Bea Wain makes a rare 1983 TV appearance, singing a medley of her great hits including "Our Love is Here to Stay," "You Go To My Head," "Martha," "The Dipsy Doodle," "Deep Purple" and "My Reverie".
I'm 75 and have just discovered Bea. I love songs and singers from this era. What an elegant Lady she was. Look at how she uses her arms and hands to sell a lyric. We'll never see Class like this again! R.I.P. Lovely Lady.
I like to come back to this one sometimes. I’m glad she did it for her fans. She still had that nice bronx accent in her vibrato. Her delivery is timeless and she sounds exquisite. In the 80’ she was allowed to be herself, not tied to strict choreography. Glad she enjoyed a happy long life
Bea Wain: You're like me. A standard, straightforward singer. Anita O'Day, during your time, was singing and swinging. Working that Jazz.. And I would have been SO jealous of her, as she was ridiculously talented. I could never have compared. I never heard of you, and I'm sorry. You seem like a real, honest, plain (and beloved), basic singer. Singers like you were AWESOME. I hope you enjoyed a lot of love re: your singing during your life. You deserve i
THIS IS AWESOME! I absolutely adore Bea wain, and at last count, she was still kickin' at 98 years young! This performance definitely ain't bad for a lady in her mid-60's!
I'm Bea's grandson. Hadn't seen this before - it's marvelous! I have to show her this clip next time I visit her. Do you have any other videos from later in her career?
+Brandon Baruch I think all I have are her Society of Singers appearances at the "Ladies Who Sang with the Band" and Sinatra tributes. I do have a wonderful photo of her with Anita O'Day and Jo Stafford from when I was managing Anita. If you send me your email address I'll send it to you. I'd also be happy to make you a DVD of this clip if you wish. My email is aeichler@earthlink.net
I just heard her on the radio and Shazamed the song to find out who it was. My name is also Bea although I'm young for it (30)--it's a rare one so I was surprised she shared it, and also pleasantly surprised to see she's still around (via Wikipedia and your post here). Please tell her she is fantastic and continues to inspire new listeners!
When I heard her singing heart and soul when she was 20 I definitely picked up on her New York City accent, a girl from the Bronx exactly where I came from my mom and my grandparents
She certainly was the female version of Sinatra...even her vocal stylings sound so much like Frank, in his prime...and wow, to be able to deliver the goods in this video, at age 66?..Just remarkable! This is my dad's music, which I have learned to appreciate over the years. Why did I not hear about this very talented woman a long time ago? And let's face it--she was supremely beautiful to boot!..Frank should have done a TV special with this woman!...well, maybe not, as by the 1980s, Frank was past his prime--but not this amazing woman!
Dear Alan Eichler! Thank you for this wonderful upload. Bea Wain is not with us anymore. She died on August 19, 2017. Her wonderful songs and this video makes her immortalize. She was really one of the best singer in the 1930s and 1940s. And in 1983 better than ever .... Thank you.
Bea Wain along with Helen Forrest are the two greatest female vocalist of the late 1930’s and the 1940’s. Especially with the big bands of that time. These two still sang great all their lives. Ginny Simms would be the other female vocalist of that time period I like along with the young Frank Sinatra . Bea Wain so beautiful and fantastic singer with a way with a lyric and her own particular phrasing that no other female singer can copy. She was like Frank Sinatra in a way that she was in her own class. This was a great video of a truly talented singer.
How wonderful she sings and moves! A great American artiste, à classical interpreter, she's wonderful really. Thanks a lot. Emmanuel from Paris. An outstanding voice!
'Deep Purple' My grandmother was a wonderful pianist and I have a copy of the music of this song that she played, with her signature on it. . She lived from 1899 until 1968. I was born in 1958. She also played wonderfully by ear as well and I was lucky enough to inherit her talent. But finding her copy of 'Deep Purple' some years ago was very special to me! Bea Wain sings it so beautifully, and the orchestra accompanies so sensitively..
My father was/is a big-band fan growing up during that era. Anything my father liked, I liked. It feels like yesterday watching these shows and my father, starry eyed, would say, "he/she changed so much". I think back and realize how it great it was that they were still alive and singing. I thought these greats from the greatest time in America would be around forever.
Saw part of a PBS show on the big band era tonite and someone much older than me knew who she was. Had never heard of her. Looked her up here. Shes great! We will never have music like this again.
Alan thank you for sharing this-just found it after hearing the sad news of Bea Wain's passing. What a wonderful, long life! Comfort to the Wain-Baruch family, friends and fans.
What a shame that by 1983 they finely got round to her, for Helen Forrest (the biggest selling band singer of that era) and Dick Haymes got the all too few gigs in the 1970s. Many of those late 1930s-early 1940s swing band artists were still keen and most able, like Bea Wain. She was a HIT SINGER in 1938, with the Larry Clinton Ork, as big as Petula Clark was in the States in the 1960s, but here she only gets to do medleys and sometimes only two-line versions of her once very popular repertoire. From the early 1970s, her then vintage voicings were revived and popular on the FM-broadcast weekly Swing Session, from Amherst, Massachusetts, Chicago, and New Orleans. But whoever arranged this 1983 bdcst...Shame on them! Amusingly, she never lost her New Yawk singing accent. Although this video doesn't take her for much, you can access her soulful recordings further on, on RU-vid. Go do it!
Wow, she was good live. And this was before Auto-Tune and supporting tracks and all that other bullsh*t. This is when vocalists had to actually sing accurately and hit the notes.
Cringe ass take bro. I hope you realize that it was jazz and the blues that laid the foundation of rock and roll that came later. Sucks to be as close minded as you.
Here's Bea singing circa 1940. What a song. What a voice! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WJ8UmHJTMMQ.html&pp=ygUlSSBEb24ndCBXYW50IFRvIENyeSBBbnltb3JlICBiZWEgd2Fpbg%3D%3D#searching
I found her singing Heart and Soul with Larry McClintock's band when she was a young woman in her twenties. Better interpretation than Ella Fitzgerald.
