Barbie Gaye - My Boy Lollipop (1956) video free download

Scott Goulet

This song sucks.

Brian Clarke

Listen people, when there's people here pondering if this is one of the very first ska songs, they know the word "Ska" wasn't conceived yet. They were refering to the actual SOUND. And by the way, I'm a bit shocked at how this song has got that extremely distinct and key characteristic that ONLY Ska possesses which is that guitar. Not even Fats Domino's "Be My Guest" has that definitive ska guitar like this song does. Interesting.

TK LIM

Wonderful insightful information for sharing with me. Many thanks.

B. Gafney

Well no isn't this something -- Danny -- you did this... Well today is my birthday and haven't listened to this song in a long long time! Never even considered at the time itwud still be around after all these years..I was just a kid when it a piece of sheet music was handed to me titled "My Girl Lollipop"and asked what I could do with it. And I did my best.. Thank you for liking it and for listening. Barbie Gaye

Du Tonic

*Rockabilly*Es uno de los primeros subgéneros del rock and roll. Se origina en la década de 1950.El término es la contracción de las palabras rock y hillbilly, referente éste a una variedad ruda de country conocida como hillbilly music en la década de 1940-50 que contribuyó enormemente al desarrollo de su estilo. Otras influencias del rockabilly incluyen el western swing, el rhythm & blues, el boogie woogie, y la música folk de los Apalaches. Aunque existen excepciones, su origen descansa en la región sur de los Estados Unidos.Su influencia y popularidad decae en la década de 1960, pero a finales de los años setenta y principios de los ochenta, disfruta de un revival de popularidad que llega a la actualidad mediante la subcultura rockabilly.Subgéneros: Psychobilly.Fusiones: Punk rock.

Rishona Campbell

This song is NOT ska. It is jump-jive R&B. Ska was developed from Jamaican musician's admiration of the genre (that's no secret).

Michael McFerrin

I obtained a remastered CD copy of this track,and while I'm familiar with Millie Small's version that made it big, I like this original version better. That includes the spelling LOLLYPOP instead of LOLLIPOP.Very few people know of this '56 version...on the DARL label.....R1002... of which I am one. Great to see it here on U Tube.

bftime1

This song has a typical 50's R&B shuffle beat.It was great to jitterbug to.

soop67

Thanks for posting, this is a brilliant version - I had no idea it existed at all. It's more of a jiving R&B tune even though it has a very strong ska feel to it. Brilliant tune which needs to be shared. One minor point - I think it's completely irrelevant if the musicians were black or white!

MrRJDB1969

The fact that Barbie Gaye is white and recorded "My Boy Lollipop" first, seems to blow the minds of those who have the belief that everything began with the "black" population, which is incorrect, but very "politically correct". As in the case of another 1956 tune, "Until The Day I Die", The Tears (a white group) recorded it first, but The Teen Queens (a black group) covered it, so now it's forever associated with The Teen Queens. As far as "Ska" is concerned, why is this style or rhythm just handed over to the Jamaicans, as if we knew nothing of music here ? The name "Ska", I know wasn't something that we referred to it as, here, in The U.S., at least not in 1956, at the time of this recording, but who's to say where the music style originated and who can say it with complete confidence ? 

Groovy Reflections

The original recording of this tune, 1956 and a hit in the NYC area. Barbie Gaye - My Boy Lollipop (1956)

ausfan100

A-ha, so it was Ace that goofed! ....... My apologies to you. I don't have that 'Early Girls' CD you mention, however I do have Ace's "YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST" Cd which has the correct 2:18 full version which matches my 45. They probably received complaints from collectors after the faulty version on 'Early Girls' and corrected their error with the later CD release.

TheLimePopsicle

I haven't edited anything, the track comes direct from an Early Girls Ace Records CD, so you will have to ask them about it.

ausfan100

Why have you edited off the start of the song? The record starts with a 5 or 6 second band intro before Barbie comes in. Maybe you chopped it off to match the Millie version?

ROGER2095

There's a whole Wikipedia entry for this song - The actual author, the mob involvement, and it's history. Barbie Gaye cut school to make this record - It was recorded in one take!

otrnr

Barbie was from Coney Island and I am assuming that she originally was part of a local; group that Alan Freed discovered called the Coney Island kids.She sang the song on stage at the Brooklyn Paramount in Dec 1956 and worked like a real pro. She had no creative part in the record and did what she was told to do.Who said it was considered R&B? ,There was no distinction in 1956, if Alan played it; It was Rock n Roll. .

otrnr

I guess I am just stubborn. The girl on the cover looks more like Debbie Reynolds than Barbie Gaye. I am sending out to all my sources to find out her whereabouts and whether this is indeed her. I am planning to use it in my forgotten rock n rollers blog, when I have gotten enough information. Put these together to see it. o t r n r contact dot blog dot com

TheLimePopsicle

If you look up a CD entitled "My Boy Lollypop: Super Tough '50's Female Jivers", you will see a girl on the cover (a close-up picture incidentally) who looks very much like the girl in the picture I used for this video (given that the picture with the blond hair was likely taken at a later time). I am assuming that the girl on the CD cover is Barbie and the picture I have used has been identified as Barbie elsewhere on the net. The CD cover seems to provide support that this is Barbie.

otrnr

I have the only remaining closeup picture of Barbie and I tried to do close up comparison on the picture I assume you got off Google Images. The facial structure is wrong. I have also seen her close up back stage at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater in December 1956. I really think it is not her. I do an oldies podcast on the internet and I have a great many contacts from the old surviving singers. I will get the info I seek and be able to add her to my blog called forgotten rock n rollers..

Chris Mulwee

She's a great singer regardless. And besides Barbie was just 14 when she recorded the song. The girl/woman in the picture looks much older, like mid to late 20's. Wish there was more info on her other than that she did the song before Millie Small.

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