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David Hungate

real name William David Hungate

Texas, United States

David Hungate is credited on 2,010 releases across 657 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1969–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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2,010

Credits

657

Albums

7

Decades active

761

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American bassist, born August 5, 1948 Troy, Missouri. Noted as a member of Los Angeles pop-rock band Toto from 1977-1982. Boz Scaggs's "Silk Degrees" album of 1976 included Hungate and several other future members of Toto. Hungate's tracks featured the "hook" popping bassline on the single "Lowdown," and the lyrical bass fills on "Harbor Lights" and "We're All Alone." Since 1982 he has worked as a session musician in Nashville and has worked with Greg Lake, Bryan Adams, Dolly Parton, Rosanne Cash and Melissa Manchester among others. Hungate also plays guitar, saxophone and trombone and has produced and recorded with several country artists.
He has performed on hundreds of albums, movie scores, TV shows and commercials and has won four Grammys for his work with Toto and Chet Atkins. David Hungate along with the other members of Toto inducted into the Musicians' Hall of Fame in Nashville in 2009.

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Credited work

2,010 releases · 657 albums · active 1969–2025

  • Performance · 2,942
  • Other credits · 88
  • Production · 64
  • Engineering · 2

Studios: Sunset Sound · Studio 55, Los Angeles · Davlen Sound Studios · Sound Labs, Hollywood

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