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Era. Songwriter (s) Barry Stuart. "The Birds and the Bees" was a 1964 single release by Jewel Akens that is said to have been written by the twelve-year-old son of Era Records owner Herb Newman; the songwriting credit on the Jewel Akens recording of "The Birds and the Bees" reads Barry Stuart, which is the song's standard songwriting credit. [1]
Meaning. According to tradition, "the birds and the bees" is a metaphorical story sometimes told to children in an attempt to explain the mechanics and results of sexual intercourse through reference to easily observed natural events. For instance, bees carry and deposit pollen into flowers, a visible and easy-to-explain parallel to fertilization.
And the birds and the bees are at rest. and continues with much the same formula and similar natural details for a further eight stanzas, at one point referencing the fairy myths of Oberon. To The Lady Bird, or excerpted stanzas from it, went on to appear in various publications through the next century and beyond.
Animal Fair (song) Animal Fair (Roud 4582 [1]) is a traditional folk song and children's song. It was sung by minstrels and sailors as early as 1898. [2] The song was referred to in Life magazine in 1941 as a cadence of soft shoe tap dancing. [3]
The Sesame Street song "Let's Lay an Egg" is a parody of the song, using the lyrics "Snails do it, slugs do it. Even tiny Twiddlebugs do it!" Molly Ringwald - the theme song for The Secret Life of the American Teenager from 2008 to 2012, in which Ringwald also stars as Anne Juergens. Ringwald's rendition is upbeat, containing such lines as ...
Goes the Weasel " (Roud 5249) is a traditional English and American song, a country dance, nursery rhyme, and singing game that emerged in the mid-19th century. [1][2][3] It is commonly used in jack-in-the-box toys and for ice cream trucks. [2][4]
The song is commonly thought to be of African-American origin. [1] An early published version is in "A White Dove", [2] a 1903 story for kindergarteners by Maud McKnight Lindsay (1874–1941), a teacher from Alabama and daughter of Robert B. Lindsay. [3] In the story, "a little girl" sings to "her baby brother" what is footnoted as "an old ...
The song was originally recorded by Barrett Strong and released on Tamla in August 1959. [6] Anna Records was operated by Gwen Gordy, Anna Gordy and Roquel "Billy" Davis. Gwen and Anna's brother Berry Gordy had just established his Tamla label (soon Motown would follow) and licensed the song to the Anna label in 1960, which was distributed ...