No chocolate for Easter but we have a lollipop.
Millie Small was a Jamaican teenager, born in 1947 she started recording aged 12, duetting with Owen Gray, Sam 'Roy' Panton and Prince Buster. She was noticed by Anglo-Jamaican entrepreneur Chris Blackwell who became her manager and legal guardian, bringing her to Forest Hill, London. She was given intense dance and diction lessons, signed to Fontana her first single flopped but her 2nd 'My Boy Lollipop' became a huge hit, reaching #2 in the UK, US and Canada. It was #1 in Australia.
Millie had more small hits in the UK then 'Lollipop as reissued in 1987 reaching #46. She continued to tour and record but without commercial success.
Millie continued to live in the UK, she passed away in 2020 from a stroke aged 72.
Millie always claimed it was Rod Stewart playing the harmonica on 'My Boy Lollipop' a claim Rod has consistently denied.
Millie Small was a Jamaican teenager, born in 1947 she started recording aged 12, duetting with Owen Gray, Sam 'Roy' Panton and Prince Buster. She was noticed by Anglo-Jamaican entrepreneur Chris Blackwell who became her manager and legal guardian, bringing her to Forest Hill, London. She was given intense dance and diction lessons, signed to Fontana her first single flopped but her 2nd 'My Boy Lollipop' became a huge hit, reaching #2 in the UK, US and Canada. It was #1 in Australia.
Millie had more small hits in the UK then 'Lollipop as reissued in 1987 reaching #46. She continued to tour and record but without commercial success.
Millie continued to live in the UK, she passed away in 2020 from a stroke aged 72.
Millie always claimed it was Rod Stewart playing the harmonica on 'My Boy Lollipop' a claim Rod has consistently denied.
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