Make it with You - Wikipedia Make it with You For the Peggy Lee album, see Make It with You ( album ). `` Make It with You '' Single by Bread from the album On the Waters B - side `` Why Do You Keep Me Waiting '' Released June 1970 Format 7 '' 45 RPM Genre Soft rock Length 3 : 18 Label Elektra Songwriter ( s ) David Gates Producer ( s ) David Gates Bread singles chronology `` Could I '' ( 1969 ) `` Make It with You '' ( 1970 ) `` It Do n't Matter to Me '' ( 1970 ) `` Could I '' ( 1969 ) `` Make It with You '' ( 1970 ) `` It Do n't Matter to Me '' ( 1970 ) `` Make It with You '' is a song written by David Gates and originally recorded by the pop - rock group Bread, of which Gates was a member. Only Gates and drummer Mike Botts appear on the song and the song was a # 1 hit. Contents 1 Release 2 Personnel 3 Chart performance 3.1 Weekly charts 3.2 Year - end charts 4 Cover versions 5 See also 6 References 7 External links Release The song first appeared on Bread 's 1970 album, On the Waters. Released as a single that June, it was the group 's first top - ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and spent the week of August 22, 1970, at number one, their only single to do so ; it also reached # 5 on the UK Singles Chart. Billboard ranked `` Make It with You '' as the No. 13 song of 1970, and it was certified gold by the RIAA for sales of over one million copies. When the song was released, David Gates 's mother was asked by a local interviewer how her son 's music career was going. Misunderstanding the song 's title, she replied that his group had just recorded a song called `` Naked with You. '' Personnel David Gates - lead & harmony vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, strings Mike Botts - drums Chart performance Weekly charts Chart ( 1970 ) Peak position Canada RPM UK 5 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 U.S. Billboard Easy Listening U.S. Cashbox Top 100 Year - end charts Chart ( 1970 ) Rank Canada 24 UK 64 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 13 U.S. Cash Box 22 Cover versions The Supremes, Aretha Franklin, Christian Bautista, Earth, Wind & Fire, Dusty Springfield, Cilla Black, the Originals, the Main Ingredient, the Whispers, Marc Anthony, Teddy Pendergrass, Don Julian & the Larks, Let Loose, Dennis Brown, Andy Williams, Lou Donaldson, Tony Mottola, The Pasadenas and Marc Cohn have all recorded cover versions of `` Make It with You. '' Ralfi Pagan reached # 32 on the Billboard R&B chart in the summer of 1971 with a Latin - soul version of the song. It has also been recorded in Spanish as `` Cerca de ti '' ( Barrio Boyzz, 1993 ) and `` Quiero hacerte el amor '' ( M.C. Blvd., 1996 ). See also List of Hot 100 number - one singles of 1970 ( U.S. ) References ^ Jump up to : `` Bread - Retrospective ''. Albumlinernotes.com. 1940 - 12 - 11. Retrieved 2016 - 10 - 03. Jump up ^ `` Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada ''. Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016 - 10 - 03. Jump up ^ ( 1 ) Jump up ^ `` Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada ''. Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016 - 10 - 03. Jump up ^ `` Top 100 1970 - UK Music Charts ''. Uk-charts.top-source.info. Retrieved 2016 - 10 - 03. Jump up ^ `` Top 100 Hits of 1970 / Top 100 Songs of 1970 ''. Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016 - 10 - 03. Jump up ^ `` Archived copy ''. Archived from the original on 2016 - 03 - 04. Retrieved 2016 - 07 - 07. Jump up ^ Joel Whitburn Top R&B Singles 1942 - 2004 ISBN 0 - 89820 - 160 - 8 External links Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics Preceded by `` ( They Long to Be ) Close to You '' by The Carpenters Billboard Hot 100 number - one single August 22, 1970 Succeeded by `` War '' by Edwin Starr Bread David Gates Jimmy Griffin Robb Royer Mike Botts Larry Knechtel Studio albums Bread On the Waters Manna Baby I 'm - a Want You Guitar Man Lost Without Your Love Compilation albums The Best of Bread The Best of Bread, Volume 2 The Sound of Bread Anthology of Bread Hit singles `` Make It with You '' `` It Do n't Matter to Me '' `` If '' `` Baby I 'm - a Want You '' `` Everything I Own '' `` The Guitar Man '' `` Sweet Surrender '' `` Aubrey '' `` Lost Without Your Love '' Related articles Discography Elektra Records Rhino Records Warner Music Group Book : Bread This 1970s pop song - related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Make_It_with_You&oldid=803229375 '' Categories : 1970 singles 1970 songs Bread ( band ) songs Billboard Hot 100 number - one singles Songs written by David Gates Andy Williams songs Nancy Wilson ( jazz singer ) songs 1970s pop song stubs Hidden categories : All articles with dead external links Articles with dead external links from October 2016 Articles with hAudio microformats All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from October 2017 All stub articles Talk Contents About Wikipedia Čeština Español 日本 語 Norsk nynorsk Tiếng Việt Edit links This page was last edited on 1 October 2017, at 07 : 51. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. About Wikipedia

Question: who sang i want to make it with you
Answer: the pop-rock group Bread