MCNAIR, BARBARA

McNAIR, BARBARA. Popular-music singer (4 March 1939 in Racine, Wisconsin). She obtained her musical education in the public schools of Racine, Wisconsin, and at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She began her professional career as a nightclub singer in New York. She first attracted wide attention as a singer on the Arthur Godfrey tele- vision show. She appeared in many Broadway musicals, including The Body Beautiful (1958), The Merry World of Nat King Cole (1961), and...