Baby I'm-a Want You

Performer: Bread
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Bread's fourth album, 1972's BABY I'M-A WANT YOU, is the band's commercial high point and one of its finest albums. Besides the title track, inescapable on AM radio that year and which has taken up permanent residence on the playlists of soft rock radio stations in the decades ever since, BABY I'M-A WANT YOU contains two other big chart hits, "Diary" and the oft-covered "Everything I Own," which may well be Bread's best single ever. Besides those three David Gates-penned gems, the album includes nine other soft rock favorites, including James Griffin's atypically humorous "That Isn't What the Governmeant" and the unusually straightforward "I Don't Love You" alongside more standard Bread fare such as "Daughter" and the lovely, crystalline "Dream Lady." For the Bread neophyte, BABY I'M-A WANT YOU is probably the best starting point of their original studio albums .

Rolling Stone (3/30/72, pp.50-52) - "...BABY I'M-A WANT YOU is a full-bodied album, exuding health and vigor even in the thicks of its most exaggerated sentimentality..." Q (9/00, p.132) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Impeccable soft rock with a peppering of heart-melting ballads. This...is th ewinnign formula in excelsis."

The kings of 1970s soft rock, Bread was led by singer/songwriters David Gates and James Griffin. The band's mellow, highly melodic style made it a mainstay on the Top 40 and AM radio throughout the decade, with huge hits such as "If" and "Baby, I'm A-Want You." Bread split in the late 1970s, with Gates and Griffin pursuing solo careers. Gates had a solo smash with the title song for the hit film THE GOODBYE GIRL, and Griffin found success in the country-music field with the Remingtons. Any hopes of a Bread reunion were dashed when Griffin died of cancer in January 2005.

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