Sweet Surrender (David Gates song)

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"Sweet Surrender"
Sweet Surrender - Bread.jpg
Single by Bread
from the album Guitar Man
B-side "Make It By Yourself"
ReleasedNovember 1972
Genre Rock, soft rock [1]
Length2:38
Label Elektra
Songwriter(s) David Gates
Producer(s) David Gates
Bread singles chronology
"The Guitar Man"
(1972)
"Sweet Surrender"
(1972)
"Aubrey"
(1973)

"Sweet Surrender" is a song written by David Gates and performed by Bread. The single was the second release from their fifth album, Guitar Man, and was the last of four No.1 hits for Bread on the US Easy Listening chart. "Sweet Surrender" spent two weeks at No.1 on the chart, while on the Billboard Hot 100, it peaked at No.15. [2]

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"Sweet Surrender" also did well internationally. It was a Top 10 hit in Canada (No.4) and New Zealand (No.7).

Record World called it a "David Gates beauty that is sure to please Bread lovers immensely." [3]

Chart performance

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