Her name sounds familiar, right? You may not remember her as an actress despite her 43 credits on IMDb, but she became quite famous as a singer-songwriter when she performed her own composition, “We’ll Sing In The Sunshine,” which become first a smash hit, and then a standard at folk festivals and an enduring entry in the Great American Songbook. (A pretty good achievement for a Kiwi who relocated to Canada. As my Canadian friends inevitably remind me, “We’re Americans too, eh? Just not from your part of America.”)
Talented woman. In her spare time, Garnett also wrote some books and essays.
You may not remember:
Although Garnett was the composer of “We’ll Sing in the Sunshine,” her version of the song was actually a cover. Hoyt Axton recorded it first. It’s very appropriate that her version is the one we remember. (And she nailed it! I’m not crazy about Hoyt’s version.)
Gale was about 38 when she performed the silly scene below.
