| LC control no. | n 78031060 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Wain, Bea |
| Variant(s) | Wain, Beatrice Weinsier, Beatrice |
| See also | Alternate identity: Warren, Babs, 1917-2017 |
| Located | Beverly Hills (Calif.) |
| Birth date | 1917-04-30 |
| Death date | 2017-08-19 |
| Place of birth | New York (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Beverly Hills (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Singing Popular music Radio broadcasting |
| Profession or occupation | Singer Radio personalities |
| Found in | Larry Clinton ... [SR] p1977 (a.e.) labels (Bea Wain; vocalist) Lenny Carson and his orchestra, 1938-04-20 [SR] [1938]: label (Babs Warren, vocal refrain) Ency. of American radio 1920-1960, 2000 p. 591 (Bea Wain performed at times as Babs Warren) Washington post WWW site, viewed Aug. 22, 2017 (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 big-band era, died Aug. 19 [2017] in Beverly Hills, Calif.; she was 100; born Beatrice Wain on April 30, 1917, in New York, according to her daughter, although some sources say she had the last name Weinsier; Ms. Wain, who had married actor and radio announcer AndreĢ Baruch, co-hosted a disc jockey series called "Mr. and Mrs. Music" on a New York station in the late 1940s and early 1950s; later, they anchored a radio talk show in Palm Beach, Fla., before settling in Beverly Hills) |
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