Brother Dave Gardner, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetBrother Dave Gardner
American musician
Date of Birth: 11-Jun-1926
Date of Death: 22-Sep-1983
Profession: actor
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Brother Dave Gardner
- David Gardner (June 11, 1926 - September 22, 1983), known as Brother Dave Gardner, was a U.S.
- comedian, professional drummer and singer. A Tennessee native, Gardner studied drumming, beginning at age 13.
- After a one-semester term as a Southern Baptist ministerial student at Union University in his hometown of Jackson, Tennessee, he began a musical career as a drummer and occasional vocalist.
- After a pair of demo singles for Decca Records around 1956, he had a 1957 Top-20 hit on OJ Records with "White Silver Sands". It was his comedic routines between songs, however, that brought him to the attention of RCA Records artist & producer Chet Atkins.
- The eventual result was a comedy album interspersed with a couple of songs - Rejoice, Dear Hearts! (1959), which propelled Brother Dave into the national eye, along with the first of several appearances on national television talk/variety shows such as The Tonight Show. An arrest for marijuana possession in 1962 curtailed his visibility on television.
- Then, it seemed, changing public tastes (i.e., the falling out-of-favor of 'beatnik'-style comedy), coupled with Gardner's holding onto his same performing style, resulted in a similar fading of his recording career.
- After six albums for RCA Victor Records, he made two for Capitol Records, and then others for lesser labels.
- He had another legal problem over tax-evasion charges in the 1970s, which his son helped clear up. Brother Dave had a role as a Southern preacher in the 1978 made-for-TV film Big Bob Johnson's Fantastic Speed Circus.
- He was cast in a B-grade movie, and was just beginning work on it at the time of his death. Gardner was twice married: his first wife, Millie, preceded him in death, and he was married to his second wife, Judy, at the time of his death.
- He had two children from his first marriage—son Dave II (deceased, 1999) and daughter Candace Gardner Hare, married to Stan Hare and has two sons Jason & Alan Hare, the grandsons of Brother Dave Gardner and two great-grandsons Eelan & Aaron Hare fathered by Jason Hare.
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