Ray Linn Jr.

Ray Lawrence Linn Jr. was born in Burbank and grew up in Long Beach, California. While a student at California Christian College in Los Angeles (now Chapman University in Orange, California), he began his media career singing bass in a male quartet on a religious radio program. He subsequently was cast as one of the singing Seven Dwarfs in Disney's Snow White. (Which dwarf? Hard to say: Unlike the voice actors, individual singers were not identified with individual characters.) After army service in World War II, he worked as a Hollywood musician from the late 1940s through the 1970s, contributing to numerous feature-film, cartoon, and television soundtracks, and occasionally appearing on camera, usually uncredited. He also composed, arranged, conducted, and performed in many popular signing commercials of that era.