DAVID GATES (1975) - The Old Grey Whistle Test ('(I Use The) Soap')

Co-founder of Bread, David Gates, performs a live version of "(I Use The) Soap" on BBCs 'Old Grey Whistle Test', back in 1975. Accompanied here by Larry Knechtel, Jim Gordon, Dean Parks and Carol Carmichael...

[Septurner]

The brief moment Carol Carmichael is in full focus near the end of the song is indelible!
Like the look on a lover's face never to be repeated again in a lifetime of being together.
She passed away a long time ago. She was gorgeous!

[patrickglenpatrick]

I wonder if David Gates could get all the old videos and compile it into a dvd despite the quality it would be a great re-play of the great hits he had👌😃

[alfredoreinaldoalberto]

Thank you David for many years of high level music!!

[gilbertogodoy]

It's really wonderful. I can't remember how many times I listened to this music when I was young. Many many times...

[peterknegtel]

Larry was a realy great man. RIP Larry. I lov his music and the contacts we had

[mdhunter]

I remember hearing this when David and the band played this song at the inlet of Ocean City MD.  I believe in 1996. What a magical evening !

[tonycanaris]

One of our first songs we took out or tried to copy as a junior high band was, "Make it with you. BREAD!!!

[mahammadahmedlvu]

David gates is the gate of soothing and awesome musics!!.

[earlgrey]

A Bread revival is surely long overdue.Too classy to be memory holed.

[MariaGomes-fqel]

❤ i love his music. .Great David Gates

[generosdelrock]

Great song music roots beautiful videos, great david gates forever 💣🎵🎶🎧😎👌💿✌😎👍😆💃Argentina Ciudadela Buenos Aires

[JohnNiemsMusic]

Thanks for sharing this GEM! I played this song all the time and CLOUDS too as I had David's FIRST ALBUM!!! This is a fantastic LIVE VERSION too!

[mfburk]

This was the B-side of the single "Clouds" in 1973.

[patrickrozario]

This was and still is a wonderful n tuneful song...A music genius who usea everyday items like soap n pencil to describe lost love just like Dan Fogelberg s Believe in me n Longer0

[petrslivinski]

An awesome songwriter for hit makers of the late 50s and 60s and then forming BREAD during the 70s. Too bad Larry Knechtel, Mike Botts, and Jimmy Griffin are gone too soon. Gates knew how to write and sing the tunes really well.

[sousaisilva]

I love this group of music, sorry my english, more this guy is a great man a sweet voice! i from Brazil...

[mariaedna]

NICE SONG COZ WE ALL USE IT TO MAKE US CLEAN SMELL NICE AND HAPPY !!!

[mdhunter]

"Soap (I Use The)"

I use the soap to wash the dirt of my face
I write with pencil so that I can erase
But what's to do when someone's taken my place with you, with you

I know to stop when the light turns to red
And when it rains I know to cover my head
But what's to do when I wish'd I were dead over you, 'ver you, over you

Do do do do do etc
Plannin' to write off tomorrow
Do do do do do etc
Hopin' to wash off the sorrow

I woke to find that my world was not there
It ceased to me when I found you did not care
And my ambition vanished into thin air along with you, with you

Now my emotions find it hard to let go
And as for me I'll find a new road to hoe
But maybe this time I will take it more slow than before, before
Than before

A-Z Lyrics D DAVID GATES Lyrics
"First" (1973)

[nirvano]

To the owner of this channel: I don´t know who you are, but if you know or talk to Mr. Gates please tell him that has influenced me to play the guitar along with the guy in my picture (Gustavo Cerati). Cheers from Chile, Francisco.

[jonwingate]

The way i prefer to remember Jim Gordon