"A Bee in Your Boudoir" - Charles "Buddy" Rogers, 1930.

(I'd Like to Be) A BEE IN YOUR BOUDOIR
(Me Gustaría Ser Una Abeja En Tu Tocador)
(Richard A. Whiting & George Marion, Jr.)
Talkie Hit from Paramount Picture "Safety in Numbers"
Charles "Buddy" Rogers - America's Boy Friend
Columbia, 2183-D (150027), 1930.

My great-grandparents' house (the home in which my mother, her brother, and her two sisters — "the Buffington Children" — had been raised) was to be sold. While packing up belongings, my Uncle came across a box of old 78rpm records (of popular songs from their youth in the 1930s) and brought them to me, saying, "Here are some records for YOU!" Four years old at the time, I loved to play records. I can still remember my excitement over this unexpected gift.

With its upbeat tempo and bumble-bee imagery, this was one of my favorites then, and it is today. Buddy Rogers' voice seems to be a perfect fit for the era of early talking pictures. He sings the piece on the reverse of this record as well, another favorite which I hope to present sometime in the future.

The centerpiece pictures are magazine cover illustrations by Harrison Fisher from 1914. The bee and flower images are from two old children's books: "The Turned-Into's" by Elizabeth Gordon, with illustrations by Janet Laura Scott (P. F. Volland Co., 1920); and
"Frühling, Frühling Überall" illustrated by Gertrud u. Walther Caspari (1910).

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Music

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• Buddy
• Rogers
• 1930
• 78rpm

[genia106]

My Darling Evening Hour,

The Bufffington children must have had a very happy childhood being exposed to this music and those children's books. How Wonderful that you were given them and loved them too and are now sharing them with us. Thank you so much for another Perfect Romantic Song and Enchanting video. I loved the melody, the vocal, Buddy and the Bee and the illustrations. Dankeschon.

[abendstunde49]

@genia106 I am so pleased that you found this video and liked it!

I am indeed grateful that my family gave me their old records! The "Bee" was my all-time favorite of these when I was a child.

And it is STILL a favorite!

[norfolk03]

Love this, thanks so much for sharing~

[abendstunde49]

@norfolk03 Glad you liked it!

[abendstunde49]

More old records and more family history, coming up!

Thanks for your comments!

[parlophonman]

Oh yes.. those shellac record experiences at that age... how I remember them too !

Thank you so much for sharing them here with all of us, and for this very (!) nice record and pictures !

[abendstunde49]

Thank you for your very nice comments !

[hassony3]

Oh my God, how immensely sweet! I'm going to buy the Jeeves and Wooster box, and I'll expect this slightly naughty song to be there!! James Dean crashed his car when I was a kid, and I haven't moved on since. Move on to what? So much ugliness and trauma and general shit! Those lovely Baffington girls look like they had been just taking tea with Mary Pickford, and the handsome guy looks like he's on his way to a game of tennis with Ramón Novarro! More family history, please, like Master J!

[abendstunde49]

You are so right!

[jurek46pink]

Oh, those 4-7 year old boy experiences...

may remain important for the rest of our

lives...-

Thank you, A.

J.