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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]
The Birds, the Bees & the Monkees is the fifth studio album by the American pop rock band the Monkees, released in 1968 by Colgems Records.It was the first album released after the cancellation of their TV show and subsequently was their first not to reach No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200, peaking at No. 3, and their first not to chart in the UK, with their four previous efforts all having ...
He later went solo and recorded "The Birds and the Bees" in 1964, on the Era Records label. The single went to Number 3 in the Billboard Hot 100 chart that year, and Number 2 on the Cash Box chart, and was Number 2 for 4 weeks on Canada's CHUM Chart, kept out of Number 1 by The Beatles and Herman's Hermits.
Propelled by the hit singles "Daydream Believer" and "Valleri", along with Nesmith's self-penned top 40 hit "Tapioca Tundra", The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees reached No. 3 on the Billboard charts shortly after it was released in April 1968. [59] It was the first album released after NBC announced they were not renewing The Monkees for a third ...
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.
Peak chart positions Record Label B-side Album US UK AUS CAN; 1964 "Bread and Butter" 2 15 8 1 Hickory Records "Tough Little Buggy" Bread & Butter "Everything's Alright" 16 - 53 6 "Pink Dally Rue" 1965 "Break Away (from That Boy)" 40 - 7 15 "Hey-O-Daddy-O" (BB #118) Big Beat Sounds by The Newbeats "(The Bees Are for the Birds) The Birds Are for ...
According to Billboard Hot 100 chart historian Joel Whitburn's mid-1980s book The Billboard Book of Number One Hits, the recording was originally scheduled to be the B-side of the Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil song "Love Is Only Sleeping" (from Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.), featuring lead vocals by Michael Nesmith.
Also recorded during the sessions for The Birds, the Bees & the Monkees was the B-side "It's Nice to Be With You." Written by Jerry Goldstein, it also charted in the U.S., reaching #51 on the Billboard Hot 100 [2] and #26 on the Cash Box chart. [3]