Margaret Whiting on the cover of her 2000 collection The Complete Capitol Hits of Margaret Whiting

Margaret Whiting (born July 22, 1924) was a traditional pop music singer in the 1940s and 1950s. Cover of Margaret Whiting collection The Complete Capitol Hits of Margaret Whiting, taken from Amazon. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... July 22 is the 203rd day (204th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 162 days remaining. ... 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... mainstream pop music Traditional pop music is a genre of music which encompasses music that succeeded big band music and preceded rock and roll as the most popular kind of music in the United States, most of Europe, and some other parts of the world. ... // Events and trends The 1940s were dominated by World War II, the most destructive armed conflict in history. ... // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the baby-boom from returning...

Her musical talent may have been inherited; her father Richard Whiting, was a famous composer of popular songs. She also had an aunt, Margaret Young, who was also a singer and popular recording artist in the 1920s. In her childhood her singing ability was already noticed, and at the age of only seven years she sang for Johnny Mercer, for whom her father worked. In 1942, Mercer started Capitol Records with two partners, and signed her as one of their earliest recording artists. Richard A. Whiting (November 12, 1891-February 10, 1938) was a writer of popular songs. ... Categories: Stub | 1900 births | 1969 deaths | Female singers | Pop singers ... Sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or primarily in North America as the Roaring Twenties. // Events and trends Technology John T. Thompson invents Thompson submachine gun, also known as Tommy gun John Logie Baird invents the first working mechanical television system (1925) Charles Lindbergh becomes the first person to... Johnny Mercer (November 18, 1909 - June 25, 1976) was a pop music composer. ... This article is about the year. ... Capitol record by Wingy Manone Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label, founded in 1942. ...

Her first recordings were as featured singer with various orchestras:

• "That Old Black Magic", with Freddie Slack And His Orchestra (1942)
• "Moonlight In Vermont", with Billy Butterfield's Orchestra (1943)
• "It Might As Well Be Spring", with Paul Weston And His Orchestra (1943)

In 1945 she began to record under her own name, making such recordings as: That Old Black Magic is a popular song. ... This article is about the year. ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

• "All Through The Day" (1945, becoming a bestseller in the spring of 1946)
• "In Love In Vain" (1945)

(these two from the movie "Centennial Summer")

• "Guilty" (1946)
• "Oh, But I Do" (1946)
• "A Tree In The Meadow" (a number 1 hit in the summer of 1948)
• "Slipping Around", a duet with country music star Jimmy Wakely (a number 1 hit in 1949)
• "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (1949)
• "Blind Date", a novelty record with Bob Hope (1950)

Until the mid-1950s, she continued to record for Capitol, but as she ceased to record songs that charted as hits, switched to Dot Records in 1958 and to Verve Records in 1960. She came back to Capitol in the mid-1960s, then going to London Records in 1966. 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Guilty is a popular song published in 1931. ... 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Country music, formerly called country and western music or country-western, is an amalgam of popular musical forms developed in the southern United States, with roots in traditional folk music, spirituals, and the blues. ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Leslie Townes Hope KBE (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003), best known as Bob Hope, was a famous entertainer, having appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, on radio and television, movies and in army concerts. ... 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Dot Records was a American record label which was active between 1950 and 1977. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Verve Records was an American Jazz record label, founded by Norman Granz in 1956, which absorbed the catalogues of his earlier labels: Norgran Records and Clef Records (founded 1953). ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... London Records was a record label headquartered in the United Kingdom marketing records in the United States and Latin America from 1947 through the 1980s. ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ...

She continued to sing into the 1990s. // Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but otherwise retaining the same mindset. ...

Her late-life marriage to younger gay porn star Jack Wrangler raised many eyebrows. When they first began dating, he protested, "But I'm gay!" to which she replied, "Only around the edges, dear." Jack Wrangler (right) with Dale Merchant (left)and Robert Patrick (center) in T-Shirts, 1980. ...

External link

Musical biography of Margaret Whiting