Margaret Whiting, a recording star of the 1940s who had a long career as one of the most respected and enduring singers of classic popular songs, died Tuesday at a retirement home in Englewood, N.J.

News of Margaret Whiting's death at 86 on Monday must have sent her fans to the shelves in search of her recording of “Moonlight in Vermont." She recorded the song in 1943 when she was 19. It helped ...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - The sweet-voiced big band singer of sentimental ballads such as "Moonlight in Vermont" and "It Might As Well Be Spring" has died in New Jersey. Margaret Whiting was 86. Whiting ...

Vocalist Margaret Whiting, a top hitmaker of the postwar years, died of natural causes Jan. 10 in Englewood, N.J. She was 86. Whiting grew up in a musical environment: Her father was songwriter ...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- The sweet-voiced big band singer of sentimental ballads who helped establish the Vermont brand by first crooning "Moonlight in Vermont" has died in New Jersey. Margaret Whiting ...

Ms. Whiting came from a musical family. Her father, Richard A. Whiting, was a successful songwriter ("Till We Meet Again," "Beyond the Blue Horizon," "Ain't We Got Fun?," "Too Marvelous for Words") ...

Margaret M. Whiting GREENWOOD, S.C. – Margaret Virginia “Maggie” Mears Whiting, 80, of Greenwood, died April 5, 2008, in Hospice House after a short but courageous battle with bone cancer. Born April ...

Her father, Richard Whiting, wrote many of her most popular songs, including "Too Marvelous for Words," "My Ideal," "She's Funny That Way" and "On The Good Ship Lollipop." Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer ...