Group
Bread
American soft rock band
- From
- Los Angeles, United States
- Active
- 1968–1977
- Rating
- ★ 5
- Releases
- 45
- soft rock
- rock
- pop rock
- yacht rock
About
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.
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The band was fronted by David Gates (vocals, bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, violin, viola, percussion) 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.
Members
Discography
Albums
EPs
Singles
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Everything I Own / I Don’t Love You (45 version)
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If / The Guitar Man
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Lost Without Your Love Apple Music
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Baby I'm - A Want You / Truckin'
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If / Brown Sugar
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Make It With You
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Make It with You / Why Do You Keep Me Waiting
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It Don’t Matter to Me / Call On Me
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Could I / You Can't Measure the Cost
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Dismal Day / Any Way You Want Me
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Diary
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Make It With You
Compilations
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Everything I Own: Their Finest Moments Apple Music
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The Elektra Years: The Complete Albums Box
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The Studio Album Collection
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Collected
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Original Album Series
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The Works
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The Definitive Collection
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Rhino Hi‐Five: Bread, Vol 2
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Make It With You
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Revisited
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Make It With You and Other Hits
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The Love Album
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Retrospective
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David Gates & Bread Essentials
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The Very Best Of
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Greatest Hits
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The Very Best of Bread
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Heroes of Popmusic: The Very Best of Bread Featuring David Gates
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The Collection
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Anthology of Bread Apple Music
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The Sound of Bread: Their 16 Finest Songs
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The Sound of Bread: Their 20 Finest Songs
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The Best of Bread Volume Two
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The Best of Bread Apple Music
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Greatest Hits & Essentials
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Bread Apple Music
Links
Concerts
Tags
- classic pop and rock
Identifiers
- MusicBrainz
- e3bcf587-a354-4723-a2d3-1c679d6571ea
- ISNI
- 0000000122860288
Data from MusicBrainz, saved 12 Nov 2026. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, covers from the Cover Art Archive and Apple Music.