![]() “ Mon Pays” was written in 1965 as an ode to the free spirit of Quebec, seen in its winter, its snow, its plains and its gusts of wind. Vigneault wrote the Quebec separatist anthems “Mon Pays” and “Gens du pays”. “From New York To L.A.” was co-written by Gilles Vigneault and Gene Williams. The debut single from the album was “From New York To L.A.” And she won the 1977 Juno Award for Female Vocalist of the Year. The album also was nominated for Producer of the Year, along with Ian Robertson as producer getting the nomination. The album won Paul Page a Juno Award for Recording Engineer of the Year in 1977. Things changed for her in 1976 when she released Are You Ready For Love. In 1975 she won a Juno Award for Female Vocalist of the year. But Patsy Gallant had yet to score a breakout hit on English-language radio. The single was a minor hit in a few Canadian record markets. The following year she released a cover of the Carol Douglas disco hit “Doctor’s Orders”. The album contained the singles “Save The Last Dance For Me”, a cover of a number one hit for The Drifters in 1960. In 1973 she released another English-language album titled Power. It included a Top 40 hit titled “Get That Ball”that made the playlists in English-radio stations in Quebec, Newfoundland and the Maritimes. In 1974 a second French album was released titled Toi l’enfant. Meanwhile, she released her first English album in 1972 titled Upon My Own. She released her first album in 1972 titled Patsy Gallant (Tout va trop vite). Her popular Francophone hits included “Tout va trop vite”, “Le lit qui craque”, “Un monde en voie de naître”, and “Un jour comme les autres”. In 1971, Gallant co-starred on the weekly television variety show Smash presented by Television de Radio-Canada. And she was a regular on both the French-language TV variety program Discothèque and an English variety show called Music Hop. Gallant was featured in numerous TV commercials. She continued to release songs over the following five years in French, and then issued English versions. In 1967 she recorded her first single in French for the Quebec and New Brunswick Francophone market. This led to appearances in nightclubs when they moved to Montreal in 1958. By 1956, when the family moved to Moncton, NB, the Gallant Sisters began appearing on TV. Her mother coaxed four of the sisters for the group, hoping to earn some funds for the cash-strapped household. From the age of five she was the youngest of four sisters performing as the Gallant Sisters. Her family was Acadian, and she was one of ten children. Patricia Gallant was born in 1948 in Cambellton, New Brunswick. Peak Position on Billboard Hot 100 ~ did not chart
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