E major · Camelot 12B · 83 BPM
Make It With You
by Bread
- 83
- BPM
- E major
- Key
- 12B
- Camelot
- 63
- Danceability
- 66
- Acousticness
"Make It with You" gave Bread the only No. 1 hit of their career, topping the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending August 22, 1970. The single also reached No. 5 on the UK Singles Chart, and Billboard ranked it the No. 13 song of 1970. The Recording Industry Association of America certified it gold for sales of more than one million copies.
David Gates wrote the song and sang it with the Los Angeles soft rock band he fronted. It first appeared on Bread's 1970 album On the Waters, and it was released as a single in late May of that year. The recording turned out to be a spare affair: Gates and drummer Mike Botts were the only members of the group to appear on it.
Botts had joined Bread in the summer of 1969, taking over from the session drummers who had played on their first album, and he became their permanent drummer. The group, which also included Jimmy Griffin and Robb Royer, went on to place 13 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1970 and 1977. Larry Knechtel replaced Royer in 1971, playing keyboards, bass guitar, guitar, and harmonica.
Make It With You runs at 83 BPM, the tempo of boom-bap hip-hop, reggae and slow R&B. In classical terms it sits in andante territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 2.89 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 723 ms. It is in E major, Camelot 12B, which shares its notes with C# minor and mixes cleanly with A major and B major.
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