Gale Garnett

Gale Zoë Garnett (born 17 July 1942) is a Canadian singer best known in the United States for her self-penned, Grammy-winning folk hit "We'll Sing in the Sunshine". Garnett is also an author and actress.

Biography

Garnett was born in Auckland, New Zealand, and moved to Canada with her family when she was 11. and was signed by RCA Victor Records that same year. which also hit number 1 on Billboards Adult Contemporary singles chart for seven weeks and was a Top 50 country hit.

"We'll Sing in the Sunshine" won a 1965 Grammy for Best Folk Recording, and sold over one million copies, thus gaining gold disc status. Garnett was also nominated for Best Vocal Performance Female for that song. Riding its success, 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 voiced the character Francesca in the Rankin-Bass feature Mad Monster Party? in the late 1960s, singing the tunes "Our Time to Shine" and "Never Was a Love Like Mine". At this point, 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 Theatre 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.

Later career Although Garnett had retired from the music business by the 1980s,

Books by Garnett Garnett published her first novel, a romance titled Visible Amazement, in 1999. She followed with Transient Dancing (2003), the novella Room Tone (2007), and Savage Adoration, her latest release (2009).

Discography Albums Year Title, Label Peak chart positionsTrack listing US CB 1964 My Kind of Folk Songs (RCA Victor) 25 Track list I Know You Rider Take This Hammer Oh Brandy Leave Me Alon Little Man, Nine Years Old I Came to the City Pretty Boy Wanderin' Prism Song We'll Sing in the Sunshine Sleep You Now Fly Bird1965 Lovin' Place (RCA Victor) — Track list Lovin' Place You Are My Sunshine You've Been Talkin' 'Bout Me Baby Where Do You Go to Go Away Big Grey City Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out What-cha Gonna Do I Used to Live Here The Sunny Song St. Louis Is a Long Way Away Little Poppa O Freedom The Many Faces of Gale Garnett (RCA Victor) — Track list Won't You Be My Lover Excuse Me Mister As Much As I Can Marionette Ain't Gonna Stay in Love Alone God Bless the Child Settle Down The Question Song Long Time Blues Forget It I Wish You Were Here St. James Infirmary Variety Is the Spice of Gale Garnett (RCA Victor) — Track list Why Am I Standing at the Window A Little Bit of Rain Has Anyone Here Seen Me? Small Potatoes The Same Game Carrick Fergus The Other Side of This Life Love Games I'm Gonna Be Myself By Myself If You Go Away Again People Come and Go Sometime You Gotta Let Somebody Down1966 Growing Pains, Growing Pleasures (RCA Victor) — Track list Just Wait and See It's Been a Lovely Summer Little Something on the Side Blue Prelude Starting Anew Put Your Hands Down Morning Dew Sun Must Shine You've Got to Fall in Love Again No Other Name This Child Nice Man New Adventures (RCA Victor) — Track list Oh There'll Be Laughter Calm and Collected Where Did You Go? Angle Song Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair) That Was Me You Ran Over So Long Let the Lonely Go Followin' the Rain Back with Me It Ain't Necessarily So 1967 Gale Garnett Sings About Flying and Rainbows and Love and Other Groovy Things (RCA Victor) — Track list I Make Him Fly Don't Hurt Him You're Gone Now Just Wait and See No Other Name This Child Over the Rainbow Lie to Me Easy You're Doing Me No Good The Sun Is Gray Look Who's Here I Am Shining 1968 An Audience with the King of Wands (with the Gentle Reign) (Columbia) — Track list Breaking Through Fall in Love Again Mini-Song #1: Ophelia Song Ballad for F. Scott Fitzgerald Big Sur Mini-Song #2: Tropicana High That's Not the Way A Word of Advice Believe Me Mini-Song #3: Lament for the Self-Sufficient You Could Have Been Anyone Bad News Dolphins Mini-Song #4: Tropicana Low 1969 Sausalito Heliport (with The Gentle Reign) (Columbia) — Track list Freddy Mahoney Peace Comes Slowly to the Trashing Fish The Pretty Is Gone This Year's Child Berkeley Barb Want Ad Deer in the City Water Your Mind My Mind's Own Morning The Trip Note Song Man in the Middle Freely Speaking

Singles (partial list) + Selected singlesYear Catalogue number Title Peak chart positions US Pop US AC US Country 1964 RCA 8388"We'll Sing in the Sunshine"b/w "Prism Song" 4 1 42 RCA 8472 "Lovin' Place"b/w "I Used to Live Here" 54 — — 1965 RCA 8549 "I'll Cry Alone" b/w "Where Do You Go to Go Away" 108 — — RCA 8668 "Why Am I Standing at the Window" b/w "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" — — — 1966 RCA 8961 "You've Got to Fall in Love Again" b/w "It's Been a Lovely Summer" — — — RCA 8824 "This Kind of Love" b/w "Oh There'll Be Laughter" — — — RCA 9020 "I Make Him Fly" b/w "The Sun Is Gray" — — — 1967 RCA 9196 "Over the Rainbow" b/w "The Cats I Know" — — — 1970s RCA 40568 "Malaika" b/w "Pretty Boy" [single released earlier in Germany, 1965] — — —

Filmography Film + Year Title Role Notes 1963 The Pink Panther Princess Dala Voice 1967 Mad Monster Party? Francesca Voice 1972 Journey Morgan, The Herbalist 1973 Happy Mother's Day, Love George Yolanda Perry 1980 Tribute Hilary 1980 The Children Cathy Freemont 1985 Overnight Del 1990 Mr. & Mrs. Bridge Mabel Ong 1993 Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould Journalist 1997 Men with Guns Eileen Janey 2002 My Big Fat Greek Wedding Aunt Lexy Credited as Gale Zoë Garnett

Television + Year Title Role Notes 1960 Hong Kong Miss Wong Episode: "When Strangers Meet" 1960 Hawaiian Eye Joyce Gilbert Episode: "White Pigeon Ticket" 1961 Hawaiian Eye Kiana Soong Episode: "The Trouble with Murder" 1960 77 Sunset Strip China Mary Episode: "The Double Death of Benny Markham" 1962 77 Sunset Strip Velia Episode: "Flight from Escondido" 1961 The Real McCoys Maria Episode: "Pepino's Wedding" 1962 The Real McCoys Angela Episode: "Pepino's Inheritance" 1963 The Real McCoys Angela Episode: "The Auction" 1962 Bonanza Maria Winters Episode: "The Deserter" 1962 Tales of Wells Fargo Ruth Episode: "Winter Storm" 1962 The Dick Powell Show Paca Episode: "Death in a Village" 1963 Have Gun - Will Travel Prudence Powers Episode: "Debutante" 1964 The Red Skelton Show Guest Vocalist 1 episode 1964 Suspense Janine Episode: "I, Lloyd Benson" 1967 The Rat Patrol Safti Episode: "The Trial by Fire Raid" 1971 Paul Bernard, Psychiatrist Mrs. Donaldson 1 episode 1975 Kojak Elaine Kastos Episode: "Night of the Piraeus" 1978 King of Kensington Carol Episode: "Carol's Arrival" 1978 King of Kensington Carol Episode: "Double Standard" 1980 The Littlest Hobo Madame Sybil Episode: "Carnival of Fear" 1983 Hangin' In Renee Episode: "She Shoots, He Scores" 1985 The Edison Twins Lana Garbo Episode: "Everyone a Rembrandt" 1986 The Park Is Mine Rachel TV movie 1987 The Equalizer Frances Episode: "Coal Black Soul" 1990 Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean May TV movie 1990 Friday the 13th: The Series Dr. Sybil Oakwood Episode: "The Tree of Life" 1992 E.N.G. Lady Lovene Episode: "Two for the Show" 1994 Janek: The Silent Betrayal Ginette TV movie 1995 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues Jo Emery Episode: "The Return of Sing Ling" 2005 Wild Card Oxsana Petrovich Episode: "Russian Missus Gets No Kisses" (credited as Gale Zoë Garnett)

Soundtrack Penelope (1966 film) (words and music: "The Sun Is Gray")