Make It with You

For the Peggy Lee album, see Make It with You (album).
"Make It with You"
Single by Bread
from the album On the Waters
B-side "Why Do You Keep Me Waiting"
Released June 1970
Format 7" 45 RPM
Genre Soft rock
Length 3:18
Label Elektra
Writer(s) David Gates
Producer(s) David Gates
Certification Gold
Bread singles chronology
"Could I"
(1969)		 "Make It with You"
(1970)		 "It Don't Matter to Me"
(1970)

"Make It with You" is a song written by David Gates and originally recorded by the pop-rock group Bread, of which Gates was a member. The song was a #1 hit.

Release

The song first appeared on Bread's 1970 album, On the Waters. Released as a single that June, it was the group's first top-ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and spent the week of August 22, 1970, at number one, their only single to do so; it also reached #5 on the UK Singles Chart. Billboard ranked "Make It with You" as the #13 song of 1970,[1] and it was certified gold by the RIAA for sales of over one million copies.

When the song was released, David Gates's mother was asked by a local interviewer how her son's music career was going. Misunderstanding the song's title, she replied that his group had just recorded a song called "Naked with You."

Chart performance

Weekly singles charts

Chart (1970) Peak
position
Canada RPM [2] 2
UK 5
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 1
U.S. Billboard Easy Listening 4
U.S. Cashbox Top 100 [3] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1970) Position
Canada [4] 24
UK [5] 64
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [6] 13
U.S. Cash Box [7] 22

Cover versions

The Supremes, Aretha Franklin, Earth, Wind & Fire, Dusty Springfield, Cilla Black, the Originals, the Main Ingredient, the Whispers, Marc Anthony, Teddy Pendergrass, Don Julian & the Larks, Let Loose, Dennis Brown, Andy Williams, Lou Donaldson, Tony Mottola, The Pasadenas and Marc Cohn have all recorded cover versions of "Make It with You." Ralfi Pagan reached #32 on the Billboard R&B chart in the summer of 1971 with a Latin-soul version of the song.[8]

It has also been recorded in Spanish as "Cerca de ti" (Barrio Boyzz, 1993) and "Quiero hacerte el amor" (M.C. Blvd., 1996).

See also

References

  1. ↑ Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1970
  2. ↑ http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.4084&type=1&interval=50&PHPSESSID=14j86r4hrb27nnv6eieofuatm0
  3. ↑ http://50.6.195.142/archives/70s_files/19700815.html
  4. ↑ http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.3740&type=1&interval=50&PHPSESSID=14j86r4hrb27nnv6eieofuatm0
  5. ↑ http://www.uk-charts.top-source.info/top-100-1970.shtml
  6. ↑ http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1970.htm
  7. ↑ http://50.6.195.142/archives/70s_files/1970YESP.html
  8. ↑ Joel Whitburn Top R&B Singles 1942 - 2004 ISBN 0-89820-160-8

External links

Preceded by
"(They Long to Be) Close to You" by The Carpenters		 Billboard Hot 100 number-one single
August 22, 1970 		Succeeded by
"War" by Edwin Starr
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