Publisher Desc.  Tongue-in-cheek variations on the 1892 tune, "Daisy Bell". The song became historically significant in 1961. That year, a team of scientists and programmers at Bell Labs programmed an IBM 704 computer to sing the song, making it the first ever song to be sung by a computer. In 1968, the movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey, the computer, HAL, sings the song as it's circuits are being disconnected.