On the Good Ship Lollipop

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On the Good Ship Lollipop is a pop song written by Richard A. Whiting (music) and Sydney Clare (lyrics) and released in 1934. The song became popular in the United States primarily through child star Shirley Temple .

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On the Good Ship Lollipop was first introduced by Shirley Temple in the feature film Bright Eyes , where she performed it with a number of pilots in the background choir. In the song, Good Ship Lollipop travels to a candy land; the "ship" in the song refers to the aircraft, where this scene in Bright Eyes plays in which the song is performed, in a Douglas DC-2 of American Airlines .

The music publisher Sam Fox Publishing Company was able to sell 400,000 copies of sheet music, of the recording of the song by Mae Questel (the voice of the cartoon characters Betty Boop and Olive Oyl ) are said to have sold over two million records.

First recordings and later cover versions

The musicians who covered the song from 1935 onwards included Ted Fio Rito & his Orchestra (with Muzzy Marcellino and The Debutantes, vocals), Joe Haymes and His Orchestra , Wingy Manone , in London Eddie Carroll (with Carlyle Cousins, vocals) and Bert Ambrose .

The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 13 (as of 2016) cover versions in the field of jazz , including a. in later years by Dave Pell , the Firehouse Five Plus Two , Ruth Brown , Pat Dahl / Pete Rugolo , George Probert , Margaret Whiting and Teresa Brewer / Svend Asmussen . The Association of the Music Industry of the United States (RIIA) added the song to its Songs of the Century list (position 136).

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Michael Lasser: America's Songs II: Songs from the 1890s to the Post-War Years . 2014, p. 131
  2. ^ 5 films in which Shirley Temple shined - Washington Times . In: The Washington Times . Retrieved March 3, 2014. 
  3. ↑ a b Laura Boyes: Bright Eyes (1934) . In: Moviediva . Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  4. ↑ Rick Lyman: Mae Questel, 89, Behind Betty Boop and Olive Oyl . In: The New York Times , Jan 8, 1998, p. 9. Retrieved March 3, 2014. 
  5. ↑ a b Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)