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Linda November
Meow Mix Theme
SpouseArtie Schroeck

Linda Ellen November

Harrah's, with her husband, composer and arranger Artie Schroeck. As of 2011, she works as a piano accompanist in Las Vegas, Nevada
.

Biography

Early years (1940s–1960s)

November was born in

The High School of Music & Art, and then from the age of 15 began studying voice with Beverly Johnson at Juilliard. She developed a strong soprano voice, described by The Dallas Morning News as "high, strong, and unwontedly pure".[10]

studio singer, as she worked on a contract basis for many different productions. From 1962 to 1967 November would rotate in and out as part of the Ray Charles Singers, sometimes seen on Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall variety program. She can also be heard as a backup singer on some Frank Sinatra recordings, such as the soprano voice in the background of the 1967 song, "The World We Knew".[2][4]

Jingle singer (1960s–1990s)

Over the course of her 32 years as a jingle singer, November sang approximately 22,000 jingles which were played on the television and radio.

Super Bowl commercials of all time.[5][14]

Other projects (1970s–present)

Linda November with Frankie Valli (left) and husband Artie Schroeck (right) in 2010

In the 1970s, along with providing her voice for commercials, November also recorded

pop songs on the radio. She, Tony Orlando, and Toni Wine sang "Candida", in a group surreptitiously entitled "Dawn". Tony Orlando was a recording industry executive at the time, for a competing label, April-Blackwood. So to avoid a conflict, the group was entitled "Dawn" without Orlando's name. However, the song became a major hit, along with its followup "Knock Three Times" (also featuring backup by November and Toni Wine). To go on tour, Orlando then asked two other session singers, Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent Wilson, to become the official backup singers, in their own "Dawn" group, so they could tour as Tony Orlando and Dawn, though the voices on the songs of the original album were still of November and Toni Wine, not Hopkins and Vincent.[2][15][16] A few years later, November was again on the charts as part of the group Wing and a Prayer Fife and Drum Corps, an assemblage of studio musicians put together by Harold Wheeler. They released two albums, with their biggest hit being a disco version of the 1926 song "Baby Face". It reached #14 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in late 1976, and #12 in the UK.[17][18]

"Let's Do It"
2011 performance of Cole Porter's "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" by Linda November and Artie Schroeck in Nevada
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In the 1980s and 1990s, November could often be found singing in Atlantic City, such as at Gatsby's at The Grand, and then starting in 1990, at the Harrah's Atrium Lounge, with Artie Schroeck. They had met in the 1960s while working on Frankie Valli recordings, but had both been married to other people at the time. In 1988 they became a couple, and on January 17, 1997, they married.[1][3] Linda November then retired from her career as a jingle singer, and she and Schroeck directed a production saluting quirky band leader Spike Jones, "The New City Slickers Present a Tribute to Spike Jones".[19][20][21]

In 2001, November and her husband moved to Las Vegas. As of 2011, she continues to work there as a piano and keyboard accompanist, performing the occasional show with Schroeck.[3][22]

Awards

Notable works

Linda November has sung tens of thousands of jingles, with her most notable one being the

Meow Mix Theme ("Meow meow meow meow . . . . ") in 1976 for Meow Mix cat food. She has also worked in many other parts of the industry as a backup singer, and contributed many solo efforts, such as singing the lullaby in the 1971 animated film, The World of Hans Christian Andersen,[24] the main theme "I'm Comin' Home" in the 1973 film The Devil in Miss Jones,[25] and the "Galaxy Glue" jingle in the 1981 film The Incredible Shrinking Woman.[26][27]

Jingles

Drinks
Foods
Transportation
Gold record presented to Linda November for her work as a backup singer on the 1969 song "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"
Other products
  • AT&T, "Reach out and touch someone"[2]
  • Exxon, "Running smooth and silent"[2]
  • General Electric, “We bring good things to life”[3]
  • Meow Mix, "Meow, meow, meow, meow..." ("Her masterpiece, the one jingle that she herself selects as the apotheosis of her craft...")[29]
  • Prudential Financial, "Get a piece of the rock"[2][3]
  • Windex, "Shine Windex Shine, Windex lets you bring all the sun in"[2]

Notable songs as backup singer

References

  1. ^ a b "Linda November's Facebook page". Facebook. Retrieved August 14, 2011. [dead link]
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj "Linda November and Artie Schroeck (contains clips of singing)" (audio). Ronnie Allen Show. December 2009. Retrieved June 15, 2011.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Gorman, Tom (October 30, 2008). "Lots of songs in her heart". Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved June 15, 2011.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Masello, Robert (April 23, 1979). "Linda, Queen of the Jingle – and Her Friends". New York. Retrieved June 15, 2011.
  5. ^
    AFTRA. Fall 2010. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on October 25, 2010. Retrieved June 17, 2011. Singers on the commercial are Jim Campbell, Don Thomas, Liz Corrigan, Shellie Littman, Arlene Martell, and Linda November
  6. ^ a b c d e "Clio archive". Clio Awards. Archived from the original on June 11, 2011. Retrieved June 15, 2011.
  7. Independent
    .
  8. ^ Rogin, Gilbert (March 13, 1961). "Will the Tiger Be Back?". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved June 17, 2011.
  9. ^ Gross, Milton (August 28, 1960). "Floyd asking for million". Charleston Gazette-Mail. p. 5C.
  10. ^
    Dallas Morning News
    .
  11. ^ Gorfain, Louis (April 23, 1979). "Jingle Giants". New York Magazine. Retrieved June 19, 2011.
  12. ^ November, Linda (2011). "Jingle Lady". jinglelady.com. Retrieved June 10, 2011.
  13. ^ McFaul, Tom (April 1, 2002). "Teaching the Pussy to Sing". tommcfaul.com. Retrieved June 10, 2011.
  14. Warner Brothers
    . Retrieved June 17, 2011.
  15. ^ "Toni Wine: Songwriter Interviews". Song Facts. May 8, 2007. Retrieved June 18, 2011.
  16. ^ Wine, Toni (September 12, 2003). "Toni's Vegas Debut 2003". Toni Wine. Retrieved June 18, 2011.
  17. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974–2003. Record Research. p. 282.
  18. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942–2004. Record Research. p. 632.
  19. New York Times
    . March 24, 1996. Retrieved June 15, 2011.
  20. The Times
    .
  21. Press of Atlantic City
    . October 20, 1997.
  22. ^ Bosshart, Becky (January 22, 2009). "A long, melodious career". Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved June 26, 2011.
  23. ^ "NARAS picks its MVP's". Billboard. December 23, 1972.
  24. ISBN 1-55652-591-5
    .
  25. ^ The Devil In Miss Jones (Original Soundtrack Recording) at Discogs (list of releases)
  26. ^ "The Incredible Shrinking Woman – Overview". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved June 15, 2011.
  27. ^ "The Incredible Shrinking Woman – Cast, Crew, Director and Awards". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2012. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Retrieved June 15, 2011.
  28. New York Times
    . Retrieved June 15, 2011.
  29. ^ Masello, Robert (April 23, 1979). "Linda, Queen of the Jingles—and Her Friends". New York. p. 52.
  30. Philadelphia Inquirer
    .
  31. ^ "Forgotten Hits". forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com. 29 December 2009. Retrieved August 15, 2011.

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