Tag: Capitol Records
Johnny Mercer
May 2009 JOHNNY MERCER Prolific and terrific, warm or witty, Johnny Mercer was, to employ one of his song titles, just “Too Marvelous for Words.” That 1937 song had music by Richard Whiting, father of Mercer protegee and friend and another of our Hall of Fame-rs, singer Margaret Whiting, now President of the music education-focused […]
Blossom Dearie
October 2008 BLOSSOM DEARIE Blossom Dearie’s cool touch at the piano and her distinctive “little girl” voice has brought her international acclaim for more than fifty years. She is as much at home with traditional Berlin, Porter or Rodgers and Hart as she is with jazz, bebop or swing, executing engaging renditions colored with an […]
Margaret Whiting
June 2008 MARGARET WHITING “Moonlight in Vermont,” “That Old Black Magic,” “My Ideal,” “It Might As Well Be Spring”— Margaret Whiting made these and many more songs into enduring hits during her long singing career. Signing at age 18 with Johnny Mercer’s then-new Capitol Records, she went on to become one of the nation’s top-selling […]
Margaret Whiting & George Shearing: The Lost Jazz Sessions
Margaret Whiting & George Shearing The Lost Jazz Sessions (My Ideal Music) March 13, 2015 Reviewed by Alix Cohen for Cabaret Scenes Born to songwriter Richard A. Whiting, Margaret Whiting (1924-2011) sang for Johnny Mercer at the age of six and was signed to Capitol Records at 13 when “Uncle Johnny” co-founded the burgeoning label. […]
