I’m working the graveyard shift and playing the 70’s a little loud as I’m the only one here, and up pops this little gem. I laughed my butt off. Sorry, but I don’t think this group had any idea that they came off as creepers. I’m sure it was super hip back in the day.
Lordy!
A 70’s classic
LOL! never liked them much, I actually remember this tune, but only vaguely, but I did get paid $50 at about the age of 15 in the early 70’s to setup their equipment for a concert at the (then) Special Events Center. Their road crew was late arriving to town, so the manager found a group of us kids hanging out at Reservoir Park and paid us all a handsome sum to unload and setup the equipment.
As the only musician in the group, I had the task of tuning all the instruments and checking all the amps, etc. The lead guitarist owned a very unique instrument, one of the very earliest fender guitars from the late 1940s called a Broadcaster (they later released newer versions of these as Telecasters). His had been butchered by a wood carver carving psychedelic designs in the guitar body. The guitarist, Larry Knechtel, had been a member of the infamous LA Studio musicians known as the Wrecking Crew, and was an accomplished guitarist.
As for coming off as creepers, imagine a limousine pulling up to reservoir park in about 1971, rear door flies open and a middle aged hippie jumps out and says to a group of young teenagers, “you guys wanna make some money?”.
Not at all hip. Not even close. Think Nickleback.
Bread was never hip. They made several songs that landed in the top 40 before the disco craze. Their lead singer, David Gates, had a solo gig for a while, but never hit the success he had with Bread.
Oh, and before you all start scratching your heads, my brother was a DJ and sports news guy on a local radio station (KOVO) back in the day.
I got my first album ever in 1973 for my birthday. Best of Bread. I was 10. 
I’ve probably posted this before (possibly multiple times) but, you simply cannot sustain a bad day listening to Etta James.
Barf alert - I heard a remake of this song by Shelby Lynne which was actually pretty good, but the original… wow, boy. (Send me any laundry bills)
And WTH is the deal with the guy who looks like Dandy Don Meredith?
I made it to :47 before hurling my lunch ! That dude does look like Dandy Don🤣
The original was by Dusty Springfield. And it was ok.
These guys however…
And this is they type of thing I remember of my childhood in the '70s. “Cool” in the only way the I remember the '70s being – not at all, if you’re wondering, at least in my memories.
I got lured into picking pineapples on Maui in the Summer '80. It was one of those 20% cool, 80% “what the hell did I agree to?” kind of deals.
One day a guy in a van came to our work compound selling “Lahaina City Rollers” attire from a failed skate rental business on the Lahaina side. I bought a shirt for 1$, mostly so I could embarrass my siblings in public wearing that thing.
“S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y… NIGHT!”
Mike Myers did a better job on that idea.
I’m gonna burn your ears! At least they could play it live.
