16 Facts About Margaret Whiting

Margaret Eleanor Whiting was an American singer of popular music and country music who gained popularity in the 1940s and 1950s.

Margaret Whiting's family moved to Los Angeles in 1929, when she was five years old.

Margaret Whiting's sister, Barbara Whiting, was an actress and singer.

An aunt, Margaret Young, was a singer and popular recording artist in the 1920s.

Margaret Whiting's singing ability was noticed at an early age and at seven she sang for singer-lyricist Johnny Mercer, with whom her father had collaborated on some popular songs, including "Too Marvelous for Words".

In 1945, Margaret Whiting began to record under her own name.

Until the mid-1950s Margaret Whiting continued to record for Capitol, but as she ceased to record songs that charted as hits, she switched to Dot Records in 1957 and to Verve Records in 1960.

Margaret Whiting returned to Capitol in the early 1960s and then signed with London Records in 1966.

On London, Margaret Whiting landed one last major hit single in 1966, "The Wheel of Hurt", which hit No 1 on the Easy Listening singles chart.

Margaret Whiting co-starred on the 15-minute musical programs The Jack Smith Show and Club Fifteen.

Margaret Whiting was a vocalist on The Eddie Cantor Show and was in the cast of The Philip Morris Follies of 1946 and The Railroad Hour.

Margaret Whiting appeared in the role of a young Sophie Tucker in the January 13,1957 CBS Radio Workshop presentation of "No Time For Heartaches".

Margaret and Barbara Whiting starred as themselves in the situation comedy Those Whiting Girls.

In 1984, Margaret Whiting appeared in the television musical movie Taking My Turn.

From 1989 through 2001, Margaret Whiting was the Artistic Director of the annual Cabaret and Performance Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford Connecticut.

Margaret Whiting died on January 10,2011, aged 86, from natural causes at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, New Jersey.