Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee

Song

"Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee"
Sheet music, 1912
Song
Published	1912
Composer(s)	Henry I. Marshall
Lyricist(s)	Stanley Murphy

Audio sample
Recording of Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee, performed by Billy Murray and Ada Jones (1912) file help

"Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee" is a popular song. The music was written by Henry I. Marshall and the lyrics by Stanley Murphy. The song was published in 1912, and appeared in the 1912 play A Winsome Widow.^[1]

The song has since become a standard, recorded by many artists. One of the most popular early recordings was by Ada Jones and Billy Murray^[2] who recorded it as a duet on July 8, 1912 for Victor Records (catalog 17152 B).

Doris Day and Russell Arms performed the song in the 1953 film By the Light of the Silvery Moon.^[3]

Noteworthy recordings

Ada Jones and Billy Murray (1912)^[4]
Ada Jones and Walter Van Brunt (1912)^[2]
Gordon MacRae and June Hutton – on the album Songs from 'By the Light of the Silvery Moon'... (1953).^[5]^[6]
Doris Day on the album By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)^[7]

References

^ Boardman, Gerald Martin. American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle, pp. 322-23 (2011 ed.)
^ ^a ^b Whitburn, Joel (1986). Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890–1954. Wisconsin: Record Research. pp. 237, 239. ISBN 0-89820-083-0.
^ Jasen, David A. (2013-10-15). A Century of American Popular Music. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-35264-6.
^ 1912 Recording, Library of Congress, Retrieved 9 March 2023
^ "Songs". AllMusic. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
^ Movie Musicals on Record: A Directory of Recordings of Motion Picture Musicals, 1927-1987. Greenwood Press. 1989. ISBN 978-0-313-26540-2.
^ Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 1953-03-28.

Ada Jones

Singles

"Cuddle up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine"
"Shine On, Harvest Moon"
"The Yama Yama Man"
"My Pony Boy"
"I've Got Rings On My Fingers"
"Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?"
"By the Light of the Silvery Moon"
"Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine"
"Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee"
"By the Beautiful Sea"
"What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?"
"M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I"
"Some Sunday Morning"

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Billy Murray

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