Why "Daisy" in 2001: A Space Odyssey?

The voice synthesis part seems to be in its entirety on the record Album "First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival" published by Creative Computing in 1979. It also includes a really nice computer generated Toccata. Hey it's on-line here:

http://www.vintagecomputermusic.com/

The last track is the one.

make sure to check out:
J.S. Bach/Toccata & Fugue in d Minor
J.S. Bach/Suite for Orchestra #2 in b minor (excerpt)
and
Johann Wanhal/Rondo from Sonata in B flat for Clarinet and Piano

I heard the same recording around 1965-6, when my father was doing his doctoral research on computer voice recognition at Case Institute (now Case/Western) in Cleveland. At the time, the 'Daisy-voice' was astounding quality for a computer; my Dad's "advanced" setup could only generate and recognize the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 -- so maybe it could sing that Feist song from a couple years ago...

I remember hearing this exact rendition in the mid 60s at a science museum in Ohio. It was right next to the working traffic light mock-up.
Cheap thrills for a ten year old.

The Bell Labs version has similar inflections as an Amish person, which makes this double-neat for me! Also, kick-ass Hamlet reading, there.

heheheh, Daisy the kitty woke right up for this, I've been singing it to her for years. She ran right over for hugs.