David Ashworth Gates is a retired American singer-songwriter,guitarist,musician and producer,frontman and co-lead singer of the group Bread,which reached the top of the musical charts in Europe and North America on several occasions in the 1970s. The band was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame.
Kenneth George Boothe OD is a Jamaican vocalist known for his distinctive vibrato and timbre. Boothe achieved an international reputation as one of Jamaica's finest vocalists through a series of crossover hits that appealed to both reggae fans and mainstream audiences.
"Can't Help Falling in Love" is a song written by Hugo Peretti,Luigi Creatore,and George David Weiss and published by Gladys Music,Inc. The melody is based on "Plaisir d'amour",a popular French love song composed in 1784 by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini. The song was initially written from the perspective of a woman as "Can't Help Falling in Love with Him",which explains the first and third line ending on "in" and "sin" rather than words rhyming with "you".
"Spirit in the Sky" is a song by American singer-songwriter Norman Greenbaum,originally written and recorded by Greenbaum and released in late 1969 from his album Spirit in the Sky. The single became a gold record in the United States,selling two million copies from 1969 to 1970,and reached No. 3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 where it lasted for 15 weeks in the Top 100. Billboard ranked the record as the No. 22 song of 1970. It also climbed to No. 1 on the UK,Australian and Canadian charts in 1970.
"Life's Been Good" is a song by American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Joe Walsh that first appeared on the soundtrack to the 1978 film FM. The original eight-minute version was released on Walsh's fourth studio album But Seriously,Folks... (1978),and an edited four-minute single version peaked at No. 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100,remaining his biggest solo hit.
True Love is the tenth studio album by American country music singer Crystal Gayle. Released in November 1982,it peaked at #14 on the Billboard Country Albums charts.
"Black and White" is a song written in 1954 by David I. Arkin and Earl Robinson (music). It was first recorded by Pete Seeger featuring an African-American child,in 1956 from the album Love Songs for Friends &Foes.
"I Can See Clearly Now" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Johnny Nash. It was the lead single from his twelfth album,I Can See Clearly Now (1972),and achieved success in the United States and the United Kingdom when it was released in 1972,reaching number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 and Cash Box charts. It also reached number one in Canada and South Africa. The song has been covered by many artists throughout the years,including a hit version by Lee Towers that reached no. 19 in the Dutch Top 40 in 1982,and another recorded by Jimmy Cliff for the motion picture soundtrack of Cool Runnings that peaked at no. 18 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1993.
"Don't Turn Around" is a popular song written by Albert Hammond and Diane Warren. It was originally recorded by American singer Tina Turner and released as the B-side to her 1986 hit single "Typical Male". It has since been included on Turner's compilation album The Collected Recordings:Sixties to Nineties (1994),as well as featuring in the Tina musical since 2018.
"If You Could Read My Mind" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot. Lightfoot wrote the lyrics while he was reflecting on his own divorce. It reached No. 1 on the Canadian Singles Chart on commercial release in 1970 and charted in several other countries on international release in 1971. In 2023,Hockey Night in Canada used the song for their year end playoff montage commemorating the Vegas Golden Knights' Stanley Cup win,following Lightfoot's passing.
"To Know Him Is to Love Him" is a song written by Phil Spector,inspired by the words on his father's gravestone,"To Know Him Was to Love Him". It was first recorded by the only vocal group of which he was a member,The Teddy Bears. The single spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1958,while reaching No. 2 on the UK's New Musical Express chart. Peter &Gordon and Bobby Vinton later each experienced chart success with the song,in 1965 and 1968,respectively.
"Mony Mony" is a 1968 single by American pop rock band Tommy James and the Shondells,which reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 3 in the U.S. Written by Bobby Bloom,Ritchie Cordell,Bo Gentry,and Tommy James,the song has appeared in various film and television works such as the Oliver Stone drama Heaven &Earth. It was also covered by English singer-songwriter Billy Idol in 1981. Idol's version,which took in more of a rock sound,became an international top 40 hit and additionally revived public interest in the original garage rock single. Idol recorded a live version in 1985 which was ultimately released in 1987 where it became an even bigger hit than the Shondells' 1968 original,reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
"Patches" (sometimes known as "Patches (I'm Depending On You)") is a country soul song written by General Johnson and Ron Dunbar and best known as the 1970 hit version by Clarence Carter. It won the 1971 Grammy Award for Best Rhythm &Blues Song.
"Make It with You" is a song written by David Gates and originally recorded by American pop-rock group Bread,of which Gates was a member. Gates and drummer Mike Botts are the only members of the group to appear on the recording,which was Bread's only No.1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
"The Guitar Man" is a song written by David Gates and originally recorded by the rock group Bread. It first appeared on Bread's 1972 album,Guitar Man. It is a mixture of the sounds of soft rock,including strings and acoustic guitar,and the addition of a wah-wah effect electric guitar,played by Larry Knechtel. It peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States and was their third No. 1 hit on the easy listening chart,.
"Everybody Plays the Fool" is a 1972 song first recorded by American R&B group The Main Ingredient,and written by J. R. Bailey,Rudy Clark and Ken Williams. It was the first single released from the group's album Bitter Sweet,released with the B-side "Who Can I Turn To ". "Everybody Plays the Fool" was the group's highest charting hit single,reaching No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the fall of 1972. It also peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard R&B chart and at No. 25 on the Billboard adult contemporary chart. It was certified gold by the RIAA.
"Baby I'm-a Want You" is a song by American soft rock band Bread. The single was released in October 1971 and became the title track for the album of the same name,released in January 1972.
Everything I Own is the seventh studio album by Jamaican recording artist Ken Boothe. It was released in 1974 by Trojan Records. It is not to be confused with the three Ken Boothe compilation albums,Everything I Own (1997),Everything I Own:The Best of Ken Boothe (2003) and Everything I Own:The Definitive Collection (2007).
"To Be a Lover" is a song written by William Bell and Booker T. Jones originally as "I Forgot to Be Your Lover",but best known as a cover by Billy Idol on his third studio album Whiplash Smile (1986). As the album's lead single,it became Idol's second top ten hit in the US,peaking at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 22 on the UK Singles Chart.
"The Greatest Love of All" is a song written by Michael Masser,who composed the music,and Linda Creed,who wrote the lyrics. It was originally recorded in 1977 by George Benson,who made the song a substantial hit,peaking at number two on the US Hot Soul Singles chart that year,the first R&B chart top-ten hit for Arista Records. The song was written and recorded to be the main theme of the 1977 film The Greatest, a biopic of the boxer Muhammad Ali,and is performed during the opening credits.
