Birth name Kerry Michael Chater Website www.chatersongs.com Name Kerry Chater | Instruments Bass Albums Woman, Woman Years active 1966-present | |
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Role Musician ยท chatersongs.com Associated acts Gary Puckett & The Union Gap Nominations Academy of Country Music Award for Song of the Year, Country Music Association Award for Song of the Year Similar People | ||
Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter | ||
Kerry Chater - Leave Well Enough Alone (1978)
Kerry Michael Chater is a Canadian musician and songwriter. He is best known as a member of Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, but he has been a successful Nashville songwriter for many years.
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- Kerry Chater Leave Well Enough Alone 1978
- Theres no Magic In the World Today
- Musician
- Songwriter
- Hit songs
- Personal life
- Albums
- References
There's no Magic In the World Today
Musician
Chater was born on August 7, 1945 in Vancouver, British Columbia. A bass player, in 1966 he joined a band called "The Outcasts" with his friend Gary Puckett and others; this eventually became The Union Gap, which was signed by Columbia Records in 1967. Over the next two years the band had 4 songs in the top 10. Chater did much of the arranging for the live shows, wrote or co-wrote some of the album cuts and b-sides, and on rare occasions did a shared lead vocal. Chater and Gary "Mutha" Withem, the original keyboardist, left the band in 1970 as its popularity was declining.
Chater spent the next five years studying musical theater with Lehman Engel. Chater released two solo albums in the late 1970s: Part Time Love (1977) and Love on a Shoestring (1978); neither charted.
Songwriter
With veteran songwriter Charlie Black, Chater wrote "I Know a Heartache When I See One", which reached number 19 on the US and number 10 on the US country charts in 1979 for Jennifer Warnes. Chater has also written hits with Glen Ballard and Rory Bourke (You Look So Good in Love), singer Renee Armand (What She Wants), and his wife, Lynn Gillespie Chater (I Meant to Do That, with Paul Brandt).
The song I.O.U., co-written with Austin Roberts, was a nominee for the 1984 Grammy Award for Best Country Song. Lee Greenwood's performance of the song won him the Grammy for Best Performance by a Male Artist.
Hit songs
Personal life
Married to Lynn Gillespie-Chater, songwriter and co-author of their novel series Kill Point. Kerry Chater's mother was best selling regency romance author Elizabeth Chater. Son Kerry Chater Jr. is a guitarist, and son Christopher John Chater is a science fiction author.
Albums
NOTE: Both were released on CD in 2014 by Real Gone Music.