Toni Wine

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Songwriter-Composer

Toni Wine can be heard singing the line “I can make your life so sweet” as one of the Archies on the 1969 hit record “Sugar, Sugar.”  As a songwriter she wrote her first song when she was 14 years old and went on to be hired by music publishers to write hit songs such as “A Groovy Kind of Love,” “Candida” and “Black Pearl” among others.  Her sweet voice can also be heard on Tony Orlando’s big hit “Knock Three Times” along with singer Linda November.  Linda and Toni were also recorded together for the long running ad for Meow Mix Cat Food singing “meow, meow, meow, meow.”