Margaret Whiting

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Margaret Whiting around 1947.

Margaret Whiting (born July 22, 1924 in Detroit , Michigan , † January 10, 2011 in Englewood , New Jersey ) was an American singer of jazz and pop standards as well as country music .

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Whitings father Richard A. Whiting was a well-known in the USA composer of popular songs; her sister Barbara Whiting was also a singer. Her talent was recognized in her childhood and she sang for Johnny Mercer , with whom her father had worked, when she was seven . In 1942 she began her recording career with the newly founded Capitol Records label . In the following years she recorded a number of successful songs on the charts, such as That Old Black Magic with Freddie Slack and His Orchestra (1942), Moonlight in Vermont with Billy Butterfields Orchestra (1943) and It Might as Well Be Spring with Paul Weston and His Orchestra (1945). From 1945 she made records under her own name, such as the hits All Through the Day (1945), In Love In Vain (1945), Guilty (1946) or A Tree in the Meadow , which was a number one hit in the 1948 United States became. Blind Date followed in a duet with Bob Hope in 1950 , and the Christmas carol Silver Bells (1956) with Jimmy Wakely . Whiting continued to record for Capitol until the mid-1950s, then moved to Dot Records in 1957 and Verve Records in 1960 . From 1957 she also appeared in various television shows. In 1966 she returned to Capitol's sub-label London Records and recorded her latest hit, The Wheel of Hurt , which peaked at # 1 on the Easy Listening Singles chart .

In 1966 she recorded the song It hurts to say goodbye , which however had its greatest success in 1968 in the French version of Françoise Hardy Comment te dire adieu .

She continued her career into the 1990s.

Whiting has been married four times, most recently to actor Jack Wrangler, who died in 2009 .

Discography

  • 1950 - Margaret Whiting Sings Rodgers and Hart (Capitol)
  • 1954 - Love Songs by Margaret Whiting
  • 1956 - Margaret Whiting Sings for the Starry-Eyed
  • 1957 - Goin 'Places
  • 1958 - Margaret (Dot)
  • 1959 - Margaret Whiting's Great Hits
  • 1960 - Just a Dream
  • 1960 - Margaret Whiting Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book
  • 1960 - Broadway Right Now (Verve) with Mel Tormé
  • 1961 - Past Midnight
  • 1967 - The Wheel of Hurt (MGM)
  • 1969 - Maggie Isn't Margaret Anymore (London)
  • 1982 - Come a Little Closer (London)
  • 1985 - The Lady's in Love with You (Audiophile)

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personal data
SURNAME Whiting, Margaret
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 2011
Place of death Englewood, New Jersey