"Daisy Bell" is a popular song whose lyrics ("Daisy, Daisy, Give me your answer do...I'm half crazy, all for the love of you..." as well as the line "...a bicycle built for two") are considerably better known than the song's actual title. A song is a relatively short musical composition. ... 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

History

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"Daisy Bell" was composed by Harry Dacre in 1892. As David Ewen writes in American Popular Songs: "When Dacre, an English popular composer, first came to the United States, he brought with him a bicycle, for which he was charged duty. His friend (the songwriter William Jerome) remarked lightly: 'It's lucky you didn't bring a bicycle built for two, otherwise you'd have to pay double duty.' Dacre was so taken with the phrase 'bicycle built for two' that he decided to use it in a song. That song, Daisy Bell, first became successful in a London music hall, in a performance by Kate Lawrence. Tony Pastor was the first one to sing it in the United States. Its success in America began when Jennie Lindsay brought down the house with it at the Atlantic Gardens on the Bowery early in 1892." Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... William Jerome (1865 - 1932) was a United States songwriter. ... The tandem bicycle or twin is a form of bicycle (occasionally, a tricycle) designed to be powered by more than one person. ... The Bowery is a well-known street in Manhattan that more or less marks the boundary between Chinatown and Little Italy on one side and the Lower East Side on the other—running from Chatham Square in the south to Astor Place in the north. ...

It is said that a real Daisy inspired the song: "Daisy" the Countess of Warwick, Frances Evelyn Maynard, one of the wealthiest and most desirable English women of the period. In her lifetime, she became a vegetarian, championed women's education, and stood as a Labour (leftist/socialist) candidate. At one point, she was mistress of the Prince of Wales (subsequently Edward VII, king of England, 1901–10). Frances Evelyn Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick [1] (10 December 1861–26 July 1938) was a society beauty and courtesan, and a mistress to King Edward VII. [2] Royal marriage, affairs Born Frances Evelyn Maynard, she was the daughter of The Hon. ... The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the principal political party of the left in England, Scotland and Wales. ... The Prince of Wales Feathers. This Heraldic badge of the Heir Apparent is derived from the ostrich feathers borne by Edward, the Black Prince. ... Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King of the Commonwealth Realms, and the Emperor of India. ... 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

Memorable Performances

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Memorable performances of "Daisy Bell" have included an arrangement by Max Mathews programmed on an IBM 704 which inspired an a cappella solo by Douglas Rain as HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The background behind this inspired choice goes all the way back to 1962 when physicist John Larry Kelly, Jr created one of the most famous moments in the history of Bell Labs by using an IBM 704 computer to synthesize speech. Kelly's voice recorder synthesizer vocoder recreated the song "Daisy Bell", with Max Mathews providing the musical accompaniment. Arthur C. Clarke of 2001: A Space Odyssey fame was coincidentally visiting friend and colleague John Pierce at the Bell Labs Murray Hill facility at the time of this remarkable speech synthesis demonstration and was so impressed that he used it in the climactic scene of his novel and screenplay for 2001: A Space Odyssey,^[1] where the HAL 9000 computer sings the same song as astronaut Dave Bowman disables its cognitive functions.^[2] The HAL performance made the "Daisy, Daisy" lines a part of contemporary popular culture in America, although many people sung the song as children in the United Kingdom. Max Vernon Mathews was born in Columbus, Nebraska, on November 13, 1926. ... The IBM 704, the first mass-produced computer with floating point arithmetic hardware, was introduced by IBM in April, 1956. ... A cappella music is vocal music or singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. ... Douglas Rain is a Canadian actor and narrator born in 1928 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. ... HAL 9000 (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) is a fictional character in Arthur C. Clarkes Space Odyssey saga. ... John Larry Kelly, Jr. ... Bell Laboratories (also known as Bell Labs and formerly known as AT&T Bell Laboratories and Bell Telephone Laboratories) was the main research and development arm of the United States Bell System. ... The IBM 704, the first mass-produced computer with floating point arithmetic hardware, was introduced by IBM in April, 1956. ... A vocoder (name derived from voice encoder, formerly also called voder) is a speech analyzer and synthesizer. ... Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (born December 16, 1917) is a British science-fiction author and inventor, most famous for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name. ... Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. ... David Bowman is a character in the Space Odyssey series. ... Popular culture, sometimes called pop culture, consists of widespread cultural elements in any given society. ...

This song has also been performed by the musical group Tin Hat Trio, and is featured on their 2007 CD "The Sad Machinery of Spring".

A reference to HAL's solo of Daisy Bell was made in the 2005 movie "ROBOTS" while the main charater Rodney fixes Big Weld's brain during an escape. Big Weld begins to sing the song during the chase.

A Japanese version is played over the drunken tricycle race won by Takashi in the movie Revenge of the Nerds. It has been suggested that Revenge of the Nerds (2007 film) be merged into this article or section. ...

Trivia

• The song is possibly derived from 'Sarah Sarah, or a Donkey Cart Built for two' by Harry Bedford, printed sometime between 1877 and 1884^{[citation needed]}, however the dates are uncertain and the reverse is possible. A broadside copy can be viewed on the Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads site. (Viewable by clicking on the magnifying glass and scrolling down to read it).

• It should be noted that the IBM 704 was not the first computer to play Daisy Bell, as this song was popular on the UNIVAC I. Playback of music was demonstrated in early 1951 on the UNIVAC I at the event celebrating the first operation of the machine.

• "Daisy Bell" is featured in the Commodore 64 demo Broken Limits, which plays out the tune using the Commodore 1541 disk drive mechanics.

• "Daisy Bell" was also recorded on the single CD "Girls and Boys" by the English pop band Blur in 1993, which also features William Blake's poem a "Poison Tree" put to music.

Singer Damon Albarn once explained he liked his band to play music his grandparents would aprove of. Dacre's song may be from 1893, Blake's poem predates it by another century. The Commodore 64 is the best-selling single personal computer model of all time. ... A demo is a non-interactive multimedia presentation made within the computer subculture known as the demoscene. ... Front view of the most common version of the Commodore 1541 disk drive, with open disk slot. ... Look up blur in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... William Blake (November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827) was an English poet, visionary, painter, and printmaker. ...

Lyrics

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

Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do

I'm half crazy all for the love of you

It won't be a stylish marriage

I can't afford a carriage

But you'll look sweet upon the seat

Of a bicycle built for two

We will go 'tandem' as man and wife

Daisy, Daisy

Ped'ling away down the road of life

I and my Daisy Bell

When the road's dark, we can both despise

Policemen and lamps as well

There are bright lights in the dazzling eyes

Of beautiful Daisy Bell

I will stand by you in "wheel" or woe

Daisy, Daisy

You'll be the bell(e) which I'll 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 brake

My beautiful Daisy Bell.

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References

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Daisy Bell

• Lyrics with .midi on National Institutes of Health website
• The Daisy Bell Page (compiled by Chris Komuves)
• Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two) - Harry Dacre (Lyrics and Chords)
• Works of Edward M. Favor, including an 1894 recording of "Daisy Bell" (MP3)
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