Margaret Whiting
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Margaret Whiting was a singer of American popular music
and country music
who first made her reputation during the 1940s and 1950s.
in 1929. Her father, Richard A. Whiting
, was a composer of popular songs ("Hooray for Hollywood," "Too Marvelous for Words"). Her sister, Barbara Whiting, was an actress (Junior Miss
, Beware, My Lovely
) and singer. An aunt, Margaret Young
, was a singer and popular recording artist in the 1920s. In her childhood, Whiting's singing ability had already been noticed, and at the age of only seven she sang for singer-lyricist Johnny Mercer
, with whom her father had collaborated on some popular songs. In 1942, Mercer co-founded Capitol Records
and signed Margaret to one of Capitol's first recording contracts.
In 1945, Whiting began to record under her own name, making such recordings as:
Until the mid-1950s 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. Whiting returned to Capitol in the early 1960s and then signed with London Records
in 1966. On London, Whiting landed one last major hit single in 1966, "The Wheel of Hurt
", which hit #1 on the Easy Listening singles chart
. Her final solo albums were made for Audiophile (1980, 1982, 1985) and DRG Records (1991). Her distinguished conductors and musical arrangers through the years included Frank DeVol, Russell Garcia
, Johnny Mandel
, Billy May
, Marty Paich
, Nelson Riddle
, Pete Rugolo
, and Paul Weston
.
Those Whiting Girls. The show, produced by Desilu Productions, aired on CBS as a summer replacement series (in place of I Love Lucy
) between July, 1955 and September, 1957.
Margaret Whiting was a regular guest on variety shows and talk shows throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, including The Big Record, The Bob Hope
Show, The Colgate Comedy Hour
, The Tony Martin Show
, The David Frost Show, The Ed Sullivan Show
, The George Jessel
Show, The Guy Mitchell Show
, The Jonathan Winters
Show, The Merv Griffin Show
, The Mike Douglas Show
, The Nat King Cole
Show, Over Easy, The Pat Boone
Show, The Patti Page
Show, The Red Skelton
Hour, The Steve Allen Show
, The Tennessee Ernie Ford
Show, The Texaco Star Theater, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
, The Virginia Graham
Show, and The Voice of Firestone
.
In the 2000s, she appeared in several documentaries about singers and songwriters of her era, including Judy Garland
: By Myself (2004), Fever: The Music of Peggy Lee
(2004), Anita O'Day
: The Life of a Jazz Singer (2007), Johnny Mercer
: The Dream's on Me (2009), and Michael Feinstein
's American Songbook (2010).
. Burials Antioch Cemetery Hamilton County Illinois
.
Popular music
Popular music belongs to any of a number of musical genres "having wide appeal" and is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional music, which are typically disseminated academically or orally to smaller, local...
and country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
who first made her reputation during the 1940s and 1950s.
Youth
Whiting was born in Detroit and her family moved to Los AngelesLos Ángeles
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in 1929. Her father, Richard A. Whiting
Richard A. Whiting
Richard Armstrong Whiting was a composer of popular songs including the standards, "Hooray for Hollywood", "Ain't We Got Fun?" & "On the Good Ship Lollipop"....
, was a composer of popular songs ("Hooray for Hollywood," "Too Marvelous for Words"). Her sister, Barbara Whiting, was an actress (Junior Miss
Junior Miss (film)
Junior Miss is a 1945 American comedy film starring Peggy Ann Garner as a teenager who meddles in people's love lives.Junior Miss was published by Doubleday in 1941. This collection of Sally Benson's stories from The New Yorker, was adapted by Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields into a successful...
, Beware, My Lovely
Beware, My Lovely
Beware, My Lovely is a suspense film produced by Collier Young/Ida Lupino's production company The Filmakers.-Plot:The film is set in 1919 or 1920 in an unnamed small town. A widow impulsively hires handyman to look after her house...
) and singer. An aunt, Margaret Young
Margaret Young
Margaret Young was a popular singer and comedienne in the United States in the 1920s.-Recording career:...
, was a singer and popular recording artist in the 1920s. In her childhood, Whiting's singing ability had already been noticed, and at the age of only seven she sang for singer-lyricist Johnny Mercer
Johnny Mercer
John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others...
, with whom her father had collaborated on some popular songs. In 1942, Mercer co-founded Capitol Records
Capitol Records
Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...
and signed Margaret to one of Capitol's first recording contracts.
Recording career
Whiting's first recordings were as featured singer with various orchestras:- "That Old Black MagicThat Old Black Magic (song)"That Old Black Magic" is a popular song. The music was written by Harold Arlen, with the lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The song was published in 1942 and has become an often-recorded standard with versions by Glenn Miller, the singers Margaret Whiting, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Mercer himself,...
", with Freddie SlackFreddie SlackFrederick Charles Slack was an American swing and boogie-woogie pianist and bandleader.He played with the Jimmy Dorsey Band in the 1930s and was a charter member of the Will Bradley Orchestra when it formed in 1939...
and His Orchestra (1942) - "Moonlight in VermontMoonlight in Vermont (song)"Moonlight in Vermont" is a popular song about the U.S. state of Vermont, written by John Blackburn and Karl Suessdorf and published in 1943. The lyrics are unusual in that they do not rhyme...
", with Billy ButterfieldBilly ButterfieldBilly Butterfield was a band leader, jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and cornetist.He studied cornet with Frank Simons, but later switched to studying medicine. He did not give up on music and quit medicine after finding success as a trumpeter. Early in his career he played in the band of Austin Wylie...
's Orchestra (1943) - "It Might as Well Be SpringIt Might as Well Be Spring"It Might as Well Be Spring" is a song from the 1945 film, State Fair. With music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, it won the Academy Award for Best Original Song that year. State Fair was the only original film score by Rodgers and Hammerstein. In the film the song was...
", with Paul WestonPaul WestonPaul Weston was an American pianist, arranger, composer and conductor. Weston was born Paul Wetstein in Springfield, Massachusetts...
and His Orchestra (1945)
In 1945, Whiting began to record under her own name, making such recordings as:
- "All Through the Day" (1945, becoming a bestseller in the spring of 1946)
- "In Love in Vain" (1945)
- "GuiltyGuilty (1931 song)"Guilty" is a popular song published in 1931. The music was written by Richard A. Whiting and Harry Akst. The lyrics were written by Gus Kahn....
" (1946) - "Oh, But I Do" (1946)
- "A Tree in the MeadowA Tree in the Meadow"A Tree in the Meadow" is a popular song. It was written by Billy Reid, and the song was published in 1948.The songwriter, orchestra leader Billy Reid, recorded the first version in the United Kingdom, with Dorothy Squires as vocalist. It was recorded on 9 January 1948, and released by Parlophone...
" (a number 1 hit in the summer of 1948) - "Slippin' AroundSlippin' Around"Slippin' Around" is a song written and recorded by Floyd Tillman in 1949. The most popular recording was a cover version by Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely which reached number one on the Retail Folk Best Sellers chart...
", a duet with country musicCountry musicCountry music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
star Jimmy WakelyJimmy WakelyJames Clarence Wakeley , better known as Jimmy Wakely, was an American country-Western singer and actor, one of the last crooning cowpokes following World War II...
(a number 1 hit in 1949) - "Baby, It's Cold OutsideBaby, It's Cold OutsideBaby, It's Cold Outside may refer to:*"Baby, It's Cold Outside", a 1948 song by Frank Loesser*"Cold Outside", a song by country music band Big House from their self-titled debut album*"Baby, It's Cold Outside", a 1991 short story by Isaac Asimov...
" (duet with Johnny MercerJohnny MercerJohn Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others...
, 1949) - "Blind Date", a novelty record with Bob HopeBob HopeBob Hope, KBE, KCSG, KSS was a British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in radio, television and movies. He was also noted for his work with the US Armed Forces and his numerous USO shows entertaining American military personnel...
(1950) - "Faraway Places (With Strange Sounding Names)"
- the Christmas song Silver Bells (duet with Jimmy WakelyJimmy WakelyJames Clarence Wakeley , better known as Jimmy Wakely, was an American country-Western singer and actor, one of the last crooning cowpokes following World War II...
, 1951)
Until the mid-1950s Whiting continued to record for Capitol, but as she ceased to record songs that charted as hits, she switched to Dot Records
Dot Records
Dot Records was an American record label and company that was active between 1950 and 1977. It was founded by Randy Wood. In Gallatin, Tennessee, Wood had earlier started a mail order record shop, known for its radio ads on WLAC in Nashville and its R&B air personality Bill "Hoss" Allen...
in 1957 and to Verve Records
Verve Records
Verve Records is an American jazz record label now owned by Universal Music Group. It was founded by Norman Granz in 1956, absorbing the catalogues of his earlier labels, Clef Records and Norgran Records , and material which had been licensed to Mercury previously.-Jazz and folk origins:The Verve...
in 1960. Whiting returned to Capitol in the early 1960s and then signed with London Records
London Records
London Records, referred to as London Recordings in logo, is a record label headquartered in the United Kingdom, originally marketing records in the United States, Canada and Latin America from 1947 to 1979, then becoming a semi-independent label....
in 1966. On London, Whiting landed one last major hit single in 1966, "The Wheel of Hurt
The Wheel of Hurt
"The Wheel of Hurt" is the title of a popular song from 1966 . The song was written by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder.Two versions of "The Wheel of Hurt" were released in late 1966 at virtually the same time...
", which hit #1 on the Easy Listening singles chart
Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks
The Adult Contemporary chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States...
. Her final solo albums were made for Audiophile (1980, 1982, 1985) and DRG Records (1991). Her distinguished conductors and musical arrangers through the years included Frank DeVol, Russell Garcia
Russell Garcia (composer)
Russell Garcia, QSM was a composer and arranger who wrote a wide variety of music for screen, stage and broadcast....
, Johnny Mandel
Johnny Mandel
Johnny Mandel is an American composer and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz. Among the musicians he has worked with are Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Anita O'Day, Barbra Streisand, and Shirley Horn.-Life:...
, Billy May
Billy May
William E. "Billy" May was an American composer, arranger and trumpeter. He composed film and television music, for The Green Hornet , Batman , and Naked City and collaborated on films, such as Pennies from Heaven , and orchestrated Cocoon, and Cocoon: The Return among...
, Marty Paich
Marty Paich
Martin Louis "Marty" Paich was an American pianist, composer, arranger, producer, music director and conductor....
, Nelson Riddle
Nelson Riddle
Nelson Smock Riddle, Jr. was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid 1980s...
, Pete Rugolo
Pete Rugolo
Pietro "Pete" Rugolo was an Italian-born jazz composer and arranger.-Life and career:Rugolo was born in San Piero Patti, Sicily, Italy. His family emigrated to the United States in 1920 and settled in Santa Rosa, California...
, and Paul Weston
Paul Weston
Paul Weston was an American pianist, arranger, composer and conductor. Weston was born Paul Wetstein in Springfield, Massachusetts...
.
Television career
Margaret and Barbara Whiting starred as themselves in the situation comedySituation comedy
A situation comedy, often shortened to sitcom, is a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue...
Those Whiting Girls. The show, produced by Desilu Productions, aired on CBS as a summer replacement series (in place of I Love Lucy
I Love Lucy
I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley. The black-and-white series originally ran from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, on the Columbia Broadcasting System...
) between July, 1955 and September, 1957.
Margaret Whiting was a regular guest on variety shows and talk shows throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, including The Big Record, The Bob Hope
Bob Hope
Bob Hope, KBE, KCSG, KSS was a British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in radio, television and movies. He was also noted for his work with the US Armed Forces and his numerous USO shows entertaining American military personnel...
Show, The Colgate Comedy Hour
The Colgate Comedy Hour
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show stars many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou...
, The Tony Martin Show
The Tony Martin Show
The Tony Martin Show is a 15-minute weekly musical variety television series hosted by entertainer Tony Martin, which aired in NBC prime time from April 26, 1954, to February 27, 1956...
, The David Frost Show, The Ed Sullivan Show
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan....
, The George Jessel
George Jessel
George Jessel may refer to:*George Jessel , American actor*George Jessel , English jurist*George Jessel of the Jessel Baronets...
Show, The Guy Mitchell Show
The Guy Mitchell Show
The Guy Mitchell Show is a short-lived half-hour television variety program hosted by and starring 30-year-old recording artist Guy Mitchell , which was broadcast from October 7, 1957, to January 13, 1958. The series aired on Monday evenings at 8 p.m. Eastern time on ABC following a half-hour...
, The Jonathan Winters
Jonathan Winters
-Early life:Winters was born in Bellbrook, Ohio, the son of Alice Kilgore , a radio personality, and Jonathan Harshman Winters II, an investment broker. He is a descendant of Valentine Winters, founder of the Winters National Bank in Dayton, Ohio...
Show, The Merv Griffin Show
The Merv Griffin Show
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to September 26, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in...
, The Mike Douglas Show
The Mike Douglas Show
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that aired in syndication from 1961 to 1982, distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations.The program featured light banter with...
, The Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole
Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist. Although an accomplished pianist, he owes most of his popular musical fame to his soft baritone voice, which he used to perform in big band and jazz genres...
Show, Over Easy, The Pat Boone
Pat Boone
Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an American singer, actor and writer who has been a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. He covered black artists' songs and sold more copies than his black counterparts...
Show, The Patti Page
Patti Page
Clara Ann Fowler , known by her professional name Patti Page, is an American singer, one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music. She was the best-selling female artist of the 1950s, and has sold over 100 million records...
Show, The Red Skelton
Red Skelton
Richard Bernard "Red" Skelton was an American comedian who is best known as a top radio and television star from 1937 to 1971. Skelton's show business career began in his teens as a circus clown and went on to vaudeville, Broadway, films, radio, TV, night clubs and casinos, all while pursuing...
Hour, The Steve Allen Show
The Steve Allen Show
The Steve Allen Show is an American variety show hosted by Steve Allen from June 1956 to June 1960 on NBC, from September 1961 to December 1961 on ABC, and in first-run syndication from 1962 to 1964....
, The Tennessee Ernie Ford
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Ernest Jennings Ford , better known as Tennessee Ernie Ford, was an American recording artist and television host who enjoyed success in the country and Western, pop, and gospel musical genres...
Show, The Texaco Star Theater, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under the Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night....
, The Virginia Graham
Virginia Graham
Virginia Graham born Virginia Komiss, was a daytime television talk show host from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s...
Show, and The Voice of Firestone
The Voice of Firestone
The Voice of Firestone, is a long-running radio and television program of classical music. The show featured leading singers in selections from opera and operetta. Originally titled The Firestone Hour, it was first broadcast on the NBC Radio network December 3, 1928 and was later also shown on...
.
In the 2000s, she appeared in several documentaries about singers and songwriters of her era, including Judy Garland
Judy Garland
Judy Garland was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years and for her renowned contralto voice, she attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage...
: By Myself (2004), Fever: The Music of Peggy Lee
Peggy Lee
Peggy Lee was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress in a career spanning six decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio to singing with Benny Goodman's big band, she forged a sophisticated persona, evolving into a multi-faceted artist and...
(2004), Anita O'Day
Anita O'Day
Anita O'Day was an American jazz singer.Born Anita Belle Colton, O'Day was admired for her sense of rhythm and dynamics, and her early big band appearances shattered the traditional image of the "girl singer"...
: The Life of a Jazz Singer (2007), Johnny Mercer
Johnny Mercer
John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others...
: The Dream's on Me (2009), and Michael Feinstein
Michael Feinstein
Michael Jay Feinstein is an American singer, pianist, and music revivalist. He is an interpreter of, and an anthropologist and archivist for, the repertoire known as the Great American Songbook. In 1988 he won a Drama Desk Special Award for celebrating American musical theatre songs...
's American Songbook (2010).
Marriages
- Hubbell Robinson Jr., a writer, producer, and television executive (December 29, 1948 - divorced August 18, 1949)
- Lou BuschLou BuschLouis Ferdinand Busch was a music producer, musician and songwriter who was best known for performing as a pianist under the nickname Joe "Fingers" Carr.-Biography:...
, a ragtime pianist known as "Joe 'Fingers' Carr" (divorced; one daughter, Deborah, born 1950) - John Richard Moore, a founder of PanavisionPanavisionPanavision is an American motion picture equipment company specializing in cameras and lenses, based in Woodland Hills, California. Formed by Robert Gottschalk as a small partnership to create anamorphic projection lenses during the widescreen boom in the 1950s, Panavision expanded its product...
(married 1958 - divorced) - Jack WranglerJack WranglerJack Wrangler was an American actor of gay and straight adult film, theatrical producer, and director. Open about his homosexuality and adult film work throughout his career, Wrangler was considered an icon of the gay-liberation movement.In 2008, a feature-length documentary film, Wrangler:...
(né John Stillman; 1994 – April 7, 2009; his death from emphysema
Death
Whiting died on January 10, 2011, aged 86, from natural causes at the Lillian Booth Actors' Home in Englewood, New JerseyEnglewood, New Jersey
Englewood is a city located in Bergen County, New Jersey. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city had a total population of 27,147.Englewood was incorporated as a city by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 17, 1899, from portions of Ridgefield Township and the remaining portions of...
. Burials Antioch Cemetery Hamilton County Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
.
Albums
| Year | Album | US Pop LPs Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Margaret Whiting Sings Rodgers and Hart | Capitol | |
| 1954 | Love Songs by Margaret Whiting | ||
| 1956 | Margaret Whiting Sings for the Starry-Eyed | ||
| 1957 | Goin' Places | Dot | |
| 1958 | Margaret | ||
| 1959 | Margaret Whiting's Great Hits | ||
| Ten Top Hits | |||
| 1960 | Just a Dream | ||
| Margaret Whiting Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook Margaret Whiting Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook Margaret Whiting Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook is a 1960 studio album by Margaret Whiting, with an orchestra conducted and arranged by Russell Garcia, focusing on the songs of Jerome Kern... |
Verve | ||
| Broadway, Right Now! Broadway, Right Now! Broadway, Right Now! is a 1960 album by Mel Tormé and Margaret Whiting, arranged by Russell Garcia. - Track listing :# "Fireworks"# "Make Someone Happy" # "Tall Hopes"... (with Mel Tormé) |
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| 1961 | Past Midnight | MGM | |
| 1967 | The Wheel of Hurt | 109 | London |
| Maggie Isn't Margaret Anymore | |||
| 1968 | Pop Country | ||
| 1980 | Too Marvelous for Words | Audiophile | |
| 1982 | Come a Little Closer | ||
| 1985 | The Lady's in Love with You | ||
| 1991 | Then and Now | DRG |
Singles
| Year | Single | Contributing Artist | Chart Positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pop Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales... |
AC Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... |
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| 1942 | "That Old Black Magic" | Freddie Slack & His Orchestra | 10 | - | - |
| 1943 | "My Ideal" | Billy Butterfield & His Orchestra | 12 | - | - |
| 1944 | "Silver Wings In the Moonlight" | Freddie Slack & His Orchestra | 19 | - | - |
| 1945 | "Moonlight In Vermont" | Billy Butterfield & His Orchestra | 15 | - | - |
| "It Might as Well Be Spring" | Paul Weston & His Orchestra | 6 | - | - | |
| 1946 | "All Through the Day" | Carl Kress orchestra | 11 | - | - |
| "In Love In Vain" | Carl Kress orchestra | 12 | - | - | |
| "Come Rain or Come Shine" | Paul Weston orchestra | 17 | - | - | |
| "Along With Me" | Jerry Gray orchestra | 13 | - | - | |
| "Passe" | Jerry Gray orchestra | 12 | - | - | |
| "Guilty" | Jerry Gray orchestra | 4 | - | - | |
| "Oh, But I Do" | Jerry Gray orchestra | 7 | - | - | |
| 1947 | "Beware My Heart" | Frank DeVol orchestra | 21 | - | - |
| "Old Devil Moon" | Frank DeVol orchestra | 11 | - | - | |
| "Ask Anyone Who Knows" | Frank DeVol orchestra | 21 | - | - | |
| "Little Girl Blue" | Frank DeVol orchestra | 25 | - | - | |
| "You Do" | Frank DeVol orchestra | 5 | - | - | |
| "Lazy Countryside" | Frank DeVol orchestra | 21 | - | - | |
| "Pass That Peace Pipe" | Frank DeVol orchestra | 8 | - | - | |
| 1948 | "Let's Be Sweethearts Again" | Frank DeVol orchestra | 22 | - | - |
| "But Beautiful" | Frank DeVol orchestra | 21 | - | - | |
| "Now is the Hour" | Frank DeVol orchestra | 2 | - | - | |
| "What's Good About Goodbye" | Frank DeVol orchestra | 29 | - | - | |
| "Please Don't Kiss Me" | Frank DeVol orchestra | 23 | - | - | |
| "A Tree in the Meadow" | Frank DeVol orchestra | 1 | - | - | |
| "Far Away Places" | Frank DeVol orchestra | 2 | - | - | |
| 1949 | "Forever and Ever" | Frank DeVol orchestra | 5 | - | - |
| "A Wonderful Guy" | Frank DeVol orchestra | 12 | - | - | |
| "Baby, It's Cold Outside" | Johnny Mercer | 3 | - | - | |
| "Slippin' Around Slippin' Around "Slippin' Around" is a song written and recorded by Floyd Tillman in 1949. The most popular recording was a cover version by Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely which reached number one on the Retail Folk Best Sellers chart... " |
Jimmy Wakely Jimmy Wakely James Clarence Wakeley , better known as Jimmy Wakely, was an American country-Western singer and actor, one of the last crooning cowpokes following World War II... |
1 | 1 | - | |
| "Wedding Bells" | 30 | 6 | - | ||
| "Dime a Dozen | Frank DeVol orchestra | 19 | - | - | |
| "I'll Never Slip Around Again" | Jimmy Wakely | 8 | 2 | - | |
| 1950 | "Broken Down Merry Go Round" | 12 | 2 | - | |
| "The Gods Were Angry With Me" | 17 | 3 | - | ||
| "I Said My Pajamas (and Put on My Prayers)" | Frank De Vol | 21 | - | - | |
| "Let's Go to Church (Next Sunday Morning)" | Jimmy Wakely | 13 | 2 | - | |
| "My Foolish Heart" | Frank DeVol orchestra | 17 | - | - | |
| "Blind Date" | Bob Hope | 16 | - | - | |
| "A Bushel and a Peck A Bushel and a Peck "A Bushel and a Peck" is a popular song written by Frank Loesser and published in 1950. The song was introduced in the Broadway musical Guys and Dolls, which opened at the 46th Street Theater on November 24, 1950. It was performed on stage by Vivian Blaine, who later reprised her role as Miss... " |
Jimmy Wakely | 6 | 6 | - | |
| 1951 | "When You and I Were Young, Maggie, Blues When You and I Were Young, Maggie When You and I Were Young, Maggie is a famous folk song, popular song and standard. Though Springtown, Tennessee, has a small monument outside an old mill claiming the song was written by a local George Johnson, in 1820, for his Maggie, the truth is that its lyrics were written as a poem by the... " |
20 | 7 | - | |
| "Good Morning, Mr. Echo" | Lou Busch orchestra | 14 | - | - | |
| "I Don't Want to Be Free" | Jimmy Wakely | - | 5 | - | |
| 1952 | "I'll Walk Alone" | Lou Busch orchestra | 29 | - | - |
| "Outside of Heaven" | Lou Busch orchestra | 22 | - | - | |
| 1953 | "Why Don't You Believe Me?" | Lou Busch orchestra | 29 | - | - |
| 1954 | "Moonlight In Vermont" new version | Lou Busch orchestra | 29 | - | - |
| 1956 | "The Money Tree" | Billy May orchestra | 20 | - | - |
| 1958 | "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You)" | Billy Vaughn orchestra | 74 | - | - |
| 1966 | "Somewhere There's Love" | - | - | - | 29 |
| "The Wheel of Hurt" | Arnold Goland orchestra | 26 | - | 1 | |
| 1967 | "Just Like a Man" | - | 132 | - | 29 |
| "Only Love Can Break a Heart" | Arnold Goland orchestra | 96 | - | 4 | |
| "I Almost Called Your Name" | - | 108 | - | 4 | |
| 1968 | "I Hate to See Me Go" | - | 127 | - | 27 |
| "It Keeps Right On a Hurtin'" | - | 115 | - | 28 | |
| "Faithfully" | - | 117 | - | 19 | |
| "Can't Get You Out of My Mind" | - | 124 | - | 11 | |
| 1969 | "Where Was I" | - | - | - | 24 |
| 1970 | "(Z Theme) Life Goes On" | - | - | - | 14 |
| "Until It's Time For You to Go" | - | - | - | 32 | |