Moonlight in Vermont

Margaret Whiting | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 28, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 1943
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Asv Living Era
• ASIN: B00004YTYK
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #275,380 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Moonlight In Vermont

2. My Ideal

3. That Old Black Magic

4. Hit The Road To Dreamland

5. It Might As Well Be Spring

6. Come Rain Or Come Shine

7. Guilty

8. Oh, But I Do

9. I Didn't Know What Time It Was

10. Old Devil Moon

11. This Can't Be Love

12. You Do

13. Pass That Peace Pipe

14. But Beautiful

15. My Own True Love

16. A Tree In The Meadow

17. Faraway Places

18. While The Angelus Was Ringing

19. Slippin' Around

20. Forever And Ever

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best singer of the late forties, October 14, 2004

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Moonlight in Vermont (Audio CD)

Maggie Whiting was born for a career in music, as her father was a successful songwriter and had many friends in the business. So, all she needed to be a successful singer was a reasonably good voice. In fact, she had a wonderful voice, ideally suited to the romantic songs that provided her with her greatest hits.

With access to the finest songs available at the time Maggie recorded the original versions of several songs that have become popular classics including Moonlight in Vermont, Far away places and Baby, it's cold outside. I've heard several versions of these songs, but Maggie's originals are hard to beat.

My particular favorite song of Maggie's, A tree in the meadow, was actually her biggest hit, but there are not many covers of this song around. Could this be because meadows themselves are a rarity these days?

Maggie was also a major influence on popular music via her duets with country star Jimmy Wakely. Probably conceived as an idea to give Jimmy some pop success, these duets were not only very successful on the pop charts, but also on the country charts. And so it was that country/pop crossover was firmly established.

This compilation includes many of Maggie's hits of the forties (her best years), among them being Moonlight in Vermont, A tree in the meadow, Slipping around (with Jimmy Wakely), Baby it's cold outside (with Johnny Mercer), Guilty, Oh but I do, You do, Pass that peace pipe, Now is the hour, Forever and ever and Far away places. Of these, only Moonlight in Vermont failed to make the American top ten. Its comparative failure as a single (it peaked at fifteen) shows that over-reliance on charts is a mistake.

Maggie was at her peak commercially in the late forties, but still had a few hits in the early fifties, when she started to include more upbeat songs in her repertoire. None of her fifties hits are included here The birth of rock'n'roll killed her pop career, but she continued to record excellent music, most notably Margaret Whiting Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book.

An even stronger compilation of Maggie's hits is the double CD, The Complete Capitol Hits of Margaret Whiting, but this is an excellent compilation. If you only want a single CD of Maggie's music, this is a good one to choose.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Glorious Whiting, August 25, 2001

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This review is from: Moonlight in Vermont (Audio CD)

This is a compilation of some of Margaret Whiting's greatest hits. The sound is beautiful. The voice is magnificent. Fans of America's best popular music should enjoy the album thoroughly.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Margaret Whiting, November 5, 2006

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J. Perry (Modesto, Ca. 95350) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Moonlight in Vermont (Audio CD)

This CD is a bargan at any price. How did we lose good music?