By Rs: If you are a fan of the 1950s, you know this song as "My Boy Lollypop" by Barbie Gaye was a big h around the world the summer of 1956. If you were a fan of bluebeat and ska, 1964 you knew was a ground breaker sung by Millie Small…
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- BARBIE GAYE
- BARBIE GAYE
- IS SGER BARBIE GAYE STILL ALIVE?
- ANNA GORDY GAYE, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DEAD AT 92
BARBIE GAYE
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It was first rerd New York 1956 by Barbie Gaye. " 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.
IS SGER BARBIE GAYE STILL ALIVE?
Gaye changed the tle to "My Boy Lollypop.
ANNA GORDY GAYE, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DEAD AT 92
" 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. 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. 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.