Search - Bea Wain :: My Reverie

Popular band singer who went solo

Peter Durward Harris | Leicester England | 08/17/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Bea Wain's major successes were as Larry Clinton's band singer, most famously with My reverie, one of four number one hits. This compilation contains some of her Larry Clinton tracks and some of her solo music after she quit Larry's band, all in chronological order. Her solo tracks are not that different in style from her band music. Like so many of the band singers of the time, Bea could swing, though she could also do the love songs.The songs here include three of those #1 hits (My reverie, Heart and soul, Deep purple) though Cry baby cry, their first number one, is omitted. You can find it on a Larry Clinton compilation, along with many other hits they had together, some of which are also on this CD, but most are not.You may remember Deep purple - it was a big hit for Nino Tempo and April Stevens in the sixties, and again for Donny and Marie Osmond in the seventies. Bea and Larry's band did one of the original versions. There were several versions released at around the same time (in 1939) but this version outsold them all, by a considerable margin.There are other big hits from her Larry Clinton days here too - Old folks, The masquerade is over and My heart belongs to Daddy - but most of this CD is filled with her solo music. Bea only had four solo hits, but only three of them (Do I worry?, My sister and I, Kiss the boys goodbye) are included. The other, I'm nobody's baby, is missing, but it doesn't matter - this is a brilliant compilation of Bea's music. Of the non-hits, my favorite song here is Oh you crazy moon, but every track is wonderful.I see that other CD's of Bea's solo music is now being released and it may eventually be possible to build a comprehensive collection, but this is in any case a fine introduction to Bea's music."

The quintessential 1930's jazz songbird

Sir Sedrick Essex III | England | 10/29/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Miss Bea Wain was an equivilent to a 1940's young Frank Sinatra, only in the female version. Her passion and sensuality oooze through her chops and that slight Brooklyn accent, and those slightly pubescent high notes. A truly amazing songbird, who sings with as much sex appeal as Billie Holiday, yet with the emotional range of Helen Forrest, but with the refinement of Sinatra. She has a truly warm and sensual voice, and her prasing is marvelous, and her timing that of a top notch jazz singer, often accentuating the beat in odd places, adding a swingy feeling. Wain makes every song she sings into a grandiose and erotic adventure. This cd will give you the chance to hear this heavenly voiced babydoll of a canarie."

My Revere

H. Doyle | Pa. U S A | 08/07/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"If you are, like me, stuck in the age of great band singers, you will cherish the fantastic singer BEA WAIN. it's like 1940 all over again. Terrific listening."