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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.… When Carole ...

A local monument builder volunteered to build a marker for the grave of North Carolina's Little Eva, a pop singer of "Loco-Motion" fame. A local monument builder volunteered to build a marker for the ...