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Margaret Eleanor Whiting (July 22, 1924 – January 10, 2011) was an American singer of popular music and country music who gained popularity in the 1940s and 1950s. [ 1 ] Biography
Moonlight in Vermont" is a popular song about the U.S. state of Vermont, written by John Blackburn (lyrics) and Karl Suessdorf (music) and published in 1944. [1] It was introduced by Margaret Whiting in a 1944 recording. [1]
Margaret Whiting and Johnny Mercer with Paul Weston and his orchestra; recorded on March 18 and released by Capitol Records (peaked at No. 3 on Billboard 's Records Most Played By Disk Jockeys chart, at No. 4 on Billboard 's Best-Selling Popular Retail Records chart [lasting 19 weeks on the chart], and at No. 8 on Billboard 's Most-Played Juke ...
The definitive slow torch song version was first released by Lee Wiley in 1939, [10] followed by Margaret Whiting in 1944. Howard Dietz, who was involved in composing other songs in Oh Kay! while Ira Gershwin was hospitalized for six weeks for a ruptured appendix, claimed that he helped write the lyrics to "Someone to Watch Over Me".
Margaret Elizabeth Whiting (8 February 1933 – 13 December 2023) was a British actress. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She was nominated in 1978 for a Saturn Award as "Best Supporting Actress" in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger . [ 4 ]
The music was written by Richard A. Whiting and Harry Akst. The lyrics were written by Gus Kahn. Popular recordings in 1931 were by Ruth Etting, Wayne King and by Russ Columbo. [1] The song was later popularized by Margaret Whiting (Richard Whiting's daughter) and by Johnny Desmond in 1946.
The Margaret Whiting recording (with the Freddie Slack Orchestra, which got top billing on the label) was released by Capitol Records as catalog number 126. It charted in 1943, spending a week at number 10 on the Billboard chart. [7] The Sammy Davis Jr. recording was released by Decca Records as catalog number 29541.
Between 1943 and 1947, while serving in the U.S. armed forces, Butterfield led his own orchestra. On September 20, 1944, Capitol recorded the jazz standard "Moonlight In Vermont", which featured a vocal by Margaret Whiting and trumpet solos (both open and muted) by Butterfield.