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Clarendon, Jamaica
Millicent Dolly May Small (6 October 1946 - 5 May 2020) CD, better known as Millie Small, was a Jamaican singer and songwriter. She is best known for her 1964 recording of "My Boy Lollipop", which reached number two in both the UK Singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot 100.
Known for
- Review1969
- Io, Gigliola1966
- Just for You — Self1964
- Around the Beatles — Self1964
- The Rise and Fall of Nellie Brown1964
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Jamaica
- Active from
- 1947-10-06
- Active to
- 2020-05-05
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 60,508
- Total plays
- 356,842
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Millie Small (born Millicent Dolly May Small in Clarendon, Jamaica, on 6 October 1946; died 5 May 2020 in England) — often known as "Little Millie Small" — was a Jamaican singer-songwriter best known as the singer of the 1964 hit, My Boy Lollipop. Small was the daughter of a sugar plantation overseer. In her teens, she was part of a duo called Roy & Millie (with Roy Panton) and was recording for Coxsone Dodd's Studio One record label. They had a minor local hit with "We'll Meet." <a href="https
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Dolly
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Jamaica
- Place of birth
- Clarendon Parish
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Genre
- pop music
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Philips Records
- Image
- Millie Small (1964).jpg
- Number of children
- 1
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- date of birth
- 1947-10-06
- Commons category
- Millie Small
- start of work period
- 1962-00-00
- birth name
- Millicent Dolly May Small
- date of death
- 2020-05-05
- end of work period
- 1972-00-00
- unmarried partner
- Peter Asher
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