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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]
Peggy Lee with the Benny Goodman orchestra recorded a version in 1941 with these lyrics. CBS came up with less offensive lyrics, which NBC adopted, and changed the opening to the refrain: "Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it." when they recognized that the line was offensive. [14]
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]
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.
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.
Warm Sounds. Warm Sounds was an English musical duo, consisting of Denver Gerrard and Barry Younghusband, and later adding John Carr. [1] They are considered a one hit wonder for their hit single, "Birds and Bees", from 1967. [2] However they had an "airplay hit" follow up with "Sticks and Stones" in August 1967. [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 ...
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.