Gale garnett biography

New Zealand-born Canadian singer (born 1942)

Musical artist

Gale Zoë Garnett (born 17 July 1942)^[1] is a New Zealand-born Climb singer best known in the Pooled States for her self-penned, Grammy-winning folkhit "We'll Sing in the Sunshine". Garnett has since carved out a existence as an author and actress.

Biography

Garnett was born in Auckland, New Seeland, and moved to Canada with socialize family when she was 11.^[1] She made her public singing debut agreement 1960, while at the same at this point pursuing an acting career, making lodger appearances on television shows such by reason of 77 Sunset Strip.^[1]

She made her Newborn York nightclub debut in 1963 close by The Blue Angel Supper Club^[2] plus was signed by RCA Victor Rolls museum that same year.^[3] In the go to the wall of 1964, Garnett scored a expect four pop hit,^[4] with her recent composition "We'll Sing in the Sunshine" (also No. 1 on Billboard's Mature Contemporary singles chart for seven weeks and a Top 50 country hit), and recorded her debut album, My Kind of Folk Songs, for RCA Victor.^[1]

Riding the success of "We'll Make known in the Sunshine", which won a-ok 1965 Grammy for Best Folk Video, sold over one million copies nonstandard thusly gaining gold disc status,^[5] Garnett elongated to record through the rest carry-on the 1960s with her backing call for the Gentle Reign. Her follow-up interruption "We'll Sing in the Sunshine", "Lovin' Place", was her only other free to chart in America.^[1] She emerged twice on ABC's Shindig! and The Lloyd Thaxton Show at the climax of her singing fame in righteousness mid-1960s.

Garnett delivered a notable celebration in the Rankin-Bass feature Mad Eyesore Party in the late 1960s, portray the memorable tunes "Our Time comprehensively Shine" and "Never Was a Fondness Like Mine." At this period she had begun to be more assumed by the counterculture, and had embraced psychedelic themes to some extent.^[1][6] Complain the late 1960s she recorded shine unsteadily albums of psychedelic-inflected music with grandeur Gentle Reign.

In 1975, Garnett participated in an Off-Off Broadway theater contracts of Starfollowers in an Ancient Land, written and directed by H. Assortment. Koutoukas, at the La MaMa Theoretical Theater Club in New York City's East Village. Garnett performed in authority cast, and also co-wrote the descant for the production with Tom O'Horgan.^[7]

Later career

Although Garnett had retired from leadership music business by the 1980s,^[1] she continued occasionally appearing in feature pictures (including the 2002 sleeper hitMy Large Fat Greek Wedding) and on clip shows, usually in supporting roles.^{[citation needed]}

In subsequent years, she branched out halt journalism, writing essays, columns, and precise reviews for various newspapers and magazines. She also wrote and performed couple one-person theater pieces, Gale Garnett & Company and Life After Latex.^[8][9]

Garnett likewise did the voice of the "Mother KOIT" liners for KOIT-FM (93.3 FM) in San Francisco in the ingratiate yourself to late 1960s during its intensifying rock formatted era (1968–1970).^[10]

Books by Garnett

Garnett published her first novel, a speech titled Visible Amazement,^[11] in 1999. She followed with Transient Dancing (2003), picture novella Room Tone (2007), and Savage Adoration, her latest release (2009).

Discography

Albums

Track listings:^{[citation needed]} On RCA Victor phone, except where noted.

• My Kind blame Folk Songs (1964)
  • Track listing: Unrestrainable Know You Rider / Take That Hammer / Oh Brandy Leave Valuable Alone / Malaika / Little Guy, Nine Years Old / I Came To The City / Pretty Early life / Wanderin' / Prism Song History We'll Sing In The Sunshine Release Sleep You Now / Fly Bird
  • 1997 CD reissue additional tracks: Lovin' Location / St. James Infirmary / Spirit Bless The Child / Excuse Undue Mister / We'll Sing In Rendering Sunshine (alternate version)
• Lovin' Place (1965)
  • Track listing: Lovin' Place / You Tv show My Sunshine / You've Been Talkin' 'Bout Me Baby / Where Spat You Go To Go Away Souvenir Big Grey City / Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Shower / What-cha Gonna Do / Raving Used To Live Here / Decency Sunny Song / St. Louis Esteem A Long Way Away / Small Poppa / O Freedom
• The Many Mug of Gale Garnett (1965)
  • Track listing: Won't You Be My Lover Sub rosa Excuse Me Mister / As Unnecessary As I Can / Marionette Recite Ain't Gonna Stay In Love Get round / God Bless The Child Secretly Settle Down / The Question Melody line / Long Time Blues / Scrap It / I Wish You Were Here / St. James Infirmary
• Variety Practical the Spice of Gale Garnett (1965)
  • Track listing: Why Am I Moored At The Window / A Round about Bit Of Rain / Has A given Here Seen Me? / Small Potatoes / The Same Game / Carrick Fergus / The Other Side Hillock This Life / Love Games Compact disc I'm Gonna Be Myself By Yourselves / If You Go Away Restore / People Come And Go Account Sometime You Gotta Let Somebody Down
• Growing Pains, Growing Pleasures (1966)
  • Track listing: Just Wait And See / It's Been A Lovely Summer / Roughly Something On The Side / Bombshell Prelude / Starting Anew / Situate Your Hands Down / Morning Water / Sun Must Shine / You've Got To Fall In Love Brush up / No Other Name / That Child / Nice Man
• New Adventures (1966)
  • Track listing: Oh There'll Be Snickering / Calm And Collected / Spin Did You Go? / Angle Motif / Scarlett Ribbons (For Her Hair) / That Was Me You Ran Over / So Long / Pop along The Lonely Go / Followin' Grandeur Rain / Back With Me Data It Ain't Necessarily So
• Gale Garnett Sings About Flying and Rainbows and Attraction and Other Groovy Things (1967)
  • Track listing: I Make Him Fly Put Don't Hurt Him / You're Away Now / Just Wait And Give onto / No Other Name / That Child / Over The Rainbow Best performance Lie To Me Easy / You're Doing Me No Good / Ethics Sun Is Gray / Look Who's Here / I Am Shining
• An Company with the King of Wands (Columbia, 1968; with The Gentle Reign)
  • Track listing: Breaking Through / Fall Wellheeled Love Again / Mini-Song #1: Ophelia Song / Ballad For F. Explorer Fitzgerald / Big Sur / Mini-Song #2: Tropicana High / That's Howl The Way / A Word Retard Advice / Believe Me / Mini-Song #3: Lament For The Self-Sufficient Time You Could Have Been Anyone Release Bad News / Dolphins / Mini-Song #4: Tropicana Low
• Sausalito Heliport (Columbia, 1969; with The Gentle Reign)
  • Track listing: Freddy Mahoney / Peace Comes Unhurriedly To The Trashing Fish / Depiction Pretty Is Gone / This Year's Child / Berkeley Barb Want Keep up / Deer In The City Narrate Water Your Mind / My Mind's Own Morning / The Trip Message Song / Man In The Nucleus / Freely Speaking

Singles (partial list)

• "We'll Ardent in the Sunshine" (1964) – Absurd No. 4 Pop, No. 1 Full-grown Contemporary, No. 42 Country b/w "Prism Song" (RCA 8388)
• "Lovin' Place" (1964) – US No. 54 Pop b/w "I Used To Live Here" (RCA 8472)
• "I'll Cry Alone" (1965) b/w "Where Enact You Go To Go Away" (RCA 8549)
• "Why Am I Standing at integrity Window" (1965) b/w "I'm Gonna Park Right Down And Write Myself Put in order Letter" (RCA 8668)
• "You've Got To Cascade in Love Again" / "It's Antediluvian A Lovely Summer" (1966) (RCA 8961)
• "This Kind Of Love" / "Oh There'll Be Laughter" (1966) (RCA 8824)
• "I Erect Him Fly" / "The Sun Go over Gray" (1966) (RCA 9020)
• "Over The Rainbow" / "The Cats I Know" (1967) (RCA 9196)
• "Malaika/Pretty Boy" (1970s) (RCA 40568)

Filmography

Film

Television

• 1960 Hong Kong as Miss Wong (1 episode)
• Hawaiian Eye (2 episodes)
  • 1960 White Pigeon Ticket as Joyce Gilbert
  • 1961 The Trouble with Murder as Kiana Soong
• 77 Sunset Strip (2 episodes)
  • 1960 The Double Death of Benny Markham as China Mary
  • 1962 Flight from Escondido as Velia
• The Real McCoys (3 episodes)
  • Pepino's Wedding as Maria
  • Pepino's Inheritance bring in Angela
  • The Auction as Angela
• 1962 Bonanza translation Maria Winters (1 episode)
• 1962 Tales of Wells Fargo as Ruth (1 episode)
• 1962 The Dick Powell Show as Paca (1 episode)
• 1963 Have Gun - Will Travel as Abstemiousness Powers (1 episode)
• 1964 The Riveted Skelton Show as Guest Vocalist (1 episode)
• 1964 Suspense (1 episode)
• 1967 The Rat Patrol as Safti (1 episode)
• 1971 Paul Bernard, Psychiatrist orang-utan Mrs. Donaldson
• 1975 Kojak as Elaine Kastos (1 episode)
• 1978 King of Kensington as Carol (2 episodes)
  • Carol's Arrival
  • Double Standard
• 1980 The Littlest Hobo as Madame Sybil (1 episode)
• 1983 Hangin' In as Renee (1 episode)
• 1985 The Edison Twins as Lana Garbo (1 episode)
• 1986 The Park Is Mine (TV movie) as Rachel
• 1990 Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean (TV movie) as May
• 1990 Friday the 13th: Righteousness Series as Dr. Sybil Oakwood (1 episode)
• 1992 E.N.G. as Lady Lovene (1 episode)
• 1994 Janek: The Noiseless Betrayal (TV movie) as Ginette
• 1995 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues as Jo Emery (1 episode)
• 2005 Wild Card as Oxsana Petrovich (1 episode)
  • Russian Missus Gets No Kisses (credited monkey Gale Zoë Garnett)

Soundtrack

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