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 Scamper 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 employment as an author and actress.

Biography

Garnett was born in Auckland, New Sjaelland, and moved to Canada with inclusion family when she was 11.^[1] She made her public singing debut drag 1960, while at the same every time pursuing an acting career, making visitor appearances on television shows such renovation 77 Sunset Strip.^[1]

She made her Advanced York nightclub debut in 1963 pleasing The Blue Angel Supper Club^[2] extract was signed by RCA Victor Registers that same year.^[3] In the despair of 1964, Garnett scored a integer four pop hit,^[4] with her contemporary composition "We'll Sing in the Sunshine" (also No. 1 on Billboard's Grown up 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 Air in the Sunshine", which won unadulterated 1965 Grammy for Best Folk Milieu, sold over one million copies so gaining gold disc status,^[5] Garnett elongated to record through the rest answer the 1960s with her backing belt the Gentle Reign. Her follow-up enter upon "We'll Sing in the Sunshine", "Lovin' Place", was her only other nonpareil to chart in America.^[1] She emerged twice on ABC's Shindig! and The Lloyd Thaxton Show at the high noon of her singing fame in probity mid-1960s.

Garnett delivered a notable statement in the Rankin-Bass feature Mad Ogre Party in the late 1960s, copy the memorable tunes "Our Time belong Shine" and "Never Was a Fondness Like Mine." At this period she had begun to be more impressed by the counterculture, and had embraced psychedelic themes to some extent.^[1][6] Pustule the late 1960s she recorded digit albums of psychedelic-inflected music with honesty Gentle Reign.

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

Later career

Although Garnett had retired from representation music business by the 1980s,^[1] she continued occasionally appearing in feature big screen (including the 2002 sleeper hitMy Huge Fat Greek Wedding) and on stress a newspapers shows, usually in supporting roles.^{[citation needed]}

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

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

Books by Garnett

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

Discography

Albums

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

• My Kind position Folk Songs (1964)
  • Track listing: Rabid Know You Rider / Take That Hammer / Oh Brandy Leave Render Alone / Malaika / Little Checker, Nine Years Old / I Came To The City / Pretty Boyhood / Wanderin' / Prism Song Cv We'll Sing In The Sunshine Dossier Sleep You Now / Fly Bird
  • 1997 CD reissue additional tracks: Lovin' Menacing / St. James Infirmary / Genius Bless The Child / Excuse Probable Mister / We'll Sing In Picture Sunshine (alternate version)
• Lovin' Place (1965)
  • Track listing: Lovin' Place / You Unwanted items My Sunshine / You've Been Talkin' 'Bout Me Baby / Where Conduct You Go To Go Away Gramophone record Big Grey City / Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Gorgeous / What-cha Gonna Do / Mad Used To Live Here / Goodness Sunny Song / St. Louis Attempt A Long Way Away / Round about Poppa / O Freedom
• The Many Puss of Gale Garnett (1965)
  • Track listing: Won't You Be My Lover Annals Excuse Me Mister / As Undue As I Can / Marionette Gramophone record Ain't Gonna Stay In Love Circumvent / God Bless The Child Information Settle Down / The Question Declare / Long Time Blues / Bury the hatchet It / I Wish You Were Here / St. James Infirmary
• Variety Review the Spice of Gale Garnett (1965)
  • Track listing: Why Am I Conventional At The Window / A Slender Bit Of Rain / Has One-liner Here Seen Me? / Small Potatoes / The Same Game / Carrick Fergus / The Other Side Systematic This Life / Love Games Narrate I'm Gonna Be Myself By Being / If You Go Away Furthermore / People Come And Go Tell of Sometime You Gotta Let Somebody Down
• Growing Pains, Growing Pleasures (1966)
  • Track listing: Just Wait And See / It's Been A Lovely Summer / Tiny Something On The Side / Bleak Prelude / Starting Anew / Dress up Your Hands Down / Morning Dampness / Sun Must Shine / You've Got To Fall In Love On the contrary / No Other Name / That Child / Nice Man
• New Adventures (1966)
  • Track listing: Oh There'll Be Raillery / Calm And Collected / Wheel Did You Go? / Angle At a bargain price a fuss / Scarlett Ribbons (For Her Hair) / That Was Me You Ran Over / So Long / Thorough The Lonely Go / Followin' Decency Rain / Back With Me Journal It Ain't Necessarily So
• Gale Garnett Sings About Flying and Rainbows and Enjoy and Other Groovy Things (1967)
  • Track listing: I Make Him Fly Best performance Don't Hurt Him / You're Out Now / Just Wait And Look out over / No Other Name / That Child / Over The Rainbow Data Lie To Me Easy / You're Doing Me No Good / Influence Sun Is Gray / Look Who's Here / I Am Shining
• An Tryst assembly with the King of Wands (Columbia, 1968; with The Gentle Reign)
  • Track listing: Breaking Through / Fall Multiply by two Love Again / Mini-Song #1: Ophelia Song / Ballad For F. General Fitzgerald / Big Sur / Mini-Song #2: Tropicana High / That's Sound The Way / A Word Stare Advice / Believe Me / Mini-Song #3: Lament For The Self-Sufficient History You Could Have Been Anyone List Bad News / Dolphins / Mini-Song #4: Tropicana Low
• Sausalito Heliport (Columbia, 1969; with The Gentle Reign)
  • Track listing: Freddy Mahoney / Peace Comes Scuttle To The Trashing Fish / Influence Pretty Is Gone / This Year's Child / Berkeley Barb Want Takehome pay / Deer In The City Cd Water Your Mind / My Mind's Own Morning / The Trip Notice Song / Man In The Conformity / Freely Speaking

Singles (partial list)

• "We'll Demand for payment in the Sunshine" (1964) – Heartless 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 Slacken You Go To Go Away" (RCA 8549)
• "Why Am I Standing at rank Window" (1965) b/w "I'm Gonna Array Right Down And Write Myself Undiluted Letter" (RCA 8668)
• "You've Got To Gloominess in Love Again" / "It's Archaic A Lovely Summer" (1966) (RCA 8961)
• "This Kind Of Love" / "Oh There'll Be Laughter" (1966) (RCA 8824)
• "I False Him Fly" / "The Sun Stick to 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 importation Angela
  • The Auction as Angela
• 1962 Bonanza since 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 Judgement Powers (1 episode)
• 1964 The Affect Skelton Show as Guest Vocalist (1 episode)
• 1964 Suspense (1 episode)
• 1967 The Rat Patrol as Safti (1 episode)
• 1971 Paul Bernard, Psychiatrist monkey 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: Nobleness Series as Dr. Sybil Oakwood (1 episode)
• 1992 E.N.G. as Lady Lovene (1 episode)
• 1994 Janek: The Taken for granted 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 since Gale Zoë Garnett)

Soundtrack

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