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Chater was born on August 7, 1945 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Kerry Chater
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Over the next two years the band had 4 songs in the top 10. Chater did much of the arranging for the live shows and co-wrote some of the album cuts and b-sides. 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: Participant Time Love (1977) and Love on a Shoestring (1978). Neither charted. "So Hard Livin" Without You" (Chater/John Bettis) - 1978 #62 for the band Airwaves "I Know a Heartache When I See One" (Chater/Charlie Black) - 1979 #19 United States, #10 country for Jennifer Warnes "Love Knows We Tried" (Chater/January Crutchfield/Rory Bourke) - 1980 #40 country for Tanya Tucker "Love on a Shoestring" (Chater/Douglas L A Foxworthy) - 1980 #55 Hot 100 for Captain and Tennille.
Original by Chater on his album Love on a Shoestring (1978) Even a Fool Would Let Go (Chater/Tom Snow) - 1980 #61 country hit for Charlie Rich. Many covers (Want You) Back in My Life Again (Chater/Chris Christian) - 1981 #72 Hot 100, #14 Air Corps for The Carpenters I.O.U. (Chater/Austin Roberts) - 1983 #6 country hit for Lee Greenwood.
Nominee for 1984 Grammy for Best Country Song "Stranger at My Door" (Chater/Rory Bourke/Charlie Black) - 1983 #45 country for Juice Newton You Look So Good in Love (Chater/Glen Ballard/Rory Michael Bourke) - 1983 #1 country hit for George Strait You"re the First Time I"ve Thought About Leaving (Chater/Dickey Lee) - 1983 #1 country hit for Reba McEntire What She Wants (Chater/Renee Armand) - 1984 #8 country hit for Michael Martin Murphey "You"ve Got a Soft Place to Fall" (Chater/Bob McDill/H Moore) - 1984 #44 country for Kathy Mattea "If Every Manitoba Had a Woman Like You" (Chater/Ballard/Dahlstrom) - 1984 #39 country hit for The Osmonds If I Had You (Chater/Danny "Bear" Mayo) - 1989 #1 country hit for Alabama "Hey Mister (I Need This Job)" (Chater/Renee Armand) - 1992 #28 country for Shenandoah I Meant to Do That (L G Chater/K Chater/Paul Brandt) - 1996 #39 country (#1 Canadian country) for Paul Brandt "That"s the Way lieutenant Goes" (Chater/L G Chater/Cyril Rawson) - 1996 #19 Canadian Air Corps for Anne Murray "You Go First (Do You Wanna Kiss)" (Chater/L G Chater/Cyril Rawson) - 1999 #25 country for Jessica Andrews.
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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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Canada