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Born 1940 in
Tulsa, Oklahoma,
David
Gates was best known as the leader of the 70’s soft rock group Bread.
During High school, David formed a band called David Gates
and
the Accents with a piano player by the name of Russell Bridges-later to be
known as Leon Russell. After leaving the University of Tulsa and traveling
to Los Angeles, he played the club circuit with Leon. Besides being a
great session player proficient on several instruments, Gates could also
write charts, lead sheets and sing background. He arranged, wrote and
produced for Glen Campbell, Ann-Margaret, Bobby Darin, Glen Yarbrough and
Rod McKuen before forming the Group Bread. He made 16 albums and earned
several gold records. Bread broke up and David launched a solo career
recording Good-bye Girl for a Neil Simon film. He rejoined Bread
for another album, but has not written much or per- formed since. He is
best known for hits
Aubrey,
Baby
I'm A Want You,
Diary,
Everything
I Own,
Goodbye Girl,
If,
It don't Matter To Me,
Make
it With You, and
Sweet
Surrender.
David lives in California with his high
school sweetheart and wife Jo- Rita and their two children.
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Claude
R. Bridges
aka:
Leon Russell -1959 |
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Born
1942 in Lawton Oklahoma, Claude Russell Bridges played classical piano at
age three. Later, at 13, he took up trumpet and formed his own band. Russell
got his first break at 14, after he lied about his age and got a gig at
Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa. Leon
Russell in the early '70s wrote and recorded songs like "Delta
Lady," "Roll Away the Stone," and "Dixie
Lullaby." His "This Masquerade" ranked number one, on
the jazz, pop, and R&B charts, simultaneously. "A Song for
You," been dubbed the greatest love song ever written. Russell formed
Shelter Records in 1970 In 1973 he launched his solo tour, Charlie
Daniels, Z Z Top, Elton John, and Willie Nelson opened for him. Billboard
Magazine knighted Russell as the biggest concert draw in the world.
Russell married soul singer Mary McCreary. In 2001, Russell started Leon
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Born
in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1942, Elvin first got hooked on the blues listening
to late night R&B radio as a teenager. He began collecting blues
records, and quickly realized that many of his favorite records were
recorded in Chicago. In 1959, he used a National Merit Scholarship as a
way to get closer to his blues heroes by enrolling in the University of
Chicago. in the late 1960s, Bishop became a regular at the famed Fillmore
jam sessions, playing alongside Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, B.B. King and
many others. He recorded first for Fillmore Records, then Epic and then
for Capricorn, where his career took off to new heights. He charted with Travelin’
Shoes before scoring big with
Fooled
Around And Fell In Love (the song, with vocals supplied by
pre-Jefferson Starship singer Mickey Thomas, reached number three on the
pop charts). After a seven-year recording hiatus, Elvin returned to his
blues roots in 1988, signing with Alligator and releasing BIG
FUN.
He followed in 1991 with DON'T
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James
Dunn, Class of 1960 |
James Dunn, Class of 1960,
former president of the
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Mill Creek Lumber and
Supply Company currently serving on various municipal agencies
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