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Jun 20, 2025 04:39pm

Joined Johnny6T9 on this beautiful classic oldie!! Wonderful sing on Johnny's part..................<img src="https://www.famousbirthdays.com/faces/gates-david-image.jpg" alt="David Gates - Age, Family, Bio | Famous Birthdays">David Ashworth Gates (born December 11, 1940)<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gates#cite_note-LarkinGE-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[1]</a> is a retired American singer-songwriter, guitarist, musician and producer, frontman and co-lead singer (with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Griffin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Jimmy Griffin</a>) of the group <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_(band)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Bread</a>, which reached the top of the musical charts in Europe and North America on several occasions in the 1970s. The band was inducted into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_Group_Hall_of_Fame" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Vocal Group Hall of Fame</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gates#cite_note-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[2]</a>Life and early career[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Gates&action=edit&section=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">edit</a>]Originally from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa,_Oklahoma" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Tulsa, Oklahoma</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gates#cite_note-LarkinGE-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[1]</a> Gates was surrounded by music from infancy, as the son of Clarence Gates, a band director, and Wanda Rollins, a piano teacher. He became proficient in piano, violin, bass and guitar by the time he enrolled in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Tulsa</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Rogers_High_School" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Will Rogers High School</a>. Gates formed his first band, The Accents, with other high school musicians which included a piano player, Claude Russell Bridges, who later in life changed his name to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Russell" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Leon Russell</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gates#cite_note-LarkinGE-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[1]</a> During a concert in 1957, the Accents backed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Berry" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Chuck Berry</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gates#cite_note-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[3]</a> In 1957, David Gates and the Accents released the 45 "Jo-Baby" / "Lovin' at Night" on Robbins record label. The A-side was written for his sweetheart, Jo Rita, whom he married in 1959 while enrolled at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oklahoma" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">University of Oklahoma</a> studying law and pre-med. At Oklahoma he became a member of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Tau_Delta" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Delta Tau Delta</a> International Fraternity.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gates#cite_note-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[4]</a>In 1961, he and his family moved to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Los Angeles</a>, where Gates continued writing songs, and he worked as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_copyist" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">music copyist</a>, as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_musician" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">studio musician</a>, and as a producer for many artists – including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Boone" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Pat Boone</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gates#cite_note-LarkinGE-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[1]</a> Success soon followed. His composition "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popsicles_and_Icicles" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Popsicles and Icicles</a>" hit No. 3 on the US Hot 100 for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murmaids" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(48, 86, 169);">The Murmaids</a> in January 1964.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gates#cite_note-LarkinGE-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[1]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkees" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">The Monkees</a> recorded another of his songs, "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday%27s_Child" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Saturday's Child</a>". By the end of the 1960s, he had worked with many leading artists, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Elvis Presley</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walker_Brothers" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">The Walker Brothers</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Darin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Bobby Darin</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Haggard" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Merle Haggard</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ventures" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">The Ventures</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duane_Eddy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Duane Eddy</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Wilson" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Brian Wilson</a>.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">citation needed</a>] In 1965, Gates arranged the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Yarbrough" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Glenn Yarbrough</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chart-topper" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">hit</a>, "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_the_Rain_Must_Fall_(song)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Baby the Rain Must Fall</a>". In 1966, he produced two singles on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%26M_Records" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">A&M Records</a> for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Captain Beefheart</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Band" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">The Magic Band</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gates#cite_note-LarkinGE-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[1]</a>Gates scored his first motion picture <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_Shiloh" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Journey to Shiloh</a> in 1967.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gates#cite_note-5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[5]</a>In the meantime, Gates had been releasing singles of his own on several labels in the early 1960s.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gates#cite_note-LarkinGE-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[1]</a> On <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mala_Records" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Mala Records</a>, he released "There's a Heaven" / "She Don't Cry", "You'll Be My Baby" / "What's This I Hear", "The Happiest Man Alive" / "A Road That Leads to Love", and "Jo Baby" / "Teardrops in My Heart". On Planetary, he released "Little Miss Stuck Up" / "The Brighter Side", and "Let You Go" / "Once upon a Time" under the pseudonym of "Del Ashley" in 1965. On Del-Fi, he released "No One Really Loves a Clown" / "You Had It Comin' to Ya". He also released a single under the name of "The Manchesters" in 1965 on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vee-Jay_Records" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Vee-Jay</a> label.