During his career, which spans over 40 years, he has been nominated twice for the Tony Award,[2] including Neil Simon’s The Good Doctor and Joseph Papp’s production of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing,[3] won the NY Critics' Drama Desk Award for Salvation[4] out of which came his first million-selling record, "(If You Let Me Make Love to You Then) Why Can't I Touch You?
He also played a small part in Neil Simon’s feature film, The Out-of-Towners, directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis.
Notable are: John Ford Noonan’s Older People (a Drama Desk Award winner) starring Barnard Hughes and Will Hare; the rock opera, The Wedding of Iphigenia[14][15] with Nell Carter, Andrea Marcovicci, Marta Heflin which also played at the Young Vic in London; The Orphan [16] with Cliff DeYoung; Comedy Of Errors[17] with Linda Lavin, Don Scardino and Michael Tucker; and Trelawny of the 'Wells' at the Lincoln Center with Meryl Streep, John Lithgow, Mandy Patinkin, Michael Tucker and Mary Beth Hurt and directed by A. J.
[18][19] While also at the Public Theater, Link composed the score for Joseph Papp's Much Ado About Nothing, which was presented at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park on Broadway and also as a CBS Television Special.
[22] Next Link, again collaborated with director A. J. Antoon, when he composed the score for Neil Simon’s The Good Doctor [23] which opened Nov 27, 1973 to mostly positive reviews.
It starred Christopher Plummer, Marsha Mason, Barnard Hughes, Francis Sternhagen and René Auberjonois and won for Link yet another Tony Award nomination for Best Original Score in 1974.
[26] Link also composed the musical score for King of Hearts which opened on Broadway October 22, 1978 during the NY newspaper strike of 1978.
[29] Island opened to rave reviews December 1978 at The Milwaukee Repertory Theater with book, music and lyrics by Link drawn from Brent Nicholson Earle's concept and starring Chad Mitchell and Jenny Burton.
[35][36] Link has written the film scores for several Movies of the Week for television, Nightmare with Richard Crenna and Patty Duke,[37] The Great Niagara[38] with Richard Boone and Enormous Changes At The Last Minute, a feature film for ABC, released theatrically in 1982, starring Kevin Bacon, David Strathairn, and Ellen Barkin.
[39][40] He created and wrote the title song and theme music for Vegetable Soup, the popular children's television show on racism that ran from 1975 to 1978 on PBS and for which he won several ASIFA Animation Awards.
Link is a producer of recordings works in a number of different genres ranging from Pop to Gospel to Folk, Classical Crossover and occasionally Broadway.
In his early career, his songs were also recorded by Johnnie Mathis ("(If You Let Me Make Love to You Then) Why Can't I Touch You" appeared on Close to You), Dionne Warwick (who also used the former Dyson track on From Within), Peggy Lee ("Let's Get Lost In Now") and even Mae West (on her rendition of "In Between" from Salvation).
Among the early recordings that came out of Westrax are Forever Plaid, City of Angels, Kiss of the Spider Woman, and Harvey Schmidt's and Tom Jones's Roadside.
It involved performers from Broadway including Judy McLane, Steve Blanchard, Terry Burrell, and Julia Wade, along with television and film actors, Michael Tucker, Don Scardino, and Wayne Duvall.
[47] Link produced and directed the Jenny Burton Experience[48] which was Pop/Inspirational/R&B act that played to packed houses in a seven-year run at Don’t Tell Mama in New York City.
[55] He wrote, directed and performed in Please Don’t Let It Rain, a concert of his own music at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park presented by Joseph Papp and starring Andre DeShields, David Lasley, and Marta Heflin.