Bread was one of the most popular pop groups of the early '70s, earning a string of well-crafted, melodic soft rock singles, all of which were written by keyboardist/vocalist David Gates. A session musician and producer, Gates met in 1968 guitarist/vocalist James Griffin, who had already released a solo album called Summer Holiday. Griffin hired Gates to produce a new album, and the pair soon became a group, adding guitarist/vocalist Robb Royer from the band Pleasure Fair, who Gates had produced early in its career. The trio soon signed with Elektra Records, group released its self-titled debut album in late 1968. Although it was filled with accessible, melodic soft rock that became the band's signature sound, the record had no hit singles.
With their second album, On the Waters, Bread established themselves as hitmakers. "Make It With You," the first single released from the album, became a number one hit, which led to "It Don't Matter to Me," a song taken from Bread, becoming a Top Ten hit. With On the Waters becoming a gold record, the group embarked on a tour, adding a full-time drummer, Mike Botts, to the lineup. Manna, released in the spring of 1971, wasn't as big a hit as the previous record, yet it launched another Top Ten hit with "If." Royer left the group after the album and was replaced by Larry Knechtel, a Los Angeles session musician who played on records by the Byrds, the Beach Boys, and the Monkees, among others. The new lineup released its first single, "Mother Freedom," in the summer of 1971; the single scraped the Top 40 at number 37. Bread's next single, "Baby I'm-a Want You," became a number three hit at the end of the year. After "Everything I Own" reached number five in January of 1972, an album called Baby I'm-a Want You was released. Peaking at number three, the record became the group's most successful album. The group's fifth album, Guitar Man, followed in the fall of 1972.
Bread's Seventies Billboard Top 100 Singles
"Make It With You" 7/70 ..1
"It Don't Matter To Me" 10/70 ..10
"Let Your Love Go" 1/71 ..28
"If" 4/71 ..4
"Mother Freedom" 8/71 ..37
"Baby I'm-A Want You" 11/71 ..3
"Everything I Own" 2/72 ..5
"Diary" 5/72 ..15
"The Guitar Man" 8/72 ..11
"Sweet Surrender" 11/72 ..15
"Aubrey" 2/73 ..15
"Lost Without Your Love" 12/76 ..9
"Hooked On You" 4/77 ..60
Bread's Seventies Billboard Top 200 Albums
1969 Bread ..127
1970 On the Waters ..12
1971 Manna ..21
1972 Baby I'm-a Want You ..3
1972 Guitar Man ..18
1977 Lost Without Your Love ..26
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involving advanced mental processes such as learning, retention,
recall, and recognition and resulting from chemical changes between
neurons in several different areas of the brain, including the
hippocampus. Immediate memory lasts for just a few seconds. Short-term
memory stores information that has been minimally processed and is
available only for a few minutes, as in remembering a phone number just
long enough to use it. Short-term memory is transferred into long-term
memory, which can last for many years, only when repeated use of the
information facilitates neurochemical changes that allow it to be retained.