Kathy Linden has been played on NTS shows including NTS Guide to…, with So Close To My Heart first played on 4 March 2021.

Kathy Linden was an American pop singer from Moorestown Township, New Jersey.

Linden scored two hits on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 late in the 1950s. The first was "Billy", a song originally written in 1911; it hit #7 in 1958. The second was "Goodbye Jimmy, Goodbye", which rose to #11 in 1959. Both singles were released on Felsted Records and featured Joe Leahy's backing orchestra. "Goodbye Jimmy Goodbye" incorporated elements of two previous tunes - the British music hall song "Two…