Thursday, December 12, 2024

I was sitting down and talking to Steve, and learned a bunch of interesting stuff... ( I ALWAYS learn great stuff from Steve! ) and one item? The "Good Ship Lollipop" is about a DC2!



I've thrown away my toys, even my drum and train
I want to make some noise with real live aeroplanes
Some day I'm going to fly, I'll be a pilot, too
And when I do, how would you like to be my crew?

OnTheGoodShipLollipop
It's a sweet trip to a candy shop
Wherebon-bons play
On the sunny beach of Peppermint Bay

Lemonade stands everywhere
Crackerjack bands fill the air
And there you are
Happy landing on a chocolate bar

See the sugar bowl do the tootsie roll
With the big bad devil's food cake
If you eat too much, ooh-ooh
You'll awake with a tummy ache

OnTheGoodShipLollipop
It's a night trip, into bed you hop
And dream away
OnTheGoodShipLollipop

OnTheGoodShipLollipop
It's a sweet trip to a candy shop
Wherebon-bons play
On the sunny beach of Peppermint Bay

Lemonade stands everywhere
Crackerjack bands fill the air
And there you are
Happy landing on a chocolate bar

See the sugar bowl do the tootsie roll
With the big bad devil's food cake
If you eat too much, ooh-ooh
You'll awake with a tummy ache

First sung 90 years ago by 6-year-old Shirley Temple in her 1934 film “Bright Eyes”

The film was a real tear-jerker. In it, little Shirley plays an orphan whose dad has been killed in an airplane crash and whose mother then dies when she’s struck by a car.

In a now-classic scene, she smilingly struts up and down the passenger section of a DC-2 airliner, breaks into her “Good Ship Lollipop” song and is eventually joined in the singing by co-star James Dunn and the other passengers.

From 1935 until 1939, she was the world’s No. 1 box-office attraction, outdrawing much-older superstars such as Clark Gable, Tyrone Power, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Robert Taylor, Loretta Young, Bing Crosby, Ginger Rogers, Errol Flynn and Gary Cooper.

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