My Boy Lollipop: 1956 song performed by Barbie Gaye
My Boy Lollipop (originally My Girl Lollypop) is a song written in the mid-1950s by Robert Spencer of the doo-wop group The Cadillacs.
It was first recorded in New York in 1956 by Barbie Gaye. A later version, recorded in 1964 by Jamaican teenager Millie Small, with very similar rhythm, became one of the top selling ska songs of all time.
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