Beatrice Levinsohn Singer died February 14, 2014, in Natick, Massachusetts. She was 98 years old. For 81 of those years, with matter-of-factness and without sentimentality, she’d been the mother to ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...