Who was Millie Small? | The First International Reggae Superstar

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Reggae Appreciation Society

Күн бұрын

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@brianp1230 Жыл бұрын

She was amazing. Love her music and her voice, and had the most beautiful smile.

@OGxCSH Жыл бұрын

RIP Millie...you are sorely missed. Keep flying with the angels

@richardleewagner3939 Жыл бұрын

She was beautiful ❤

@ChayBode Жыл бұрын

You sure tell a good story full of detail, and your voice and tone brings a balance to the subject, RIP Sister Millie.

@ReggaeAppreciationSociety Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the support 🙌

@talmagcam6489 Жыл бұрын

I was 9 years old when I first heard Lollipop - still a favorite today

@oleksandronopriyenko2889 6 ай бұрын

Such a beautiful and, at the same time, sad story.

@GuitarlosCarlos 9 ай бұрын

I’M STILL IN LOVE WITH MILLIE SMALL

@emmanuelomage6092 6 ай бұрын

I am crying as I am listening to thus biography of this wonderful lady .RIP Millie

@1pixman 6 ай бұрын

Loved My boy lollipop and Desmond Decker The Israelites at that time in New Zealand..

@OGxCSH Жыл бұрын

Reggae Appreciation Society...keep doing a phenomenal job of curating Jamaican Musical History!!!! Cheers

@RocknRollkat Жыл бұрын

Excellent ! Thank you for setting the record straight. Yes, Millie opened the door to the world ! Bill P.

@dazzmanradebe2931 Жыл бұрын

I heard her song yesterday and I was taken back to my elementary school days. I was in grade 2 when I first heard her version of My Boy Lollipop in 1967. I only learned some ten years ago that this beautiful song was the work of a Jamaican Princess. May her memory live on forever.

@anAeijingBuffoon Жыл бұрын

“What Am I living for” was a big hit too, I’m sure. I can still hear that blaring out of the radio in 1964.

@drychaf Жыл бұрын

I'm enjoying your videos on the soundtrack of my life! Well, an aspect of it at least - thanks again.

@simonbrown3717 Жыл бұрын

Great content and delivery...BIG UP! Sugar Minot pls

@amoytracey4466 Жыл бұрын

"My Boy Lollipop"! Big tune

@gordonbgraham 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for this upload. I love Millie's voice and infectious smile

@Mrsplanetmaster9 Жыл бұрын

Ms Small..and SMALL is not who she was...HUGE, is who she will alwaze be in my mind, heart and soul... Thx to the voice of R.A.S ‼🌞🌿🙋🏼‍♀

@xAce99x Жыл бұрын

So both countries are just as important when it comes to reggae

@robertbright2057 Жыл бұрын

The song “My BOY LOLLIPOP” was written in the mid 1959’s by a friend of my Uncle’s who was in THE CADILLACS named MR.ROBERT SPENCER the song was released in 1956 and it performed by 13 year old MS. BARBIE GAYE from Brooklyn New York. 9 years prior to MS. SMALLS rendition which was an exact copy vocally and musically of what was recorded by MS.GAYE on DARL records.

@ReggaeAppreciationSociety Жыл бұрын

Interesting. Thanks for sharing

@KC-gy5xw Жыл бұрын

i'm glad you posted this, I was just about to post it myself! It was more of a rockabilly sound, I've heard it previously

@xAce99x Жыл бұрын

As I always said Reggae made in Jamaica, but designed and upscaled in the UK

@stuckintha90s Жыл бұрын

My late uncle wrote her letters and she replied him once. He kept until he died. So Chris Blackwell is human after all 😅

@lamper2 Жыл бұрын

can i read that letter?

@simonwinter8839 Жыл бұрын

Chris Blackwell human ? Don't be ridiculous.

@Oscuros 17 күн бұрын

Millie was ream. RIP.

@emarkjacobs Жыл бұрын

wow thanks for this. Know that song but not the background. Keep up the good work

@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw 10 ай бұрын

She launched a future iconic label.

@eltonlewis4979 Жыл бұрын

her smile ......beautiful

@sybilblake-zd8gl Жыл бұрын

R. I. P, Milly, your was the best.

@xAce99x Жыл бұрын

A lot of Jamaicans should respect the UK, because without the UK reggae would have been forgotten

@ReggaeAppreciationSociety Жыл бұрын

Barrington Levy says this all the time

@staminadon Жыл бұрын

Japan a take on to Reggae long long long before the slave empire Reggae could never more our European country even taking to reggae before that place fix 🆙 your talk

@davidscott3726 Жыл бұрын

@@ReggaeAppreciationSocietyGood one ,lObe mistake though,Desmond and Millie weren't reggae artist 👍

@davidscott3726 Жыл бұрын

And we do

@davidscott3726 Жыл бұрын

@@staminadonlie that ., Japan started in the 70s ,UK been FUQING with reggae since 1960s

@c.m.p2943 Жыл бұрын

Mabuhay Jamaica😊

@KatushaYahRulaChristA 10 ай бұрын

Wow good to know ... ❤❤❤ Ms Small

@SunnyIlha Жыл бұрын

Mi luv Milli.

@phanatixtawkshow169 Жыл бұрын

Greatness

@johntmusic543 Жыл бұрын

wow i never knew milli small came here to new zealand so cool

@robertbrill6166 Жыл бұрын

As an international traveler, Edgar Allan Poe scholar, and Childe Harold of the universe, who instantly and intuitively comprehends originality and genius, I am a devotee of Millie Small. She passed into the rarefied dimension of the cosmos that Lord Buddha, Shinron Shonan, of Japan, called "The Pure Land." Let my dust intermingle with hers during the voyage called eternity.

@AuthenticSelector64 Жыл бұрын

First international Jamaican ska female superstar….. Millie Small…. Prince first Jamaican ska male superstar….

@willieluncheonette5843 8 ай бұрын

isn't it better to say "The first international Jamaican Superstar"? I think the first international reggae superstar was Desmond. Dekker. Really enjoyed your post!

@rickallanolsen 7 ай бұрын

My Boy Lollipop was not reggae, it was pop. It was her only hit at least in America.

@watsonunlimitedmusic Жыл бұрын

More excellent history. To add to the story a bit - Blackwell was already running a label called Blue Beat Records that specialized in reprints of Jamaican releases, mainly Ska and Boogie Woogie. They had enough success with these releases that it was worth signing an artist and funding a recording. They'd actually already gone as far as bringing over Jamaican artists before Millie as well. So Blackwell hearing her recording wasn't by accident. And apparently they really didn't make a killing from the record, although it did fund their work with other artists. Island made it's real money putting out English folk records in the late 1960s, weirdly enough. The label's first #1 charting single was actually "Video Killed The Radio Star" in 1979.

@lancerooke 10 ай бұрын

She was ska’s first global superstar.

@albertjanvanhoek294 Жыл бұрын

If you compare the original version by Barbie Gaye with the (almost) copy by Millie Small, then you can already see the enormous influence of the USA "shuffle" on the early Ska (besides "mento" and the in those days very daring input of the Rastra drums on "Oh Carolina" by The Folkes Brothers & Count Ossie - production Prince Buster - way before Shaggy made that song a hit). For example, the "shuffles" by (the unfortunately largely forgotten) Rosco Gordon were extremely popular in Jamaica. How "ska" originated exactly (there are countless stories by and about countless "inventors") no one knows. As was the case with for instance the Blues and the New Orleans Jazz: no one was walking around who meticulously wrote down all the developments. But that the "shuffle" played an important role, that is evident.

@pigmeatishambacon Жыл бұрын

pre ska was called shuffle beat,not alot of people know this and think ska was late fifties ,infact ska was 1963,roy panton and millie were a duet pre her hit single

@TheresaThornton Жыл бұрын

Chinese helped the reggae industry. Let them remember, I make the hits. I tell the DJs, what to play

@JOHNSAG1 11 ай бұрын

Millie was on the verge of raggae, but I thought she was primarily ska in her recordings, the precursor to raggae, which was not mentioned in the article.

@MD_ENTERTAINMENT Жыл бұрын

Nice one

@haroldgillette7157 Жыл бұрын

What makes this great song Raggae? Is it the beat,or the instruments,or what? Just curious.

@sonnimonni2482 9 ай бұрын

I had no idea the song was supposed to be reggae either when I first heard it and now I'm also curious!

@lamper2 Жыл бұрын

Did Payola play a part in getting Lollipop to be a hit in my USA?

@pigmeatishambacon Жыл бұрын

no,it was the worlds affair in 1964,with the promotion of the ska beat lead by byron lee and the ska all atars

@JJJBRICE Жыл бұрын

Does anybody out there know who was the father of Ms. Smalls daughter was ? i keep hearing about women having children without any information of who the other party was .