<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 '' 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>
who sang the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees
who sang the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees
Jewel Akens
Jewel Akens