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Gale Zoë Garnett (born 17 July 1942) (1992). 9780851129396, Guinness Publishing. ISBN 9780851129396 is a New Zealand-born Canadian singer best known in the United States for her self-penned, Grammy Awards-winning folk music Record chart "We'll Sing in the Sunshine". Garnett has since carved out a career as an author and actress.
She made her New York nightclub debut in 1963 at The Blue Angel Supper Club and was signed by RCA 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 Billboards 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. She 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 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.La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. "Production: Starfollowers in an Ancient Land (1975)". Accessed January 16, 2019.
In subsequent years, she 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.[2]
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).
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| 1964 | 42 |
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| 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 | 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 | Jo Emery | Episode: "The Return of Sing Ling" | |
| 2005 | Wild Card | Oxsana Petrovich | Episode: "Russian Missus Gets No Kisses" (credited as Gale Zoë Garnett) |
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