The Remingtons

James Griffin entered the world on 10 August 1943 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and passed away on 11 January 2005 in Nashville, Tennessee. Though David Gates often received greater attention, Griffin served as a key singer-songwriter in Bread. Once he departed the band, he kept composing material and issued a self-titled solo record on Polydor Records in 1977. Several singles followed on Memphis-based Shoe Records before he issued the 1981 collaboration Griffin & Sylvester alongside Terry Sylvester, formerly of the Hollies. Griffin next joined Billy Swan and Randy Meisner in Black Tie; the trio produced the strong, upbeat album When The Night Falls during 1986. He later formed a new alliance with Rick Yancey and Richard Mainegra, the latter born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Mainegra had already scored a US pop success with “Rings” while a member of Cymarron back in 1971. Yancey had contributed guitar work to recordings by Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, and Mainegra had supplied the song “Separate Ways,” a hit single for Elvis Presley. Performing together as the Remingtons, the trio put out the close-harmony single “A Long Time Ago” along with an album that echoed the sound of Bread in certain respects.