"Buzz Buzz Buzz" is a song written by John Gray and Bobby Day and performed by The Hollywood Flames. The lead vocals were by Earl Nelson, later of Bob & Earl. It reached #5 on the US R&B chart and #11 on the Billboard pop chart in 1957.
But "Buzz-Buzz-Buzz" is in fact a clever rewrite of a song from 1945 (written by Alice D. Simms, Al Trace and Jimmie Lunceford) with the same title: "Buzz Buzz Buzz".
(o) Jimmie Lunceford and his Orchestra (1945) (as "Buzz Buzz Buzz")
Russell Green, Rostelle Reese, Les Current, William Scott or Bob Mitchell (tp), Fernando Arbello, Russell Bowles, Earl Hardy, Joe Williams (tb), Omer Simeon (cl, as), Kirt Bradford (as), Joe Thomas (cl, ts), Ernest Purce (ts), Earl Carruthers (cl, as, bari), Eddie Wilcox (p, arr), John Mitchell (g), Truck Parham (b), Joe Marshall (d), Claude and Cliff Trenier (vcl), Lonnie Wilfong (arr), Jimmie Lunceford (dir, arr).
Recorded NYC, February 27, 1945
Matrix W72749-A
Released April 1949 on Coral 60041.
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According to the original cue sheets, the song used under the opening titles of the Warner Bros cartoon "Walky Talky Hawky" was “Buzz Buzz Buzz (Will You Be My Honey?)” by Jimmie Lunceford, Alice Simms and Al Trace. Released August 31, 1946, "Walky Talky Hawky" was nominated for an Academy Award, but lost to The Cat Concerto, with Tom and Jerry.
Carl Stalling previously used the song under the opening titles for Bob Clampett’s Baby Bottleneck, released a few months earlier.
Jimmie Lunceford's version was officially released in 1949, but already in 1945 "Buzz Buzz Buzz" was released by Jim Wynn and his Bobalibans
Jim Wynn's band also featured vocalist Claude Trenier, who brought "Buzz, Buzz,
Buzz" with him from the Jimmie Lunceford band
(c) Jim Wynn and his Bobalibans (1945) (as "Buzz Buzz Buzz")
Stanley Casey (trumpet), David Graham (alto saxophone), Freddie Simon (tenor saxophone),
Jim Wynn (tenor, baritone saxophone), Luther "Lord" Luper (piano, vocals), Theodore Shirley (bass), Robert "Snake" Sims (drums), Claude Trenier, Pee Wee Wiley (vocals)
Recorded Los Angeles, CA, circa September, 1945
Matrix V-144-ME
Released on 4 Star 1025
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As we saw Claude and Cliff Trenier sang on the original version of "Buzz Buz Buzz" and Cliff Trenier was the vocalist on Big Jim Wynn's version.
But before their carreer really started, the Trenier Twins played in a highschool-band in Alabama: The Alabama State Collegians Orchestra.
With a band including two other State College alumni, pianist Gene Gilbeaux and alto saxophonist Don Hill, Claude and Cliff Trenier again recorded “Buzz Buzz Buzz” for Mercury in 1947, credited on the label as the Trenier Twins and Gene Gilbeaux's Orchestra.
(c) The Trenier Twins (1947) (as "Buzz Buzz Buzz")
Recorded May 15, 1947 in New York
Released on Mercury 8045 in June 1947
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In 1957, the song would be adapted into a pop and R&B hit by the Hollywood Flames, a rhythm-and-blues vocal group that included Bobby “Rock-in Robin” Day.
(c) Hollywood Flames (1957) (as "Buzz Buzz Buzz")
Released October 1957 on Ebb 119
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The Flames' “Buzz Buzz Buzz” would subsequently be covered by Rusty Draper, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, the Cadillacs, etc.
(c) Rusty Draper (1957) (as "Buzz Buzz Buzz")
Released on Mercury 71221
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(c) Earl Carroll And The Original Cadillacs (1957) (as "Buzz Buzz Buzz")
Released on Josie 45-829
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