A Sleepin' Bee
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"A Sleepin' Bee" is a popular song composed by Harold Arlen with lyrics by Arlen and Truman Capote. It was introduced in the musical House of Flowers by Diahann Carroll.
The signature line is "When a bee lies sleeping In the palm of your hand ..."
Barbra Streisand had a popular recording of the song and performed it on The Jack Paar Show on April 5, 1961, her national TV debut [1]. In the liner notes for the boxed set Just for the Record, Streisand wrote: "One of those pieces of sheet music was Harold Arlen's 'A Sleepin' Bee' from the Broadway show House of Flowers. I fell in love with his music the first time I heard the score and this became my favorite song."
[edit] Notable Recordings
- Cannonball Adderley and Nancy Wilson - Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderly (1962)
- Karen Akers - If We Only Have Love (2004)
- Ernestine Anderson - Ernestine Anderson (1958)
- Julie Andrews - Broadway's Fair Julie (1962)
- Alan Barnes and Brian Lemon - Play Harold Arlen: A Sleepin' Bee (1996)
- Tony Bennett - Tony Sings for Two (1960), Tony Bennett at Carnegie Hall (1962)
- Ray Brown and Jimmy Rowles - Tasty! (1979)
- Bucky Pizzarelli & John Pizzarelli - Generations
- Barbra Streisand - The Barbra Streisand Album (1963)
