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 ...

Singer Little Eva (full name: Eva Narcissus Boyd), died yesterday (April 10) in Kinston, N.C., after a long illness, according to her manager. Her exact age isn't known but she was believed to be… By ...

It was hardly an original piece of choreography, but the Loco-motion was certainly one of the most impressive records produced by the early 1960s vogue for pop dances. Much of its impact was due to ...

KYLIE Minogue’s first pop hit The Loco-Motion was originally recorded a quarter of a century earlier by Carole King’s babysitter Little Eva. Yet the original version, and some say the best, was ...

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Little Eva, who had a No.1 pop hit with The Locomotion, the song that sparked a dance craze in the 1960s has died, aged 59. In 1962, Eva Boyd ("I had an aunt called Eva," she explained, "so she was ...

Singer Little Eva, who as a teenager recorded the hit 1960s dance song The Loco-Motion, has died after a long battle with cervical cancer, aged 59, her manager said. Eva Narcissus Boyd died on ...

Little Eva, who has died aged 59, had a Number One hit with The Locomotion, the song which sparked off one of several popular dance crazes of the 1960s. In 1962 Eva Boyd ("I had an aunt called Eva," ...

LITTLE EVA, who has died aged 59, had a Number One hit with The Locomotion, the song which sparked off one of several popular dance crazes of the 1960s. In 1962 Eva Boyd was 19 and working in New York ...

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