David Gates在Pleasure Fair乐队时就曾经出过一张唱片。当时Robb Royer是Pleasure Fair乐队的一名成员,并且James Griffin也为此乐队写过歌曲。他们不但是能弹奏多种乐器的音乐家,而且还是作曲家。
他们的歌曲创作方式在其最佳状态时,可以把摇滚乐的充沛的情感力量与主流民歌的流畅风格结合起来。他们在Elektra公司录制的第1张虽不很成功但却受到评论界肯定的唱片,接着创作了很多成功的作品:歌曲《Make It with You》、《If》、《Baby I\'m a Want You》和《The Guitar Man》。所有这些歌曲以及其他一些作品都突出了David Gates响亮的歌喉、纯正的音色和朴实无华的男高音特色。
1976年末,"面包"乐队重新组建,录制了唱片《Lost Without Your Love》,但不到1年乐队再次解散。虽然如此David Gates却获得了很多成功的单曲:例如《Never Let Her Go》和《The Goodbye Girl》。
IF歌词如下:
If a picture paints a thousand words,
Then why can\'t I paint you?
The words will never show the you I\'ve come to know.
If a face could launch a thousand ships,
Then where am I to go?
There\'s no one home but you,
You\'re all that\'s left me too.
And when my love for life is running dry,
You come and pour yourself for me.
If a man could be two places at one time,
I\'d be with you.
Tomorrow and today, beside you all the way.
If the world should stop revolving spinning slowly down to die,
I\'d spend the end with you.
And when the world was through,
Then one by one the stars would all go out,
Then you and I would simply fly away.