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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Little Eva, who scored a No. 1 with "Loco-Motion" in 1962, got a new monument on her grave in her hometown of Belhaven, off the Pungo River. Local monument maker, Quincy Edgerton, volunteered to build ...

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 ...