{"id":1377,"date":"2024-10-18T00:42:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T00:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2024-10-18T00:42:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T00:42:09","slug":"single-stories-bread-still-trending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?p=1377","title":{"rendered":"Single Stories: Bread, \u201cIf\u201d- Still Trending!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bread<\/p>\n

47 years ago this week, Bread released the second single from their third album, a song that muscled its way up the Billboard Hot 100 \u2013 well, you know, inasmuch as a soft-pop single can muscle its way up anything \u2013 and settled in the top five.<\/p>\n

Produced by David Gates and co-written by Gates and Waleen Johnson, \u201cIf\u201d followed on the heels of \u201cLet Your Love Go,\u201d the first single from Bread\u2019s MANNA album. While that track was a top-30 hit, climbing to #28, its success wasn\u2019t on par with the band\u2019s previous pair of singles, \u201cMake It With You\u201d and \u201cIt Don\u2019t Matter to Me,\u201d which hit #1 and #10, respectively. When \u201cIf\u201d came out, however, it was like the middling success of \u201cLet Your Love Go\u201d never happened: the song made it to #4 on the Hot 100 and topped the\u00a0Billboard<\/em>\u00a0Easy Listening chart.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf\u201d also went down like gangbusters when Bread performed in concert, which Malcolm C. Searles documented in his book\u00a0Bread: A Sweet Surrender<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe recent Top 10 single, \u2018If,\u2019 would always receive a huge cheer, and loud screams from the many teenage girls present, once the initial quivering guitar chords rang out over the vast arenas and concert halls, and with Mike often appearing on bass for the song \u2013 what else could the drummer do on this final ballad? \u2013 it would draw the performance to a tumultuous conclusion after 70 or so minutes onstage.\u201d<\/p>\n

And here\u2019s a fun fact to wrap things up: until 1993, \u201cIf\u201d was the shortest song title to become a top-10 hit, a record it held until Prince\u2019s \u201c7\u201d hit \u2013 what a coincidence! – #7 on the\u00a0Billboard\u00a0<\/strong>Hot 100.<\/p>\n

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