Talk:Lollipop (1958 song)

Dell remake
Anyone know where I can find the remake that was featured in the commercial?--JonnyLightning (talk) 07:45, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Origins of song
The following text was placed at Talk:Julius Dixson by User:Dimdimbaby in 2007:-
 * Julius Dixson ... had greatest success co-writing with Beverly Ross, a rare musical pairing of an African-American male and a white female in the 1950s. Their first major hit was "Dim, Dim The Lights"....  Also with Ross, he co-wrote "Lollipop" for the duo Ronald and Ruby, who were in fact Ronald Gumps (a Black male teenager) and Ross herself.  The recording was originally for the purpose of a demo to shop the song.  But RCA got a hold of it and Dixson, who owned the master and produced the demo, agreed to let RCA release it. Their version soared up the chart reaching #20, but when it was learned that Ronald and Ruby were an interracial duo, television appearances that had been previously booked got cancelled and the song’s interest waned.  Thanks to the cover version by The Chordettes, Lollipop reached # 2 and #3 on the pop and R&B charts, respectively.  In the UK the song was successfully covered by The Mudlarks and became a world wide hit reaching #1 in many countries in the free world...

Through direct correspondence I have established beyond doubt that User:Dimdimbaby is Julius Dixson's son and the comments - although unverified according to a strict interpretation of WP:V - are noteworthy. Ghmyrtle (talk) 10:40, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Kandy Life.by Lady Gaga
Kandy Life by Lady Gaga is an official unreleased pop/hip hop song that samples the 1958 Classic Lollipop written by Julius Dixson and Beverly Ross. Julius Tajiddin (talk) 06:22, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Year
According to this article, the song was first recorded a year before it was written... --87.115.226.248 (talk) 21:36, 21 October 2021 (UTC)