She was best known for her hit rendition of Barbie Gaye's "My Boy Lollipop," which reached the No. 2 spot in both the United States and the United Kingdom in 1964. The song remains one of the ...

“My Boy Lollipop” made sense. It was a love song, it was a pop song, Shirley Bassey couldn’t have sung it, and that was pretty much the pop demarcation point then. It was bouncy ...

Jamaican singer Millie Small, whose 1964 song "My Boy Lollipop" helped introduce ska music to the rest of the world, has died, a representative for her music label confirmed. Small died Tuesday ...

“My Boy Lollipop” was the first big success for ... “I just saw it as a song that had become a hit somewhere, honestly,” she said. “It seemed so natural. I had the hit, I toured the ...

He decided she should cover the American rhythm and blues song, My Boy Lollipop, originally performed by Barbie Gaye in 1957, and it went on to become a huge hit. Tributes are being paid to the ...

who recorded the hit single My Boy Lollipop, passed away in England this week aged 73 after suffering a stroke, confirmed her friend. Chris Blackwell, who co-produced the song, paid tribute to the ...

performing 60s hit My Boy Lollipop in tribute to her late mother, Elizabeth McGeough. In the footage, filmed at Coltswood cemetery, Ferrie can be heard saying, “it was her song with my dad”.

She was really special.” “My Boy Lollipop” was released in 1965, when Small was just 17 years old. The song, which is considered the first commercially successful international ska track ...

He decided she should cover the American rhythm and blues song, My Boy Lollipop, originally performed by Barbie Gaye in 1957, and it went on to become a huge hit. Tributes are being paid to the ...

Blackwell, who originally produced Small’s 1964 smash hit My Boy Lollipop, told the Jamaica Observer that Small died in Britain from a stroke on Tuesday. The song sold more than six million ...

The Jamaican musician, best known for the hit song My Boy Lollipop, died in the UK on Tuesday (5 May). It’s reported that Millie suffered a stroke. Island Records founder Chris Blackwell ...

“My Boy Lollipop” reached No. 2 in the U.S. and British pop charts. The song remained on the Billboard Hot 100 for 12 weeks during the summer of 1964. The song had more than 7 million ...