

This recording has been included in the United States National Recording Registry. In 1961, an IBM 704 at Bell Labs was programmed to sing "Daisy Bell" in the earliest demonstration of computer speech synthesis.In technology and popular culture Computing and technology ĭaisy Bell sung by the DECtalk speech synthesizer released in 1984 I will permit you to use the brake, My beautiful Daisy Bell! You'll take the "lead" in each "trip" we take, Then if I don't do well You'll be the bell(e) which I'll ring you know! Sweet little Daisy Bell! I will stand by you in "wheel" or woe, Daisy, Daisy! There are "bright lights" in the dazzling eyes Of beautiful Daisy Bell! When the road's dark we can both despise P'liceman and "lamps" as well "Ped'ling" away down the road of life, I and my Daisy Bell! We will go "tandem" as man and wife, Daisy, Daisy!

There is a flower within my heart, Daisy, Daisy! The song was originally recorded and released by Dan W. Its success in America began when Jennie Lindsay brought down the house with it at the Atlantic Gardens on the Bowery early in 1892. Tony Pastor was the first to sing it in the United States. That song, Daisy Bell, first became successful in a London music hall, in a performance by Katie Lawrence. His friend William Jerome, another songwriter, 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 soon used it in a song. When Dacre, an English popular composer, first came to the United States, he brought with him a bicycle, for which he was charged import duty. As David Ewen writes in American Popular Songs: "Daisy Bell" was composed by Harry Dacre in 1892. It is the earliest song sung using computer speech synthesis by the IBM 704 in 1961, a feat that was referenced in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). The song is said to have been inspired by Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick, one of the many mistresses of King Edward VII. I'm half crazy / all for the love of you", ending with the words "a bicycle built for two". " Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)" is a song written in 1892 by British songwriter Harry Dacre with the well-known chorus "Daisy, Daisy / Give me your answer, do. For the 2018 short film, see Daisy Belle (film). For the multi-rider bicycle, see Tandem bicycle.
