She landed hits under her own name as well: "A Tree In the Meadow" and "Slippin' Around," one of a series of duets with country singer Jimmy Wakely. Whiting continued performing in concert and at ...

Margaret Whiting had the biggest hit with it, but The Ames Brothers took it to No. 1 on the Billboard charts. It also did well for Monica Lewis, John Laurenz and Joe Loss.

Singer Margaret Whiting has died at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, N.J., the facility said. She was 86.

Margaret Whiting, a longtime singer of jazz, pop and country standards perhaps best known for her duet, "Baby, It's Cold Outside" with Johnny Mercer, died of natural causes Monday (Jan.