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Kelly Garrett, 69, singer on TV variety shows (died August 2013)
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Just saw this August obit posted on a Facebook group. It's also made it to BroadwayWorld.com and other sources all of a sudden.
She did a lot of TV in the seventies. And although this obituary doesn't mention it, I remember her as the "TWTWTW" girl on David Frost's 1978 NBC series "Headliners with David Frost."
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0308153/
Interesting that the IMDB lists her year of birth as 1948 not 1944. The obit also lists her real name, which the IMDB omits. (The IMDB also has not been updated to show her death.)
Several photos at the URL below.
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/article_a779243c-208f-5ecd-a74f-346c921823bd.html
Kelly Garrett, 1944-2013: Acclaimed singer had roots in New Mexico
Posted: Monday, August 12, 2013 7:00 pm
By Tom Sharpe
The New Mexican | 0 comments
Kelly Garrett, who died last week at age 69, grew up in Santa Fe singing at church, at school and around her family home on Acequia Madre, before going on to a career as a vocalist on Broadway, television and records.
Her sister said she died in Albuquerque from complications from throat and tongue cancer.
Garrett was born Ellen Boulton on March 25, 1944, in Chester, Pa., to Jack Boulton and Sabina Griego. Her parents met when her father, a merchant marine, went for a minor operation at a hospital in Galveston, Texas, where her mother, a native of Pecos, was a nurse.
In 1946, her parents moved to New Mexico because her father loved it after visiting his in-laws. The family lived near La Cienega, then on Garcia Street in town before buying a house on Acequia Madre in 1952. Kelly attended St. Francis Cathedral School and the Loretto Academy.
“She sang when she was little. She would sing anywhere she could,” recalled her younger sister Martha “Marty” Boulton of Albuquerque. “She would sing in church. She sang in the choir in high school.”
Boulton graduated from Loretto early, at age 16, attended the College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati for a year, then headed to Los Angeles, where she worked for a bank during the day so she could sing in clubs at night. She began using the stage name Kelly Garrett so she could use her real name at the bank.
Fame came quickly.
“I expected it,” said her lifelong friend, Pita Benavidez Thomas, who now teaches dance at Las Cruces High School. “I was working at Lake Tahoe when she was performing at Las Vegas [Nev.], and every once in a while, I would pick up one of those bulletins and it would say, ‘Kelly Garrett appearing at the Sands Hotel’ or whatever. …
“She could really put on a show. She was so good. It wasn’t just her voice. It was her personality on stage.”
In 1964 and ’65, Garrett appeared four times on the nationally syndicated television musical-variety program, Shindig. A video of her jazzy rendition of the hard-driving “The Wild One” is still available via YouTube at http://tinyurl.com/kp5vwk3.
That was followed by appearances on Your Hit Parade, Headliners with David Frost, The Jim Nabors Show, The Dean Martin Comedy Hour, The Joey Bishop Show, Playboy After Dark and 29 turns on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
Among the songs Garrett recorded were Baby It Hurts, Tommy Makes Girls Cry, Leavin’ on My Mind, Love’s the Only Answer, Nothing Left to Give, You Step into My World and As Far as We Can Go.
In the 1970s, Garrett moved to New York to try her talents on Broadway. She won critical acclaim for her musical performances in Mother Earth (1972) and The Night That Made America Famous (1975), and she earned a Tony Award nomination for the latter.
Although she never made a feature film, Garrett sang an Oscar-nominated song, “Richard’s Window” from The Other Side of the Mountain, at the 1976 Academy Awards ceremony.
Garrett’s stage name took a hit that same year when the television series Charlie’s Angels began using Kelly Garrett as the name of one of its glamorous female private detectives, a role played by Jaclyn Smith.
Garrett, the singer, often returned to New Mexico to see old friends and to participate in the annual Santa Fe Fiesta and fundraisers for Big Brothers Big Sisters, AIDS awareness and Albuquerque’s Hispano Chamber of Commerce. She played Sally Bowles in a production of the musical Cabaret at the Greer Garson Theatre Center and traveled to Las Cruces to work with Thomas’ dance students.
In the 1990s, she returned to California, where she gave voice lessons from her home in North Hollywood for a decade.
“I’m teaching them the art of performing instead of just being singers,” she said in The New Mexican’s Mitote column in 1996. “Singers are a dime a dozen.”
In 2006, Garrett bought a home in Rio Rancho.
“I don’t know what made her think about coming back here,” Boulton said. “It was just out of the blue and it was probably the best thing that she did because she got sick after that and everything went kind of downhill.”
In 2009, Garrett was diagnosed with throat and tongue cancer. Boulton said her sister died Wednesday from complications from the disease at a long-term care facility in Albuquerque, where she had been only a few days.
She is survived by her 95-year-old mother, now Sabina C de Baca, who lives in Bernalillo, and eight siblings: Georgia Pearson of Corrales, John Boulton of Idaho Springs, Colo., Anita DuPree of Rio Rancho, Martha Boulton of Albuquerque, Mary Kay Boulton of Santa Fe, Rita Wolfe of Missoula, Mont., Frances Boulton of Bernalillo and Mary Jo Carrion of Albuquerque. Her father, who once taught auto mechanics at Santa Fe High School, preceded her in death.
Family members gathered for a celebration of her life Saturday and plan to scatter her ashes near Pecos.
“She didn’t want any razzmatazz,” Martha Boulton said. “She said she had enough of that during her life.”
Contact Tom Sharpe at 986-3080 or tsh...@sfnewmexican.com.
© Copyright 2013, The Santa Fe New Mexican, Santa Fe, NM.
She did a lot of TV in the seventies. And although this obituary doesn't mention it, I remember her as the "TWTWTW" girl on David Frost's 1978 NBC series "Headliners with David Frost."
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0308153/
Interesting that the IMDB lists her year of birth as 1948 not 1944. The obit also lists her real name, which the IMDB omits. (The IMDB also has not been updated to show her death.)
Several photos at the URL below.
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/article_a779243c-208f-5ecd-a74f-346c921823bd.html
Kelly Garrett, 1944-2013: Acclaimed singer had roots in New Mexico
Posted: Monday, August 12, 2013 7:00 pm
By Tom Sharpe
The New Mexican | 0 comments
Kelly Garrett, who died last week at age 69, grew up in Santa Fe singing at church, at school and around her family home on Acequia Madre, before going on to a career as a vocalist on Broadway, television and records.
Her sister said she died in Albuquerque from complications from throat and tongue cancer.
Garrett was born Ellen Boulton on March 25, 1944, in Chester, Pa., to Jack Boulton and Sabina Griego. Her parents met when her father, a merchant marine, went for a minor operation at a hospital in Galveston, Texas, where her mother, a native of Pecos, was a nurse.
In 1946, her parents moved to New Mexico because her father loved it after visiting his in-laws. The family lived near La Cienega, then on Garcia Street in town before buying a house on Acequia Madre in 1952. Kelly attended St. Francis Cathedral School and the Loretto Academy.
“She sang when she was little. She would sing anywhere she could,” recalled her younger sister Martha “Marty” Boulton of Albuquerque. “She would sing in church. She sang in the choir in high school.”
Boulton graduated from Loretto early, at age 16, attended the College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati for a year, then headed to Los Angeles, where she worked for a bank during the day so she could sing in clubs at night. She began using the stage name Kelly Garrett so she could use her real name at the bank.
Fame came quickly.
“I expected it,” said her lifelong friend, Pita Benavidez Thomas, who now teaches dance at Las Cruces High School. “I was working at Lake Tahoe when she was performing at Las Vegas [Nev.], and every once in a while, I would pick up one of those bulletins and it would say, ‘Kelly Garrett appearing at the Sands Hotel’ or whatever. …
“She could really put on a show. She was so good. It wasn’t just her voice. It was her personality on stage.”
In 1964 and ’65, Garrett appeared four times on the nationally syndicated television musical-variety program, Shindig. A video of her jazzy rendition of the hard-driving “The Wild One” is still available via YouTube at http://tinyurl.com/kp5vwk3.
That was followed by appearances on Your Hit Parade, Headliners with David Frost, The Jim Nabors Show, The Dean Martin Comedy Hour, The Joey Bishop Show, Playboy After Dark and 29 turns on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
Among the songs Garrett recorded were Baby It Hurts, Tommy Makes Girls Cry, Leavin’ on My Mind, Love’s the Only Answer, Nothing Left to Give, You Step into My World and As Far as We Can Go.
In the 1970s, Garrett moved to New York to try her talents on Broadway. She won critical acclaim for her musical performances in Mother Earth (1972) and The Night That Made America Famous (1975), and she earned a Tony Award nomination for the latter.
Although she never made a feature film, Garrett sang an Oscar-nominated song, “Richard’s Window” from The Other Side of the Mountain, at the 1976 Academy Awards ceremony.
Garrett’s stage name took a hit that same year when the television series Charlie’s Angels began using Kelly Garrett as the name of one of its glamorous female private detectives, a role played by Jaclyn Smith.
Garrett, the singer, often returned to New Mexico to see old friends and to participate in the annual Santa Fe Fiesta and fundraisers for Big Brothers Big Sisters, AIDS awareness and Albuquerque’s Hispano Chamber of Commerce. She played Sally Bowles in a production of the musical Cabaret at the Greer Garson Theatre Center and traveled to Las Cruces to work with Thomas’ dance students.
In the 1990s, she returned to California, where she gave voice lessons from her home in North Hollywood for a decade.
“I’m teaching them the art of performing instead of just being singers,” she said in The New Mexican’s Mitote column in 1996. “Singers are a dime a dozen.”
In 2006, Garrett bought a home in Rio Rancho.
“I don’t know what made her think about coming back here,” Boulton said. “It was just out of the blue and it was probably the best thing that she did because she got sick after that and everything went kind of downhill.”
In 2009, Garrett was diagnosed with throat and tongue cancer. Boulton said her sister died Wednesday from complications from the disease at a long-term care facility in Albuquerque, where she had been only a few days.
She is survived by her 95-year-old mother, now Sabina C de Baca, who lives in Bernalillo, and eight siblings: Georgia Pearson of Corrales, John Boulton of Idaho Springs, Colo., Anita DuPree of Rio Rancho, Martha Boulton of Albuquerque, Mary Kay Boulton of Santa Fe, Rita Wolfe of Missoula, Mont., Frances Boulton of Bernalillo and Mary Jo Carrion of Albuquerque. Her father, who once taught auto mechanics at Santa Fe High School, preceded her in death.
Family members gathered for a celebration of her life Saturday and plan to scatter her ashes near Pecos.
“She didn’t want any razzmatazz,” Martha Boulton said. “She said she had enough of that during her life.”
Contact Tom Sharpe at 986-3080 or tsh...@sfnewmexican.com.
© Copyright 2013, The Santa Fe New Mexican, Santa Fe, NM.
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Diner <bway...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just saw this August obit posted on a Facebook group. It's also made it to BroadwayWorld.com and other sources all of a sudden.
>
> She did a lot of TV in the seventies. And although this obituary doesn't mention it, I remember her as the "TWTWTW" girl on David Frost's 1978 NBC series "Headliners with David Frost."
>
> http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0308153/
> Interesting that the IMDB lists her year of birth as 1948 not 1944. The obit also lists her real name, which the IMDB omits. (The IMDB also has not been updated to show her death.)
> Several photos at the URL below.
>
> http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/article_a779243c-208f-5ecd-a74f-346c921823bd.html
> Kelly Garrett, 1944-2013: Acclaimed singer had roots in New Mexico
> Posted: Monday, August 12, 2013 7:00 pm
> By Tom Sharpe
> The New Mexican | 0 comments
>
> Kelly Garrett, who died last week at age 69, grew up in Santa Fe singing at church, at school and around her family home on Acequia Madre, before going on to a career as a vocalist on Broadway, television and records.
>
> Her sister said she died in Albuquerque from complications from throat and tongue cancer.
>
> Garrett was born Ellen Boulton on March 25, 1944, in Chester, Pa., to Jack Boulton and Sabina Griego. Her parents met when her father, a merchant marine, went for a minor operation at a hospital in Galveston, Texas, where her mother, a native of Pecos, was a nurse.
>
> In 1946, her parents moved to New Mexico because her father loved it
> after visiting his in-laws. The family lived near La Cienega, then on
> Garcia Street in town before buying a house on Acequia Madre in 1952.
> Kelly attended St. Francis Cathedral School and the Loretto Academy.
>
>
> Just saw this August obit posted on a Facebook group. It's also made it to BroadwayWorld.com and other sources all of a sudden.
>
> She did a lot of TV in the seventies. And although this obituary doesn't mention it, I remember her as the "TWTWTW" girl on David Frost's 1978 NBC series "Headliners with David Frost."
>
> http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0308153/
> Interesting that the IMDB lists her year of birth as 1948 not 1944. The obit also lists her real name, which the IMDB omits. (The IMDB also has not been updated to show her death.)
> Several photos at the URL below.
>
> http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/article_a779243c-208f-5ecd-a74f-346c921823bd.html
> Kelly Garrett, 1944-2013: Acclaimed singer had roots in New Mexico
> Posted: Monday, August 12, 2013 7:00 pm
> By Tom Sharpe
> The New Mexican | 0 comments
>
> Kelly Garrett, who died last week at age 69, grew up in Santa Fe singing at church, at school and around her family home on Acequia Madre, before going on to a career as a vocalist on Broadway, television and records.
>
> Her sister said she died in Albuquerque from complications from throat and tongue cancer.
>
> Garrett was born Ellen Boulton on March 25, 1944, in Chester, Pa., to Jack Boulton and Sabina Griego. Her parents met when her father, a merchant marine, went for a minor operation at a hospital in Galveston, Texas, where her mother, a native of Pecos, was a nurse.
>
> In 1946, her parents moved to New Mexico because her father loved it
> after visiting his in-laws. The family lived near La Cienega, then on
> Garcia Street in town before buying a house on Acequia Madre in 1952.
> Kelly attended St. Francis Cathedral School and the Loretto Academy.
>
>
> Boulton graduated from Loretto early, at age 16, attended the College
> Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati for a year, then headed to Los
> Angeles, where she worked for a bank during the day so she could sing in
> clubs at night. She began using the stage name Kelly Garrett so she
> could use her real name at the bank.
[snip]
> Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati for a year, then headed to Los
> Angeles, where she worked for a bank during the day so she could sing in
> clubs at night. She began using the stage name Kelly Garrett so she
> could use her real name at the bank.
> Garrett?s stage name took a hit that same year when the television
> series Charlie?s Angels began using Kelly Garrett as the name of one of
> its glamorous female private detectives, a role played by Jaclyn Smith.
Yes,that's the bell the name rang with me...
> Garrett, the singer, often returned to New Mexico to see old friends
> and to participate in the annual Santa Fe Fiesta and fundraisers for Big
> of Commerce. She played Sally Bowles in a production of the musical
> Cabaret at the Greer Garson Theatre Center and traveled to Las Cruces to
> work with Thomas? dance students.
> Cabaret at the Greer Garson Theatre Center and traveled to Las Cruces to
>
> In the 1990s, she returned to California, where she gave voice lessons
> from her home in North Hollywood for a decade.
>
> ?I?m teaching them the art of performing instead of just being
> In the 1990s, she returned to California, where she gave voice lessons
> from her home in North Hollywood for a decade.
>
> singers,? she said in The New Mexican?s Mitote column in 1996. ?Singers
> are a dime a dozen.?
>
> In 2006, Garrett bought a home in Rio Rancho.
>
> ?I don?t know what made her think about coming back here,? Boulton
> In 2006, Garrett bought a home in Rio Rancho.
>
> said. ?It was just out of the blue and it was probably the best thing
> that she did because she got sick after that and everything went kind of
> downhill.?
>
> In 2009, Garrett was diagnosed with throat and tongue cancer. Boulton
> said her sister died Wednesday from complications from the disease at a
> long-term care facility in Albuquerque, where she had been only a few
> days.
>
> She is survived by her 95-year-old mother, now Sabina C de Baca, who
> lives in Bernalillo, and eight siblings: Georgia Pearson of Corrales,
> John Boulton of Idaho Springs, Colo., Anita DuPree of Rio Rancho, Martha
> Boulton of Albuquerque, Mary Kay Boulton of Santa Fe, Rita Wolfe of
> Missoula, Mont., Frances Boulton of Bernalillo and Mary Jo Carrion of
> Albuquerque. Her father, who once taught auto mechanics at Santa Fe High
> School, preceded her in death.
>
> Family members gathered for a celebration of her life Saturday and plan
> to scatter her ashes near Pecos.
>
> ?She didn?t want any razzmatazz,? Martha Boulton said. ?She said she
> In 2009, Garrett was diagnosed with throat and tongue cancer. Boulton
> said her sister died Wednesday from complications from the disease at a
> long-term care facility in Albuquerque, where she had been only a few
> days.
>
> She is survived by her 95-year-old mother, now Sabina C de Baca, who
> lives in Bernalillo, and eight siblings: Georgia Pearson of Corrales,
> John Boulton of Idaho Springs, Colo., Anita DuPree of Rio Rancho, Martha
> Boulton of Albuquerque, Mary Kay Boulton of Santa Fe, Rita Wolfe of
> Missoula, Mont., Frances Boulton of Bernalillo and Mary Jo Carrion of
> Albuquerque. Her father, who once taught auto mechanics at Santa Fe High
> School, preceded her in death.
>
> Family members gathered for a celebration of her life Saturday and plan
> to scatter her ashes near Pecos.
>
> had enough of that during her life.?
> ? Copyright 2013, The Santa Fe New Mexican, Santa Fe, NM.
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