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Gale Garnett & The Gentle Reign - 1968 - An Audience With The King Of Wands
Gale Zoë Garnett is a New Zealand-born Canadian singer best known in the United States for her Grammy-winning folk hit "We'll Sing in the Sunshine." Garnett has since carved out a career as a writer and actress. 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. In the fall of 1964, Garnett scored a number four pop hit 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 1965 Grammy for Best Folk Recording, Garnett continued to record through the rest of the 1960s with her backing band the Gentle Reign. 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. In the late 1960s she recorded several albums of psychedelic-inflected music with the Gentle Reign. An Audience With The King Of Wands from 1968 is the seventh album By Gale. 01 - Breaking Through 02 - Fall In Love Again 03 - Mini Song #1 Ophelia Song 04 - Ballad For F.Scott.Fitzgerald 05 - Big Sur 06 - Mini Song #2 Tropicana High 07 - That's Not The Way 08 - A Word Of Advice 09 - Believe Me 10 - Mini Song #3 Lament For The Self Sufficient 11 - You Could Have Been Anyone 12 - Bad News 13 - Dolphins 14 - Mini Song #4 Tropicana Low LINK (RS) or LINK (FS)
