WE'LL SING IN THE SUNSHINE - cover - `1964

Song for the day

"We'll Sing in the Sunshine" is a 1964 hit song written and recorded by Gale Garnett which reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the week ending 5 September 1964. The song also enjoyed success on easy listening and country music radio stations, spending seven weeks at number one on the Billboard Easy Listening chart and number 42 on the country chart. The Cash Box Top 100 ranked "We'll Sing in the Sunshine" at number one for the week of 31 October 1964, and it also reached number one in Garnett's native New Zealand that November. Garnett's sole Top 40 hit, "We'll Sing in the Sunshine" won the Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording in 1965.
In the UK, "We'll Sing in the Sunshine" was covered by the Lancastrians in a version produced by Shel Talmy and featuring guitar work from both Jimmy Page and Big Jim Sullivan. It charted at number 44 in the UK in December 1964. Mark Wynter had a non-charting UK single release of "We'll Sing in the Sunshine" in 1966.

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• we'll sing in the sunshine
• gale garnett
• dolly parton
• helen reddy

[Johnnydoxx]

Good Old toe-tapper. Haven't heard this for muchos anos. Nice work on it.

[bappreciated]

@Johnnydoxx .......sounds just like Gale Garnett, right? :)

[terrisonb]

Nice job. I always liked this song.

[bappreciated]

@terrisonb Thanks for listening Terry.

[Johnnydoxx]

@bappreciated Oh, of course it does, you must be Gale's cousin or something.......