His voice was the soundtrack for the groovy 70s. He wrote songs with a band that mesmerized the Me Generation, and ushered in the genre of ‘soft rock. I’m talking about David Gates and his mellow gold masters Bread’ He ruled the 70s with his soothing voice and charming charisma with classic hits like Make It With You, If, Diary, Baby I’m a Want You, Everything I own and Guitar Man... But after years of dissension and inevitable burnout, his group, bread broke up, and by the mid-80s this iconic vocalist, surprised his fans around the world… when he waved ‘goodbye’ to the music industry… and disappeared… Instead of wooing fans on stage at sold-out arenas, he went his own way…Find out where he went… Up next, the steady rise and sudden farewell of the man I like to call the “maestro of mellow” and one of his signature songs is NEXT on Professor of Rock.

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Hey music junkies, Professor of Rock, always here to celebrate the greatest artists and the greatest songs of all time. If you remember that feeling of desperation when you had 20 seconds to insert another quarter to continue your arcade game but have run out you’ll dig this channel of deep musical nostalgia. Make sure to subscribe below right now to get the stories of your favorite songs straight from the legends.

Since the beginning of the Popular Music Era there have been some iconic singers with voices that mesmerized generations of listeners with their golden voices. A soothing, therapeutic experience, that gives gives us peace & tranquility as an escape from a disruptive world. The classic voices of Bring Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Karen Carpenter, and James Taylor come to mind, as well as the singer that I call the ‘maestro of mellow’….a master of 70s classic that took me years to fully appreciate… Mr David Gates: David Gates became the gentle rock star with the debut of Bread, the band he co-founded with Robb Royer & Jimmy Griffin in 1968.

David Gates and Bread had so many 70s classic. from If...to Diary...to Make It With You to Everything I Own to Guitar Man to Aubrey to Baby I'm A Want you and so many more mellow gold AM radio yacht rock standards! David Gates then Went Solo and had several hits including The Goodbye Girl from the Oscar winning movie of the same name! He was on top of the world and had pretty much invented soft rock. So Where'd he go? Well in this video we find out. The story and legacy of one of the greatest bands of the singer songwriter era...