David Gates
David Gates
Top Songs
| 1 | Goodbye Girl | ||
| 2 | Never Let Her Go | ||
| 3 | Clouds Suite | ||
| 4 | Took the Last Train | ||
| 5 | Suite: Clouds, Rain |
Albums
Sep 2025 • 7 songs
Sep 2025 • 1 song
Aug 2025 • 1 song
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Biography
A member of the popular late-'60s/early-'70s soft rock group Bread, David Gates is also a songwriter, keyboardist, vocalist, and producer. His first hit as a songwriter came with the popular Murmaids song "Popsicles and Icicles." Gates was born in Tulsa, OK, to a band director and a piano teacher. Surrounded by music from birth, he was proficient in piano, bass, and guitar by the time he was in high school. In 1957, he received a musical break when Chuck Berry came to Tulsa; Gates had his first hit, "Jo-Baby," with Chuck Berry. The song was written for Gates' high-school sweet...