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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Australian pop diva explained to ET how an impromptu performance unexpectedly led to her breakout success on the music scene. Kylie Minogue was already on the right track when she recorded her ...

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 ...