Millie Small - My Boy Lollipop
01 My Boy Lollipop
02 Oh Henry
03 Do-Re-Mi
04 Since You've Been Gone
05 I'm Love Again
06 Sugar Dandy
07 Sweet Willian
08 Blue Louey
09 Something's Gotta Be Donne
10 He's Mine
11 Tom Hark
12 Be My Guest
13 Walking To New Orleans
14 Let The Four Winds Blow
15 Don't You Know
16 Until You're Mine
17 I Want You To Know
18 See Ypu Later, Alligator
19 Don't Come Knocking
20 What Am I Living For
21 What A Price
22 Tell Me That You Love Me
23 Three Nights A Week
24 Bloodshot Eyes
25 Tongue Tied
26 Chilly Kisses
27 I've Fallen In Love With A Snowman
28 I Love The Way You Love
29 Bring It On Home To Me
30 He's Mine (alt.)
31 Killer Joe
32 I'm Blue
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(the "1st" is always debatable
"She's Millie Small, vivacious, bubbling, singing sensation from the land of sunshine and calypso," the sleeve notes explain. Not that there was really any need for an introduction, for indeed the tiny, vivacious Jamaican singer had taken Britain by storm, launching the Blue Beat boom and rocketing ska into the U.K. chart with her debut U.K. single "My Boy Lollipop." An album was the obvious next step, and Small set about recording with all the excitement of a child set loose in a candy store. And, in a way, that's exactly what the 16-year-old was. Her exuberance positively bleeds from the grooves, you can just about hear her grinning. Across ten covers and two co-written numbers, Small belts out the songs, with the backing sessionmen blending in big band sounds all set to an insistent jumped-up beat. And that was what it was really all about. So whether she's covering Fats Domino's "I'm in Love Again," Neil Sedaka's "Since You've Been Gone," or the old folk song "Tom Hark," it's all ska, pure and simple, and the album never flags. Most of the songs are suitably fluffy, and generally about boys, of course, from "Blue Louey" to "Sweet William," and on to "Sugar Dandy," where Small reaches unimaginable heights of ecstatic shrillness. And while that shrill, adenoidal voice was charming on a single, it can become a little wearing across an entire album. However, the Blue Beat Girl, as she was known, is working so hard to make us like her -- it seems cruel to complain -- and for fans this was a sheer firecracker of a record.
