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. [1] It was introduced in the musical House of Flowers (1954) and performed by Diahann Carroll. [1] While House of Flowers was a flop, "A Sleepin' Bee" became a standard of the American songbook.

Barbra Streisand referred to it as her favorite song, recorded it several times, and performed it in her national television debut in April 1961 on the "Jack Paar Show". [2]

Mel Tormé's performance of the song in Mel Tormé Swings Shubert Alley was called "definitive" in The Penguin Guide to Jazz . [3]

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  2. Joshua S. Walden, ed. (11 April 2013). Representation in Western Music. Cambridge University Press. pp. 73–74. ISBN   9781107311015.
  3. The Penguin Guide to Jazz, 7th edition (2004), p. 1580.
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