Favorite Songs From Movies: On the Good Ship Lollipop
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (86970)
United States
March 16, 2023 10:45am CST
We’ve been rocking and rolling the past few days on this list of songs that are my favorites used in movies. How about we dig out a chestnut? Here’s one that goes back to my parents’ childhoods! Sing along!
On the Good Ship Lollipop - Shirley Temple
(Well, not you, NJ…but I’ll take my “nope” from you. 
)
Despite all she did in adulthood, including removing the stigma of breast cancer when she was diagnosed in 1972, Shirley Temple is still that curly-headed kid in our collective memory.
This was released the first year the Academy Awards had a “best original song” category (1934). And it didn’t get nominated. One year, one big “oops” on their part.
This is Shirley Temple’s song. I don’t care who else has recorded it (it was also used in one of the Shrek movies; and, like everything else in popular culture, was spoofed on The Simpsons), this is Shirley Temple’s song.
And, in that regard, it belongs to all of us. Absolutely timeless.
On the Good Ship Lollipop
Written by Richard A. Whiting
Recorded by Shirley Temple
From Bright Eyes, 1934
Happy landing on a chocolate bar:
)
Despite all she did in adulthood, including removing the stigma of breast cancer when she was diagnosed in 1972, Shirley Temple is still that curly-headed kid in our collective memory.
This was released the first year the Academy Awards had a “best original song” category (1934). And it didn’t get nominated. One year, one big “oops” on their part.
This is Shirley Temple’s song. I don’t care who else has recorded it (it was also used in one of the Shrek movies; and, like everything else in popular culture, was spoofed on The Simpsons), this is Shirley Temple’s song.
And, in that regard, it belongs to all of us. Absolutely timeless.
On the Good Ship Lollipop
Written by Richard A. Whiting
Recorded by Shirley Temple
From Bright Eyes, 1934
Happy landing on a chocolate bar:
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@DaddyEvil (174797)
• United States
16 Mar 23
I've never seen the movie but we had to learn that song when I was in Elementary School. I still remember it.
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@FourWalls (86970)
• United States
16 Mar 23
Wow, two days in a row you’ve known a song? Major record territory!
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@FourWalls (86970)
• United States
16 Mar 23
@DaddyEvil — and you just might know it!!!
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@DaddyEvil (174797)
• United States
16 Mar 23
@FourWalls I KNOW! Just think, what if I know tomorrow's song, too? It might break the internet!
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@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
17 Mar 23
I recall hearing that song, but never cared for it.
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@FourWalls (86970)
• United States
17 Mar 23
“Most poignant song ever written,” it’s not. It reminds me of innocent times.
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@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
17 Mar 23
@FourWalls Were times ever that innocent though? Only in dreams, I suspect.
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@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
17 Mar 23
@FourWalls Probably a good thing he didn't.
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@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
16 Mar 23
I have all her movies love her still to this day RIP
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@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
17 Mar 23
@FourWalls Yes that is the drink. I never had one of those though. She was an Ambassador too for the USA wasnt she?
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@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
17 Mar 23
@FourWalls That is because she was too sweet herself. That is my name on here after OceanTiara..course I love the ocean..but Rebeccas Farm..if you remember Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
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@FourWalls (86970)
• United States
17 Mar 23
@RebeccasFarm — she was indeed. And, according to Picky Wedia, she didn’t care for the drink Shirley Temple because it was too sweet for her.
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@FourWalls (86970)
• United States
17 Mar 23
It is. I’m sure it seems out of place with some of the songs that have been on the list (and are yet to come) but hey, it’s a great song!
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@FourWalls (86970)
• United States
17 Mar 23
There are songs that just don’t sound right coming from anyone else. I was watching a documentary on Judy Garland last night, and they discussed how “Over the Rainbow” is “her song.” This is another one!
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@LindaOHio (223056)
• United States
13 Apr 23
I wanted Shirley to be my sister when I was quite young. I carried a picture of her in my purse.
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@FourWalls (86970)
• United States
13 Apr 23
I think everybody wanted to be her sister, or mother, or cousin, or friend.
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@FourWalls (86970)
• United States
13 Apr 23
I think everybody wanted to be her sister, or mother, or cousin, or friend.
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@BarBaraPrz (51843)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
17 Mar 23
Oh, she was so sweeeeet, I think that's why I got cavities as a child...
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@FourWalls (86970)
• United States
17 Mar 23
Either that or all the bubblegum music they played on the radio.1 person likes this
@FourWalls (86970)
• United States
16 Mar 23
Didn’t we all want to look like her when we were that age. (Thankfully I grew out of it. 
)
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@Marilynda1225 (91214)
• United States
16 Mar 23
A huge YES from me!!! I grew up watching and loving Shirley Temple movies.
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@FourWalls (86970)
• United States
16 Mar 23
They were all on TV on Sunday afternoon, so I got to see a lot of them as a child.
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@Marilynda1225 (91214)
• United States
16 Mar 23
@FourWalls me too. When movies came out on VHS I bought almost every Shirly Temple movie I could find. Heidi is still my all time favorite
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@FourWalls (86970)
• United States
16 Mar 23
There you go again, just messin’ with my head!
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@FourWalls (86970)
• United States
17 Mar 23
I know, a “living doll” as they say. But she really was!
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