[3] "Whispering" was recorded by Paul Whiteman and his Ambassador Orchestra on August 23, 1920, for the Victor Talking Machine Company at their studios in Camden, New Jersey.

1 hit in the United States, which stayed 20 weeks in the charts, and sold in excess of two million copies.

[5] In 2020, Whiteman's rendition was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Also, as of 2014, TJD Online listed 281 recording sessions of Dizzy Gillespie's composition, "Groovin' High", a contrafact variation of "Whispering".

[10] Because "Groovin' High" was a contrafact, performers, publishers, and record companies did not have to pay royalties to the original composers.