Gale Garnett
Gale Garnett ( born July 17, 1942 in Auckland, New Zealand as Gale Zoë Garnett ) is an English pop singer, actress and author. As a singer she was successful in the United States in the 1960s.
Life
Garnet spent much of her childhood in England. Her father died young at 38 years old and her mother was an alcoholic. Even the age of eight, she participated in various theater performances, and the age of twelve, she played a role in Tennessee Williams ' This Property Is Condemned in London ( This girl is for all). Immediately after her family immigrated to Canada and settled in Toronto. After the death of his father Gale went in 1957 with two older friends to New York. There she worked in the tour management of the play The World of Suzie Wong. Through the tour, she learned to know and appreciate California and settled in Los Angeles.
In the early 1960s began Garnett also act as a singer, and she got first television offers. In 1960 she appeared in the television series 77 Sunset Strip, it was followed by a role in the Bonanza series. At age 19, she returned to Toronto and took acting lessons there on. In 1964 she received a recording contract with the New York record company RCA Victor, which brought out the first single with the tracks We'll Sing in the Sunshine / Prism Song in the same year Garnett. We'll Sing in the Sunshine Garnett had written, thus achieving considerable success. In the fall of 1964, the song spent 17 weeks listed in the Billboard Hot 100 and reached as best placement Rank 4 in the Adult Contemporary charts of the title is the No. 1 He was awarded the 1965 Grammy for Best Folk Song. Early 1965 came the also written by Garnett title Lovin 'Place from her second RCA single in the Hot 100, and rose to the 54th rank. Until 1967, Garnett released a total of eight singles for RCA, plus four LPs. In the years 1968 and 1969, published by Columbia a single and two LPs on which next to Garnett's name and her band The Gentle Reign was called. In 1965, RCA in Germany Garnett two singles with German-language titles out: Malaika / Pretty Boy (# 9613 ) and Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful life / thinking is please not today tomorrow (# 9671 ).
In 1970, Garnett's board contracts had expired, she turned increasingly to acting to. Supporting roles in various TV series, she also took on movie roles in the strip Journey ( 1972) and Happy Mother 's Day, Love George (1973). In 1975, she appeared in Manhattan in a series of broadcast in Germany TV - series production. Your time being last film role was Garnett in the 2002 U.S. film Wedding in Greek. In addition, she worked as a journalist and author. She wrote for several newspapers essays, columns and book reviews. For herself, she wrote two one-person plays. In 1999, she published her first novel Visible Amazement ( Public amazement ).