Barbara Lea has been played on NTS in shows including The Early Bird Show w/ Spirit Blue, featured first on 10 March 2022. Songs played include True Love.

Barbara Lea (April 10, 1929 – December 28, 2011) was an American actress and singer.

Born into a musical family in Detroit, she worked with small dance bands there before attending Wellesley College on scholarship and majoring in music theory. Boston was a hotbed of jazz in the late 40s and early 50s, allowing Barbara to sing with major instrumentalists such as Marian McPartland, Bobby Hackett, Vic Dickenson, Frankie Newton, Johnny Windhurst, and George Wein.

Her early recordings for…