Vocalist Parks was a
Hollywood studio singer in the 1970s and worked with
Andy Williams and
Tom Jones in shows and was in the choir for
Sonny & Cher,
Cher, and
Danny Kaye. She was featured as
backing vocalist on several popular songs of the 1970s including "
Desiderata", "
It Never Rains in Southern California", "
Undercover Angel", "
Rock Me Gently", "
The Goodbye Girl", "
Little Green Apples", "
Train of Thought", "
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" and "
Delta Dawn". During the mid-70s, she joined up with
David Gates, founder member of the band
Bread, and became his backing singer for a number of his solo tours, alongside her future husband. Together, they also supported the reunited Bread during their 1978 tour of the UK, although the 1978 UK TV special featured Parks singing from off stage. She sang on several commercials for
Ernest and Julio Gallo,
AVCO Financial Services Corporation,
Bank of America,
Toyota,
Datsun and other clients. Under the aliases "Honey White and the Night Man,” "Kim Carmichael," and "Carol Carmichael,” she recorded two
albums
Songs My Father Taught Me,
The Carol Carmichael Songbook, and two
singles, "All Night's Alright", "Shake A Hand". She also recorded two albums
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and
Touring The Motor City, plus a single "Summertime Love" with
The New Christy Minstrels. Additionally, Parks sang main titles for ''
Where's Poppa? (1970), Save the Tiger (1973), Teenager
(1974), Lifeguard (1976), and the television show Ironside, as well as all of the songs from The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation''. She also sang for some of the Christian albums produced by her father. Parks recorded "The Persuader" on the first automated recording console invented by
George Massenburg at The Complex in the early eighties.
Assistant record producer She also worked as an assistant producer of records for several pop music groups of the era including Rita Jean Bodine and Hodges, James and Smith in the 1970s,
New Monkees in the eighties and associate produced for
Donald Fagen,
Walter Becker and
Rickie Lee Jones in the nineties. She contracted
recordings for
Kenny Rogers,
Dolly Parton,
Johnny Rivers, Lambert & Potter,
Michael Omartian,
Marty Paich,
Melanie,
Lee Greenwood,
Helen Reddy,
Alan O'Day,
Andy Kim,
Albert Hammond,
David Gates,
Johnny Mathis,
Vicki Carr,
Billy Joel, and many others. Along with her former husband Dean Parks, she co-wrote and sang the score for
Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation. Her children, Amanda and Acacia Parks, also sang on several tracks.
Artist Parks conducted workshops for art teachers such as
Sabrina Ward Harrison and
SARK. ==Personal life==