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David Gates

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David Ashworth Gates (born December 11, 1940) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and producer, best known as the 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. [1]

88 relations: A&M Records, Baby I'm-a Want You, Baby I'm-a Want You (song), Baby the Rain Must Fall (song), Billboard 200, Billboard Hot 100, Bobby Darin, Boy George, Bread (album), Bread (band), Brian Wilson, Cake (band), Captain Beefheart, Chuck Berry, Copyist, Country music, David Miner (musician), Delta Tau Delta, Duane Eddy, Duet, Ecclesiastes, Elektra Records, Elvis Presley, Engelbert Humperdinck (singer), Everything I Own, Falling in Love Again (David Gates album), First (David Gates album), Frank Sinatra, Glenn Yarbrough, Goodbye Girl (David Gates album), Guitar Man (Bread album), Hey Ricky, If (Bread song), In Time, Jack Jones (singer), Jimmy Griffin, Journey to Shiloh, Ken Boothe, Larry Knechtel, Los Angeles, Lost Without Your Love (album), Love Is Always Seventeen, LP record, Madison Square Garden, Mala Records, Manna (album), Melissa Manchester, Merle Haggard, Mike Botts, Mount Vernon, Washington, ..., Music recording certification, Never Let Her Go, Oklahoma, On the Waters, Pat Boone, People (magazine), Pop rock, Radio Caroline, Ranch, Ray Parker Jr., Record chart, Rhino Entertainment, Robb Royer, Rock and roll, Salt Lake City, Salt Palace (arena), Samantha Dubois, Saturday's Child, Session musician, Soft rock, Take Me Now, Telly Savalas, The David Gates Songbook, The Goodbye Girl, The Goodbye Girl (song), The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, The Monkees, The Murmaids, The Pleasure Fair, Took the Last Train, Tulsa, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma, Vee-Jay Records, Vesta Williams, Vocal Group Hall of Fame, Warren Ham, Washington (state), Will Rogers High School. Expand index (38 more) »

A&M Records

A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent company by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962.

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Baby I'm-a Want You

Baby I'm-a Want You is the fourth album by Bread, released in 1972.

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Baby I'm-a Want You (song)

"Baby I'm-a Want You" is a popular song by the American pop-rock band Bread.

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Baby the Rain Must Fall (song)

"Baby the Rain Must Fall" is a song written by Elmer Bernstein and Ernie Sheldon and performed by Glenn Yarbrough after he left the Limeliters for a solo career.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Bobby Darin

Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto; May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor in film and television.

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Boy George

Boy George (born George Alan O'Dowd; 14 June 1961) is an English singer, songwriter, DJ and fashion designer.

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Bread (album)

Bread is the self-titled debut album by soft rock band Bread, released in 1969.

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Bread (band)

Bread was an American soft rock band from Los Angeles, California.

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Brian Wilson

Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who co-founded <!-- DO NOT CAPITALIZE -->the Beach Boys.

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Cake (band)

Cake (stylized CAKE) is an American alternative rock band from Sacramento, California, consisting of singer John McCrea, trumpeter Vince DiFiore, guitarist Xan McCurdy, bassist Daniel McCallum and drummer Todd Roper.

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Captain Beefheart

Don Van Vliet (born Don Glen Vliet; January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010) was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart.

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Chuck Berry

Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music.

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Copyist

A copyist is a person who makes copies.

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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David Miner (musician)

David Miner (Born Ft. Worth, Texas on July 24, 1945), sometimes credited as David Minor, is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, perhaps best known as a member of Grace Slick's The Great Society in the 1960s.

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Delta Tau Delta

Delta Tau Delta (ΔΤΔ), commonly known as DTD or Delt, is a United States-based international Greek letter college fraternity.

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Duane Eddy

Duane Eddy (born April 26, 1938) is an American guitarist.

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Duet

A duet is a musical composition for two performers in which the performers have equal importance to the piece, often a composition involving two singers or two pianists.

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Ecclesiastes

Ecclesiastes (Greek: Ἐκκλησιαστής, Ekklēsiastēs, קֹהֶלֶת, qōheleṯ) is one of 24 books of the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible, where it is classified as one of the Ketuvim (or "Writings").

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Elektra Records

Elektra Records is an American major record label owned by Warner Music Group, founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickolt.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.

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Engelbert Humperdinck (singer)

Engelbert Humperdinck (born Arnold George Dorsey; 2 May 1936) is an English pop singer.

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Everything I Own

"Everything I Own" is a song written by David Gates.

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Falling in Love Again (David Gates album)

Falling in Love Again is the fourth solo album by David Gates of Bread.

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First (David Gates album)

First is an album by David Gates.

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century.

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Glenn Yarbrough

Glenn Robertson Yarbrough (January 12, 1930 – August 11, 2016) was an American folk singer and guitarist.

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Goodbye Girl (David Gates album)

Goodbye Girl is the third solo album by David Gates of Bread.

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Guitar Man (Bread album)

Guitar Man is the fifth album released by Bread in 1972.

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Hey Ricky

Hey Ricky is the title of the tenth album release by Melissa Manchester.

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If (Bread song)

"If" is a song written by American singer-songwriter David Gates in 1971.

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In Time

In Time is a 2011 American dystopian science fiction action thriller film written, directed, and produced by Andrew Niccol.

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Jack Jones (singer)

John Allan Jones (born January 14, 1938) known professionally as Jack Jones, is an American actor and jazz and pop singer, popular during the 1960s.

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Jimmy Griffin

Jimmy Griffin (born James Arthur Griffin; August 10, 1943 – January 11, 2005) was an American singer, guitarist and songwriter, best known for his work with the 1970s rock band Bread.

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Journey to Shiloh

Journey to Shiloh is a 1968 Technicolor Western film starring James Caan, Michael Sarrazin, Harrison Ford, Brenda Scott, Albert Popwell, Jan-Michael Vincent, Robert Pine and Noah Beery, and directed by William Hale.

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Ken Boothe

Ken Boothe OD (born 22 March 1948) is a Jamaican vocalist known for his distinctive vibrato and timbre.

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Larry Knechtel

Lawrence William "Larry" Knechtel (August 4, 1940 – August 20, 2009) was an American keyboard player and bassist, best known as a member of the Wrecking Crew, a collection of Los Angeles-based session musicians who worked with such renowned artists as Simon & Garfunkel, Duane Eddy, the Beach Boys, the Mamas & the Papas, the Monkees, the Partridge Family, the Doors, the Grass Roots, Jerry Garcia, and Elvis Presley, and as a member of the 1970s band Bread.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Lost Without Your Love (album)

Lost Without Your Love is the sixth and final studio album by Bread, released in 1977.

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Love Is Always Seventeen

Love Is Always Seventeen is the sixth solo album by David Gates of Bread.

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LP record

The LP (from "long playing" or "long play") is an analog sound storage medium, a vinyl record format characterized by a speed of rpm, a 12- or 10-inch (30 or 25 cm) diameter, and use of the "microgroove" groove specification.

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Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden, often called "MSG" or simply "The Garden", is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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Mala Records

Mala Records was a small record label founded as a Bell Records subsidiary in 1959.

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Manna (album)

Manna is the third album released by Bread in 1971.

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Melissa Manchester

Melissa Manchester (born February 15, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter and actress.

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Merle Haggard

Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016) was an American country singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler.

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Mike Botts

Michael Gene Botts (December 8, 1944 – December 9, 2005) was an American drummer, best known for his work with 1970s soft rock band Bread, and as a session musician.

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Mount Vernon, Washington

Mount Vernon is the county seat of Skagit County, Washington, United States.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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Never Let Her Go

Never Let Her Go is the second solo album by David Gates of Bread.

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Oklahoma

Oklahoma (Uukuhuúwa, Gahnawiyoˀgeh) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.

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On the Waters

On the Waters is the second album by Bread, released in July 1970.

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Pat Boone

Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone (born June 1, 1934) is an American singer, composer, actor, writer, television personality, motivational speaker, and spokesman.

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People (magazine)

People is an American weekly magazine of celebrity and human-interest stories, published by Meredith Corporation.

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Pop rock

Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock) is rock music with a greater emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude.

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Radio Caroline

Radio Caroline is a British radio station founded in 1964 by Ronan O'Rahilly to circumvent the record companies' control of popular music broadcasting in the United Kingdom and the BBC's radio broadcasting monopoly.

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Ranch

A ranch is an area of land, including various structures, given primarily to the practice of ranching, the practice of raising grazing livestock such as cattle or sheep for meat or wool.

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Ray Parker Jr.

Ray Erskine Parker Jr. (born May 1, 1954) is an American guitarist, singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor, best known for writing and performing the theme song to the 1984 movie Ghostbusters, for his solo music, and for performing with his band, Raydio, and with Barry White.

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Record chart

A record chart, also called a music chart, is a ranking of recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period of time.

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Rhino Entertainment

Rhino Entertainment Company is an American specialty record label and production company founded in 1978.

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Robb Royer

Robert Wilson "Robb" Royer (born December 6, 1942 in Los Angeles, California) is an American musician and songwriter, best known as a founding member of Bread from 1968 to 1971.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the capital and the most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Utah.

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Salt Palace (arena)

The Salt Palace was an indoor arena located in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Samantha Dubois

Samantha Dubois (15 January 1955 – 1 October 1992) was a radio presenter on Radio Caroline during the 1970s and again in 1984.

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Saturday's Child

"Saturday's Child" is a popular song, written by David Gates and performed by The Monkees.

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Session musician

Session musicians, studio musicians, or backing musicians are musicians hired to perform in recording sessions or live performances.

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Soft rock

Soft rock (or lite rock) is a subgenre of pop rock that largely features acoustic guitars and slow-to-mid tempos.

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Take Me Now

Take Me Now is the fifth solo album by David Gates of Bread.

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Telly Savalas

Aristotelis "Telly" Savalas (Αριστοτέλης "Τέλλυ" Σαβάλας; January 21, 1922 – January 22, 1994) was an American singer and character actor whose career spanned four decades of television.

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The David Gates Songbook

The David Gates Songbook is a compilation album by David Gates of Bread.

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The Goodbye Girl

The Goodbye Girl is a 1977 American romantic comedy-drama film.

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The Goodbye Girl (song)

"The Goodbye Girl" is a single released by David Gates, lead singer of Bread, in 1977 following the premiere of the hit movie of the same name.

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The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries

The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (re-titled The Hardy Boys for season three) is a television mystery series based on the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew novel series.

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The Monkees

The Monkees were an American rock and pop band originally active between 1966 and 1971, with reunion albums and tours in the decades that followed.

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The Murmaids

The Murmaids were an American one-hit wonder all-female vocal trio composed of sisters Carol and Terry Fischer; and Sally Gordon from Los Angeles, California who, in January 1964 reached No.

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The Pleasure Fair

The Pleasure Fair was a musical performing group based in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s.

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Took the Last Train

"Took the Last Train" is a single released by David Gates, lead singer of the group Bread, in 1978 following the premiere of the hit movie The Goodbye Girl, and as a follow-up to the title track hit song from the album of the same name.

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Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 47th-most populous city in the United States.

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University of Oklahoma

The University of Oklahoma (OU) is a coeducational public research university in Norman, Oklahoma.

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Vee-Jay Records

Vee-Jay Records is an American record label founded in the 1950s, located in Chicago and specializing in blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll.

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Vesta Williams

Mary Vesta Williams (December 1, 1957 &ndash; September 22, 2011) was an American singer–songwriter, who performed across genres such as pop, jazz, adult contemporary and R&B.

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Vocal Group Hall of Fame

The Vocal Group Hall of Fame (VGHF) was organized by Tony Butala, also the founder (and now only surviving original member) of the Lettermen, to honor outstanding vocal groups throughout the world.

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Warren Ham

Warren Ham (born 1957) is a vocalist, saxophonist, flutist from Fort Worth, Texas.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Will Rogers High School

Will Rogers High School, located at 3909 E. 5th Place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was built by Tulsa Public Schools in 1939 using WPA workers and designed by Joseph R. Koberling, Jr. and Leon B. Senter.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gates

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