Garnett was born in Auckland, New Zealand, and moved to Canada with her family when she was 11. She made her public singing debut in 1960, while at the same time pursuing an acting career, making guest appearances on television shows such as 77 Sunset Strip. She made her New York nightclub debut in 1963 at The Blue Angel Supper Club and was signed by RCA Victor Records that same year…
...In the fall of 1964, Garnett scored a number four pop hit with her original composition "We'll Sing in the Sunshine" (also No. 1 on Billboard's Adult 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. Riding the success of "We'll Sing in the Sunshine", which won a 1965 Grammy for Best Folk Recording, sold over one million copies thus gaining gold disc status, Garnett continued to record through the rest of the 1960s with her backing band the Gentle Reign. Her follow-up to "We'll Sing in the Sunshine", "Lovin' Place", was her only other single to chart in America. Garnett appeared twice on ABC's Shindig! and The Lloyd Thaxton Show at the height of her singing fame in the mid 1960s.Garnett delivered a notable performance in the Rankin-Bass feature Mad Monster Party in the late 1960s, with the memorable tunes Our Time to Shine and Never Was a Love Like Mine. At this period she had begun to be more influenced by the counterculture and had embraced psychedelic themes to some extent. In the late 1960s she recorded two albums of psychedelic-inflected music with the Gentle Reign.
In 1975, Garnett participated in an Off-Off Broadway theater production of "Starfollowers in an Ancient Land," written and directed by H. M. Koutoukas, at the La MaMa Experimental Theater Club in New York City's East Village. Garnett performed in the cast, and also co-wrote the music for the production with Tom O'Horgan.
Although Garnett had retired from the music business by the 1980s, she continued occasionally appearing in feature films (including the 2002 sleeper hit My Big Fat Greek Wedding) and on television shows, usually in supporting roles.[8] In subsequent years, she also branched out into journalism, writing essays, columns, and book reviews for various newspapers and magazines. She also wrote and performed two one-person theater pieces, Gale Garnett & Company and Life After Latex.
Garnett also did the voice of the "Mother KOIT" liners for KOIT-FM (93.3 FM) in San Francisco in the mid to late 1960s during its Progressive rock formatted era (1968–1970). - wiki
trax:
01. Why Am I Standing at the Window 02. A Little Bit of Rain 03. Has Anyone Here Seen Me 04. Small Potatoes 05. The Same Game 06. Carrick Fergus 07. The Other Side of This Life 08. Love Games 09. I'm Gonna Be by Myself by Myself 10. If You Go Away Again 11. People Come and Go 12. Sometime You Gotta Let Somebody Down
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Gale Garnett "Variety is the Spice of Gale"
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Many thanks very nice
Thanks for these. Gale is one of those "could have been..." singers for me. We'll Sing in the Sunshine was an instant classic and promised much more that never came.
Hi!
Thanx for MORE Gale. In 60's the music biz. wasn't quite as big as in US & probably without enough promotion for her to be more successful.
Cheers!
Ciao! For now.
rntcj
Thanks! She had way more albums in the 60s than I remembered and this is another I didn't know.
Groovy! Thank you!
Pretty tough competition from the Beatles and other "British Invasion" artists in the USA 1964-1966... A few years earlier or later may have made a big difference in Gale's status...
Thanks for the recordings, many I have never heard before.
Cheers,
Mike M
Thank you
Luv the Gale Garnett series of posts. Thanks a huge bunch.
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