This is My Prayer
Linda Scott
Albums: Ultimate
Collection
lyrics
This is my prayer,
my only prayer
when the night comes
and all is still
on my pillow,
this is my prayer.
That he will care,
really will care,
when I need him,
he will be there,
tho'it be cloudy or fair.
Oh, let him love me
when we kiss let a fire start,
and let him want me
the way that I want him,
with all my heart.
.
This is my prayer
my silent prayer,
all I wish for
on ev'ry star
may his arms be
never too far,
when I awake
may the day bring,
for my finger
his ring to wear,
this is my prayer, my prayer.
This is my prayer, my prayer
Linda Scott (born Linda Joy Sampson; June 1, 1945)[1] is an American pop singer and actress who was active from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Her biggest hit was the 1961 million-selling single, "I've Told Every Little Star".[1] She 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. In 1962, she portrayed a fictionalized version of herself in the musical film Don't Knock the Twist.
Born in Queens, New York, Linda Sampson was 11 years
old when she moved with her family to Teaneck, New Jersey.
She was still in school (Teaneck High School)
when she auditioned to appear on Arthur Godfrey's popular CBS Radio show in
1959.[2] After having won a place on the
show, Scott and other young performers became regular guests. During the show's
run, the singer came to the attention of Epic Records, and Scott made her recording
debut (singing as Linda Sampson) with the single, "In-Between Teen".[3]
Though still in high school, in 1961 she signed with Canadian-American
Records, which had struck gold with the Santo & Johnny's "Sleep Walk". 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.[4] The track sold over one million
copies, earning a gold
disc for Scott.[1]
Scott's three biggest hits came in that first year, with
"I've Told Every Little Star" (U.S. #3), "I Don't Know
Why" (U.S. #12), and "Don't Bet Money Honey"
(U.S. #9). The first two were standards, while the third was one of Scott's own
compositions. Scott also charted with a song that peaked at #44 on the
Billboard charts with Starlight, Starbright, which peaked on August 28, 1961.
It was mostly a regional song played in the Northeast.
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. The following year, she
sang her hit "Yessirree" in the Chubby Checker film, Don't Knock the Twist.
In 1963, American Bandstand signed Scott to Dick Clark's
Caravan of Stars national U.S. tour which was scheduled to perform its 15th
show on the night of November 22, 1963 at the Memorial Auditorium in Dallas,
Texas until the Friday evening event had to be suddenly cancelled moments after
U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated that
afternoon while touring Dallas in an open car caravan.[5][6]
Scott's final U.S. chart appearance was "Who's
Been Sleeping In My Bed," released in January 1964, the same month
that The Beatles made
their first chart appearance. In 1965, she became a cast member of the variety
show Where the Action Is,
which she co-hosted with singer Steve Alaimo. Her last U.S. recording,
"They Don't Know You", was released in 1967 on RCA Records. She continued to record as a
backing vocalist (most notably on Lou Christie's 1969 hit, "I'm
Gonna Make You Mine") before finally quitting show business in
the early 1970s.
Scott was an army laboratory technician for two years,
stationed in Fort Sam Houston, Texas,
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.[7] During her time in the army,
she met and married a fellow serviceman. The marriage produced one child in
1973 and ended in divorce. She later taught music at the Christian Academy
in New York City.[citation needed]
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.[8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Scott
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