Michael, Michael, here is my answer true

You're half crazy if you think that that will do

If you can't afford a carriage

There won't be any marriage

Cause I'll be switched if I'll get hitched

On a bicycle built for two}}

Sometimes the songwriter's name—"Harry"—was used instead of "Michael" in this chorus.^[5]

Lyrics

In technology and culture

Computing and technology

• In 1961, an IBM 704 at Bell Labs was programmed to sing "Daisy Bell" in the earliest demonstration of computer speech synthesis.^[6]
• In 1974, auditory researchers used the melody of "Daisy Bell" for the first demonstration of "pure dichotic" (two-ear only) perception: they encoded the melody in a stereophonic signal in such a way that it could be perceived when listening with both ears but not with either ear alone.^[7]
• In 1985, Christopher C. Capon created a Commodore 64 program named "Sing Song Serenade", which caused the Commodore 1541 floppy disk drive to emit the tune of "Daisy Bell" directly from its hardware by rapidly moving the read/write head.^[8]
• Microsoft's personal assistant, Cortana, may sing the first line of Daisy when asked to sing a song.^[9]

Films

• Science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke witnessed the IBM 704 demonstration and referred to it in the 1968 novel and film A Space Odyssey, in which the HAL 9000 computer sings "Daisy Bell" during its gradual deactivation.^[10]
• In the 1986 film The Hitcher, the character John Ryder hums the song while being transported on the prison bus.
• It is this very same connection to which the song most likely owes its appearance in the film, The Theory of Everything (2014), a drama about the life of the world renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, whereupon the fictionalized Hawking types out part of the song's lyric, in order to have the words subsequently "spoken", utilising his iconic text-to-synthesised-speech device.{{Original research inline|date=January 2017}}
• In the 2005 animated film Robots, the character Bigweld sings "Daisy Bell" briefly while Rodney repairs him.

Musical recordings

• Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his album Join Bing and Sing Along (1959)
• Alvin and the Chipmunks covered the song for a 1961 episode of The Alvin Show and their album The Chipmunk Songbook (1962).
• Nat King Cole sang a cover for his album Those Lazy-Crazy-Hazy Days of Summer (1963).
• Blur covered the song as a B-side on their single "Sunday Sunday" (1993).
• Tin Hat recorded a rendition of the song for their album The Sad Machinery of Spring (2007), with the same lyrics but different music.
• Jimmy Urine and Chantal Claret did a Hip-Hop rendition of the song for the YouTube series Pancake Mountain.
• On May 3, 2014, an album composed entirely of covers of "Daisy Bell" entitled The Gay Nineties Old Tyme Music: Daisy Bell was released in conjunction with pop artist Mark Ryden's exhibit "The Gay 90s". The album features covers of "Daisy Bell" by Katy Perry, Tyler, the Creator, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Nick Cave, Kirk Hammett of Metallica, Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo, Wall of Voodoo's Stan Ridgway, Danny Elfman and others. Profits from the album went to the nonprofit Little Kids Rock.^[11]

Radio

• The tune was played as the lead-in to Aunt Daisy's radio broadcasts in New Zealand, which ran from 1930 until her death in 1963.^[12]

Television

• In the Doctor Who episode "The Talons of Weng-Chiang" it is sung by the onstage performer.
• In the This Is America, Charlie Brown episode The NASA Space Station it is sung by Peppermint Patty while demonstrating an exercise bike on the station.
• In the Doctor Who episode "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship" (8 September 2012), Solomon's robots sing the first line of the song when deactivated by the Doctor.
• In the 2015 TV series Scream, the song is sung by a serial killer.
• In the Sonic Boom episode, "Dude, Where's my Eggman", Cubot sings this song in order to gain money. However, he is unsuccessful.
• In season 12 of Midsomer Murders, episode 4, "The Glitch", features this song, although the final line of the chorus is changed to be "a bicycle made for two" rather than "built for two".
• In the Supernatural episode "Thin Lizzie" (Season 11, Episode 5), the song plays on an old record player during the murder of a couple at the beginning of the episode.
• In 2016, model Daisy Lowe and her professional partner Aljaz Skorjanec danced a Viennese Waltz to "Daisy Bell" on the fourteenth series of the BBC hit show Strictly Come Dancing, earning Lowe her highest score in the competition.
• In season four, episode 11 of Futurama, titled "Love and Rocket," Bender sings the song over a montage featuring a romance he had with the Planet Express Ship. The episode is inspired by the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
• In season 2, episode 8 of Class of 3000, titled "Big Robot on Campus", B.R.O.C, a robot created by Philly Phil sings the song as he deactivates after falling off a biplane.
• In The Alienist episode, "A Fruitful Partnership", a boy prostitute sings this song at Paresis Hall.
• In the Yu-Gi-Oh!_Duel_Monsters abridged series episode "Fanservice", Solomon & Kaiba sing a duet parody of this song when sealed into cards by Pegasus.
• In the finale of Apocalypse, Ms. Mead's (Kathy Bates') robotic head sings the song as it shuts down, after Cordelia (Sarah Paulson) causes her body to explode.
• In season 2 episode 10 of ‘’Future Man’’, a holographic conscious upload of Stu (Haley Joel Osment) sings this song while (“The Pointed Circle”) are making an attempt to shut him down.

Literature

• In the 2005 novel Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman, one of the characters is named Daisy because her parents own and ride a tandem bicycle.

Video Games

• In the video game Mass Effect 2, the character Joker makes a reference to the AI system "EDI" singing "Daisy Bell".
• In the video game We Happy Few, various characters in Lud's Holm sing "Daisy Bell".
• in 2010: the graphic action game for the Coleco vision, the song plays during the programming screen, possibly in reference to its use in the original 2001 film, whose sequel the game is based on.

References

External links

• {{cite web|title=Daisy Bell. Song.|url=http://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/21250|website=Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box 140, Item 090|author=Johns Hopkins University|date=March 30, 2007}}
• {{cite web|website=Internet Archive|url=https://archive.org/details/EdwardMFavor|title= Works of Edward M. Favor}}
• [https://archive.org/download/EdwardMFavor/EdwardMFavor-DaisyBell.mp3 1894 recording of "Daisy Bell" (MP3)]
• Page featuring a recording of "Daisy Bell" sung and played by IBM computers at Bell Laboratories in the early 1960s (see last track on side 2 labeled "Synthesized computer speech demonstration (1963)")