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 ...
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 ...