THE BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.

To compliment my recently completed ‘1000 BEST SONGS LIST,’ here is another that just missed the cut.

1054-Barbie Gaye-My Boy Lollypop.
1956-Has never charted in the UK.
Best Bit-0.02.Sometimes to know what a song is all about, you have to suck it and see.
‘My Boy Lollypop,’ originally called My Girl Lollypop, was written in the mid 1950’s by Robert Spencer of the ‘Doo-Wop’ group The Cadillacs. The song was purchased by the notorious American music entrepreneur Morris Levy(1927-1990,) and the alleged gangster Johnny Roberts,both were listed as the songs writers with Spencer’s name being removed. The song caught the attention of alleged mobster, and concert promoter Gaetano Vastola, who had recently been introduced to a 14 year old singer called Barbie Gaye, who recorded the original version of this song.
Although the song has what sounds like a ‘Ska’ beat, it would be years before that genre would be modified in Jamaica. In fact the beat used was known as the ‘Shuffle,’a style of R&B music developed in the early 1940’s in America’s black community’s, and played by artists such as Rosco Gordon, and Louis Jordan.
The best known recording of the song was by the Jamaican singer Millie Small, in 1964, whose version reached both Number 2 in the UK, and on Billboard. Chris Blackwell the founder of ‘Island Records’ knew of the song, and this recording by Millie Small ,produced by Blackwell, went on to sell in excess of six million copies worldwide, establishing the Island Record label.
‘You are as sweet as candy, you are my sugar dandy.’
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