May 10, 2024      —–     Chart #245

Hello Music Friends,

Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Well don’t be surprised that we are in the 70’s again this week. I can’t help it if all my favorite music is from the 60’s and 70’s. Who am I to argue with greatness? Well today we are going with another hit from a soft rock LA band.  Baby I’m-a Want You is the fourth album by Bread, released in 1972. Its singles included the title cut (which reached No. 3 on the Billboard Top 100), “Everything I Own” (No. 5), “Mother Freedom” (No. 37), and “Diary” (No. 15). The album was certified Gold by the RIAA in March 1972. This was the first Bread album to feature keyboard player Larry Knechtel.

Bread was an American soft rock band from Los Angeles, California. They had 13 songs chart on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1970 and 1977.The band was fronted by David Gates (vocals, bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, violin, viola, percussion – from Tulsa, OK) with Jimmy Griffin (vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion) and Robb Royer (bass guitar, guitar, flute, keyboards, percussion, recorder, backing vocals). On their first album session musicians Ron Edgar played drums and Jim Gordon played drums, percussion, and piano. Mike Botts became their permanent drummer when he joined in the summer of 1969, and Larry Knechtel replaced Royer in 1971, playing keyboards, bass guitar, guitar, and harmonica.

Regardless of what you think of Bread or this particular song, you gotta love that shirt David Gates is wearing in the video. That collar reaches almost to his elbows! And what a polyester pattern. WOW! So put on your wildest 1972 polyester patterned disco shirt, grab your plastic molded back Ovation acoustic guitar, and sing this song to your loved one. This is a recipe for melting hearts, or being arrested by the fashion police.  

Have fun with it.

Keep Rockin’,

Stan Bradshaw