Is sger Barbie gaye still alive? - Answers

Contents:

• BARBIE GAYE
• IS SGER BARBIE GAYE STILL ALIVE?
• WA — DID SHE JT E OUT? IS BARBIE GAY?
• BARBIE GAYE BGRAPHY
• LISA GAYE, ACTRS AND DANCER ‘ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK,’ DI AT 81
• WHAT HAPPENED TO 50S SGER BARBIE GAYE?
• WHY WASN’T MARV GAYE’S FATHER CONVICTED OF HIS MURR?
• MARV GAYE'S SISTER CALLS OUT 'WICKED & VDICTIVE' QUCY JON
• ANNA GORDY GAYE, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DEAD AT 92
• WARNER BROS LANDS ALLEN HUGH-DIRECTED MARV GAYE FILM ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’; DR. DRE, JIMMY IOVE TO PRODUCE
• THE TRAGIC STORY OF MARV GAYE AND THE UNTIMELY ATH OF A SOUL LEGEND

BARBIE GAYE

What happened to Barbie Gaye, the sger of “My Boy Lollipop”?

It was first rerd New York 1956 by Barbie Gaye.

IS SGER BARBIE GAYE STILL ALIVE?

" Vastola had recently disvered 14-year-old sger Barbie Gaye after hearg her sg on a street rner Coney Island, Brooklyn. Gaye sang a few songs for them and Freed was equally imprsed. Vastola beme Barbie Gaye's manager and wh days, he acquired the sheet mic and lyrics for "My Girl Lollypop" om Levy and gave them to Gaye, wh no specific stctns except to be ready to perform by the followg week.

Barbie Gaye brought the mic to her sgg ach who played the song for her on piano a uple of tim. Gaye changed the tle to "My Boy Lollypop. " She add and leted lyrics (like, "uh oh lollipop" stead of "my boy lollipop" on a few stanc), shortened and lengthened not, repeated certa lyrics ("I love ya, I love ya, I love ya so") and add all the non-lyril sounds, (utteranc) such as the "whoas" and "hibby-ops" me time to rerd, Gaye cut school and took the subway to a rerdg stud Midtown Manhattan.

WA — DID SHE JT E OUT? IS BARBIE GAY?

Gaye met the three members of the ssn band, guarist, Leroy Kirkland, saxophonist, Al Sears and dmmer, Panama Francis. The band lear, Kirkland, asked Gaye to sg the song for them. The batn of Barbie Gaye's energy and youthful vols, the band's legendary talent, Kirkland's willgns to take a chance wh such a new style, and the creative eedom they enjoyed to make all the chang they did, rulted a song that would have great signifince and would help to fe the mic genre known as song was released as a sgle by Darl Rerds late 1956.

BARBIE GAYE BGRAPHY

The sger and songwrer, Ellie Greenwich, then a teenager livg on Long Island, was so taken by the rerd that she named herself Ellie Gaye when she embarked on her rerdg reer. However, Gaye's rerdg of "My Boy Lollypop" failed to make an imprsn other markets, and did not chart natnally.

LISA GAYE, ACTRS AND DANCER ‘ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK,’ DI AT 81

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WHAT HAPPENED TO 50S SGER BARBIE GAYE?

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Anyway, all the years that I’ve been listeng to the versn by Millie Small, a Jamain sger and songwrer, I wasn’t aware of the existence of the 1956 versn, “Lollypop, ” by an Amerin girl named Barbie Gaye.

Barbie Gaye.

WHY WASN’T MARV GAYE’S FATHER CONVICTED OF HIS MURR?

I beme aware of Barbie Gaye’s versn jt a few weeks ago, when began turng up on SiriXM’s “50s on 5” channel. When I first heard Gaye’s versn, I was kd of taken aback and put off. But even at the first listeng, I was stck by the richns of Gaye’s voice and her crisp livery and sdg phrasg.

Before I play both songs for you, here’s the story — nnsed om Wiki — behd “My Boy Lollypop” and Barbie Gaye playg hooky to rerd . The song ught the attentn of a Levy associate, mobster and mic mogul Gaetano “Corky” Vastola, who had heard Barbie Gaye sgg on a street rner on Coney Island. Vastola beme Gaye’s manager and soon acquired the sheet mic and lyrics for “My Girl Lollypop” om Levy.

He gave them to Gaye, wh no specific stctns except to change the genr of the song’s subject and be ready to perform by the followg week.

MARV GAYE'S SISTER CALLS OUT 'WICKED & VDICTIVE' QUCY JON

Barbie Gaye changed the song’s tle to “My Boy Lollypop” and rewrote the song acrdgly. When me time to rerd, Gaye cut school and took the subway to a rerdg stud Midtown Manhattan.

Gaye met the three members of the ssn band, guarist Leroy Kirkland, saxophonist Al Sears and dmmer Panama Francis.

ANNA GORDY GAYE, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DEAD AT 92

Barbie Gaye was paid $200 for her wrg ntributns to “My Boy Lollypop” and her stud rerdg.

WARNER BROS LANDS ALLEN HUGH-DIRECTED MARV GAYE FILM ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’; DR. DRE, JIMMY IOVE TO PRODUCE

It sold enough, however, that Gaye got to tour wh Ltle Richard and Fats Domo 1957. Like many artists at the time, Gaye received no royalti om rad play.

THE TRAGIC STORY OF MARV GAYE AND THE UNTIMELY ATH OF A SOUL LEGEND

…I don’t know if Barbie Gaye is still alive or, if so, where she liv. Is Barbie Gay?