DAISY BELL (A BICYCLE BUILT FOR TWO)
Created on 20/03/2004Latest update on 20/03/2024
Artist: Kate Lawrence
Author: Harry Dacre
Year: 1892
In London music hall. Possibly inspired by Sarah, Sarah, or A Donkey Cart Built For Two (Harry Bedford) or vice versa.
Covers:
- 1892:
Tony Pastor [introduced it in America]
- 1892:
Jennie Lindsay [success in the Atlantic Gardens, Bowery, New York]
- 1893:
Dan Quinn [n°1 US]
- 1894:
Edward M. Favor [on North American Phonograph Co.]
- 1934:
- 1942:
- 1942:
Charlie & his Orchestra [as Daisy; propaganda swing band concentrating on nazi-fied versions of jazz hits, one of Joseph Goebbels' ideas; vocal: Karl Schwendler]
- 1946:
Henry Kempers [Helene Stratman-Thomas recording in Brandon, Wisconsin; Dutch version as Daisy Daisy]
- 1960:
- 1961:
Max Mathews [Bell Labs computer engineer who along with John Kelly and Carol Lockbaum programmed the IBM 7094 to sing, the first computer to do so; that's his voice, heard by 2001 author Arthur C. Clarke]
- 1963:
Nat King Cole [as On A Bicycle Built For Two]
- 1964:
- 1968:
Douglas Rain [the voice of HAL 9000 in film 2001: A Space Odyssey while Keir Dullea (astronaut Dave Bowman) is switching him off]
- 1983:
- 1992:
Cock van der Palm [as Feyenoord, Feyenoord (Wat Gaan We Doen Vandaag?); top 20 NL]
- 1993:
- 1993:
- 2000:
When English composer Harry Dacre first set foot on American soil, immigration taxed him for his bike. What if it would have been a tandem? Inspiring the line A Bicycle Built For Two in his next composition.
