Posted in 1970s, Music, Reelin' In The Years at 16:00 on 6 June 2025
I’ve said before that writing love songs, good love songs, is not easy but that David Gates seemed to do it effortlessly. (That last word is doing him a disservice I’m sure.)
The lyric of this song again has issues with grammar but that’s popular music for you.
Bread: Baby I’m A Want You
Posted in 1970s, Music, Reelin' In The Years at 12:00 on 3 September 2021
I mentioned here that David Gates of Bread somehow managed to write love songs that just hit the spot.
From 1970, this was the group’s first UK hit.
Bread: Make It With You
Posted in 1970s, Lyrics, Music, Reelin' In The Years at 12:00 on 16 November 2012
Ignore the poor grammar in the title and lyric; it’s a shorthand typical of US influenced popular song and I suppose we must live with it.
This, though, is an example of something that’s quite difficult to get right, the love song. Its composer, David Gates, somehow had the knack of pitching the love song correctly. He also wrote Everything I Own, Make It With You, If (we’ll gloss over the Telly Savalas abomination of that,) Baby I’m A Want You, Guitar Man (not the Elvis Presley hit with the same title) and Lost Without Your Love among others.
Bread: It Don’t Matter To Me
