Bea Wain, one of the last surviving vocalists of the big-band era, whose four No. 1 hits included a swing adaptation of a Debussy melody, died Saturday in Beverly Hills. She was 100. The cause was ...

Bea Wain was the mother of one of my wife’s and my dearest friends, Wayne Baruch and his wife Shelley. Bea is an American musical cultural icon, and she died earlier this week at age 100. She is worth ...

Billboard named her the most popular female band vocalist of 1939, and she was the first to record the classic "Over the Rainbow." By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Bea Wain, a hit-making pop vocalist in ...

Songbird Bea Wain first gained fame in the 1930s as the featured singer with Larry Clinton and his orchestra. She could swing through ballads, blues, and jazz; her voice covers the spectrum of popular ...

Bea Wain, who started singing on the radio at age 6, became a hit-making pop vocalist in the late 1930s and performed into her ninth decade as one of the last surviving singers of prominence from the ...

Bea Wain, who started singing on the radio at age 6, became a hit-making pop vocalist in the late 1930s and performed into her ninth decade as one of the last surviving singers of prominence from the ...