There were more hits, among them “Come Rain or Come Shine,” a Mercer-Arlen song from the musical “St. The next year it was “Moonlight in Vermont” with the trumpeter Billy Butterfield and his band, followed in 1945 by “It Might as Well Be Spring,” with Paul Weston, a Rodgers & Hammerstein tune from the musical “State Fair.” That song became a signature for her. At 18 she recorded the Harold Arlen-Johnny Mercer song “That Old Black Magic” with the bandleader Freddie Slack. When she was 16, the comedian Phil Silvers asked her to fill in for a missing member of his act at the Grace Hayes Lodge in the San Fernando Valley.
tours during World War II and the Korean War. Her fresh-faced appearance and clear, sturdy voice, tinged with innocence, made her a darling of U.S.O. Whiting was a favorite interpreter of jazz and popular standards.
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Whiting may not have been a household name like her contemporaries Rosemary Clooney and Ella Fitzgerald, nor was she a singing movie star like Doris Day, but in her heyday she was widely popular in the worlds of big band, jazz, popular music - even country - for more than 30 years, beginning in the 1940s.Įarly on, with her schoolgirl smile and wavy blond hair, Ms. Whiting died of natural causes at the Lillian Booth Actors’ Home, where she had lived since March, having made her home in Manhattan for many years. Her daughter and only survivor, Deborah Whiting, said Ms.
Margaret Whiting, a songwriter’s daughter who as a bright-eyed teenage singer captivated wartime America and then went on to a long, acclaimed career recording hit songs and performing in nightclubs and on television, died on Monday in Englewood, N.J.
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