Margaret Whiting's voice was frighteningly clear perfect, and everyone in Hollywood in the 1950s knew it. Her father, composer Richard Whiting, had moved the family to Los Angeles in 1929 and he collaborated with Johnny Mercer in the 1930s (Too Marvelous for Words, Hooray for Hollywood, among others). When Whiting died suddenly in 1938 of a heart attack…
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