Millie Small | The Best Of Millie Small [Vinyl Album – Black History Month] LP

Black Story tells the history of our iconic UK black musical icons. UMR wants to celebrate not only the culture; but the scenes, the sounds, and the artists which shaped UK music, giving flowers to the incredible black artists in our archives. We seek to deliver these influential (and sometimes little known) black artists from our repertoire to an audience who may never have experienced them before, to elevate their music, share stories, and, in turn, gain new fans to preserve the legacy of black music.

After exploding onto the music scene in the spring of 1964, Jamaican teen sensation, Millie Small popularised the sound of ska around the globe with her enduring smash hit, My Boy Lollipop. The record went on to become one of the biggest selling singles of all time, topping the national charts in numerous countries and reaching the second spot in both the UK and the US, selling an estimated seven million copies along the way. Further British mainstream hits followed in Sweet William and Bloodshot Eyes, while over the years that immediately followed she remained a prominent figure on the British entertainment scene, recording in a variety of styles for Island, Decca, President Records.In the early seventies, Millie moved to Trojan, then the world’s leading Jamaican record company, but in 1971, she dramatically and abruptly called time on her singing career, with her fans still awaiting her return, some 45 years later.