# The Good Ship Lollipop **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 2, 2011, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-ship-lollipop/594979 "2011-09-02T17:20:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![donr65](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@donr65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donr65)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-ship-lollipop/594979/1 "2011-09-02T17:20:21Z")
Recently, I heard a big band recording from the 1930’s. It was a girl trio singing “On The Good Ship Lollipop.” The lyrics talk about flying away and make a reference to becoming a pilot. I, like a lot of people, thought the song (in the Shirley Temple movie “Bright Eyes”) was about a boat, but then, I had never seen the movie or really listened to the words. To make things more confusing, I remember visiting the Movieland Wax Museum In Buena Park, California, probably in the late 1960’s. If I remember correctly, and I might not, they had a display of a boat with candy canes, lollipops and several wax figures, including little 6 or 7 year old Shirley Temple. The display was called, of course, “On The Good Ship Lollipop”. All the displays in that museum were supposed to be scenes from movies, however, I recently saw the clip from “Bright Eyes” on Utube and it was, indeed, set on an airplane. (I believe the Movieland Wax Museum in Buena Park no longer exists.) Did Shirley Temple ever perform that song on a boat? Maybe in another movie? Thanks, Don R. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-ship-lollipop/594979/2 "2011-09-02T17:24:19Z")
I don’t know about any other performances, but The Good Ship _Lollipop_ was a [Douglas DC-2](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_DC-2), the precursor to the famous DC-3. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-ship-lollipop/594979/3 "2011-09-02T22:17:04Z")
> **[On the Good Ship Lollipop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Good_Ship_Lollipop)** > > "On the Good Ship Lollipop" is a song composed by Richard A. Whiting with lyrics by Sidney Clare. It was the signature song of child actress Shirley Temple. Temple first sang it in the 1934 film, Bright Eyes. > In the song, the "Good Ship Lollipop" travels to a candy land. The "ship" referred to in the song is an aircraft; the scene in Bright Eyes where the song appears takes place on a taxiing American Airlines Douglas DC-2. > 400,000 copies of the sheet music, published by Sam Fox Publishing C... ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-ship-lollipop/594979/4 "2011-09-02T23:22:02Z")
Moved to Cafe Society, where all the movie geeks hang out. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-ship-lollipop/594979/5 "2011-09-03T02:34:51Z")
Our chorus did the song several years ago. It’s all about candy and flying.