I prefer the 40s version just because that era is more me & her voice isn't quite like back then. Beautiful song. Judging by the hair, this is the 60s.
Margaret Whiting recorded Moonlight in Vermont in 1943 when she was just 19. Johnny Mercer who was a great song writer became close...he was her mentor. Wrote great songs for her. She looks may be about 20 years older here...around 40 mabe when this was filmed I would say. So maybe around early 60's.
I grew up hearing that Margaret Whiting was my dad (Allen Parmenter). cousin. I never listened to her much. What's funny is her singing voice sounds very much like my mother's.
"Moonlight in Vermont" was introduced by Margaret Whiting in a 1944 recording with Billy Butterfield's orchestra when she was about 20 years old. It was her first gold disc recording, having sold over a million copies. The lyrics of this song are unconventional in that they do not rhyme, and each verse (not counting the bridge) is a haiku.
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The moonlight in Arizona is far superior. A pity there were so few songwriters here to notice it.
Still much prefer her original recording with Billy Butterfield. Don't care for all the variations on the lyrics and so forth. Still the same fine voice, of course.