Bread Guitarist Jimmy Griffin Dies

[Bluebear]

LOS ANGELES - Jimmy Griffin, an Academy Award-winning songwriter and former guitarist for the 1970s pop group Bread, died Tuesday in Nashville of complications from cancer. He was 61.


After a stint in acting and as a solo performer, Griffin joined Bread in 1969. The Los Angeles-based group's hits included "Make It With You," "Baby I'm-a Want You," "If" and "Everything I Own."

With Fred Karlin and fellow Bread member Robb Royer, Griffin co-wrote "For All We Know" for the 1970 film "Lovers and Other Strangers"; the song won a best song Oscar and became a top five hit for the Carpenters in 1971.

After Bread broke up in 1977, Griffin recorded solo and as a member of the country groups Black Tie and the Remingtons. He reunited with Bread for a 1997 world tour.


Jimmy is on the far right

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. I just adored IF when I was a small fry :^(

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[Bluebear]

2. Yeah me too

They have a sappy reputation but to me their songs were sweet.

[DelawareValleyDem]

3. Wow, and I just heard 'Guitar Man'

for the first time in YEARS last week.


Who draws the crowd and plays so loud,
Baby it's the guitar man.
Who's gonna steal the show, you know
Baby it's the guitar man,

He can make you love, he can make you cry
He will bring you down, then he'll get you high
Somethin' keeps him goin', miles and miles a day
To find another place to play.

Night after night who treats you right,
Baby it's the guitar man
Who's on the radio, you go listen
To the guitar man

Then he comes to town, and you see his face,
And you think you might like to take his place
Somethin' keeps him driftin' miles and miles away
Searchin' for the songs to play.

Then you listen to the music and you like to sing along,
You want to get the meaning out of each and ev'ry song
Then you find yourself a message and some words to call your own
And take them home.

He can make you love, he can get you high
He will bring you down, then he'll make you cry
Somethin' keeps him movin', but no one seems to know
What it is that makes him go.

Then the lights begin to flicker and the sound is getting dim
The voice begins to falter and the crowds are getting thin
But he never seems to notice he's just got to find
Another place to play,
Anyway got to play,anyway Got to play

[bbernardini]

4. He looks a lot like David Gilmour in that picture.

Don't you think?

[last_texas_dem]

5. That's sad

Sad to hear of his passing; sixty-one seems so young.

Bread did some great stuff, especially on their earlier albums, and Griffin's songs are some of my favorites.

[louis-t]

6. The year was 1972.

In July of that year, I was a 16 year old spending a month in Europe. 4 hours a day in school, then bus trips to various historic attractions on the weekends. The chartered bus had a tape player, but the bus driver had no tapes. One of the students had the first Bread album on cassette. We listened to that tape for hours on end. Every note of every song is ingrained in my brain. Any time I hear one of those songs, it immediately takes me back to long bus rides staring out the window at the Swiss countryside. I think ah'm gonna cry.

[bpcmxr]

7. Apologies if I'm wrong,

but isn't that David Gates on the right?

http://www.superseventies.com/ssdavidgates.html

[Bluebear]

8. I do believe David is the 2nd in the photo above

here is an early Jimmy photo