Daisy Bell
written by harry dacre

DAISY BELL (BICYCLE BUILT FOR TWO)
DAISY BELL   (SONG CAR-TUNES)   1925
Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built For Two) was written in 1892 by British songwriter Harry Dacre. It is said that the song was inspired by the socialist and activist Countess of Warwick - Daisy Greville. She was one of King Edward VII's many mistresses, and she famously fought against social inequality and helped to establish schools for the poor in the UK. The Song Daisy Bell was made famous in a London music hall by singer Katie Lawrence, and it quickly became an international hit. In 1925, the song was used for an installment of Max Fleischer's Song Car-Tunes series, featuring a sing-a-long with The Bouncing Ball. The film was later remade in 1929 as an installment of Fleischer's Screen Songs series. The song was also featured as part of a collection of songs in Fleischer's 1935 Color Classics short Musical Memories. In 1961 Daisy Bell became the first song to ever be sung by a computer in a early demonstration of computer speech synthesis using the IBM 704 - the first mass-marketed computer. This computer performance of the song appears in a scene from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
1890
MUSIC
​BOX
1894

EDWARD
​M. FAVOR
19??

CHARLES
KALEY
AND HIS
​ORCHESTRA
1926

​BRITTANICA
ACCORDIAN
​BAND
1928

HURDY
GURDY
STREET
​ORGAN
1931

GERALD
ADAMS
AND THE
VARIETY
​SINGERS
19??

ORCHESTRA
​MASCOTTE
1936

BOB
​SCHOLTE
1956

LIBERACE
1959

CLINTON
​FORD
1961

​IBM
​704
(THE FIRST
TIME THAT A
​COMPUTER
​EVER SANG)
1962

THE
CHIPMUNKS
1963

NAT
KING
​COLE
19??

ARDUINO
19??

DINAH
​SHORE
19??

ROBERT DE
CORMIER
​SINGERS
1993

BLUR
19??

MIDSOMER
​MURDERS
20??

CEDERMONT
​KIDS
20??

CCO
​MELON
2005

MICK
​MOLONEY
2010

​WURLITZER
CAROUSEL
​MUSIC
2014

KIRK
​HAMMETT
(from
Metallica)
2014

KATY
​PERRY
2014

WEIRD AL
​YANKOVIC
2014

SARA LOV
​& ZAC RAE
2014

NICK
​CAVE
2014

MARK
MOTHER-
​BAUGH
(from Devo)
2014

TOUR
​CRUSH
2014

DANNY
​ELFMAN
2014

TYLER, THE
​CREATOR
2015

SCREAM
TV
SERIES
20??

GARETH
​PEARSON
20??

DUST
DAISY BELLE

1.
There is a flower within my heart, Daisy,
Daisy Planted one day by a glancing dart
Planted by Daisy Bell
Whether she loves me or loves me not
Sometimes it's hard to tell
Yet I am longing to share the lot
Of beautiful Daisy Bell

Chorus:
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do
I'm half crazy, all for the love of you
It won't be a stylish marraige
I can't afford a carriage
But you'll look sweet on the seat
Of a bicycle built for two

2.
We will go tandem as man and wife, Daisy,
Daisy Ped'ling away down the road of lif
I and my Daisy Bell
When the road's dark we can both despise
P'liceman and lamps as well
There are bright lights in the dazzling eyes
Of beautiful Daisy Bell

3.
I will stand by you in wheel or woe, Daisy,
Daisy You'll be the bell(e) which I ring
You know, sweet little Daisy Bell
You'll take the lead in each trip we take
Then if I don't do well
I will permit you to use the break
​My beautiful Daisy Bell
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