Many of the greatest classic rock stars gave away tunes to other artists. For example, Little Eva’s “The Loco-Motion” was written by one of the most prominent female rock stars of all time. The track ...

Few songs in pop history are a hit one time. "The Loco-Motion" did it three times. The song was originally recorded almost by accident by Little Eva—who had been babysitting for Goffin and King at the ...

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C. – Eva Narcissus Boyd – a teen sensation known as Little Eva when her first recording, “The Loco-Motion,” was No. 1 on the charts in 1962 – died Thursday after a long illness. The cause of death ...

MIAMI - Singer Little Eva, who as a teen-ager recorded the hit 1960s dance song "The Loco-Motion," has died after a long battle with cervical cancer, her manager said today. She was 59. Eva Narcissus ...

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A new stone marker on the grave of pop singer Little Eva, of "Loco-Motion" fame, was unveiled in her hometown of Belhaven Saturday. A local monument maker, Quincy Edgerton, volunteered to build a ...

Little Eva, who scored a No. 1 with "Loco-Motion" in 1962, got a new monument on her grave in her hometown of Belhaven, off the Pungo River. Local monument maker, Quincy Edgerton, volunteered to build ...

When Carole King and Gerry Goffin -- the married-couple songwriters who cranked out so much solid-gold pop music in the early '60s -- wrote "The Loco-Motion," they had the idea that Dee Dee Sharp, who ...