James Griffin

Most widely known for co-founding soft rock and roll hitmakers Bread, vocalist/songwriter Wayne Griffin also won an Academy Honor for co-authoring 1970’s smash “FOR EVERYONE WE REALIZE.” Delivered in Cincinnati on August 10, 1943, Griffin grew up in Memphis, developing up in a nearby that housed rock and roll & roller siblings Dorsey and Johnny Burnette; following the Burnettes relocated to LA, Griffin traveled western world for a go to, and using their help he agreed upon with Frank Sinatra’s Reprise label in 1962. The addresses collection Summer Vacation (recorded beneath the name Jimmy Griffin) implemented a year afterwards, and in 1965 Griffin co-starred in the big-screen feature non-e But the Daring; he also composed music for Lesley Gore, Bobby Vee, and Ed Ames. In 1967 Griffin started collaborating with vocalist/keyboardist Robb Royer, an associate of the tranquility pop quartet Pleasure Good. The group’s 1968 self-titled LP was made by in-demand L.A. program musician David Gates, so when the Pleasure Good dissolved immediately after, Gates recruited Griffin and Royer to create Loaf of bread. Bolstered by Griffin/Royer music like “Close friends and Fans,” “MAY I,” and “IN ANY MANNER You Wish Me,” Bread’s eponymous 1969 debut was initially and most important a display for Gates, whose “It Don’t Matter if you ask me” proved an enormous radio strike. Favoring lush harmonies and soft agreements that contrasted sharply using the harder-edged noises then dominating Radio, the record was instrumental in midwifing the soft-focus melodicism that could enjoy industrial supremacy through the entire decade to check out, and made Loaf of bread superstars. In 1970 Griffin and Royer had been asked to create lyrics to Fred Karlin’s music for the film Fans and Various other Strangers; “FOR EVERYONE WE REALIZE,” performed in the soundtrack by Larry Meredith, continued to earn the Oscar for Greatest Original Song, afterwards becoming a substantial radio strike when included in the Carpenters. While Loaf of bread notched a complete of ten Best 20 hits, included in this “Make It with You,” “If,” and “Baby, I’m a-Want You,” fewer of Griffin’s tunes managed to get on each one of the group’s successive albums, and in aggravation he broke rates following 1972’s Acoustic guitar Man; 2 yrs later on he resurfaced having a solo LP, Breakin’ Up IS SIMPLE. After rejoining Breads for 1976’s ill-conceived reunion work Shed Without Your Like, Griffin released his third single record, 1977’s Wayne Griffin, before teaming with ex-Hollies vocalist Terry Sylvester for 1981’s one-off cooperation Griffin and Sylvester. Five years later on he resurfaced alongside Billy Swan and Randy Meisner in the tranquility supergroup Black Connect, and through the 1990s caused Cymarron’s Richard Mainegra and Rick Yancey in the Remingtons. Griffin was carrying out with Sylvester and John Ford Coley when malignancy claimed his existence on January 11, 2005.