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  • Apr 13, 1958
    Pop-and-country singer Margaret Whiting marries movie equipment manufacturer John Moore at a private residence in the tony Bel-Air section of Los Angeles
    Mar 25, 1961
    "Slipping Around" singer Margaret Whiting secures a divorce from Panavision movie executive John Richard Moore in Santa Monica, California
    May 1, 1968
    The Everly Brothers and Margaret Whiting are guests of host Eddy Arnold on the NBC series "The Kraft Music Hall"
    Oct 5, 1968
    "Slipping Around" singer Margaret Whiting performs "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Tiger Stadium in Detroit, where the St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Tigers, 7-3, in a World Series game
    Sep 4, 1974
    Former CBS executive Hubbell Robinson dies from lung cancer in New York. He was married to Margaret Whiting at the time she recorded the country hit "Slipping Around" with Jimmy Wakely
    Sep 19, 1979
    Joe "Fingers" Carr dies in a car accident near his home in Camarillo, California. The former husband of Margaret Whiting, he shared billing with Tennessee Ernie Ford on the 1951 country hit "Tailor Made Woman"
    Oct 21, 1983
    The astronaut movie "The Right Stuff" debuts in theaters. Featured music includes Patti Page's "The Tennessee Waltz," Bob Wills' "Southwestern Waltz" and The Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Susie," plus Margaret Whiting, Kay Starr and Little Richard
    Nov 24, 1983
    Lynn Anderson rides a general store float and Charley Pride travels down Broadway atop a turkey float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York. Also appearing are Margaret Whiting, Cissy Houston, Ashford & Simpson and Lou Rawls, who sings "The Wind Beneath My Wings"
    Apr 24, 1998
    Margaret Whiting, who sang "Slipping Around" with Jimmy Wakely, trips over the pavement at 57th Street & Sixth Avenue in New York, breaking her knee. Whiting and husband Jack Wrangler sue the city for $3 million
    Mar 14, 2003
    The Country Music Foundation publishes "Heartaches By The Number," celebrating country's "500 greatest singles." Jimmy Wakely makes the list with "One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart") and with a Margaret Whiting duet, "The Gods Were Angry With Me"

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