Bea Abbott

BEA ABBOTT - THE TOO MARVELOUS (1950)

1,I Hadn't Anyone Till You
2,Day In, Day Out
3,How Did He Look ?
4,Someone To Watch Over Me
5,This Love Of Mine
6,Why Shouldn't I ?
7,The Very Thought Of You
8,Too Marvelous For Words
9,My Funny Valentine
10,It Had To Be You
11,I See Your Face Before Me
12,April In Paris

As Bea Abbott sat atop a piano in the dark, her mellow voice would flow out into a room, surrounding the crowd with familiar love songs and ballads.
With only the light of a pin spot on her head and shoulders, she would move from "My Funny Valentine," to "It Had To Be You," or "I See Your Face Before Me." She was a little singer with a big voice who was part of Chicago's lounge scene in the 1950s and 1960s.
Beatrice Ruby, 82, died in 2007 of cancer at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
At the age of 18, then Beatrice Florio left Providence, R.I., alone and on her own, for New York City, to make a name for herself as Bea Abbott