1. Linda Scott was born on Linda Joy Sampson; June 1,1945 and is an American pop singer and actress who was active from the late 1950s to the early 1970s.
10 Facts About Linda Scott
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Linda Scott's biggest hit was the 1961 million-selling single "I've Told Every Little Star".
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Linda Scott went on to place twelve songs on the charts over the next four years, the last being "Who's Been Sleeping In My Bed," inspired by the film and written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach.
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Linda Scott was attending junior high school in Teaneck when she auditioned to appear on Arthur Godfrey's popular CBS Radio show in 1959.
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The label changed her performing name to Linda Scott, producing and releasing the hit "I've Told Every Little Star," a standard written by Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern for their 1932 production Music In The Air.
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Linda Scott was the showcase artist when Canadian-American started a subsidiary label, Congress Records, in 1962, and in fact both labels released new material of hers simultaneously.
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Linda Scott continued to record as a backing vocalist before finally quitting show business in the early 1970s.
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Linda Scott was stationed in Fort Sam Houston, Texas, for two years as an army laboratory technician and received a degree in Theology from Kingsway Christian College and Theological Seminary in Des Moines, Iowa, according to an interview she gave to Goldmine in 1987.
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Linda Scott later taught music at the Christian Academy in New York City.
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The compilation CD The Complete Hits of Linda Scott was released by Eric Records in 1995, while her recording of "I've Told Every Little Star" was included in director David Lynch's film Mulholland Drive.