{"id":6300,"date":"2015-05-05T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/?p=6300"},"modified":"2015-07-16T14:56:55","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T22:56:55","slug":"did-jack-lawrence-write-linda-about-a-one-year-old-linda-mccartney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2015\/05\/05\/did-jack-lawrence-write-linda-about-a-one-year-old-linda-mccartney\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Jack Lawrence Write “Linda” About a One-Year-Old Linda McCartney?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about music and whether they are true or false. Click here<\/a> to view an archive of the movie urban legends featured so far.<\/p>\n

MUSIC URBAN LEGEND<\/span><\/span>: Jack Lawrence wrote a song for a one-year-old little girl who grew up to marry Paul McCartney.<\/p>\n

I just featured a legend about the great songwriter Jack Lawrence a couple of weeks ago<\/a>, but I came across another good one and I just had to use it.<\/p>\n

During World War II, Lawrence’s lawyer was also a good friend of his, so he asked Lawrence for a favor – he said that there plenty of songs featuring the names of the rest of his family, but not his one-year-old daughter, Linda. So could Lawrence write a song about her?<\/p>\n

Lawrence obliged, but the song did not find too much success until after the war ended, when TWO competing versions of the tune rode up the charts!<\/p>\n

Ray Noble and his Orchestra, with Buddy Clark on vocals, went to #1…<\/p>\n

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