{"id":1497,"date":"2024-10-18T14:03:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T14:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2024-10-18T14:03:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T14:03:11","slug":"1497-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?p=1497","title":{"rendered":"The Number Ones HIT!!: Bread\u2019s \u201cMake It With You\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static.stereogum.com\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Bread-Make-It-With-You-1546964124-520x515.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>In The Number Ones, I\u2019m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the<\/em>\u00a0Billboard\u00a0<em>Hot 100, starting with the chart\u2019s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A funny thing about \u201970s pop: Even as the music became safer and less threatening, it also got a whole lot more frank about sex. In the \u201960s, even a wild and dangerous band like the Rolling Stones had to hide sex-talk in allusion and veiled metaphor \u2014 and when they\u00a0<em>did<\/em>\u00a0come out with something as obviously horny as \u201cLet\u2019s Spend The Night Together,\u201d they couldn\u2019t get any radio play with it. But when Bread came out with \u201cMake It With You,\u201d a soft and pillowy 1970 song that is 100% for-sure about fucking, they took it to #1.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogstyle__iframe is-video\">\n<div class=\"oembed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"lazy-loaded\" title=\"Bread - Make it with you (1970)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s0KXV0gB0dw?feature=oembed\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s0KXV0gB0dw?feature=oembed\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>There\u2019s a story that the mother of Bread frontman David Gates once gave a radio interview where she accidentally revealed that she\u2019d misheard the title of her son\u2019s big hit. She said that she was happy that he was doing well but that she couldn\u2019t understand why he had to call the song \u201cNaked With You.\u201d But honestly, Gates might as well have called it \u201cNaked With You.\u201d It would\u2019ve been about the same thing, and it would\u2019ve also been slightly more honest.<\/p>\n<p>Gates grew up in Tulsa, playing in bar bands with future Wrecking Crew standout Leon Russell. Like Russell, Gates moved to Los Angeles in the early \u201960s, becoming a studio musician and occasional songwriter. (He wrote \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o5NDFot98cA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Popsicles And Icicles<\/a>,\u201d a hit for the girl group the Murmaids. It peaked at #3, and it\u2019s a 7.) He formed Bread in 1968 and signed with Elektra and released a not-that-successful debut album a year later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMake It With You,\u201d the big breakthrough for both Gates and Bread, was slow and strummy and pretty in a completely generic way. In the slightest hint of a Southwestern twang, Gates made his proposition in lofty terms: \u201cDreams, they\u2019re for those who sleep \/ Life is for us to keep.\u201d It\u2019s an old story: We only get one life, we need to seize our moment, baby let\u2019s turn the light off. Cue the soft-focus strings.<\/p>\n<div id=\"AdThrive_Content_2_desktop\" class=\"adthrive-ad adthrive-content adthrive-content-2 adthrive-ad-cls\" data-google-query-id=\"\">\n<div class=\"google-ad-manager-fallback-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s not a\u00a0<em>terrible<\/em>\u00a0song, and there\u2019s a whole lot of rich musicianship in its arrangement, but it\u2019s also about as generic as it gets. And there\u2019s something truly depressing about the way it strips away any nervous excitement from the act of sex, turning it into nothing more than a pleasant way to spend an afternoon. And sure, sex can be that, but you\u2019re not going to get much of a song out of it when you sing about it that way.<\/p>\n<p>We are about to encounter\u00a0<em>so many<\/em>\u00a0songs like this in this column. The soft-beige sex-amble was a \u201970s staple. And most of those songs were absolute fucking garbage. Pop music in 2019 has its own problems, but we\u2019re at least mostly done with flocking en masse to songs like this one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GRADE:<\/strong>\u00a03\/10<\/p>\n<p><strong>BONUS BEATS:<\/strong>\u00a0Dusty Springfield recorded a version of \u201cMake It With You\u201d during the\u00a0<em>Dusty In Memphis<\/em>\u00a0sessions. It wouldn\u2019t have been an album highlight, but it\u2019s a whole hell of a lot better than Bread\u2019s take. Here\u2019s her version:<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogstyle__iframe is-video\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/Zooi-hD6aMI<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Number Ones, I\u2019m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the\u00a0Billboard\u00a0Hot 100, starting with the chart\u2019s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present A funny thing about \u201970s pop: Even as the music became safer and less threatening, it also got a whole lot more frank about 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