In 1961, an IBM 704 at Bell Labs was programmed to sing "Daisy Bell" in the earliest demonstration of computer speech synthesis.I will permit you to use the brake, My beautiful Daisy Bell!ĭaisy Bell sung by the DECtalk speech synthesizer released in 1984 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:
Taken by the phrase, he used in in a song to acclaim both before it became a smash hit with computers with a penchant for song, and after."Daisy Bell" was composed by Harry Dacre in 1892. A friend remarked that it was lucky that he didn’t bring a bicycle built for two, or he would have had to pay double duty. Upon coming to the U.S., he was charged a duty fee for his bicycle.
‘ Daisy Bell‘ was originally composed in 1892 by Henry Dacre, and English composer. Kelly and Lockbaum programmed the lyrics, and Mathews the accompaniment. This evidently inspired him to have HAL sing the song as an homage to the programmers of the 704 at Bell Labs, John L. There, he was treated to a performance of the song ‘Daisy Bell’ (or, ‘A Bicycle Built for Two’) by the IBM 704 computer.
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Clarke, who wrote the novel – and co-wrote the screenplay for the movie – “2001: A Space Odyssey”, visited Bell Labs before putting the finishing touches on the work. Click below for more on this geeky topic! Clarke made HAL’s final act in the world this song as a tribute to HAL’s great ancestor, the first IBM computer to ever sing. Okay, so this may not be important breaking news about astronomy, but it may answer a burning question posed by most people who have watched or read “2001: A Space Odyssey”: that is, why does the computer HAL-9000 sing the song ‘Daisy Bell’ as the astronaut Dave Bowman takes him apart? Well, Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C.
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