Jewel Akens - The Birds & The Bees

[geelabobila]

Let me tell you bout the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees and the p's and the q's.

[sauquoit13456]

On this date in 1965 {Jan. 23rd} 'The Birds and the Bees' entered the Billboard's Top 100 chart; eventually it peaked at No. 3 and spent 14 total weeks in the Top 100... It was one of the only two records by Jewel Akens to make the Top 100; the other being 'Georie Porgie' {reaching #68, also in 1965}

[ginney428]

love this :-)

[eve242004]

@staymakulit i am 21 why do u ask

[keithsibley]

this is 47 year old and song butstill a good one of the best every played

[djfisher3]

I was blessed enough to actually be invited to Jewels home in LA for back yard picnics a couple of years in a row. We would jam out some tunes and eat some greasy picnic food....now those were good times!!! And the fried chicken and ribs were enough to give you a heart attack just looking at them. LOL

[wmw2525]

Good to place the face against the song for this one-hit wonder from the 60s ... Wayne

[cillopatra]

Gosh How Old is it?

[1939PlymouthRatRod]

I love this era when we could understanding what they sung about and the songs had a meaning.

[JewishDragonFly1]

It went like this. Let me tell you about the birds and the bees and the flower and the trees and the moon up above "son let me tell you about love"

[bastian2515]

finalllly found it! haha my grade 5 teacher use to sing all the time.

[AndreaMimi1984]

Cool song. 

[MrPilleMcCoy]

was that already the time were everybody sang playback?

[blind51de]

@MrPilleMcCoy Yeah, the mic is just a decoration.

[Madisynth]

Such a cheerful song ^^ Great voice, great 'old sound', great music.

[4AGEish]

such a cool song!!

[mknowlesm]

My boys are 8 &12yrs. old and they love the oldies:)

[TitaniumByFire]

Love this song, it tells it like it is. "a guy and a girl", all about what is natural.

[BiggestMarvelFan]

@TitaniumByFire Good for you my friend :D

[apirnala]

I was fortunate enough to be playing piano in a band called The Reuven Kall Show in the late 1970's and we backed Jewel Akens. Jewel was also singing with the Coaster's who we also backed.

Later.... Jewel chose me to play keyboard on a single he was recording.

I was only 19 years old then. Jewel was a true professional in the studio to work with and a great entertainer and person in general on stage... It was an honor to work with him!

[AmericanEvita]

Vintage classic. I love oldies. Although I was a kid in the 80's and a 90's teenager, was exposed to a lot of oldies from radio stations, from LP's left over by older people, and movies that played oldies and also The Wonder Years TV show that played a lot of hit 50's and 60's oldies.

[Sythine]

He never told me anything about the birds and the bee's =S

[naganokumas]

It's a funny thing.

As an Australian kid, 30 years ago, and enjoying 50's and 60's stuff, I had a stereotypical expectation of what the American singers looked like. Blame the "Happy Days" sort of presentation of that era. I thought these songs were done by 'white' high school students with a big 'H' or 'S' on their colourful jackets. I only ever heard the songs, I never saw the artists.

Sam Cooke, the Dixie Cups, etc. Now I'm familiar with their faces.

This reminded me of the jolt. Thankyou.

[mollysmilzz]

we sang this in health during the sex unit haha

[ekocentric]

I was about five years old when this came out. I didn't know until I was 50 that he was black....the funny thing is that I never even gave it any thought as to what his racial background was. The song is just so cute that you don't have to categorize it.

Sort of takes the pressures of race off so that you just worry about his great song. (If that makes any sense.) And I for one like that.

[naganokumas]

@ekocentric Yes.

[skateitdudewii]

with the birds and the bee's 

[rach1985blue]

Dont you just love the sixties music, Super Classics!

[TheBuench]

i hear "Shindigger" no nigger...

[barryasus]

@budbass19 LOL sure does sound suspect now doesn't it?

[Maureen712]

Good song...I enjoyed it! Thanks for posting it! :D *****

[RoberticusXII]

there was a girl who did a cover of this song, but I...can't find..her.....garr....... awesome song tho

[djj8288]

i happen to be looking for that exact cover -___- i saw it on an advertisement.

it was closer to an acoustic arrangement

[RoberticusXII]

thats the one, and it was advertising some white wine, the search goes on...i'll let u know if i find it. :)

[djj8288]

SAME!!!

it was quite recent too..

i was at the cinemas,

and watching the ad. Cant remember the ad content...

but i wrote down the lyrics because it was awesome...

i didnt know this song before i heard it then!

search sure goes on :)

[ABBAInMyHeart]

I love this song! : D

[MikeBlitzMag]

Jewel Akens' Era label album had a GREAT novelty cut called "The Vegetable Love Song". Would love to see a video of that!! He was great. Akens went on to record for Colgems, the same label that featured the Monkees and the Lewis And Clark Expidition.

[Hidethegames]

I love the song x3

[eve242004]

I got to meet him in person at where i work. LOL its pizza hut. he was very nice. Sang for us :) never been so happy in my life

[staymakulit]

@eve242004 really now, how old are you?

[SupremeKingDan]

Great song! Better than the original record!

[shamblex]

whats this guy sayin at the start of this :O it sounds like he is sayin somthin racist??

!!! amazing songggggg.x

[DaneshaAynne]

this is so awsome, my bff has this on her record player, now its like stuck in my head!, lol. i love it!

[DJSnafu]

Jewel is the man! Around my house is one of these tracks that I know wil svae me if poeple sotp dancing...and poeple hate R&B here in Scotland!

[mikeakens]

Actually My Father Wrote it.

[jerkingithard]

bullshit you father-nigga-want-to-be-fag

[SecretMeeting3]

Jewel Akens 1965

Dean Martin 1966

I'm pretty sure Herb Newman wrote it.

[jimwalsh2001]

This is actually a better version than the record...

[Electrical007007007]

Another CLASSIC!  I Love It!

It's been a while since I've heard this song..

[ndhudecz]

Great

[namino999]

did you hear what he said at the beggining

[alleermed]

LOVE IT <3<3

[obbytoo]

This is the original version but the one from the TV advert is the version by Dean Martin ^^

[pabanil]

im 17 and my hearts belongs to old song! folk,rock and country music! mostly love song!

Nahum

[luctonian]

Lol me 2 =)

[Ellie4706]

I love the advert with this song in its hillarious!!

[borrby]

evry body writes that they are "only" 17 years and so but I started listend to this when i was 12, and i am 15 now :P suck on that every body ;)

[HitmanEdi12]

THIS IS SOOOOOO COOL

[LILBAYB33ST3F]

im 14 and i cant actually believe i love this song! :P

i first heard it on a car advert hahaha

x

[xXnimitsXx]

yeah same i think our type is being slowly smugged out by gay ppl lol fight the power ect...

[LILBAYB33ST3F]

lol, yeah i can see where your coming from x

[obbytoo]

same I just heard it now on tv xD

[ROCKSAREHARD]

this song was on the car advert, but the actual version of the song was sung by Dean Martin, just saying

it's a pretty cool song though!!

[LILBAYB33ST3F]

didnt know that ;)

hahaa, doo now though, ahh well.

its still a class song like ;)

[ROCKSAREHARD]

ye, it's a great song

[universalradio]

This is the version done LONG before Dean did it. This was on the Hit Parade - can't remember which year, but Dean would have sung it because it was already popular.

[ROCKSAREHARD]

Oh, Well you learn something new everyday. Thanks ;-)

[universalradio]

no problem. :)

This song is wired into my brain, we danced to it.

[surfcottage]

no this is the original... Dean Martin did s cover of it

[pabanil]

Im 17 years old and i love old song! mostly the song of John Denver and many old singers!

and this song makes me happy!

i dont like rock song , i mean song rock song of this Generation.

i like Bon Jovu and Gun n' Roses, but im not rockers!....

i always hear this song, mostly at sunday!

Greetings from Nahum

[GUALLACOL]

great song. Brings back memeories as a child

[coolrecursion]

brings back those teenage days!!!

[mknowlesm]

I'm only 38yrs.old but I grew up listening to the oldies and to this day I still can't get enough of this kind of music,lol!

[smnk3]

I'm now 17 and been loveing it too :D

[pkfroob1]

how old? LOL

[urbanvide0s]

lol luv this song its on that new car advert

[refici222]

love this song thanks

[timwmartin]

Jewel Akens was black? He sounds like a white boy from down in Dixie.

[cinedeguerrilla]

Yes!!! This song was performed by Johnny Kidd & The Pirates too, the first R&R band in Europe. Their cover was so white, almost beat.

[torkerbmx]

hes not whistlin dixie

[fattyhoeman]

me and my friend have to sing this for our biology class today.

[ToxicOrange]

since I was a baby and all through my childhood, my mom would sing this to me when it was time to go to bed, almost like a lullaby <3

[RetardTE]

de he just say:

it's your (n-word) whos singing the pick of the week

in the beginning??

[claridon]

he said shindig

[ToxicOrange]

LOL

thats what i heard too :P

[pronyma]

he def said nigger!

[Saccara89]

wer hat das auch noch auf deutsch gesungen ?

[TacticalHunter1]

dr. sommer? WAHAHAHAH

[BonjoviFan08]

Thanks bj you really helped me out my gf loves it so much she wanted to know so thanks pal for everything.

[bjazz80]

not a problem. I just saw him this past weekend and told him that his Shin Dig episode was youtube.. he got a kick out of it lol

[snake8127]

patrick and eugene's version is wayyyyy better

[morton360]

i heard "its your nigger"

[GamerChicka51]

Back in the day, when the great majority of musicians and entertainers had talent.. sigh..

[jhbitodfhitdfjbhgtfh]

What a Funky Flamingo ! And this is one Gobsmacker of a song ! Wooo Hoo !

[alleermed]

Let me tell you about the birds and the bees,and the flowers and the trees!!

oh I love this..

:D

[sinfulis666]

wdr 2, swr 4,.. xD

[Camexplode]

wo hört man den sowas im radio?

[berlinfever]

hab ich vor 3 tagen das erste mal im radio gehört, seit dem hab ich nen ohrwurm davon^^

[BonjoviFan08]

Thank you so much Bj i wouldnt of know if it wasnt for you guys ;] google didnt help me one bit. thanks Again Bj.

[nustiucenumesaimiale]

Great song :x

[souldiegirl]

I just met him this past Sat. night (6/07/08) at Ray's Deli in San Bernardino, CA. He is very much alive and gave a great performance. Very sweet man.

[NancyNoack]

I love that Song! :)

[musikgirl08]

damn i hate black and whie television... :P it makes some black people look white tho :P good song :)

[jimbrobulba]

huh?

[PenisPaladin]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa i love this song :/ could somebody send me the mp3???? pls reply :)

[BonjoviFan08]

Can Anyone Tell me if he's Still alive and how old is he now i'd kindly like to know thanks.

[bjazz80]

very alive, I live across the street from him.. he is an awsome guy

[jennahemmena]

He was born in the 1940

[bjazz80]

he is very much alive and well. He lives in LA and is one of my neighbors.. His singing voice still sounds the same

[Wesqe]

it's before he says the shindig thing, I'm talking about in the very beginning. It very much sounds as though he does so and if true its sad

[samsarman]

lol i know jewle,he lives in the still very upper class area of baldwin hills in la.he looks the same except he wears his hair in a jeri curl.the nicest guy in the world,very quiet but still puts on a good show.oh and his son looks older than he does!

[luv60smusic]

i luv this song

[Wesqe]

Just as the clip starts I believe he says "Here's your nigger?" Maybe I take this out of context but eh, it so sad to here that. What a schock man... but a good song it is.

[Anonymous86]

LMAO, no. He says "We at Shindig." Try to listen closely. He wouldn't say that lol, that would be disgraceful.

[luv60smusic]

no he's saying 'here at shindig'. lol he'd never say something that mean on TV.

[thedailyenglishshow]

At first I thought he said that too.

[musicfan09jj]

thanks... i was just listening to this today.