Gale Garnett
Gale Garnett (born July 17, 1942 in Auckland , New Zealand as Gale Zoë Garnett ) is an English-speaking pop music singer , actress and author. As a singer she was successful in the USA in the 1960s.
Life
Garnet spent much of her childhood in England . Her father died early at the age of 38 and her mother was an alcoholic. As an eight-year-old, she appeared in a variety of theater productions, and when she was twelve, she was in London in Tennessee Williams ' This Property Is Condemned . Immediately thereafter, her family emigrated to Canada and settled in Toronto . After his father's death, Gale went to New York with two older friends in 1957 . There she worked in the tour management of the play The World of Suzie Wong . Through the tour, she got to know and appreciate California and settled in Los Angeles .
In the early 1960s, Garnett also began performing as a singer, and she got her first television offers. In 1960 she appeared in the TV series 77 Sunset Strip , followed by a role in the Bonanza series . At the age of 19 she returned to Toronto and took up acting training there. In 1964 she got a record deal with the New York record company RCA Victor , which in the same year released Garnett's first single , We'll Sing in the Sunshine / Prism Song . We'll Sing in the Sunshine was written by Garnett himself and achieved considerable success. In the fall of 1964, the song was listed on the Billboard Hot 100 for 17 weeks and reached number 4 as the best ranking. The title was number 1 in the Adult Contemporary Charts. In 1965 it received the Grammy for best folk song . In early 1965, the title Lovin 'Place , also written by Garnett, came from their second RCA single in the Hot 100 and rose to 54th place. By 1967 Garnett released a total of eight singles on RCA, plus four long-playing records. In 1968 and 1969 Columbia released a single and two long-playing records on which, in addition to Garnett's name, her companion band The Gentle Reign was mentioned. In 1965, RCA also released two Garnett singles with German-language titles in Germany: Malaika / Pretty Boy (# 9613) and Schön, Schön, Schön ist das Leben / Please don't think about tomorrow today (# 9671).
When Garnett's record contracts ran out in 1970, she turned back to acting. In addition to roles in various TV series, she also took on film roles in the strips Journey (1972) and Happy Mother's Day, Love George (1973). In 1975 she appeared in an episode of the TV series Einsatz in Manhattan, which was also broadcast in Germany . Garnett had her last film role for the time being in the US film Wedding in Greek in 2002 . In addition, she worked as a journalist and author. She wrote essays, columns and book reviews for several newspapers. She wrote two one-person plays for herself. In 1999 she published her first novel Visible Amazement (Public Admiration) .
Discography
US singles
| title | Cat.-No. | year |
|---|---|---|
| RCA Victor | ||
| We'll Sing in the Sunshine / Prism Song | 8388 | 1964 |
| Lovin 'Place / I Used to Live Here | 8472 | 1964 |
| I'll Cry Alone / Where Do You Go to Go Away | 8549 | 1965 |
| I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter / Why Am I Standing In The Window |
8668 | 1965 |
| This Kind Of Love / Oh There'll Be Laughter | 8824 | 1966 |
| It's Been a Lonely Summer / You've Got to Fall in Love Again | 8961 | 1966 |
| The Sun Is Gray / I Make Him Fly | 9020 | 1966 |
| Over the Rainbow / The Cats I Know | 9196 | 1967 |
| Columbia | ||
| Breaking Through / Fall in Love Again (& The Gentle Reign) | 44479 | 1968 |
US LPs
| title | Cat.-No. | year |
|---|---|---|
| My kind of folk songs | RCA 2833 | 1964 |
| The Many Faces of Gale Garnett | RCA 3325 | 1965 |
| Variety Is the Spice | RCA 3493 | 1966 |
| Flying and Rainbows and Love | RCA 3747 | 1967 |
| An Audience With the King of Wands (& Gentle Reign) | Columbia 9625 | 1968 |
| Sausalito Heliport (& Gentle Reign) | Columbia 9760 | 1969 |
literature
- Gale Zoë Garnett: Blue Girl. Novel. Translated by Ulrike Seeberger. Structure, Berlin 2002 ( Visible Amazement. Stoddart, 1999)
- Frank Laufenberg: Rock and Pop Lexicon Vol. 1 . Econ TB Verlag, Düsseldorf 1998 ISBN 3-612-26206-8 p. 584
Web links
- Biography at allmusic.com
- Biography at bradfraser.net
- Discography at discogs.com
- Chart positions at musicvf.com
- Gale Garnett in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Garnett, Gale |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Garnett, Gale Zoë |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American pop music singer, actress, and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Auckland , New Zealand |