Lipstick on Your Collar (song)

"Lipstick on Your Collar" is a song written by Brill Building staff writers Edna Lewis (lyrics) and George Goehring (music) which was a 1959 hit single for Connie Francis.

"[1] Songwriter George Goehring recalled in 1982 that he had personally pitched "Lipstick on Your Collar" to Francis, when he made an unannounced visit to her New Jersey home and played the song for her on her piano.

[2] Francis recorded the song on April 15, 1959, in a session at Metropolitan Studio (NYC) produced and conducted by Ray Ellis,[3] with veteran guitarist George Barnes contributing a solo to the track.

"Lipstick on Your Collar" was recorded in German by Conny as "Lippenstift am Jacket" which reached #131 in Germany in April 1960 (the single was a double-sided hit with the Rex Gildo duet "Yes, My Darling").

The Italian rendering "Rossetto sul colletto" was recorded by Mina for her 1960 album Il cielo in una stanza.

In 1989 a Welsh-language version, "Lipstic ar dy Goler", was recorded by Angharad Davies, and included on her album Y Ferch o'r Filltir Sgwâr.

[10] In 1982 Wisk laundry detergent used an adaption of "Lipstick on Your Collar" as a jingle in a radio ad campaign celebrating the product's twenty-fifth anniversary.

Advertisement featured in Cashbox magazine, 2 May 1959