"Make It with You" is a song written by David Gates

David Gates

David Gates is an American singer-songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the group Bread, which reached the tops of the musical charts in Europe and North America on several occasions in the 1970s. The band was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame...

 and originally recorded by the pop

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/rock

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 group Bread

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Bread was a rock band from Los Angeles, California. They placed 13 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart between 1970 and 1977 and were a prime example of what later was labeled soft rock....

, of which Gates was a member.

The song first appeared on Bread's 1970 album On the Waters

On the Waters

On the Waters is the second album released by Bread in 1970. This album was released in July 1970.-Track listing:#"Why Do You Keep Me Waiting" – 2:32 #"Make It with You" – 3:18...

. Released as a single in June 1970, it would become the group's first top ten and only number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100

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 singles chart in the U.S., spending the week of August 22, 1970, at the top spot.

The single reached number five on the UK Singles Chart

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. It also was certified gold by the RIAA for sales of over one million copies.

The song was well-received by easy-listening stations at the beginning of the singer-songwriter driven soft-rock era, reaching number four on the Billboard Easy Listening Top 40. Aretha Franklin

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, Earth, Wind & Fire

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, Dusty Springfield

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Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'BrienSources use both Isabel and Isobel as the spelling of her second name. OBE , known professionally as Dusty Springfield and dubbed The White Queen of Soul, was a British pop singer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s...

, The Originals

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, The Main Ingredient, The Whispers

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, Marc Anthony

Marc Anthony

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, Teddy Pendergrass

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, Don Julian & The Larks, Let Loose

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, Dennis Brown

Dennis Brown

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, Andy Williams

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, Lou Donaldson

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, Tony Mottola

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, and Marc Cohn

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 are amongst those who have recorded cover versions of the song.

It has also been recorded in other languages including Spanish as 'Quiero Hacerte El Amor' with a version by Blvd featuring M C Blvd being popular on the West Coast. Ralfi Pagan

Ralfi Pagan

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 reached number 32 on the Billboard R&B chart during an eleven week run in the summer of 1971 with a Latin-soul version of the song and also by Puerto Rican-American Spanish r&b group Barrio Boyzz

Barrio Boyzz

The Barrio Boyzz were a Latin pop group. The group were made up of Puerto Rican American and Colombian Americans who grew-up in New York City. They gained popularity during the 1990s, especially when they became label-mates with the Mexican-American singer-songwriter Selena, and landed their first...

in 1993 as 'Cerca de Ti' (Close to You).