<Tr> <Th> Length </Th> <Td> 2: 08 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Songwriter (s) </Th> <Td> Barry Stuart </Td> </Tr> <P> "The Birds and the Bees" was a 1964 single release by Jewel Akens with a lyric based on the "birds and the bees" idiom commonly referenced with regard to affording young people their introductory sex education . An international hit in 1965, "The Birds and the Bees" was reminiscent of such 1950s' honky tonk - style hits as "Blueberry Hill" by Fats Domino and "Kansas City" by Wilbert Harrison . </P> <P> "The Birds and the Bees" is said to have been written by the twelve - year - old son of Era Records' owner Herb Newman: the songwriting credit on the Jewel Akens' recording of "The Birds and the Bees" reads Barry Stuart which is the song's standard songwriting credit although some subsequent recordings (i.e. by artists other than Akens) identify the composer as Herb Newman himself (Newman had written "The Wayward Wind" a 1956 #1 hit for Gogi Grant). Jewel Akens had recorded one single for Era as frontman for the doo - wop group the Turn - Arounds in 1964 when Newman pitched "The Birds and the Bees" as the group's next recording: as Akens was the only group member to favor the song he recorded it solo, working through four or five different arrangements and thus considerably honing the song's original format . </P>

Who sang the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees