Buddy Clarke & Ray Noble - Linda

[Mizpah2195]

I was named Linda because of this song and also because my Mom was a fan of the actress Linda Darnell.

[nealadams70]

thank god my dad didnt name me linda....Im a guy-!

[LatPrince13]

I heard this song for the 1st time about a month ago on XM 40s on 4. It's a beautiful song. It caught my attention 'cause I've been looking for a song to sing to one of the prettiest girls in town. You'll never guess what her name is! Anyway, I've always thought things of that sort were special. She's seeing a really nice guy, so I can't do that. However, whenever hear this, I remember her beautiful smile.

[TDF26]

just a lovely east tune thanks from Trevor in Sevenoaks kent uk

[TheDorr71]

he sang it to Linda when she little, on her dad's piano.It was written many times he wrote it for Linda,because he was friend of Linda's dad,who was connected very much in the music business.

[lgebaroff]

This is an oldie, love it!

No, the song was not written for Linda Eastman. It was recorded in 19

[lgebaroff]

This is an oldie, love it!

No, the song was not written for Linda Eastman. It was recorded in 1946!

[thorngater]

@lgebaroff The composer, Jack Lawrence, wrote on his website that he wrote the song for a then five-year-old Linda Eastman, the daughter of his attorney, who requested the song specifically for her.

[lemonpeg1]

I had a very good friend named "Linda" when this came out. I admired her so much. I was only ten at the time and she was a teenager. I wanted to be like her and wear lipstick. All the boys thought she was pretty.

[lac9252]

This is my name too...but with a (Y) Lynda.



[xXlyndeelovespanicxX]

called Linda too:) 

[ButterscotchKels1]

i loved this song when i was just a kid, about seven years old. such a nice pleasant voice. of course, i didn't know buddy clark died in a plane crash, shortly after he recorded this song. what a great loss, just think of all the great tunes he might have recorded.

[Macratomato]

I was also named for this song, Thanks for posting it. Linda McCartney was definitely a Linda.

Linda McCormick

[LindaDanielle1]

Okay ..type in..youtube

"NEVER COUNTS SHEEP WHEN HE GOES TO SLEEP"

BY: neverknewittillnow

[LindaDanielle1]

I have found the MOST amazing video on Linda ..Did you know the song was in an old movie...i will find it and post it to you guys..

[vonmazur1]

There may be film of Buddy singing this, in Vegas. He opened his act with this song. I do not know if any film survives...His act in Vegas was televised, but I do not think anything was recorded permanantly, 1948 pre-dates kineoscope and video by years!! Too bad he was one of the best ever.....

Dale 

[beberineau]

I was looking for "Linda" songs tonight and I have to admit: this is a good one - thanks.

[raystopher]

First time I heard it !

[PrettyLittleHead]

Lets not forget that Paul McCartney DOES own this song:



[LindaDanielle1]

My Dad named me Linda..from this song..In fact I still have the record that HE bought to the Hospital the day I was born..

[nirajkvinit]

@LindaDanielle1 Nice to know. :) Pretty name...But I'll just call you Linda. :)

[LindaDanielle1]

@nirajkvinit  Thanks..:-)

[MelizzaNight1]

@LindaDanielle1 AWWWWW HOW CUTE! :D when were you born?!?

[LindaDanielle1]

@MelizzaNight1 mercy..lol 1956

[lbelshe]

@LindaDanielle1

wow...my dad did the exact same thing...named me after this song.

[LindaDanielle1]

@lbelshe too cool

[yahman03]

@LindaDanielle1:

Neat story! Linda is one of my favorite female names.

[runalindi]

@LindaDanielle1 There were hundreds of us named after this song

[feelinda]

Like many baby girls born to WWII vets, I was named for this song. My dad had gone back to college on the GI bill, and I was their first little "accident," named for this song. Thanks for posting it!

[jonycuddlesgert]

Hi, nirajkvlnit... Yup, this was written expressly for Linda Eastman (at her age of 6 years)... and she and Paul McC., of course, loved the some. Really and truly. Hugs to you all... especially for the sorrowfully-deceased Buddy C., at such a young and sudden death (air crash, 1949). All good Wishes and Memories... to Buddy, Linda Eastman McCarney... and to Paul, too! Love and Hugs Always. --jonycuddlesgert.

[black15doll]

My name is Linda.. :) And I like this song.. :D

[friscolobo]

TCM showed a beautiful technicolor short with Buddy Clark singing Linda to a gorgeous girl.

[MrsVanillachi]

Can you put up a link to that video?.. I can not find it and would love to see it!!

[critterladyme]

My dad used to sing this to me all the time. Even now, it makes me smile and think of him. Even makes me like my name! (Linda) Had no idea of who it was written for. Thanks for posting this.

[GeeksGetGirls]

that's nice to have a daddy who always sings a song to you

[alecisatoon12]

Best song of it's time in my words!

[unavail01]

Love the song

[happchappie]

There is a video clip of Buddy singing Linda plus also one of him singing i'll Dance At Your Wedding. Both are shorter versions but great to actually see him perform. The girl on Linda is also featured on the clip. I got them both on youtube by putting in TCM ... Leon

[rustypaz]

I learned how to dance to this song.

[RosesAndThorns91]

I was named after this song. In doing research, I found out that the lady that talks in the beginning was actually working in the building where this was recorded, and they grabbed her and got her to do the intro. It is so fascinating how songs come into being, the making of them has a history all its own. Thank you to my earthly father, now in Heaven ,for naming me for this song, I did not find out until 1998 after Linda McCartney passed away how and why the song was written.

[BrittanyPowers8]

always loved this song... i live with my grandma and aunt when i was little my aunt would sing me this song to bed but put my name in it instead and one day she stopped because of a few things I'm not gonna talk about.. anyways after that i would sing it to my self when sad or going to bed till one day i completely forgot it... then few days ago found lyrics... when I have a daughter I will sing this to her and love her unlike my mom that never loved me she will be happy and loved

[GagesMum]

This song reminds me of my mum, Her father named her after this song!. He use to sing this song all the time! amazing song for a awesome lady! love you Mum!

[tomkellycartoons]

Gee...a nicely-written song, with a singer who can actually sing, and...enunciation allowing us to understand the words.

What a concept! Where has it all gone?

Hahahah. Don't get me started! Thanks for posting...excellent!

[fitzpjo]

I don't believe this song had any connection with Linda Eastman, hell Buddy Clark probably died well before Miss Eastman was born. I'm thinking he died around 1947.

[Corrie121]

fitzpjo.

This song really was written for Linda Eastman (McCartney) when she was six years old (1946).

It was written by Jack Lawrence.

[mary88stella]

Ray Noble died in 1976

[d2damax]

Actually if you check your facts (you're on the internet aren't you?) Buddy Clark died 1949,

Linda Eastman born 1941. So if you do the math, time wise it is possible, isn't it? Oh yeah!

[jml1163]

@fitzpjo Yeah, well, Buddy Clark didn't write it. Jack Lawrence did in 1946, when Linda was five.

[alecisatoon12]

I heard this song on the 40's on 4. I LOVE SWING,BIG BAND,JAZZ,ORCHESTRA,AND PAT RACK ERA!

[smokeysport2]

Actually there is a video of this song with Buddy Clarke, it's one of the first music videos ever made. .Occassionaly they play it on TMC as a short subject between movies.. Why there, I don't know. But occassionally they also show a short interview with Ray Noble.

[rc1965]

Glad to find this song...I had read about it in the Linda Mccartney book by Danny Fields...cool to actually hear it.

[DoubleWings]

Paul Mc Cartney, Miguel Bosé & Daniel Blavoine ont chanté "Linda", merci pour en faire découvrir d'autres.. un petit plaisir bonheur..

[beatlequeen06]

Lovely song for a lovely lady! RIP Linda.

[kmag54Fun]

buddy clark had a great voice, but never became popular because he wasn't handsome. He came from Boston's West End gone forever because of urban redevelopment!

[dbeatlefreak]

Yes, this song was written in 1946 as a favor to Linda (Eastman) McCartney's father Lee Eastman. It truly is about Linda McCartney, but many years before she became Mrs McCartney.

[paradisepizza12]

this is not the one its the one

that they waulk in the park toghter

and then she goeos in her house

please finded and put it on youtube

thank you .mike ..

[HermanStancill]

Jack Lawrence's attorney ask him to write a song for his baby daughter Linda Eastman, she grew up and married Paul McCartney of Beatle fame.

[Corrie121]

My reference book states that this song was written by Jack Lawrence - rather than his attorney.

[ilovemidnite]

nirajkvinit - this Linda was written by Ray Noble well before Linda McCartney was born.  Your U-tube music is the original.

[bigtimcny]

Im glad I found this song for my Linda. Linda means "beautiful" in Spanish and that she is, inside and outside. She does anything for everyone and is so unselfish. I found her a little later in life, but she was worth the wait. I love you Linda. Tim

[GINABINAX3]

I am so glad I found this. My father would sing it to me sometimes as a kid, I think this song is why he chose my name, I have really never heard it before but have been looking for it, I knew the lyrics but not the singer, I am 39 yrs. old and my father passed away 3 yrs. ago and this reminds me of him. I have worked customer service in the past and I swear every old man that I came in contact with would start singing it to me after seeing my name tag. I never knew who sang it .

Linda

[nirajkvinit]

"I swear every old man that I came in contact with would start singing it to me after seeing my name tag"

LOL. Interesting. :-)

[LyndaLu52]

@nirajkvinit

Lynda is my name, that is true for me...I have had 2 men sing this song every time they see me...both are musicians, I love it...

[whisperinglindas]

Same here. I wonder just how many Linda's in the world this song was given to by their fathers lol.

[ThatLovelyEnglishBob]

Uh, wasn't Linda like, six when this song was make?

Just sayin'.

[nirajkvinit]

Yeah something like that.

[ThatLovelyEnglishBob]

Thanks for the response. Hm. Hopefully it's a generation gap thing that I don't understand.

[lmbroach]

I was named after this song ... and later met and worked with Linda Eastman in New York while she was (long-distance) dating Paul. I also have the sheet music for "Linda" which, under the title, says Written for Miss Linda Eastman. Small world, isn't it?

[Fenhalls]

Who was Linda?

"Linda was written especially for the six-year-old daughter of a show business lawyer named Lee Eastman, whose client, song-writer Jack Lawrence, wrote the song at Lee's request. Upon reaching adulthood and becoming famous as a photographer, Linda was, for a while, something of a musician, later became a prominent spokeswoman for vegetarianism and animal rights, and broke a generation of teenage girls' hearts when she married Beatle Paul McCartney." -- Article at Wikipedia

[Marutiiiina]

Linda Riss

[motnamegah]

can you tell if who made a song "forever and ever" i think it was sometime in the 40's thank you

[xevcosmo]

Yes, Russ Morgan had a big hit in 1949 with that wonderful song.

[Corrie121]

If you mean the song that begins: "Forever and ever, my love will be true....." then it was written by Malia Rosa.

[davesharon5747]

Great to hear this song that was based on Linda Eastman! I have read about it in several of my books about the Beatles and Paul McCartney and always wanted to hear it. Thanks for posting this fine tune!  They don't write songs like these anymore.

[oldcountrytunes]

Another one of those songs from the 40s that appear ever now and thenk Thanks for posting it because all that old music that I cherish will probably never be duplicated.

[GrannyLynne47]

WOW!

My father was a Marine on Guam and Iowa Jima. He returned a very disturbed person, nightmares & had a hard time coping.He was a fireman for N&W Railroad. His train ran over a 1 1/2 year old baby whose parents were home drunk.

My father could not go on & took his life in June '47. I was born November '47.The war robbed me of my father...No help for post traumatic syndrome in'47.

He left me something special to let me know he loved me.He named me Linda Marie after 2 songs of'47.

Linda Marie

[nirajkvinit]

Nice to know you mam! :)

[Kind67]

Another bit of information regarding "Linda":

The lady portraying "Linda" in the song is Anita Gordon who is the daughter of a sound engineer (at the time) at Columbia Records. She just happened to be in the studio when the song was being cut and wound up performing with Buddy Clark and helped make it one of the biggest hits of the 1940s. I got this information from Max O. Preeo who was the editor of Show Music and did the liner notes to a cd I have which includes this song.

[scrooge381]

I am old enough to remember this recording from my youth. I liked it then, but I love it now. If only I could turn the clock back!

[jamesrobert2]

wow! interesting! thanks!

[hudson501]

The mid 1940's song, "Linda", made famous by singer/crooner, Buddy Clark, was written with the song writer's attorney's daughter, Linda, in mind when she was six years old. That Linda would later grow up to become the Beatles Paul McCartney's wife, Linda (and now you know, the rest of the story!).

[wkunzelman1]

@hudson501 Said like a true Wikipedia-surfer. XD

[Oiser1930]

Would like to hear Buddy's recording of (You are to beautiful for oine man alone).

[nyrangers2813]

the best songs in the world,from ihe 1940s

[bobkatoh]

I'm japanese, and 69years old

About 50^55years ago, my older sister had had this sp-record in my house, then,I had listening this song,always.

after that,I was finding this song,till today.then I just found at Jan.1st.

I must appreciate to you.

Please don't erase this song for a while.

This old American sweet song is the most fevorit song of me.