Millie Small - My Boy Lollipop flac album

Redirected from Barbie Gaye). It was first recorded in New York in 1956 by Barbie Gaye. A later version, recorded in 1964 by Jamaican teenager Millie Small, with very similar rhythm, became one of the top selling ska songs of all time.

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My boy lollipop You make my heart go giddyup. Millie Small was just 17 when the song was released. This song was originally an R&B hit in late 1956 for a white American singer named Barbie Gaye - her version is based on a piano rhythm and has a big saxophone solo. Millie Small's rendition has more of a reggae feel and features a harmonica solo. The original is titled "My Boy Lollypop," making it more obvious that she is singing about a guy, not a piece of candy.

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My Boy Lollipop ‎(LP, Album, Mono, Promo). Smash Records (4). MGS 27055. My Boy Lollipop ‎(LP, Mono).

Millicent Dolly May Small, CD (born 6 October 1946), is a Jamaican singer-songwriter, best known for her 1964 recording of "My Boy Lollipop. Small was born at Gibraltar in Clarendon, Jamaica, the daughter of a sugar plantation overseer. Like many Jamaican singers of the era, her career began by winning the Vere Johns Opportunity Hour talent contest, which she won at the age of twelve. Wishing to pursue a career as a singer she moved to live with relatives in Love Lane in Kingston