“Make It With You” #1 8/22/1970

It’s quite an accomplishment when your first chart record becomes a #1. That happened to Bread, who reached the top with the lead single from their second album. David Gates was friends with Leon Russell back home in Tulsa; both went to L.A., where Gates wrote the 1964 Murmaids Top 5 hit “Popsicles And Icicles.” According to Wikipedia, David played everything on this track but the drums and strings. He eventually fleshed out a working group that had ten Top 20 entries.