Alan Garrity Explained

Alan Garrity
Birth Date:	14 October 1947
Birth Place:	Manchester, England
Instrument:	Piano, Guitar

Alan Garrity is a musician who had a number of hits in South Africa and Rhodesia.

He had his first hit with Put Your Hand in the Hand which was No 1 on the Springbok Top 20 chart for four weeks in 1971.This was followed up by I Need Someone which reached No 2 on Springbok Top 20 and spent 33 weeks on the charts^[1] and won the 1972 South African Recording Industry (SARI) Award for Best Song of the Year.^[2] In 1973, he won SARI awards for Best Album of the Year and Best Male Vocalist. His next single, a cover of Home Isn't Home Anymore, reached no 5 on the charts.^{[3] [4]}

In 1975 he won a second SARI Award for Best Male Vocalist and his third in 1981 along with a SARI for Top Twenty Artist of the Year.^[5]

Discography

Singles

• "Put Your Hand in the Hand" (1971)^[5] - (South Africa #1)^[6]
• "The Dream Waltz" (1971)^[5]
• "Somehow, Somewhere" (1971)^[5]
• "I Need Someone" (1971)^[5]
• "Till The Rivers All Run Dry" (1972)^[5]
• "Home Isn't Home Anymore" (1972)^[5]
• "I’ll Have To Dream" (1973)^[5]
• "Goodbye Mama" (1973)^[5]
• "She’s My Woman" (1975)^[5]
• "Sunshine In My World" (1976)^[5]
• "You’re Losing Me" (1980)^[5]
• "Santa Maria" (1981)^[5]
• Oh Louisa
• Christmas At Home
• A love Like That
• You Stood By Me
• Give me back My Woman

Albums

• Put Your Hand In The Hand (1971)
• I Need Someone (1972)^[5]
• Words and Music (1975)^[5]
• The World of Alan Garrity
• Feelings
• A Song for you
• A winters Tale. Recorded in the UK
• Christmas with Alan Garrity
• tracks on Numerous compilation Albums.
• Best Of Alan Garrity
• Beach House in the Blue Mountains (with Jurie Els) Universal Music 2013

Notes and References

1. Web site: South African Rock Lists Website - SA Charts 1969 - 1989 Acts (G).
2. Book: South Africa: A Visual History . Visual Publications . 1972 . 105.
3. Web site: SA Charts 1965–March 1989. 5 September 2018.
4. Billboard . Billboard Magazine . March 1973.
5. Book: History of Contemporary Music of South Africa Part 1 . Toga Publishing . Chivers, G . Jasiukowicz, T . 1994 . 43 . 0-620-18121-4.
6. Web site: SA Charts 1965–March 1989. 21 June 2020.