My boy Lollipop
This song popped into my head the other morning for no apparent reason. Perhaps it was the unusually high temperature.
It was a bouncy, cheerful song, sung by 16-year-old Millie Small who was credited with popularising Caribbean ska. Ska was the precursor to rocksteady which led on to reggae.
You make my heart go giddyup
You are as sweet as candy
You’re my sugar dandy
Whoa oh, my boy Lollipop
Never ever leave me
Because it would grieve me
My heart told me so
The remaining verses continue in similar breathy,
excitable fashion.
Millie Small had a stroke and died in London in May
2020. She was 72.
