Millie Small
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Millicent Dolly May Small CD was a Jamaican singer who is best known for her international hit "My Boy Lollipop". The song reached number two in both the UK and US charts and sold over seven million c
Small arriving at Schiphol Airport from Jamaica in 1964
Millie Small performing in Helsinki, Finland in December 1964
Ska
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Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. It combined elements of Caribbean mento with American jazz and rhythm and blues. Ska i
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…next recording Blackwell recruited guitarist and arranger Ernest Ranglin to oversee the session. Ranglin and his musicians adopted the newly-popular ska style, and his rearrangement of "My Boy Lollipop", a song originally released in the US by teenager Barbie Gaye in late 1956, became immediately…
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