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Biography
Use dmy dates|date=November 2011BLP sources|date=May 2009Infobox person|image = ||imagesize = 150px || Birth_name = Gale Zoë Garnett| birth_date = birth date and age|df=yes|1942|7|17| birth_place = Auckland , New Zealand Gale Zoë Garnett (born 17 July 1942) is a New Zealand-born Canadian singer best known in the United States for her Grammy Award|Grammy -winning folk music|folk chart-topper|hit " We'll Sing in the Sunshine ." Garnett has since carved out a career as a author|writer and actress .
Biography
Garnett was born in Auckland , New Zealand . When Garnett was 11, her family moved to Canada , and 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, and was signed that same year to RCA Records .cite journal|author1=Nielsen Business Media, Inc|date=19 October 1963|journal=Billboard (magazine)|title=Billboard|pages=16|url= http://books.google.com/? id=UgsEAAAAMBAJ& pg=RA1-PA16 In the fall of 1964, Garnett scored a number four pop hit cite book|last=Bronson|first=Fred|title=The Billboard book of number 1 hits|publisher=Billboard Books|year=2003|pages=159|isbn=0823076776|url= http://books.google.com/? id=PgGqNrqfrsoC& pg=PT168 with her original composition " We'll Sing in the Sunshine " (also #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 Grammy Awards of 1965|1965 Grammy for Best Folk Recording, Garnett continued to sound recording and reproduction|record through the rest of the 1960s with her backing band the Gentle Reign. However, her follow-up to "We'll Sing In The Sunshine," "Lovin' Place," was her only other single to chart in United States|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 counter-culture and had embraced psychedelic themes to some extent. http://www.classicbands.com/garnett.html Classic Bands In the late 1960s she recorded several albums of psychedelic-inflected music with the Gentle Reign.
Later career
Although Garnett had retired from the music business by the 1980s, she continued appearing in feature film s (such as 2002's My Big Fat Greek Wedding http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259446/fullcredits#cast IMDB Wedding ) and on television shows, usually in supporting roles. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0307805/ IMDB Gale Garnett In subsequent years, she also branched out into journalism, writing essays, columns, and book reviews for various newspaper s and magazine s. She also wrote and performed two one-person theater pieces, Gale Garnett & Company and Life After Latex. Allmusic|class=artist|id=p24328|pure_url=yes allmusic.com http://www.citadeltheatre.com/pdf/ProductionHistory2006.pdf citadeltheatre.com (Edmonton) production history See also: Citadel Theatre production history
Books by Garnett
Garnett published her first novel, a romance titled Visible Amazement, cite book|last=Garnett|first=Gayle Zoe|title=Visible Amazement |publisher=Stoddart Publishing|year=1999|isbn=0773761764 in 1999. She followed Visible Amazement up with Transient Dancing in 2003, the novella Room Tone in 2007, and Savage Adoration, her latest release, in 2009.
Discography
Albums
My Kind of Folk Songs (1964)
''Lovin' Place (1965)
The Many Faces of Gale Garnett (1965)
Variety Is the Spice of Gale Garnett (1965)
New Adventures (1966)
Flying and Rainbows and Love (1967)
An Audience with the King of Wands (1968; with The Gentle Reign)
Sausalito Heliport (1969; with The Gentle Reign)
Singles (partial list)
" We'll Sing in the Sunshine " (1964) - US #4 Pop, #1 Adult Contemporary, #42 Country
"Lovin' Place" (1964) - US #54 Pop
"I'll Cry Alone" (1965)
"Why Am I Standing at the Window" (1965)
Filmography
Movies
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) as Aunt Lexy (credited as Gale Zoë Garnett)
Men with Guns (1997) as Eileen Janey
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) as a Journalist
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990) as Mabel Ong
Overnight (1986) as Del
Tribute (film)|Tribute (1980) as Hilary
The Children (1980 film)|The Children (1980) as Cathy Freemont
''Happy Mother's Day, Love George (1973) as Yolanda
Journey (1972 film)|Journey (1972) as Morgan, herbalist
* Russian Missus Gets No Kisses (credited as Gale Zoë Garnett)
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues as Jo Emery (1 episode, 1995)
* The Return of Sing Ling
Janek: The Silent Betrayal (1994) (TV movie) as Ginette
E.N.G. as Lady Lovene (1 episode, 1992)
* Two for the Show
Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean (1990) (TV movie) as May
Friday the 13th: The Series as Dr. Sybil Oakwood (1 episode, 1990)
* The Tree of Life
The Park Is Mine (1986 film)|The Park Is Mine (1986) (TV movie) as Rachel
The Edison Twins as Lana Garbo (1 episode, 1985)
* Everyone a Rembrandt
'' Hangin' In as Renee (1 episode, 1983)
* She Shoots, He Scores
The Littlest Hobo as Madame Sybil (1 episode, 1980)
* Carnival of Fear
King of Kensington as Carol (2 episodes, 1978)
* Carol's Arrival
* Double Standard
Kojak as Elaine Kastos (1 episode, 1975)
* Night of the Piraeus
Paul Bernard, Psychiatrist (1971) as Mrs. Donaldson
The Rat Patrol as Safti (1 episode, 1967)
* The Trial by Fire Raid
The Red Skelton Show as Guest Vocalist (1 episode, 1964)
* Episode #14.8
Suspense (1 episode, 1964)
* I, Lloyd Benson
Have Gun - Will Travel as Prudence Powers (1 episode, 1963)
* Debutante
The Real McCoys as Angela (1 episode, 1962)
* Pepino's Inheritance
Bonanza as Maria Winters (1 episode, 1962)
* The Deserter
Tales of Wells Fargo as Ruth (1 episode, 1962)
* Winter Storm
The Dick Powell Show as Paca (1 episode, 1962)
* Death in a Village
77 Sunset Strip (2 episodes)
* Flight from Escondido (1962) as Velia
* The Double Death of Benny Markham (1960) as China Mary
Hawaiian Eye (2 episodes)
* The Trouble with Murder (1961) as Kiana Soong
* White Pigeon Ticket (1960) as Joyce Gilbert
Hong Kong as Miss Wong (1 episode, 1960)
* When Strangers Meet
Soundtrack
Penelope (1966) (music: "The Sun Is Gray")
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