David Gates
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David Ashworth Gates is a retired American singer-songwriter, musician and producer, who is best known for being the frontman and co-lead singer of the group Bread, which reached the top of the musica
Gates in 2000
Gates and Bread performing on the television program Hotel Ninety in 1973
Leon Russell
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Leon Russell was an American musician and songwriter who was involved with numerous bestselling records during his 60-year career that spanned multiple genres, including rock and roll, country, gospel
David Gates
…first band, The Accents, with other high school musicians which included a piano player, Claude Russell Bridges, who later in life changed his name to Leon Russell. During a concert in 1957, the Accents backed Chuck Berry. In 1957, David Gates and the Accents released the 45 "Jo-Baby" / "Lovin' at Night" on Robbins…
Russell in an ad in Billboard, February 1970
Claude Russell Bridges, 1958 yearbook photo, Will Rogers High School
Leon Russell at home in his studio, October 1970; he became a solo recording artist that year
Russell performing in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, April 2009