Friday Night Throwback: Millie Small - "My Boy Lollipop"

Jamaican singer/songwriter Millie Small scored a hit in 1964 with "My Boy Lollipop", a cover of "My Girl Lollipop" which was written in the mid-1950s by Robert Spencer of the doo-wop group The Cadillacs. Only her fourth recording, "My Boy Lollipop," was cut in London by a group of session musicians that included guitarist Ernest Ranglin (and, according to some accounts, Rod Stewart on harmonica) and featured Small's childlike, extremely high-pitched vocals. One of the biggest-selling reggae or ska discs of all time with more than seven million sales, the Chris Blackwell-produced "My Boy Lollipop" reached number two in both the U.S. and the U.K.