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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's ...

Little Eva, the singer best known for recording 1960s hit 'The Loco-Motion', has died aged 59. Eva Narcissus Boyd died of cervical cancer on 9 April in hospital in North Carolina according to her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few songs in pop history are a hit one time. “The Loco-Motion” did it three times. The song was originally recorded almost by ...

On this day (August 25) in 1962, “The Loco-Motion” by an unknown singer named Little Eva topped the Billboard Hot 100. Penned by her employers, the song changed the young woman’s life forever, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...