Margaret Youngblood (February 23, 1891 – May 3, 1969) better known by her stage name Margaret Young, was an American singer and comedian who was popular in the 1920s. Young is best known for her songs "

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", "Lovin' Sam The Sheik Of Alabam'", " Way Down Yonder In New Orleans", and " Oh By Jingo!".

Biography

She was born in Detroit, Michigan on February 23, 1891. She had four sisters; three older and one younger. Young began her professional career in Detroit, Michigan. She sang at theaters, dinner clubs, and on Vaudeville. Young first recorded commercially for the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1920. She recorded a series of records for Brunswick from 1922 through 1925 which sold well. She continued as a popular entertainer until the end of the decade. Young came out of retirement to record for

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in 1949. Her sister was married to composer

Richard A. Whiting Richard Armstrong Whiting (November 12, 1891 – February 19, 1938) was an American composer of popular songs, including the standards "Hooray for Hollywood", "Ain't We Got Fun?" and "On the Good Ship Lollipop". He also wrote lyrics occasiona ...

, some of whose songs she introduced, and her niece

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also would become a popular singer throughout the 1940s and 1950s. Young died in

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, aged 78 after a brief illness. She was buried next to her late sister, Eleanore (widow of composer Richard Whiting and mother of singer Margaret Whiting) and is interred at the Holy Cross Cemetery in Los Angeles.

External links

Biography on "The Jazz Age 1920s" site
includes images of sheetmusic covers and MP3s of 2 of her 1920s recordings {{DEFAULTSORT:Young, Margaret 1891 births 1969 deaths American women pop singers American vaudeville performers 20th-century American singers 20th-century American women singers Singers from Detroit