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| name = | image = | image_size = | landscape = | alt = | caption = | background = solo_singer | birth_name = Garth Ivan Richard Porter | alias = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1948|9|24|df=yes}} | birth_place = Hamilton, New Zealand | origin = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | death_date = | death_place = | genre = Pop, country | occupation = Musician, producer | instrument = Keyboards, vocals, piano (string, electric), organ (Hammond), clavinet, mellotron, synthesizers, saxophone | years_active = 1969–present | label = Razzle/Festival | associated_acts = Samael Lilith, Toby Jugg, Sherbet, Lee Kernaghan | website = }} Garth Ivan Richard Porter {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} (born 24 September 1948) is a New Zealand-born Australian multi-instrumental musician, songwriter and record producer. He was a member, on keyboards and backing vocals, of the pop group, Sherbet (1970–84), and co-wrote both of their number-one singles, "Summer Love" (March 1975) and "Howzat" (May 1976). Porter is a co-writer and producer for country music singer Lee Kernaghan. BiographyGarth Ivan Richard Porter was born on 24 September 1948 in Hamilton, New Zealand. His parents were farmers in the nearby rural area.[2] He recalled that while growing up "I learnt piano for about six months so I had a rough idea of musical notation."[3] The future songwriter spent two nights a week at his grandparents home in Hamilton, "I'd walk there from work and from their place, I would walk to night school and I vividly remember I used to really look forward to my walks. As I was walking, the pace of my footsteps would be the rhythm of a song and I was just making up words and melodies all the time I was walking to my grandparents and then to night school."[3] In 1969 Porter was a member of Swellfoot's Assembly while a student at University of Waikato, which included Marion Arts on lead vocals and Paul Baxter on bass guitar.[5][6][7] Later that year he was in Sydney and joined Samael Lilith alongside Daryl Braithwaite on lead vocals, Ray Ferguson on guitar and backing vocals, Mick Parker on bass guitar and flute (replaced by Bruce Worrall on bass guitar), and Greg Wilder on drums.[6][9] He left that group in the next year and was briefly a member of Toby Jugg, which issued a cover version of Amen Corner's "(If Paradise Is) Half as Nice" as a single in 1970.[5][11] In October 1970 Porter, on Hammond organ, electric piano, backing vocals and occasional lead vocals, joined the Sydney-based pop group, Sherbet.[5][6] The group included his former bandmates Braithwaite and Worrall from Samael Lilith, as well as Alan Sandow on drums and Clive Shakespeare on lead guitar and co-lead vocals.[5][6] Porter's first song writing effort for Sherbet, "One Man Team", was performed in late 1972 and early the next year but "We never recorded it... That was a pop/rock sort of thing I guess."[3] The first Porter-written track recorded by Sherbet, "Back Home", was issued as the B-side of "You're All Woman" (August 1972).[3][5] Porter and Shakespeare co-wrote most of the group's early hits including, "Cassandra" (December 1973), which peaked at No. 5 on the Go-Set National Top 40.[21] Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, described it as "the first real indication of the Porter/Shakespeare-penned pop masterpieces that were to follow" and it "made extensive use of Porter's newly acquired Mellotron, which gave Sherbet a distinctive edge and sound over other Australian pop groups of the day."[5] Porter and Shakespeare's co-written top 10 hits for Sherbet include "Slipstream" (June 1974),[23] "Silvery Moon" (August) and, the group's first number-one hit, "Summer Love" (March 1975).[5][26] Julie Kusko of The Australian Women's Weekly described Porter, in March 1975, as "Tall, and good-looking, he worked in an accountant's office before giving way to music."[27] Tony Catterall of The Canberra Times reviewed their first live album, ... In Concert in April 1975, he praised Braithwaite's voice as their "one major strength" but found their major weaknesses were "an almost total lack of writing ability that, coupled with the band's extremely erratic musicianship, makes it hard to understand the frantic screams of adulation." He felt that Porter provides "some interesting mellotron and organ work... although his piano playing (on a Steinway Concert Grand!) is dreadfully pedestrian."[28] Further Porter and Shakespeare co-written top 10 hits for Sherbet followed: "Life" (August 1975), "Only One You" (November) and "Child's Play (February 1976).[5][26] While a member of Sherbet, Porter also worked as a session musician and producer.[6] In 1974 he appeared on band mate, Braithwaite's solo single, a cover version of Cilla Black's recording of "You're My World".[5][6] He also worked on The Mixtures album, The Mixtures, in that year.[6] In 1975 Sherbet toured Australia to promote their fourth studio album, Life... Is for Living, their support act were Dalvanius and the Fascinations, a New Zealand-formed soul music band.[36] Porter produced the group's single, "Canberra We're Watching You",[6] which was a reworking of the Staple Singers' track "Washington We're Watching".[36] After Shakespeare left Sherbet in January 1976, Porter co-wrote mostly with Tony Mitchell (Worrall's replacement on bass guitar) including the group's second number-one hit, "Howzat" (May 1976).[5][26] In June Catterall approved of Shakespeare's replacement, Harvey James, on lead guitar as "It frees Garth Porter on organ from having to carry the leads, a job which he could handle well enough for a pop band but not for rock, and allows him to concentrate more on filling in the inevitable holes in the sound."[42] The associated album of the same title followed in July and also reached number one on the related Kent Music Report Albums Chart.[5][26] It was co-produced by Richard Lush with Sherbet members, including Porter.[6][46] From September Sherbet toured the United Kingdom where "Howzat" peaked at No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart in October.[47][48] Porter told The Australian Women's Weekly{{'}}s Camilla Beach in November that "I've had two good feelings about it... One was a letter from my mother – she is so proud. And I hope Australia is proud of us too. But we haven't made it yet. That takes five years."[48] In 1977 Porter co-produced Rockwell T. James' album, Shot of Rhythm and Blues, he also supplied instrumental backing.[6][51] Other top 10 singles co-written by Porter with various Sherbet members are "Rock Me Gently" (October 1976), "Magazine Madonna" (June 1977) and "Another Night on the Road" (August 1978).[5][26] Porter sang lead vocals on "Matter of Time" (November 1975) and "Hollywood Dreaming" (June 1976) while with Sherbet.[5][26] From the late 1980s to 1984 the group attempted to enter the United States market, which included re-branding themselves as Highway and then as the Sherbs before disbanding.[5][6] Porter initially had difficulty after the group's disbandment "I had a vague idea of a solo career, but not really, it was kind of there as an option but nothing that I really pursued... I found it really hard going as a songwriter, just out on your own in the middle of kind of nowhere. And especially the credentials of having been in Sherbet at that time were kind of, it was like having the plague really."[2] He helped launch Lee Kernaghan and co-wrote some of the songs for the live Musical theatre production Arena Spectacular (which toured Australian capital cities — twice). The Original Cast Album of the show won the ARIA award for Best Cast / Show Album).[61] Personal lifeIn March 1975 Julie Kusko of The Australian Women's Weekly described his hobbies as furniture collecting, fishing and camping.[27] On 7 August 1978 Porter "married his long-time girlfriend" Mary Byrnes in Sydney.[63] Discography
Porter is a: producer, arranger, composer, mixer[6][46]
Porter plays: keyboards, mellotron, organ (Hammond, Wurlitzer), clavinet, piano (string, electric, grand), synthesiser, vocals (backing, lead), percussion, harpsicord and saxophone.[5][6][46]
Band career
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1. ^1 2 {{cite web | url = http://www.debbiekruger.com/writer/freelance/garth_transcript.html | title = Garth Porter – Interview Transcript | last = Kruger | first = Debbie | authorlink = Debbie Kruger | publisher = Debbie Kruger Official Website | date = 21 March 1996 | accessdate = 2 November 2015 }} Note: User may have to click "Search again" and provide details at "Enter a title:" e.g. Back Home; or at "Performer:" Sherbet[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 McFarlane, [https://web.archive.org/web/20040419053920/http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=365 'Sherbet'] entry. Archived from the original {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040924080756/http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=365 |date=24 September 2004 }} on 19 April 2004. Retrieved 2 November 2015. 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Garth Porter on Australian Rock Database* Garth Porter: {{cite web |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120404125910/http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/p/portergarth.html |url=http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/p/portergarth.html |title=Garth Porter |work=passengen.se |publisher=Australian Rock Database (Magnus Holmgren) |last1=Holmgren |first1=Magnus |archivedate=4 April 2012 |accessdate=2 November 2015 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy }}* Sherbet (1970–80), The Sherbs (1980–84): {{cite web |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010162541/http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/s/sherbet.html |url=http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/s/sherbet.html |title=Sherbet |work=passengen.se |publisher=Australian Rock Database (Magnus Holmgren) |last1=Holmgren |first1=Magnus |last2=Sather |first2=Gary |last3=Hart |first3=Alison |last4=Cahill |first4=Anthony |archivedate=10 October 2012 |accessdate=2 November 2015 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy }}* Ronnie Peel/Rockwell T. James: {{cite web |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120404134256/http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/p/peelronnie.html |url=http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/p/peelronnie.html |title=Ronnie Peel/Rockwell T. James |work=passengen.se |publisher=Australian Rock Database (Magnus Holmgren) |last1=Holmgren |first1=Magnus |archivedate=4 April 2012 |accessdate=3 November 2015 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy }}* Stevie Wright Band (1986): {{cite web |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401213134/http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/w/wrightstevie.html |url=http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/w/wrightstevie.html |title=Stevie Wright |work=passengen.se |publisher=Australian Rock Database (Magnus Holmgren) |last1=Holmgren |first1=Magnus |first2=Glen |last2=Goldsmith |first3=Gwyn |last3=Ashton |archivedate=1 April 2012 |accessdate=2 November 2015 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy }} 4. ^1 {{cite web | url = http://www.sergent.com.au/music/redhotpeppers.html | title = Red Hot Peppers | author = Sergent, Bruce | work = New Zealand Music of the 60's, 70's and a bit of 80's Artists L - Z | publisher = Bruce Sergent | accessdate = 2 November 2015 }} 5. ^1 {{cite web | archiveurl = http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/35967/20080307-0002/www.milesago.com/Artists/samael.html | url = http://www.milesago.com/Artists/samael.html | title = Samael Lillith | last1 = Kimball | first1 = Duncan | publisher = Milesago: Australasian Music and Popular Culture 1964–1975. Ice Productions | year = 2002 | archivedate = 7 March 2008 | accessdate = 24 May 2015 }} 6. ^1 {{cite web | url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/16/1034561163701.html | title=And the winners are... | publisher=The Sydney Morning Herald | date=2002-10-16 | accessdate=2007-09-14}} 7. ^1 2 3 {{cite web | url = http://www.allmusic.com/artist/garth-porter-mn0000181422 | title = Garth Porter | Credits | work = AllMusic | publisher = All Media Guide | accessdate = 2 November 2015 }} 8. ^1 {{cite news | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article110901727 | title = Porter Weds | newspaper = The Canberra Times | date = 9 August 1978 | accessdate = 2 November 2015 | page = 21 | publisher = National Library of Australia }} 9. ^1 {{cite web | url = http://www.poparchives.com.au/gosetcharts/1973/19731208.html | work = Go-Set | title = Go-Set Chart Service Aust. Singles | last1 = Nimmervoll | first1 = Ed | authorlink = Ed Nimmervoll |publisher = Waverley Press | date = 8 December 1973 | accessdate = 2 November 2015 }} 10. ^1 {{cite web | url = http://www.poparchives.com.au/gosetcharts/1974/19740824.html | work=Go-Set | title = Go-Set Top 40 Australian Singles | last1 = Nimmervoll | first1 = Ed | publisher = Waverley Press | date = 24 August 1974 | accessdate = 2 November 2015 }} 11. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite book | title = Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 | last1 = Kent | first1 = David | authorlink1 = David Kent (historian) | publisher = Australian Chart Book Ltd | location = St Ives, NSW | year = 1993 | isbn = 0-646-11917-6 }} Note: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) created their own charts in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974. 12. ^1 {{cite web | archiveurl = http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/43557/20070704-1254/www.poparchives.com.au/feature15ec.html | url = http://www.poparchives.com.au/feature15ec.html | title = Toby Jugg – '(If Paradise Is) Half As Nice' | author = Nuttall, Lyn | publisher = PopArchives.com.au | work = Where Did They Get That Song? | archivedate = 4 July 2007 | accessdate = 2 November 2015 }} 13. ^1 2 {{cite web | url = http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rarecollections/dalvanius-and-the-fascinations/6433676 | title = Dalvanius and the Fascinations – RareCollections | author1 = Kilby, Jordie | author2 = Kilby, David | publisher = ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)) | date = 3 May 2015 | accessdate = 3 November 2015 }} 14. ^1 {{cite web | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19781012&id=xe1UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=W5IDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4791,5079455&hl=en | title = Popular Record Albums | author = Forester | work = The Age | date = | accessdate = 3 November 2015 }} 15. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web | url = http://rockclub40.ning.com/xn/detail/3977244:Note:28348?xg_source=activity | title = Interview with Garth Porter | author = Hamey, Sharyn | publisher = Rock Club 40 | work = You're Never Too Old to Rock 'n Roll | date = 29 December 2013 | accessdate = 3 November 2015 }} 16. ^1 2 {{cite news | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47806616 | title = Sherbet's Rock Is Cool and Sweet | last = Kusko | first = Julie | newspaper = The Australian Women's Weekly | date = 26 March 1975 | accessdate = 3 November 2015 | page = 35 | publisher = National Library of Australia }} 17. ^1 {{cite news | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article116341402 | title = Rock Music: Mixture of Strength and Weakness | last = Catterall | first = Tony | newspaper = The Canberra Times | date = 7 April 1975 | accessdate = 3 November 2015 | page = 13 | publisher = National Library of Australia }} 18. ^1 {{cite news | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131824842 | title = Rock Music: Sherbet passes the rock test | last = Catterall | first = Tony | newspaper = The Canberra Times | date = 25 June 1976 | accessdate = 3 November 2015 | page = 9 | publisher = National Library of Australia }} 19. ^1 {{cite web | url = http://www.theofficialcharts.com/artist/_/sherbet/ | title = Sherbet – Artist | publisher = Official Charts Company | accessdate = 3 November 2015 | deadurl = yes | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110217184838/http://www.theofficialcharts.com/artist/_/sherbet/ | archivedate = 17 February 2011 | df = dmy-all }} 20. ^1 2 {{cite news | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51196429 | title = 'But we haven't made it yet... that takes five years' | last = Beach | first = Camilla | newspaper = The Australian Women's Weekly | date = 10 November 1976 | accessdate = 3 November 2015 | page = 4 | publisher = National Library of Australia }} }} External links
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