"We'll Sing in the Sunshine" is a 1964 hit song written and recorded by Gale Garnett

Gale Garnett

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.-Biography:...

 which reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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 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

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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

Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording

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 in 1965.

In the UK, "We'll Sing in the Sunshine" was covered by the Lancastrians in a version produced by Shel Talmy

Shel Talmy

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 and featuring guitar work from both Jimmy Page

Jimmy Page

James Patrick "Jimmy" Page, OBE is an English multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and record producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was subsequently a member of The Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968, after which he founded the English rock band Led Zeppelin.Jimmy Page...

 and Big Jim Sullivan

Big Jim Sullivan

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. It charted at number 44 in the UK in December 1964. Mark Wynter

Mark Wynter

Mark Wynter is an English actor and former singer, who had four Top 20 singles in the 1960s, including "Venus in Blue Jeans" and "Go Away Little Girl"...

 had a non-charting UK single release of "We'll Sing in the Sunshine" in 1966.

Alma Cogan

Alma Cogan

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 recorded the song in German as "Ich Liebe Die Sonne" which was the B-side of her number 39 German hit "Hillbilly Boy" (1965).

"We'll Sing in the Sunshine" was a minor C&W

Country music

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 hit in 1970 for Lawanda Lindsey

Lawanda Lindsey

LaWanda Lindsey is a country music singer. She began her career at age 14 and had her first nationally charted record at age 16 with "Partly Bill". She was one of several quite young artists recording country music for Chart Records during this period...

, reaching number 63, serving as the title cut for an album as it did in 1978 for Helen Reddy

Helen Reddy

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. Reddy's version, produced by Kim Fowley

Kim Fowley

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, was issued as a single and reached #12 on the Easy Listening chart, but became the first lead single from a Reddy album to miss the Billboard Hot 100. Nonetheless, the song took on new life when Reddy sang the song on The Muppets Show while singing and dancing with Sopwith the Camel

"We'll Sing in the Sunshine" has also been recorded as an album cut in 1964 by Dean Martin

Dean Martin

Dean Martin was an American singer, film actor, television star and comedian. Martin's hit singles included "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You", "Sway", "Volare" and "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?"...

, in 1965 by the Fleetwoods

The Fleetwoods

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 and as a duet by Bobby Bare

Bobby Bare

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 and Skeeter Davis

Skeeter Davis

Mary Frances Penick , better known as Skeeter Davis, was an American country music singer best known for crossover pop music songs of the early 1960s. She started out as part of The Davis Sisters as a teenager in the late 1940s, eventually landing on RCA Records. In the late '50s, she became a solo...

, in 1967 by Sonny & Cher

Sonny & Cher

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, in 1972 by Wayne Newton

Wayne Newton

Wayne Newton is an American singer and entertainer based in Las Vegas, Nevada. He performed over 30,000 solo shows in Las Vegas over a period of over 40 years, earning him the nicknames The Midnight Idol, Mr. Las Vegas and Mr. Entertainment...

, in 1974 by Susan Maughan

Susan Maughan

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 and in 1984 by Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton

Dolly Rebecca Parton is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best known for her work in country music. Dolly Parton has appeared in movies like 9 to 5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Steel Magnolias and Straight Talk...

; also Trini Lopez

Trini Lopez

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included the song on his album All My Best.