"My Boy Lollipop" (Millie Small)

Recorded by the teenage Millie Small and issued in the 1960s, "My Boy Lollipop" was a bluebeat reworking of an older rhythm-and-blues tune that became an unexpected international hit and one of the earliest Jamaican-derived records to chart widely in Britain and beyond. Its success demonstrated that the island's dance music could cross over to a global pop market. The cited source documents the Millie album that carries the song's title.