the playground. We painted a lot, and used marker pens which reeked and didn't come off. One of the teachers had the soundtrack of The Good The Bad And The Ugly and played it after assembly. Good times.

Incredible track, David Gates had a genius in crafting a spellbinding tune, and had a phenomenal voice, like an angel. I remember seeing a few women customers transfixed and humming along when this song came on the supermarket radio where I worked, some forgetting where they were and even wiping away tears back in the early 80s! It was so unusual to see such reaction to a golden oldie in a superstore for heaven’s sake! Everyone whistles or hums along to favourite songs, but not like that, I’ve never seen random public reaction to songs from any group like that since.

I was a teen in 1972 and had no idea Bobby Darin had a television show. BTW, I love Bread.

How can anyone not like Bread and their sublime songs? Just so beautiful!

Imma 50 yes old Afr American city girl from Baltimore who absolutely loves bread 🍞🥪 and croissants too.

I used to sing this song to my son when he was a baby..🤗☮️🙏

@margueritemazzeo2904

Ай бұрын

🥺🥺💖💖🌹

48 years ago it was my dream to have the Best of Bread playing on my wedding night. Still single, still hoping it happens.

Born in 92 and i wouldnt change my taste of music. I love the mysic back from 50’s to 80’s. Its just pure music.

Esse guitarrista era bom demais. Tipo o George Harrison para os Beatles (What a guitar solo! The guitar man).

many hours spent listening to this song :-)

This song brings back memories of driving around St. Louis in the seventies. Maybe my thinking was more black and white, but life seemed simpler and more hopeful back then!

Now thats music... #👍👍👍

David Gates had an extraordinary voice . I bought all of Breads albums , even sent to the USA for one of them

I sure miss the good old days It would be nice to be young again

Lembra muito minha adolescência dancei muito de rosto colado kkkkk

BREAD👏👏👏👏👏👏💘💘

So real sweet! From the heart !

Great band. It saddens me to known that only one member, David Gates is still living.

@ronangelox

8 жыл бұрын

+Jeffrey Johnson Robb Royer who was replaced by Larry Knechtel is still around.

@colonelgibbs8357

8 жыл бұрын

Dang

@ricklamonte5485

5 жыл бұрын

+ronangelox David Gates is Bread without him there is no hits greatest singer song writer ever .he is a legend

never get fed up listening,so sweet to the ear

Feels up and down the back of my neck David Gates and bread what a band incredible they were a great inspiration when I was 15 years old

greatest music ever! the crap on the radio today doesn't even compare.

Sigh...I still love you David Gates and I always will. xoxo One of the best voices of all-time.

that voice !!!

🎉 Retro greetings from coastal Mississippi. I remember this episode from 1972.Loved me some bread back in the day. Excellent group and songs. ❤😂🎉

I used to have this album in the early 70's. Great music

@kroakie4

3 жыл бұрын

I got this record from my dad. It was in his collection. Really good stuff!!

En Argentina amamos a Bread y sus hermosas canciones. Son eternos.

Aqui no Brasil muitos casais se apaixonaram ouvindo Bread e David Gates...love love

Man, this song is So Nice! Quiet Romance for the Ladies. I Love It...

This ones for you Cindy.

When music was good. An era gone...

😲 OMG, MY HIGH SCHOOL DAYS..THE BEST!

WOOW!Mighty Talented Nice Face Singer,Very Kind Voice & Magical Guitarplaying By BREAD!Congrats,I'm very happy!Many Thanks 💖🌻💙💛💗💎🎶🎸🎙💎💕🌻💙👌👍🏻✌👋

The best of breads romantic music

I think I need a time machine

A Love Song

Me & my late husband really love BREAD

I remember when i was in high school and college.i cannot sleep without the bread songs.but until now.i love david gates songs.

America(n) Bread FOREVER

2020?❤🎧

One of beautiful love song timeles 70' still classic to lisent around this time 🎺🎺🎷🎷🎻🎻🎶🎶🎵🎵🎤🎤🎧🎧📼📼🎸🎸

I love Bread, I love David Gates

Oh that voice is always haunting me since in the 70's 'till now! Timeless!

Thanks to oldies stations still on the AM & FM & the internet. We 50 somethings get to hear good music. Have to sing a long with this.

@N4TCM

8 жыл бұрын

when I was a kid, never thought I would still love this music. Glad I grew up in the singer/songwriter era.

@N4TCM

8 жыл бұрын

There's a clip of David on American Bandstand singing "" Goodbye Girl" in 78'. "Took The Last Train" I remember on the radio back in the day.

Beautiful song of Mr. David Gates , he was únic..beautiful voice

Wow what a Nice song Beautiful days of My 20s❤😊

Verry Good

Esta música é eterna, linda demais, como outras do Bread. Fantástico ouvir em 2019.

Heard this song from a 33 vinyl record that my aunts and uncles left behind back in the early 80s. Instantly fell in love with the music and that awesome voice.

Baby I'm A Want You

This is my fovorite song bread

Our hair was goofy and now were all old..you mix this with mowtown and this really something we have left as a gift for the future to understand how growing up in the 60's and 70's was all about!

I love you Dawn. I miss u greatly 😞

This song is made in heaven.

Always loved this song

I Felt Better After Every " Bread " Song I Heard... 1974 💥💥💥💥💥

I’d forgotten just how good this band was and brings back memories of summer days and weekend discos to find a pretty young girl to dance with.

My first 8 track was Bread 🥖. Timeless.

Conjunto magnífico decada70

SIGN UP  Baby I'm-a-Want You Bread BABY I'M-A-WANT YOU LYRICS Baby, I'm-a want you Baby, I'm-a need you You the only one I care enough to hurt about Maybe I'm-a crazy But I just can't live without Your loving and affection Giving me direction Like a guiding light to help me Through my darkest hour Lately I'm-a praying That you'll always be a-staying beside me Used to be My life was just emotions passing by Feeling all the while And never really knowing why Lately I'm-a praying That you'll always be A-staying beside me Used to be my life Was just emotions passing by Then you came along And made me laugh And made me cry You taught me why Baby, I'm-a want you Baby, I'm-a need you Oh, it took so long to find you, baby Baby, I'm-a want you Baby, I'm-a need you

Living is something that goes beyond time. It is more than achievements, and passing successes. It is to know that the value, of our existence, consists in leaving, where we pass, a little of who we are. Worse than trying and not getting it, is to blame ourselves for a lifetime, for not having tried. To live is to dare. It's going beyond our limits ... Good times. Excellent Video and A Beautiful Music ... Thanks! ...

BREAD,,,,, MARCO UNA GRAN EPOCA EN EL DESARROLLO DE LA MUSICA UNIVERSAL.

Such a tremendous musical icon. So nice to hear this again. Thanks for uploading.

I just cnt get enuf of this song, man it reminds me of someone special to me n the feelings will always stay strong n dear to my heart, miss her alot!!

Nothing compares to his sweet voice ..lovely sweet nd romantic song ..many thanks my Doux Bèbè 😎😍😙❤💘💜💝💕

Great, Great, Great, Great, Great!

You are beaultiful, Bread. CHERRY BRANDT

@elenamelo1965

3 жыл бұрын

Para a doce "SURREAL".

This group was the Bread of life for me growing up! I sing Aubrey all the Time!

A much under-rated band. Growing up in the 1970's in Shillong, a town in North East India, this band was a staple diet for the music hungry of those times!

In this day and age of bad news, this song will take to a happy place in your memories :-)

Great stuff !!! bravooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Reminds Of my first Love Beautilful Songs in Norfolk Massachuetts

What a great band! I really adore and admire it!

Oh my god, my favorite Bread song.

Whoa, Bobby Darin AND Bread?? I love it! Beautiful song 🎶 pure sweet music of yesterday...

"Absolutely wonderful beautiful gorgeous honey sweet ecstasy" angelic heaven sound'

I saw them at Epcot center WDW, FL all the hits so good

Beautiful 😍 🤩 👌

Thank you Bread !