Today's Forgotten Oldie...

Bread was a rock band from Los Angeles, California. They placed 13 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart between 1970 and 1977 and were pioneers of what later was labeled soft rock.  In July of 1971, after four straight hits that were all slow songs, the band released "Mother Freedom".  A huge departure from the normal mellow Bread sound, the song proved the band could rock it with the best of them.  The buying public wasn't ready for a harder Bread though, and the song cracked the top 40 but only made it to #37.  Bread promptly went back to their mellower sound.  But Mother Freedom was a great song and I remember playing the heck out of it on the radio that summer... truly a forgotten oldie!