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 ...

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’d ...

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 ...

Eva Narcissus Boyd, 59, the teenager known as Little Eva when her first recording, “The Loco-Motion,” hit No. 1 in 1962, died Thursday of cervical cancer at a hospital in Kinston, N.C., according to ...

On the edge of that cemetery, in an all but unmarked grave, lies Eve Boyd, better known as Little Eva, the singer of the ‘60s hit song. In the eastern North Carolina town of Belhaven, there is an old ...

I think a lot of people are familiar with this song going back to 1962, performed by Little Eva which was a #1 hit for her that summer. A song about a dance! Some twelve years later, a hard-rock band ...

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 ...

Kylie Minogue was already on the right track when she recorded her cover of "The Loco-Motion" in 1987. The dance anthem kicked off a decades-spanning career and one of the most passionate fan bases in ...