DESCRIPTION: ♪ The Birds and the Bees was released on Era Records for whom Akens had already cut one single fronting the doo-wop group Turnarounds. Era's owner Herb Newman pitched The Birds and the Bees, a song written by his teenage son, to be the Turnarounds' next single. As Akens was the only group member to favor the song, he recorded it solo in 1964, working through four or five different arrangements considerably honing the work of Newman's son; the completed track would assign songwriting credit to Barry Stuart.
