Millie Small Dead at 72, Singer of "My Boy Lollipop"

[Quad Linda]

https://variety.com/2020/music/news/millie-small-my-boy-lollipop-dead-dies-1234599839/

 

[DuncanS]

Loved "My Boy Lollipop" as a kid, can still sing it in my head all these years later. RIP Millie.

 

[humprof]

She was a really influential figure in the broader acceptance of Black music in Britain.

Here's a nice cover by the Jazz Jamaica All Stars, a London-based group led by bassist Gary Crosby:

 

[humprof]

Nice appreciation in the Independent:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...a-ska-my-boy-lollipop-age-cause-a9511101.html

 

[4-earredwonder]

R.I.P. Millie

1946 ~ 2020

 

[humprof]

An Ernest Ranglin cover of "My Boy Lollipop" is currently available as a free download (along with assorted other tracks) from AIX Records:

https://www.itrax.com/product/itrax-sprint-aix-records-sampler/

 

[Lord British]

An Ernest Ranglin cover of "My Boy Lollipop" is currently available as a free download (along with assorted other tracks) from AIX Records:

https://www.itrax.com/product/itrax-sprint-aix-records-sampler/

The irony. I came across this post as I was listening to it.