On Jul 22, 8:13=A0am, maria...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Roger Ford) wrote:
> These are today's Birthday people....born July 22 in the years
> mentioned :
>
> MARGARET WHITING (1924 Detroit Mi)
> Popular femme vcl regular duets with Jimmy Wakely Slipping Around etc
Always great to remember the great singer who was/is(?) Margaret
Whiting, who for my money had an even better and more beautiful voice
(if admittedly, not quite the looks) than even Jo Stafford, Doris Day,
Patti Page, and many others.
However, in America, she is almost certainly, more, or make that, most
closely associated with top of the chart hits
like "Moonlight In Vermont" (1945) or "A Tree In The Meadow" (1947?),
and I would put her treatments of Broadway hits such as "A Wonderful
Guy", which I think was well-received as well, and "It Might As Well
Be Spring" (just about as good as Dick Haymes' splendid and
transcendent version), and I'd put any of these records, stateside, at
least WELL ahead
of any of duets she did with either Jimmy Wakely or Johnny Mercer,
etc. Certainly, the first two recordings, cited, MIV or ATITM are
the signature tunes for Margaret Whiting as we (Americans of an older
generation, in particular) remember and most closely associate with
her name.
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