Gary Shearston

Australian singer and songwriter (1939u20132013) Date Of Birth : 1939-01-09T00:00:00Z Date Of Death : 2013-07-01T00:00:00Z

Gary Rhett Shearston (9 January 1939 – 1 July 2013) was an Australian singer-songwriter and Anglican priest. He was a leading figure of the folk music revival of the 1960s and performed traditional folk songs in an authentic style. He scored a top 10 hit in the United Kingdom in 1974 with his cover version of Cole Porter’s song “I Get a Kick out of You”. From the 1990s he also worked as a priest in rural New South Wales.

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