Songbird Margaret Whiting is 88 years old today. Whiting, the daughter of successful songwriter Richard A. Whiting---he wrote "Hooray for Hollywood," "Breezin' Along With the Breeze," and "Too Marvelous for Words," among many others---signed a deal as a young woman with family friend Johnny Mercer, who had just launched Capitol Records. Mercer's gamble, if it can fairly characterized as such, paid off royally, as Whiting went on to have numerous hits in throughout the 1940s and '50s.