bb will not run from a shell script (script problem??)

[Frank Flynn]

I have a simple shell script which I want to use as a client plugin.   
In the script I create the STATUS and some other messages that I want  
to use and assemble them into a CMD.

But bb will not accept this from the script - but the command is  
perfect - I can say that because to debug I echo the command and if I  
copy and paste it works.  But if have the script run the $CMD it fails.

In the script:
-----
MYCMD="$BB $BBDISP \"status $MACHINE.BWEB $STATUS `date` WEB OK\""

echo $MYCMD

$MYCMD
-----

I run it from inside of bbcmd and I get:

sh-3.1$ ext/webCheck.sh
/home/hobbit/client/bin/bb 10.1.90.21 "status  
web2,sc1,boredat,net.BWEB green Wed Sep 5 14:55:08 PDT 2007 WEB OK"
Hobbit version 4.2.0
Usage: /home/hobbit/client/bin/bb [--debug] [--proxy=http:// 
ip.of.the.proxy:port/] RECIPIENT DATA
   RECIPIENT: IP-address, hostname or URL
   DATA: Message to send, or "-" to read from stdin
sh-3.1$

And if I copy and paste the first line - it works, the server sees it  
and everything is fine.