Make It with You

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"Make It with You"
Make it with you by bread US single (red white).png
One of US single pressings
Single by Bread
from the album On the Waters
B-side "Why Do You Keep Me Waiting"
ReleasedApril 1970
Recorded1970
Genre
Length3:18
Label Elektra
Songwriter(s) David Gates
Producer(s) David Gates
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 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, [4] which was Bread's only No.1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

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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 No.1; it also reached No.5 on the UK Singles Chart. Billboard ranked "Make It with You" as the No. 13 song of 1970, and it was certified gold by the RIAA for sales of over one million copies.

Record World called it "well-constructed... rock music." [5]

Personnel

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [17] Silver200,000
United States (RIAA) [18] Gold1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Notable cover versions

Many artists have recorded cover versions of "Make It with You." Among the most notable are:

See also

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