LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Singer Margaret Whiting has died at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, N.J., the facility said. She was 86.
The Los Angeles Times said Wednesday Jordan Strohl, administrator for the retirement home, did not disclose the cause of the recording artist's death Monday.
Born in Detroit and raised in New York, Margaret Whiting was the daughter of songwriter Richard "Dick" Whiting and talent manager Eleanor Youngblood Whiting.
Best known for her hits "My Ideal," "It Might as Well Be Spring," "That Old Black Magic," "Come Rain or Come Shine," "Baby It's Cold Outside," "Moonlight in Vermont," "Far Away Places," "Now Is the Hour," "A Tree in the Meadow," "Time After Time" and "The Wheel of Hurt," she recorded more than 700 songs and earned a dozen gold records, the Times said.
