A member of the popular group Bread, David Gates is also a songwriter, keyboardist, vocalist and producer. His first hit as a songwriter came with the popular Mermaids song Popsicles and Icicles. David Gates was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma to a band director and a piano teacher on December 11, 1940. 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.
Read more on Last.fm All your life you’ve waited For love to come and stay And now that i have found you You must not slip away I know it’s hard believing The words you’ve heard before But darlin’ you must trust them Just once more ’cause baby, goodbye doesn’t mean forever Let me tell you goodbye doesn’t mean…
