"There's a tune by this band Bread, a 70's band" -- the tune was "If," a Muzak staple.
The life force that is rejuvenated in her, however, is represented by a recording of "If a Picture Paints 1,000 Words," the unbearably saccharine pop song by the bubblegum band "Bread".
"Make It With You" is a cover of American band Bread's song.
That band, Ideal Bread, based in Brooklyn, has so far released two albums' worth of Lacy music.
According to social studies teacher Rob Summers, juniors and seniors "grade grub," take advanced placement classes for "the quality point," and stuff their résumés with band, baseball, bread baking, Class Council, Key Club, and candy-striping.
It would be too easy to dismiss Johnston's compositions for the Louis Lester Band as white-bread jazz, the kind that is performed as though Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives had never been birthed.
The bakery has enough locations now that shoppers will not have to buck the marching bands to buy this bread on Friday: 1260 Madison Avenue (90th Street), 1126 Third Avenue (66th Street), 282 Columbus Avenue (73rd Street), 434 Avenue of the Americas (10th Street) and 5 World Trade Center.
In the 1970s, soft rock developed, a kind of simple, unobtrusive and mellow form of pop-rock, exemplified by a number of bands like America and Bread, most of whom are little remembered today; many were one-hit wonders.
And Stana Katic broke bread with that band's producer, Genya Ravan, whom she portrays in the film.
He was the leader of the big band, and sang "We want bread not circuses" at a benefit I helped organise.
Whatever they say, this isn't the "comeback story of a lifetime": it's the low-risk re-entry bid of a band who know where their bread is buttered.
