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| - %22Lipstick on Your Collar%22 is a song written by Edna Lewis (lyrics) and George Goehring (music) which was a 1959 hit single for Connie Francis.Francis recorded the song April 15 1959 in a session at Metropolitan Studio (NYC) produced and conducted by Ray Ellis.[1] Veteran guitarist George Barnes contributed a solo to the track.To provide a contrasting B-side for the upbeat track, a ballad from the same session: %22Frankie%22, was utilized. This Howard Greenfield/ Neil Sedaka composition was inspired by Frankie Avalon.%22Lipstick on Your Collar%22 became the first uptempo Connie Francis single to reach the US Top Ten, peaking at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in July 1959. That summer the track also reached #3 UK and became Francis' first Top Ten hit in Australia at #4.%22Frankie%22 also became a Top Ten hit in the US with a #9 peak making the %22Lipstick on Your Collar%22/ %22Frankie%22 single the most successful double-sided hit of Francis' career.In a 1959 interview, Francis attributed her being the sole songstress then scoring rock and roll hits by saying: %22Rock 'n' roll is a masculine kind of music%22 with its mindset of %22'Come on out baby we're going to rock'..[best] suited for a man to sing...The mistake that many girl singers have made is trying to compete with the men [whereas] I've tried for the cute angle in lyrics, things like 'Lipstick on Your Collar' and 'Stupid Cupid'.%22The cover version of %22Lipstick on Your Collar%22 for the UK Embassy Records budget disc label was recorded by Maureen Evans.%22Lipstick on Your Collar%22 was recorded in German by Conny as %22Lippenstift am Jacket%22 which reached #131 in Germany in April 1960 (the single was a double-sided hit with the Rex Gildo duet %22Yes, My Darling%22). It was the success of the German version of %22Lipstick on Your Collar%22 that alerted Francis to her potential success singing her singles in other languages: she made her first foreign language recording, that being %22Everybody's Somebody's Fool%22 in German, in April 1960.A Swedish rendering of %22Lipstick on Your Collar%22 entitled %22Läppstift På Din Krage%22, had been recorded in 1959 by respectively Lill-Babs, Mona Grain (sw) and Bibi Johns (sw). Also in 1959 the Danish rendering %22Tusind skøre tanker%22 had been recorded by Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann while Québécois singer Michèle Richard (fr) had recorded the French rendering %22Du rouge à levres sur ton collet%22. The Italian rendering %22Rossetto sul colletto%22 was recorded by Mina for her 1960 album Il cielo in una stanza.%22Lipstick on Your Collar%22 was one of several hits remade by Helen Shapiro on her March 10 1962 album release Tops With Me.In 1963, Hong Kong female singer CHANG loo (zh) covered this song under the title 妒人的口紅%22 (lipsticks on your collar), in alternate English and Mandarin Chinese language versions, on her LP album An Evening With Chang Loo, a EMI Columbia Records release.In September 1977 Australian punk rock pioneers the Saints had a single release with their remake of %22Lipstick on Your Collar%22.The 1981 Elisabeth Andreassen album Angel of the Morning features a cover of %22Lipstick on Your Collar%22.In 1982 Mud recorded the song.Dana had a 1987 single release with a remake of %22Lipstick on Your Collar%22 which did not chart.A version under the Welsh language title %22Lipstic ar dy Goler%22 was recorded by violinist Angharad Davies in 1989, and included on her album %22Y Ferch o'r Filltir Sgwâr%22.In 1991 Dutch duo Maywood remade %22Lipstick on Your Collar%22 for their Walking Back to Happiness album.%22Lipstick on Your Collar%22 was a favorite song to sing for the young Donna Summer.
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