Lollipop

This video is only one minute and forty-five
seconds long. It is short, and reading this
description takes longer that watching the video.
Still yet, I enjoy adding my descriptions as much
as I enjoy sharing my paintings.
So, this video contains a few of my playful
adaptations/interpretations of abstract artists.
I have chose a playful song from 1958,
„Lollipop“, as the music for this video
The version I downloaded from YouTube
is by the female vocal quartet, The Chordettes.
Their version reached #2 and #3 on Billboard’s
pop and R&B charts. The Chordettes‘ version
reached #6 in the UK.
The song originated when song writer
Julius Dixson was late for a session with his
collaborator, Beverly Ross. He explained that
his daughter had gotten a lollipop stuck in her
hair, and that had caused him to be late.
Ross was inspired by the word „lollipop“.
She sat down at the piano wrote the song on
the spot. RCA got hold of it and Dixson, who
owned the master. Even though the lyrics
had a double fellatio meaning, the American
singer 15 gold-certified and 3 platinum-certified
singer and host of The Andy Williams Show,
Andy Williams (1927-2012) was willing to
make the pop sound in the YouTube version
I downloaded.
Lollipop lollipop, oh lolli lollipop
And when he does his shaky rockin‘ dance,
man, I haven’t got a chance.
Sweeter than candy on a stick~
huckleberry, cherry or lime…
Crazy way he thrills me, tell you why
just like a lightning from the sky.
He loves to kiss me till I can’t see straight.
Gee, my lollipop is great.
My adaptations here of Pablo Picasso, Wassily
Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Joan Miró, and others
are playful. When abstract innovators were
painting, the world was at war, and, understand-
ably, their explanations of their work were overly
hybolical. Peculiarly, still today when artsy folks,
like MoMA’s Anne Umland, talk about these
artists, they miss the works‘ playfulness.