I so much wish this style of song writing could come back. It is so sweet! My Mom named me Linda after a childhood friend in Detroit. She (my mom) was born in 1937. Her name was Margaret. Another great name. 😊
I was named after this song. When I was growing up in the 60's & 70's my Mom listened to an oldies station that played this.. Every time it came on she called to me "Linda, your song is playing!" and I had to run to the kitchen and listen to it with her. She passed away in 2017 at 90 yrs. I miss her & my Dad who passed in 2000, sooo much. Thank you for posting. ♡
Were you aware that this song came into existence in 1945 because a New York lawyer who represented a number of musicians asked one of them, Jack Lawrence, if he could write a song about his 4 year old daughter? He did, and Buddy Clark turned it into this #1 hit the following year. Jan and Dean covered it in 1963 and their version peaked at #28. That lawyer was Lee Eastman, and his little 4 year old daughter Linda became known to the world a couple of decades later when she married Paul McCartney.
@@davidb1060 Paul owns the copyright as he bought the Jack Lawrence catalog over 40 years ago. It's a pity he never sang this to her in concert. He did write "Lovely Linda" about her on his first solo LP.
I was born in 1950. I once asked my mom why she chose to call me Linda. She told me because she liked the name. A few years ago I looked up songs for 1950 and this song was on the list.
😂 Linda SUCH a OLD AZZ name. I got no business named no DAMN Linda. I'm almost 80s kid. Born fall 78. Moms was gon name me Michelle. That A HOLE named me after some ho named Linda 😡
I'm told that this song and the actress, Linda Darnell, are the reasons my aunt named me Linda. Apparently a lot of parents in the late 40s loved this song because almost every class I was in at school had at least 2 Lindas in it.
My parents fell in love when this song was popular . They were married in 1947 . I was born in 1948 with their naming me Lynda, knowing there would be many named Linda. There were.
It staggers the imagination that there is not more film footage of Buddy Clark available. He was the rarest of breeds in that he did it all. And that should have been chronicled as such. Not only that impressive wealth of 78s he recorded for Columbia and other labels, but he was also a sensation on radio. In 1949, television was still in its infancy. Had he survived into the next decade, there is no doubt in my mind whatsoever that he would have been a commanding presence on television and in motion pictures. An impeccable voice, smooth as they come and pure class. He is greatly, greatly missed.
@@WAL_DC-6B That's quite likely. Many of the early greats had their own television programs during that period. Not just Perry Como, but Nat King Cole, Liberace, the Ames Brothers and Phil Harris, to name but a few. Buddy was still around when television was in its infancy. Can't help but wish he'd been able to take advantage of that. Ah, hindsight......
Romance in 1947. Hundreds of thousands of GI's followed this script after the war. And so many happy and healthy families were created. Another reason for the title 'The Greatest Generation.'
This song caused my Mother to decide on "Linda," for my name instead of "Belinda," which is what my Dad wanted. Thanks for providing it. I hadn't heard it since I was 10 years old.
I'm very empathetic of what the boys were going through returning home. They are long gone, and a generation from now, I hope others will look at my struggles with nostalgia too.
Omg - just watched this 1940s era music video on Turner Classic Movies. When I worked at the VA Regional Office Public Contact Team phone unit, I once had a veteran sing this song to me during our conversation. It was the sweetest thing ever.
Songwriter Jack Lawrence wrote this song, “Linda” , at the request of Lee Eastman, an entertainment lawyer in New York, for Eastman’s daughter, Linda Eastman, who later married Paul McCartney.
I don't know why, but this song has been running around my brain for two days now. So, I had to search for it on UA-cam and found this charmingly innocent, nostalgic video made the year before I was born. And, yes, Buddy Clark's voice is impressive.
According to Wikipedia this song was written for a 6 year old girl named Linda whom would some day become the wife of Paul McCartney. Great song & video ... thanks for posting.
Linda (Eastman) McCartney was actually only 4 years old when Jack Lawrence wrote this song in 1945 at her father Lee Eastman's request. Eastman was his legal representation, as he was for a number of musicians, including Tommy Dorsey, Harold Arlen, and Willem de Kooning. Lee Eastman's son John would follow his father into the same business and became his brother-in-law Paul's legal rep. in the music business from the time of the Beatle's breakup until his death in Aug. 2022.
REMEMBERING BUDDY CLARK July 26, 1912 - October 01, 1949 my Dad named me after this record, too, and strangely enough, Buddy passed away on the very day my (deceased) husband was born
It was written for a 4 year old Linda McCartney and went to No 1 in the USA which was responsible for lots of children being called Linda. I was thinking how strange it is that it has a music video way back then.
Thanks again for this I could watch this forever. Such great music and some of the best days America ever saw! men were Men woman were wonderful and life was good! I was born in 1947, glad I was born then!
I agree completely. I was born in 1943, and I have loved this song for years. I also think that Buddy Clark had a wonderful voice. Music back then was so superior to today's poor excuse for music. I wish pretty music would return.
Yes,I knew that! Her father was a showbiz lawyer and all his kids had songs named after them except Linda So,he asked Buddy Clarke to write one for Linda.
1974 My 43 year old mother was in the hospital dealing with systemic blood clots and me in her belly. My 43 year old dad had been home with the kids and had been humming this all week. When I was born, he asked my 16 year old sister what they should name me and she brought up this song he’d been humming! ❤️ Side note: he was told grandparents weren’t allowed in the delivery room 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Amazing song...🤗🌟🇺🇸🗽⛑️🎯, 🐕🦺.... This song reminds me of my relatives they have passed on but I am bonded with this song and I will carry it through !!!..💫⚓🌟😇🤗🙏🇺🇸🗽🎯🐕🦺......
Wow, I had never seen Buddy Clark in any motion picture footage, and didn't even know there was any. That was really good to see. I remember in 1987 one day when I walked from the University of Minnesota to a local record shop, I asked the elderly shop owner (who had been well known in this area for a long time and ran a record store back to 1931) if he had any Buddy Clark records. He did somewhat of a double-take, I suppose wondering what a college kid would be asking about him for, and said, "Wow, he kicked the bucket a long time ago," and pointed me to a bin. He had a somewhat gruff side to his personality sometimes, but also a fun side, and I enjoyed talking with him when I stopped in. He'd be smoking his pipe and was interested in talking about musical personalities from decades earlier. I bought an LP of Buddy Clark as a young band vocalist on a bunch of early recordings from the 1930s, which was interesting and different from his later records of "Linda," "I'll Dance At Your Wedding," and others. I've always enjoyed his singing, but until now, had never seen him perform.
I graduated in 85. I was also an odd ball. Although I was totally into the current music, all through high school I had a fascination with music of my parents time as kids to their high school years, as well as the 60s and 70s. Yeah no one else in my school was interested about music from this time.
They need to give credit to Jack Lawrence who wrote the words. He owed a bill to his show business attorney Lee Eastman and didn't know how he was going to pay. Eastman said if you write a song for my youngest daughter consider the bill paid. My other 2 kids have songs for their name but my daughter Linda doesn't. The rest is history.
The song was written in 1942 when Lawrence was in the service during World War II, taking its name from the then one-year-old daughter of his attorney, Lee Eastman. (His daughter was Linda Eastman McCartney, future first wife of the Beatle Paul McCartney.)[1][2]
@@bunnybgood411 You are wrong, Linda was born in 1941 and was a cute little girl. Her dad was an entertainment lawyer and had connections to the guy who was inspired by the cute little girl to write the song and it had nothing to do with adults preying on kids. She was a little cutie named Linda. Her cuteness and name inspired the song written by Jack Lawrence.
To add a little info - this is from the Wikipedia page for Linda Eastman McCarthy: Her father (Lee Eastman) practiced entertainment law in New York and counted among his famous clients Harold Arlen, Tommy Dorsey, Willem de Kooning, Jack Lawrence, and Mark Rothko. At Eastman's request, Jack Lawrence wrote the song "Linda" when she was four years old. It was recorded by Buddy Clark in 1947 and went to No. 1 on the charts, and was recorded again in 1963 by duo Jan and Dean.
"Linda" has always been my favorite Buddy Clark song. He lived only 37 years -- from 1912 to 1949 -- due to a tragedy. His real name was Samuel Goldberg. He was born to Jewish parents in Massachusetts and began to be noticed at age 22 when singing with Benny Goodman in 1934. On October 1, 1949, Clark and five friends, living in Los Angeles, rented a small plane to head north to attend a Stanford football game. During their return, the plane ran out of fuel, lost altitude, and crashed in Los Angeles (on Beverly Boulevard), killing Clark.
Ha! Yes, a special year indeed! You are amazing, nothin' gets past you! I was really lucky to come across such a great quality video of this. It has been posted before but I think this video version is better, so I uploaded it. I'm so glad you liked it, Heather! I am more familiar with the Jan & Dean version from the 60's but there is nothing like the original. Thank you so much for watching it! Jim
To see this without a distorted picture: ua-cam.com/video/icl4xICJgcA/v-deo.html. The source is a 10-minute 1948 MGM short, "Martin Block's Musical Merry-Go-Round #3.," which includes other numbers by Buddy Clark and Ray Noble.
LOVE this, Jim!! I've always loved this song, and Buddy Clark does a terrific job! 1946, hmm? That was a pretty special year, wasn't it?? :)) Thanks so much for sharing this great day brightener, my friend!
Clark was born to Jewish parents in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Tillie (Leibowitz), from Romania, and Nathan Goldberg, from Russia.[1] He made his Big Band singing debut in 1932 as a tenor, with Gus Arnheim's orchestra, but was not successful. Singing baritone, he gained wider notice in 1934, with Benny Goodman on the Let's Dance radio program. In 1936 he began performing on the show Your Hit Parade, and remained until 1938. In the mid-1930s he signed with Vocalion Records, having a top-20 hit with "Spring Is Here". He continued recording, appearing in movies, and dubbing other actors' voices until he entered the military, but did not have another hit until the late 1940s. In 1946 he signed with Columbia Records and scored his biggest hit with the song "Linda" recorded in November of that year, but hitting its peak in the following spring. "Linda" was written especially for the six-year-old daughter of a show business lawyer named Lee Eastman, whose client, songwriter Jack Lawrence, wrote the song at Lee’s request. Upon reaching adulthood, Linda became famous as a photographer, a musician (as a member of Wings, the 1970s band headed by her husband, former Beatle Paul McCartney), and a prominent spokeswoman for animal rights.[2] 1947 also saw hits for Clark with such titles as "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" (from the musical Finian's Rainbow), which made the Top Ten, "Peg O' My Heart", "An Apple Blossom Wedding", and "I'll Dance at Your Wedding". The following year he had another major hit with "Love Somebody" (a duet with Doris Day, selling a million and reaching #1 on the charts) and nine more chart hits, and extended his success into 1949 with a number of hits, both solo and duetting with Day and Dinah Shore. A month after his death, his recording of "A Dreamer's Holiday" hit the charts. Death On Saturday, October 1, 1949, hours after the 37-year-old had completed a Club Fifteen broadcast on CBS Radio with The Andrews Sisters-subbing for ailing host Dick Haymes-Clark joined five friends in renting a small plane to attend a University of Michigan vs. Stanford University college football game in Stanford, California. On the way back to Los Angeles after the game, the plane ran out of fuel, lost altitude, and crashed on Beverly Boulevard in West Los Angeles. Clark didn't survive the crash. Clark's last radio broadcast found him in very high spirits, clowning with Maxene, LaVerne, and Patty Andrews. He joined them for a comical rendition of "Baby Face," during which Buddy amused the CBS studio audience, as well as the famous swing trio of sisters, with his spot-on Al Jolson impression.[3] He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, near his widow and daughter.[4][5]
Interesting fact, Lee Eastman commissioned Jack Lawrence to write this song about his one year old daughter. It went to #2 in the charts and was later recorded by Jan and Dean. That one year old daughter was Linda Eastman, you know her as Linda McCartney, wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney.
I was also named after this song, my mom loved this song! I was born in 1956. My dad wanted to name me Clarisse, but my mom would have none of it! So, I'm Linda! I LOVE this song! And, especially this version. I don't like the Jan and Dean version as well as this one.
Not only is this song about Linda McCartney, but she took the photos for Tommy James' first album: "Hanky Panky". If I remember correctly, they were living in the same building at the time in NYC.
Slight correction: Linda McCartney did the photos for Tommy James' SECOND album, the sequel to "Hanky Panky": "It's Only Love." They were indeed living in the same building at the time.
The song maybe from 1946, but this soundie should be from 1948/1949. Hemlines in 1946 were right at the knee, her dress is a New Look from 1948, right down to midcalf. The hemline for the New Look was twelve inches from the floor.
wasn't published until a year later, then charted ... trying to find more info on this video and who the lady is. Anita Gordon is the voice on the recording, but who is the lady in the video?
PLEASE CORRECT THIS RESEARCH: WHO IS THE WOMAN IN THE VIDEO? IMDb SAYS ANITA GORDON (SEE BELOW) IS THE VOICE, BUT WHO PORTRAYS "LINDA"? according to IMDb, Anita Gordon is the voice of the lady (Linda) here. if my math is correct, she was 16 in 1946. Born: December 21, 1929 · Corsicana TX Died: May 10, 2015 · Newhall, CA At the age of 6, Anita Gordon and her family moved in 1935 from Texas to Hollywood where she became a successful child star. As a teenager on network radio, she achieved singing fame as a regular on ventriloquist Edgar Bergen's show. She was the voice who said "I don't talk to strangers.." on the Buddy Clark hit "Linda" in 1946, and voiced the part of the Singing Harp who helped Mickey Mouse escape from the Beanstalk Giant with "...in his right vest pocket you'll find a key..." for Disney in 1947. In the early days of television, Anita was a regular on The Ken Murray Show, and later a featured singer on the Tennessee Ernie Ford Show on ABC. In 1948, she married Dale Sheets, later an MCA/Universal executive, and gave birth to three girls. In the 60's, she appeared on various episodic television shows, then enjoyed a mini-career as the "ghost singer" for various female movie stars in movie musicals. In the 80's and 90's she wrote music for, and co-produced videos for various international clients including Philippine Airlines and Continental Airlines. Although Anita and Dale eventually divorced, she and husband of 41 years El Chan, retired to Newhall, California in 2000, where they stayed active and in touch with her three daughters, 9 grandchildren, and 21 great-grandchildren. Anita's health declined rapidly in the year before her death in 2015.
You are very welcome! One of the com-mentor's below says the girl is Anita Gordon. I have looked it up myself and confirmed that that is true. She sure was a Cutie! Thanks again for watching it! Jim
@@nipstertunes look up photos of Anita ... this is NOT she in the video! where did you obtain the video? I will do some research. PS, NOT Doris Day either, another popular rumor!
@@rafaelveggi the song was composed by Jack Lawrence, whose attorney (Lee Eastman) asked him to write a song for his daughter Linda (Eastman McCartney).
@captmitty I have in a frame the original 78rpm recording of this on the Columbia label (after which I was named), and the voicing on this video IS slightly different. we all agree that Anita Gordon is the vocalist on the recording, but does anyone know who the girl in the video is? some even thought both were Doris Day, but definitely not. so who is the mystery lady? c'mon Nippertunes, do some more research and reveal! LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
@Ed Miller absolutely right, Ed! the voice on the recording is Anita Gordon, and I researched the lady in the video. will get back to you on that tomorrow.
I so much wish this style of song writing could come back. It is so sweet! My Mom named me Linda after a childhood friend in Detroit. She (my mom) was born in 1937. Her name was Margaret. Another great name. 😊
I was named after this song.
When I was growing up in the 60's & 70's my Mom listened to an oldies station that played this.. Every time it came on she called to me "Linda, your song is playing!" and I had to run to the kitchen and listen to it with her. She passed away in 2017 at 90 yrs. I miss her & my Dad who passed in 2000, sooo much. Thank you for posting. ♡
Ed Miller I was just reading about this! I never knew that. My father named me after this song:)
Beautiful name isn't it! Pleased to meet you,I'm Linda too. I grew up in the 60's an 70's too
Aww that's lovely and you are named after a lovely song your mother sounded so sweet! ❤
Were you aware that this song came into existence in 1945 because a New York lawyer who represented a number of musicians asked one of them, Jack Lawrence, if he could write a song about his 4 year old daughter? He did, and Buddy Clark turned it into this #1 hit the following year. Jan and Dean covered it in 1963 and their version peaked at #28. That lawyer was Lee Eastman, and his little 4 year old daughter Linda became known to the world a couple of decades later when she married Paul McCartney.
@@davidb1060 Paul owns the copyright as he bought the Jack Lawrence catalog over 40 years ago. It's a pity he never sang this to her in concert. He did write "Lovely Linda" about her on his first solo LP.
I was born in 1950. I once asked my mom why she chose to call me Linda. She told me because she liked the name. A few years ago I looked up songs for 1950 and this song was on the list.
😂 Linda SUCH a OLD AZZ name. I got no business named no DAMN Linda. I'm almost 80s kid. Born fall 78. Moms was gon name me Michelle. That A HOLE named me after some ho named Linda 😡
1950 me too
My dad named me Linda. Born in 1950 Loved this video!
I dedicate this song to my mum Linda, she passed away 13yrs ago I miss her so much. I'll play this song whenever I feel sad.
I was named after this song, also. Lots of Linda'a in all my classes throughout school. I was born in 1942, the year it was written.
I found my love Linda in 2021, thankyou Buddy for putting my emotions into words generations after your time ❤
These things are the best parts of UA-cam
I'm told that this song and the actress, Linda Darnell, are the reasons my aunt named me Linda. Apparently a lot of parents in the late 40s loved this song because almost every class I was in at school had at least 2 Lindas in it.
Every man loved Linda Darnell, a real Hollywood beauty & star
i love this song and a lot others from the 30's and 40's.
My parents fell in love when this song was popular . They were married in 1947 . I was born in 1948 with their naming me Lynda, knowing there would be many named Linda. There were.
It staggers the imagination that there is not more film footage of Buddy Clark available. He was the rarest of breeds in that he did it all. And that should have been chronicled as such. Not only that impressive wealth of 78s he recorded for Columbia and other labels, but he was also a sensation on radio. In 1949, television was still in its infancy. Had he survived into the next decade, there is no doubt in my mind whatsoever that he would have been a commanding presence on television and in motion pictures. An impeccable voice, smooth as they come and pure class. He is greatly, greatly missed.
I agree and there's also a good chance that Buddy Clark would have had his own TV program much like another crooner from the same period, Perry Como.
@@WAL_DC-6B That's quite likely. Many of the early greats had their own television programs during that period. Not just Perry Como, but Nat King Cole, Liberace, the Ames Brothers and Phil Harris, to name but a few. Buddy was still around when television was in its infancy. Can't help but wish he'd been able to take advantage of that. Ah, hindsight......
Romance in 1947. Hundreds of thousands of GI's followed this script after the war.
And so many happy and healthy families were created. Another reason for the title
'The Greatest Generation.'
True. My parents started dating in 1947.
My Dad served as a Navy Seabee in the South Pacific the entire war. I was named after this song ; )
Now my lucky stars begin to shine ✨💖
This song caused my Mother to decide on "Linda," for my name instead of "Belinda," which is what my Dad wanted. Thanks for providing it. I hadn't heard it since I was 10 years old.
Buddy was smooth. Thanks
Love this. My Dad sang it to me all the time when I was a child.
What a sweet voice, with a touch of Bing Crosby's smoothness, too;)
I'm very empathetic of what the boys were going through returning home. They are long gone, and a generation from now, I hope others will look at my struggles with nostalgia too.
Omg - just watched this 1940s era music video on Turner Classic Movies. When I worked at the VA Regional Office Public Contact Team phone unit, I once had a veteran sing this song to me during our conversation. It was the sweetest thing ever.
Songwriter Jack Lawrence wrote this song, “Linda” , at the request of Lee Eastman, an entertainment lawyer in New York, for Eastman’s daughter, Linda Eastman, who later married Paul McCartney.
I love you Linda!!!
Nice to put a face to that great voice. If only Buddy had lived I'm sure he would have made it on T.V. As is we still have his wonderful records.
How sweet❤
Love that voice. So sad he passed so soon.
He was only 37! He looked so much older!
I don't know why, but this song has been running around my brain for two days now. So, I had to search for it on UA-cam and found this charmingly innocent, nostalgic video made the year before I was born. And, yes, Buddy Clark's voice is impressive.
According to Wikipedia this song was written for a 6 year old girl named Linda whom would some day become the wife of Paul McCartney. Great song & video ... thanks for posting.
You are correct the wife of Paul McCartney very good......✨🦈💪🤗🙏🇺🇸🗽✨😇, This is a great song God bless you and your family....🌎🏆📝💫😇.....
The words are much too mature to be directed at a 6 year old.
@@terrymayfield364 just the name is inspired
Linda (Eastman) McCartney was actually only 4 years old when Jack Lawrence wrote this song in 1945 at her father Lee Eastman's request. Eastman was his legal representation, as he was for a number of musicians, including Tommy Dorsey, Harold Arlen, and Willem de Kooning. Lee Eastman's son John would follow his father into the same business and became his brother-in-law Paul's legal rep. in the music business from the time of the Beatle's breakup until his death in Aug. 2022.
That sounds like the CIA version of the story to this recovering abused CIA Ex Wife Widow.😊
AT 82 this song & this version are two of my first appreciations of popular music!!!
I never knew about this song before until just NOW!!! WOW!
My grandmother named dad after him and I'm Junior, we have a couple of Vinyl albums from him
REMEMBERING BUDDY CLARK
July 26, 1912 - October 01, 1949
my Dad named me after this record, too, and strangely enough,
Buddy passed away on the very day my (deceased) husband was born
It was written for a 4 year old Linda McCartney and went to No 1 in the USA which was responsible for lots of children being called Linda. I was thinking how strange it is that it has a music video way back then.
I too was named because of this song!
GREAT video. Buddy's voice was one of the best. Awesome suit
+disc151 I love that old double breasted suit too! Thanks so much for watching!
Jim
Thanks again for this I could watch this forever. Such great music and some of the best days America ever saw! men were Men woman were wonderful and life was good! I was born in 1947, glad I was born then!
I was born in 1946 and I feel the same way. Thank you so much for watching and commenting!
Jim
Amen! I agree!
I agree completely. I was born in 1943, and I have loved this song for years. I also think that Buddy Clark had a wonderful voice. Music back then was so superior to today's poor excuse for music. I wish pretty music would return.
Yes,I knew that! Her father was a showbiz lawyer and all his kids had songs named after them except Linda So,he asked Buddy Clarke to write one for Linda.
Lee Eastman actually asked Jack Lawrence to write a song for 4 year old Linda. Buddy Clark simply recorded it the following year, and took it to #1.
I’ve been watching Rhoda , and Brenda’s boyfriend said he wrote a song for her. It was this one. That’s why I’m here 😁
1974
My 43 year old mother was in the hospital dealing with systemic blood clots and me in her belly. My 43 year old dad had been home with the kids and had been humming this all week. When I was born, he asked my 16 year old sister what they should name me and she brought up this song he’d been humming! ❤️
Side note: he was told grandparents weren’t allowed in the delivery room 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Great singer.
Jan Berry & Dean Torrence did a cover version of Linda.
🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
I got that version on my playlist.😁😁😁
So innocent. Thanks for sharing.
I remember this when I was younger! Thought it was cool!! ❤
God I’m glad I was born too late to be part of this.
Amazing song...🤗🌟🇺🇸🗽⛑️🎯, 🐕🦺.... This song reminds me of my relatives they have passed on but I am bonded with this song and I will carry it through !!!..💫⚓🌟😇🤗🙏🇺🇸🗽🎯🐕🦺......
Just found out this song was written about Linda McCartney when she was a child
I Can't tell you how Much I love this video, Thanks again for putting it here!
I love it too. Thank you so much for watching it!
Jim
Thanks for sharing the video. Just learning about Buddy Clark.
Donald Morrison You are more than welcome. Thanks so much for watching!
Jim
So glad you liked it. Thank you so much for watching!
Jim
who is the lady in the video? Anita Gordon sang on the recording, but can you tell me more about this wonderful video please?
Never knew there was a Soundie for this song. This was so enjoyable.
Yes I love song so much
Wow, I had never seen Buddy Clark in any motion picture footage, and didn't even know there was any. That was really good to see. I remember in 1987 one day when I walked from the University of Minnesota to a local record shop, I asked the elderly shop owner (who had been well known in this area for a long time and ran a record store back to 1931) if he had any Buddy Clark records. He did somewhat of a double-take, I suppose wondering what a college kid would be asking about him for, and said, "Wow, he kicked the bucket a long time ago," and pointed me to a bin. He had a somewhat gruff side to his personality sometimes, but also a fun side, and I enjoyed talking with him when I stopped in. He'd be smoking his pipe and was interested in talking about musical personalities from decades earlier. I bought an LP of Buddy Clark as a young band vocalist on a bunch of early recordings from the 1930s, which was interesting and different from his later records of "Linda," "I'll Dance At Your Wedding," and others. I've always enjoyed his singing, but until now, had never seen him perform.
I graduated in 85. I was also an odd ball. Although I was totally into the current music, all through high school I had a fascination with music of my parents time as kids to their high school years, as well as the 60s and 70s. Yeah no one else in my school was interested about music from this time.
I believe I was about 7 years old when I first heard this song; I still love it, the man had a nice voice.
They need to give credit to Jack Lawrence who wrote the words. He owed a bill to his show business attorney Lee Eastman and didn't know how he was going to pay. Eastman said if you write a song for my youngest daughter consider the bill paid. My other 2 kids have songs for their name but my daughter Linda doesn't. The rest is history.
The song was written in 1942 when Lawrence was in the service during World War II, taking its name from the then one-year-old daughter of his attorney, Lee Eastman. (His daughter was Linda Eastman McCartney, future first wife of the Beatle Paul McCartney.)[1][2]
Written for Linda Eastman McCartney - crazy!
Nope. This song was before her time.
@@bunnybgood411 You are wrong, Linda was born in 1941 and was a cute little girl. Her dad was an entertainment lawyer and had connections to the guy who was inspired by the cute little girl to write the song and it had nothing to do with adults preying on kids. She was a little cutie named Linda. Her cuteness and name inspired the song written by Jack Lawrence.
To add a little info - this is from the Wikipedia page for Linda Eastman McCarthy:
Her father (Lee Eastman) practiced entertainment law in New York and counted among his famous clients Harold Arlen, Tommy Dorsey, Willem de Kooning, Jack Lawrence, and Mark Rothko. At Eastman's request, Jack Lawrence wrote the song "Linda" when she was four years old. It was recorded by Buddy Clark in 1947 and went to No. 1 on the charts, and was recorded again in 1963 by duo Jan and Dean.
mhm!
"Linda" has always been my favorite Buddy Clark song. He lived only 37 years -- from 1912 to 1949 -- due to a tragedy. His real name was Samuel Goldberg. He was born to Jewish parents in Massachusetts and began to be noticed at age 22 when singing with Benny Goodman in 1934. On October 1, 1949, Clark and five friends, living in Los Angeles, rented a small plane to head north to attend a Stanford football game. During their return, the plane ran out of fuel, lost altitude, and crashed in Los Angeles (on Beverly Boulevard), killing Clark.
how sad and frightening! never knew that!
How horrifying!
That "come hither" smile as she walks toward her door.
The year I was born such a great time to live!
Drop Dead Gorgeous.
And all the right "curves" too!
Thank you for this awesome version!!
You are more than welcome! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
Jim
AT AGE 11 THIS ONE OF FIRST POP SONGS I FELLFOR...LEADING TO A LIFETIME LOVE AFFAIR!!
Song written about Linda Eastman McCartney
I WILL NEVER FORGET WHEN MY DADDY RAY GENE MYERS GOT ME THIS RECORD ABOUT LINDA
Very beautiful song and video! It's so nice to watch such old black and white films, I like that! Thank you Jim! Uli
Ha! Yes, a special year indeed! You are amazing, nothin' gets past you! I was really lucky to come across such a great quality video of this. It has been posted before but I think this video version is better, so I uploaded it. I'm so glad you liked it, Heather! I am more familiar with the Jan & Dean version from the 60's but there is nothing like the original. Thank you so much for watching it!
Jim
For the third time Thanks for this awesome Video!
You are more than welcome! I am so happy that you are enjoying it! Thanks so much for watching!
Jim
i love this song
I love this song -I had the music to it😮
To see this without a distorted picture: ua-cam.com/video/icl4xICJgcA/v-deo.html. The source is a 10-minute 1948 MGM short, "Martin Block's Musical Merry-Go-Round #3.," which includes other numbers by Buddy Clark and Ray Noble.
Not as clear a picture, but I much prefer the correct aspect ratio. Hate to see folks scrunched by pointless messing with the aspect ratio.
You are very welcome, Linda! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
Jim
which Linda? LOL! we ALL enjoyed it!
What a lovely, charming look into the past! (How enjoyable life must have been then...)
LOVE this, Jim!! I've always loved this song, and Buddy Clark does a terrific job! 1946, hmm? That was a pretty special year, wasn't it?? :)) Thanks so much for sharing this great day brightener, my friend!
Happy Birthday Linda Jefferson/Hartlepool ❤️✌️😂
Clark was born to Jewish parents in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Tillie (Leibowitz), from Romania, and Nathan Goldberg, from Russia.[1] He made his Big Band singing debut in 1932 as a tenor, with Gus Arnheim's orchestra, but was not successful. Singing baritone, he gained wider notice in 1934, with Benny Goodman on the Let's Dance radio program. In 1936 he began performing on the show Your Hit Parade, and remained until 1938. In the mid-1930s he signed with Vocalion Records, having a top-20 hit with "Spring Is Here".
He continued recording, appearing in movies, and dubbing other actors'
voices until he entered the military, but did not have another hit until
the late 1940s.
In 1946 he signed with Columbia Records and scored his biggest hit with the song "Linda" recorded in November of that year, but hitting its peak in the following spring. "Linda" was written especially for the six-year-old daughter of a show business lawyer named Lee Eastman, whose client, songwriter Jack Lawrence, wrote the song at Lee’s request. Upon reaching adulthood, Linda became famous as a photographer, a musician (as a member of Wings, the 1970s band headed by her husband, former Beatle Paul McCartney), and a prominent spokeswoman for animal rights.[2]
1947 also saw hits for Clark with such titles as "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" (from the musical Finian's Rainbow), which made the Top Ten, "Peg O' My Heart", "An Apple Blossom Wedding", and "I'll Dance at Your Wedding". The following year he had another major hit with "Love Somebody" (a duet with Doris Day,
selling a million and reaching #1 on the charts) and nine more chart
hits, and extended his success into 1949 with a number of hits, both
solo and duetting with Day and Dinah Shore. A month after his death, his recording of "A Dreamer's Holiday" hit the charts.
Death
On Saturday, October 1, 1949, hours after the 37-year-old had completed a Club Fifteen broadcast on CBS Radio with The Andrews Sisters-subbing for ailing host Dick Haymes-Clark joined five friends in renting a small plane to attend a University of Michigan vs. Stanford University college football game in Stanford, California. On the way back to Los Angeles after the game, the plane ran out of fuel, lost altitude, and crashed on Beverly Boulevard in West Los Angeles.
Clark didn't survive the crash. Clark's last radio broadcast found him
in very high spirits, clowning with Maxene, LaVerne, and Patty Andrews.
He joined them for a comical rendition of "Baby Face," during which Buddy amused the CBS studio audience, as well as the famous swing trio of sisters, with his spot-on Al Jolson impression.[3]
He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, near his widow and daughter.[4][5]
You are very welcome, Uli! I like them very much too! Great stuff form years gone by, for sure. Thank you so much for watching it!
Jim
Interesting fact, Lee Eastman commissioned Jack Lawrence to write this song about his one year old daughter. It went to #2 in the charts and was later recorded by Jan and Dean. That one year old daughter was Linda Eastman, you know her as Linda McCartney, wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney.
Thank U I've made a song there's a LINDA sentence in the song verse
I was also named after this song, my mom loved this song! I was born in 1956. My dad wanted to name me Clarisse, but my mom would have none of it! So, I'm Linda! I LOVE this song! And, especially this version. I don't like the Jan and Dean version as well as this one.
Hi, Linda! Lots of pretty girls named Linda. Thanks for your comment and for watching the video!
Какой красивый английский язык в исполнени Вуди кларк особенно иего очаровательная дама!
She is a dream walkin.
that's a big door
Always liked the Jan and Dean version, first time hearing the original
Great song! I love it by Jan & Dean
13sunny "LiL, LiL, LiL, LiL, LiL, LiL, LiL, LiL, LiL, LINDA"! Ha! I love Jan & Dean's version too! Thanks for watching this one!
Jim
My dads song because my name is Linda.
Imagine if a guy did this today!!
She is so Pretty!
My Daddy named me after this song:)
Not only is this song about Linda McCartney, but she took the photos for Tommy James' first album: "Hanky Panky". If I remember correctly, they were living in the same building at the time in NYC.
Slight correction: Linda McCartney did the photos for Tommy James' SECOND album, the sequel to "Hanky Panky": "It's Only Love." They were indeed living in the same building at the time.
Fresh!,,, I don’t talk to strangers.
My wife when I first met her. Now 39 years of marriage.
Jack Lawrence wrote this for his lawyer's daughter, Linda Eastman. We knew her as Linda McCartney...yes, Paul's wife. Lee Eastman was Linda's dad.
This is really a cute, innocent song, that today would most likely have a good number of people blowing a gasket.
The song maybe from 1946, but this soundie should be from 1948/1949. Hemlines in 1946 were right at the knee, her dress is a New Look from 1948, right down to midcalf. The hemline for the New Look was twelve inches from the floor.
wasn't published until a year later, then charted ... trying to find more info on this video and who the lady is. Anita Gordon is the voice on the recording, but who is the lady in the video?
This video and all the comments below make me sad and happy both. Thanks to all.
I’m officially saying The Lovely Linda by Paul McCartney is the official sequel to this song
We had the 38 of this
PLEASE CORRECT THIS RESEARCH:
WHO IS THE WOMAN IN THE VIDEO?
IMDb SAYS ANITA GORDON (SEE BELOW) IS THE VOICE, BUT WHO PORTRAYS "LINDA"?
according to IMDb, Anita Gordon is the voice of the lady (Linda) here. if my math is correct, she was 16 in 1946.
Born: December 21, 1929 · Corsicana TX
Died: May 10, 2015 · Newhall, CA
At the age of 6, Anita Gordon and her family moved in 1935 from Texas to Hollywood where she became a successful child star. As a teenager on network radio, she achieved singing fame as a regular on ventriloquist Edgar Bergen's show. She was the voice who said "I don't talk to strangers.." on the Buddy Clark hit "Linda" in 1946, and voiced the part of the Singing Harp who helped Mickey Mouse escape from the Beanstalk Giant with "...in his right vest pocket you'll find a key..." for Disney in 1947. In the early days of television, Anita was a regular on The Ken Murray Show, and later a featured singer on the Tennessee Ernie Ford Show on ABC. In 1948, she married Dale Sheets, later an MCA/Universal executive, and gave birth to three girls. In the 60's, she appeared on various episodic television shows, then enjoyed a mini-career as the "ghost singer" for various female movie stars in movie musicals. In the 80's and 90's she wrote music for, and co-produced videos for various international clients including Philippine Airlines and Continental Airlines. Although Anita and Dale eventually divorced, she and husband of 41 years El Chan, retired to Newhall, California in 2000, where they stayed active and in touch with her three daughters, 9 grandchildren, and 21 great-grandchildren. Anita's health declined rapidly in the year before her death in 2015.
+Linda J Gaeta
Grateful for sharing the results of your research.
If only romance were so quick and easy.
Again Jim Thank you so much this is great. Still wonder who the girl is!
You are very welcome! One of the com-mentor's below says the girl is Anita Gordon. I have looked it up myself and confirmed that that is true. She sure was a Cutie! Thanks again for watching it!
Jim
@@nipstertunes Anita sang on the recording, but not confirmed (and doubted) that she is in the video as well. are you sure? RSVP
@@nipstertunes look up photos of Anita ... this is NOT she in the video! where did you obtain the video? I will do some research. PS, NOT Doris Day either, another popular rumor!
How many girls were named Linda from this song?
This song was composed for Linda Eastman -- the late Paul McCartney's wife - by her father when she was 4yo.
A lot, including me!
Me:) My dad was born in 1933:)
My Name is Linda
@@rafaelveggi the song was composed by Jack Lawrence, whose attorney (Lee Eastman) asked him to write a song for his daughter Linda (Eastman McCartney).
Jesus saved me !!! Romans 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved .
WOW WOW WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From a mad keen 76yo Aussie fan.
Rick,by simple deduction,this wasn't written for Linda McCartney.
Yes it was
I was named after this song.
The girl in this video is Anita Gordon
@captmitty I have in a frame the original 78rpm recording of this on the Columbia label (after which I was named), and the voicing on this video IS slightly different. we all agree that Anita Gordon is the vocalist on the recording, but does anyone know who the girl in the video is? some even thought both were Doris Day, but definitely not. so who is the mystery lady? c'mon Nippertunes, do some more research and reveal! LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
@Ed Miller absolutely right, Ed! the voice on the recording is Anita Gordon, and I researched the lady in the video. will get back to you on that tomorrow.