Millie Small

Jamaican singer

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  • “Weird Al” Yankovic
    In novelty song

    disco, and hip-hop, respectively, with Millie Small’s “My Boy Lollipop” (1964), Rick Dees’s “Disco Duck” (1976), and the Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” (1979). It is also true, however, that records that initially sound peculiar cease to as people learn their language. It is in this way—as an entry point—that novelty…

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