Tag: Margaret Whiting
26th Annual NY Cabaret Convention: Kander & Ebb
What a fine and quite theatrical evening it was when Thursday at The Mabel Mercer Foundation’s Cabaret Convention.
26th Annual NY Cabaret Convention: WWII Songs
Hosted by Cabaret greats Jeff Harnar and Andrea Marcovicci, the second program of the New York Cabaret Convention was A Sentimental Journey: World War II Songs.
26th Annual NY Cabaret Convention: Gala Opening Night
“Another op’nin’, another show….” were the first words we heard at another opening of yet another show.
Gary Crawford & Barry Levitt: Two of a Kind!
Levitt calls their connection “bashert,” (“destined” or “meant to be”), while Crawford prefers “serendipity,” and continues to pinch himself
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 […]
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 […]
Eric Michael Gillett: The Journey Begins
Eric Michael Gillett The Journey Begins March 11, 2015 At the end of Winter 1995, Darrell Henline, the founder and original publisher of Cabaret Scenes, made Peter Leavy an offer Leavy eventually could not refuse. Henline was planning the second issue of the magazine and he gave Leavy carte blanche to submit a piece on […]
“Such a Wonderful Town”: A Song Is Re-born
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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. […]
