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Other recordings followed throughout the 1960s, as did tours. Millie Small My Boy Lollipop From My Boy Lollipop 7 (Fontana) 1964 Dorris Henderson & John Renbourn Winter Is Gone There You Go (Columbia) 1965 Nadia Cattouse Long Time Boy From Nadia Cattouse (Reality) 1966 Joe Harriott & John Mayer Partitia From Indo Jazz Fusions (Columbia) 1967 Ginger Johnson And His African. Small’s cheerful, up-tempo ska rendition - arranged by the great Jamaican guitarist Ernest Ranglin - added punchy horns, a bluesy harmonica solo (by Rod Stewart, according to urban legend, though Mr. Small to England, put her in the studio and suggested that she sing “My Boy Lollipop,” first recorded in 1956 as an R&B shuffle by a white American singer, Barbie Gaye. Their 1962 duet, “We’ll Meet,” released under the name Roy and Millie, caught Mr. After placing second in a singing contest in Montego Bay at 12, she began recording for the pioneering producer Coxsone Dodd’s Studio One Label, scoring hit records with her fellow singer Roy Panton. She was already a veteran recording artist when she connected with Mr. The Jamaican singer best known for topping the charts with her version of the ska song in 1964 suffered a stroke and passed away in England, according to producer and founder of Island Records Chris Blackwell. 6, 1946, in Clarendon, Jamaica, where her father worked in the sugar cane fields. R.I.P My Boy Lollipop singer Millie Small has died at the age of 73.
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Millicent Dolly May Small was born on Oct. belted out Millie Small's 1965 hit 'My Boy Lollipop' in tribute to her late mother. “Millie was sassy, she was sparky, she had that effervescent quality.” Woman who sang My Boy Lollipop by mum's grave in viral clip misses court appearance for attacking her. “The ska sound was starting to filter through in the U.K., but there was no personality who looked great,” the British journalist Vivien Goldman, an authority on Jamaican music, said in a phone interview. Blackwell as her chaperone, performed at the 1964 New York World’s Fair and became a star in swinging London, where her vivaciousness and her dancing captivated television audiences. Just 17 and a country girl, she toured the world with Mr. With international sales of 5m copies in 1964, the year of its release, the hit single My Boy Lollipop, sung by Millie, who has died aged 72, opened the door for Jamaican music to the. Small was a global ambassador with a spunky personality and a distinctively high-pitched, pneumatic singing voice.