What is Margaret Whiting?
[[File:Margaret Whiting New York between 1946 and 1948 (LOC).jpg|thumb|Margaret Whiting, between 1946 and 1948]] '''Margaret Whiting''' (July 21, 1924 - January 10, 2011) was a US pop music singer. She recorded more than 700 songs, and sold millions of records.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/13/local/la-me-margaret-whiting-20110113 |title=Margaret Whiting dies at 86|first=Don |last=Heckman |work=articles.latimes.com |year=January 13, 2011 |accessdate=January 14, 2013}}</ref> Whiting was born in [[Detroit]] in 1924 into a musical family. Her father, Dick Whiting, was a song writer, and her mother, Eleanor Whiting, managed several performers. She began her recording career while she was still a teenager. Her father had worked with [[Johnny Mercer]], and Mercer wrote songs and recorded with Whiting. Their duet, ''Baby It's Cold Outside'', was huge hit. ==References== {{reflist}} {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Whiting, Margaret}} [[Category:1924 births]] [[Category:2011 deaths]] [[Category:Singers from Detroit]]