Little Eva

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Keep Your Hands off My Baby 02:37 Tools
Breaking up Is Hard to Do 02:16 Tools
The Trouble With Boys 02:35 Tools
Let's Turkey Trot 02:31 Tools
The Loco-Motion - Single Version 00:00 Tools
The Locomotion - 2004 Remastered Version 02:23 Tools
Up on the Roof 02:54 Tools
Down Home 03:03 Tools
Uptown 02:27 Tools
Let's Start The Party Again 02:48 Tools
The Locomotion - 2004 - Remaster 02:23 Tools
Run to Her 00:00 Tools
Some Kinda Wonderful 00:00 Tools
Swinging On A Star 00:00 Tools
The Locamotion 00:00 Tools
The Loco-Motion (Single Version) 00:00 Tools
I Have a Love 00:00 Tools
Please Hurt Me 00:00 Tools
Just A Little Girl 00:00 Tools
Keep Your Hands Off My Baby (Remastered Single Version) 00:00 Tools
Some Kind-A Wonderful 00:00 Tools
What I Gotta Do (To Make You Jealous) 02:00 Tools
Sharing You 00:00 Tools
Where Do I Go 00:00 Tools
Follow The Wind 00:00 Tools
Takin' Back What I Said 00:00 Tools
Keep Your Hands Off My Baby - Remastered Single Version 00:00 Tools
Wake Up John 00:00 Tools
Loco Motion 02:30 Tools
The Loco-Motion (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Get Him 00:00 Tools
The Locomotion (2004 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
I Wish You a Merry Christmas 00:00 Tools
Keep Your Hands of My Baby 00:00 Tools
Where Do I Go? 00:00 Tools
Old Smoky Locomotion 00:00 Tools
Stand By Me 00:00 Tools
The Wind 00:00 Tools
350 - Little Eva - The Loco-Motion 02:29 Tools
Makin' With The Magilla (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Uptown (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Up On The Roof (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Keep Your Hands Off My Baby (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Let's Turkey Trot (LP Version) 02:32 Tools
The Trouble With Boys (Remastered Album Version) 00:00 Tools
What I Gotta Do (To Make You Jealous) (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
The Christmas Song 00:00 Tools
Will You Love Me Tomorrow? 00:00 Tools
Old Smokey Loco-Motion 00:00 Tools
Locomotion (Flawless Victory Baltimotion Remix) 00:00 Tools
Another Night With the Boys 00:00 Tools
What I Gotta Do 00:00 Tools
The Locomotion - 2004 Remaster 00:00 Tools
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? 02:52 Tools
locomotion (tyler fedchuk's 1/2ALIVE bmore) full edit final 00:00 Tools
The Trouble With Boys - Remastered Album Version 00:00 Tools
Some Kind of Wonderful 00:00 Tools
The Locomotion.. Again 00:00 Tools
Little Eva - The Locomotion 00:00 Tools
Little Eva (The Locomotions) 00:00 Tools
That's My Man 00:00 Tools
The Loco 00:00 Tools
Heigh-Ho 00:00 Tools
Little Eva - The Loco Motion 00:00 Tools
Little Eva - Locomotion 00:00 Tools
The Loco - Motion 00:00 Tools
My boy lolipop 00:00 Tools
The Loco-motion (1962) 00:00 Tools
Take a Step in My Direction 00:00 Tools
Locomotion (Shindig 1965) 00:00 Tools
The Locomotion (2004 - Remaster) 00:00 Tools
The Trouble With Boys - Remastered 02:30 Tools
Do the Locomotion 02:27 Tools
Little Eva - The Loco-Motion 00:00 Tools
Mama Said 00:00 Tools
Don't say nothin' bad about my baby 00:00 Tools
Everything Is Beautiful About You 00:00 Tools
The Locomotion (2004 Remastered Version) 00:00 Tools
Motion 00:00 Tools
Sugar Plum (Give Me Some) 00:00 Tools
My Boy Lollipop 00:00 Tools
Dynamite 00:00 Tools
Keep Your Hands Off My Baby (Single Version) 00:00 Tools
The Loco-Motion - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Bend It 00:00 Tools
Locamotion 00:00 Tools
The Locomotion (2004 Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Keep Your Hands off My Baby - Single Version; Remastered 00:00 Tools
What I Gotta Do To Make You Jealous 00:00 Tools
I Will Follow Him 00:00 Tools
Keep Your Hands Off My Baby - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Keep You Hands Off My Baby 00:00 Tools
Swingin' On A Star 00:00 Tools
The Trouble with Boys - Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Where Do I Go! 00:00 Tools
Will You Love Me Tomorrow! 00:00 Tools
You've Been Talking About Me 00:00 Tools
The Loco-Motion - Little Eva 00:00 Tools
The Locomotion [1962] 00:00 Tools
Medley : Get Ready/Uptight 00:00 Tools
The loco- motion 00:00 Tools
eva 00:00 Tools
Swinging on a Star (feat. Big Dee Irwin) 00:00 Tools
Locomotion, The 00:00 Tools
The Locomotion (OST INLAND EMPIRE) 00:00 Tools
Let´s Turkey Trot 00:00 Tools
"The Loco-Motion" 00:00 Tools
Please Mr Postman 00:00 Tools
Little Eva - the wind 00:00 Tools
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow 02:52 Tools
Locomotions / Little Eva (The Locomotions) 02:27 Tools
The Loco-Motion - 1962 00:00 Tools
The Loco Motion (1962) 00:00 Tools
Loco-Motion, The 00:00 Tools
Mash potato Time 00:00 Tools
The Locomotion - The Locomotion 00:00 Tools
Suck My Pussy 00:00 Tools
The locomation 00:00 Tools
Loco-motion(1962) 00:00 Tools
Locomotion (Tyler Fedchuk's 1/2ALIVE Remix) 00:00 Tools
He's the Boy 03:00 Tools
ロコモーション 00:00 Tools
Little Eva 00:00 Tools
The Locomotion - Little Eva 00:00 Tools
Uptown - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Making With the Magilla 00:00 Tools
/ LITTLE EVA - THE LOCOMOTION 00:00 Tools
The Loco-Motion (Little Eva) 00:00 Tools
Keep Your Hands Off Of My Baby 00:00 Tools
Hie Is the Boy 03:00 Tools
The Loco-Motions 00:00 Tools
The lo-co-mo-tion 00:00 Tools
The Loco‐Motion 00:00 Tools
Keep Your Hands Of My Baby (Little Eva) 00:00 Tools
Little Eva--The Locomotion 00:00 Tools
The Locomotion (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
The Loco-motion -1962 00:00 Tools
The Locomotion-Little Eva 00:00 Tools
350 The Loco Motion 00:00 Tools
Swinging A Star -1963 00:00 Tools
The Locomotion (Little Eva) 00:00 Tools
The loco-motion [1962] 00:00 Tools
Mr Everything 00:00 Tools
Follow the wind (acetate) 00:00 Tools
Keep Your Hands 00:00 Tools
Keep Your Hands Off My Baby (1962) 02:32 Tools
Get Him [Alternate Take] 00:00 Tools
The Loco-motion 1962 00:00 Tools
The locomotion (The loco-motion) 00:00 Tools
Loco-Motion; The 00:00 Tools
Little Eva (by The Locomotions) 00:00 Tools
He is the Boy - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Something About You Boy 00:00 Tools
Just One Word ain't Enough 00:00 Tools
War 00:00 Tools
I Wish You Merry Christmas 00:00 Tools
The Loco-Motion ('62) 00:00 Tools
The Loco-Motion (Stereo) 00:00 Tools
The Loco-Motion (Locomotion) 00:00 Tools
lokomotion 00:00 Tools
Keep Your Hands Off My Baby (remastered) 00:00 Tools
locomotion bmore (tyler fedchuk's 1/2ALIVE remix) ***web edit NO INTRO 00:00 Tools
The Locomotion (Radio Version) 00:00 Tools
loco 00:00 Tools
Oldies 60's - Little Eva - The Locomotion 00:00 Tools
The Loco-Motion 1962 00:00 Tools
Ain't Misbehavin' 00:00 Tools
Mashed Potato Time 00:00 Tools
The Locomotion (ODESZA Remix) 00:00 Tools
The Locomotion (1962) 00:00 Tools
Little Eva-The Loco Motion 00:00 Tools
Will You Love Me Tomorrow (1962) 00:00 Tools
Little Eva - Keep Your Hands Off My Baby 00:00 Tools
Do the Loco-Motion (Tigorilla Rework) 00:00 Tools
Wake up John [Alternate Take] 00:00 Tools
The Loko Motion 00:00 Tools
Swinging On A Star (with Big Dee Irwin) 00:00 Tools
350 - The Loco-Motion 00:00 Tools
Turkey Trot 00:00 Tools
Swinging on a Star - Big Dee Irwin (1963) 00:00 Tools
Little Eva - The Locomotion (2004 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Mash Potatoe Time 00:00 Tools
The Loco-Motion '62 00:00 Tools
Mashed Potato 00:00 Tools
The Locomotion - 1962 - 00:00 Tools
The Loco - Motion - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Tho Loco-Motion 00:00 Tools
little eva - My boy lolipop 00:00 Tools
#164. The Loco-motion 00:00 Tools
Get Ready/Uptight 00:00 Tools
Heigh-Ho (with Big Dee Irwin) 00:00 Tools
The Loco Motion-Little Eva 00:00 Tools
The Lokomotion 00:00 Tools
Heigh Ho 00:00 Tools
Wind 00:00 Tools
Loco-motion - Little Eva 00:00 Tools
350 - Little Eva - The Loco Motion 00:00 Tools
The Locomotion ('62) 00:00 Tools
Everything Is Beautiful About You, Boy 00:00 Tools
THE LOCOMOTION 00:00 Tools
Keep Your Hands Off My Baby (Little Eva) 00:00 Tools
Wake Up John (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Locomotion - Little Eva 02:24 Tools
Locomotion (tyler fedchuk's 1/2ALIVE bmore) 00:00 Tools
Keep Your Hands Off My Baby (King/Goffin) 00:00 Tools
Taking Back What I Said 00:00 Tools
Mash Potato 00:00 Tools
Swingin on a Star 00:00 Tools
The Loco Motion (OST 11/22/63) 00:00 Tools
The Loco-Motion (From "Inland Empire") 00:00 Tools
Let's Turkey Trot - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Up On The Roof - LP Version 00:00 Tools
05 little eva - keep your hands off my baby 00:00 Tools
Let's Turkey Trot (Shindig 1965) 00:00 Tools
Swinging On A Star - With Big Dee Irwin 00:00 Tools
The Locamotion (Little Eva) 00:00 Tools
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Eva Narcissus Boyd (June 29, 1943 – April 10, 2003), known by the stage name of Little Eva, was an American pop singer. Born in Belhaven, North Carolina, she moved to the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, New York, at a young age. Although some sources claim that her stage name was inspired by a character from the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, she stated in an interview that she was named after her aunt, which prompted her family to call her "Little Eva." As a teenager, she worked as a maid and earned extra money as a babysitter for songwriters Carole King and Gerry Goffin. It is often claimed that Goffin and King were amused by Boyd's particular dancing style, so they wrote "The Loco-Motion" for her and had her record it as a demo (the record was intended for Dee Dee Sharp). However, as King said in an interview with NPR and in her "One to One" concert video, they knew she could sing when they met her, and it would be just a matter of time before they would have her record songs they wrote, the most successful being "The Loco-Motion." Music producer Don Kirshner of Dimension Records was impressed by the song and Boyd's voice and had it released. The song reached #1 in the United States in 1962. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. After the success of "The Loco-Motion," Boyd was stereotyped as a dance-craze singer and was given limited material. The same year, Goffin and King wrote "He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)" (performed by the Crystals) after discovering that Boyd was being regularly beaten by her boyfriend. When they inquired why she tolerated such treatment, Eva replied without batting an eyelid that her boyfriend's actions were motivated by his love for her. Phil Spector's arrangement of the song was ominous and ambiguous. It was a brutal song, as any attempt to justify such violence must be, and Spector's arrangement only amplified its savagery, framing Barbara Alston's lone vocal amid a sea of caustic strings and funereal drums, while the backing vocals almost trilled their own belief that the boy had done nothing wrong. In more ironic hands (and a more understanding age), 'He Hit Me' might have passed at least as satire. But Spector showed no sign of appreciating that, nor did he feel any need to. No less than the song's writers, he was not preaching, he was merely documenting. Boyd's other single recordings were "Keep Your Hands Off My Baby," "Let's Turkey Trot," and a remake of the Bing Crosby standard "Swinging on a Star," recorded with Big Dee Irwin (though Boyd was not credited on the label). Boyd also recorded the song "Makin' With the Magilla" for an episode of the 1964 Hanna-Barbera cartoon series The Magilla Gorilla Show. She continued to tour and record throughout the sixties, but her commercial potential plummeted after 1964. She retired from the music industry in 1971. She never owned the rights to her recordings. Although the prevailing rumor in the 1970s was that she had received only $50 for "The Loco-Motion," it seems $50 was actually her weekly salary at the time she made her records (an increase of $15 from what Goffin and King had been paying her as nanny). Penniless, she returned with her three young children to North Carolina, where they lived in obscurity. Interviewed in 1988 after the success of the Kylie Minogue cover version of "The Loco-Motion", Boyd stated that she did not like the new version; however its then-current popularity allowed her to make a comeback in show business. She returned to live performing with other artists of her era on the cabaret and oldies circuits. She also occasionally recorded new songs. The only existing footage of Little Eva performing "Loco-Motion" is a small clip from the ABC sixties live show Shindig! where she sang a short version of the clip along with the famous dance steps. She also sang "Let's Turkey Trot" and the Exciters' song "I Want You to Be My Boy" in the same episode. This TV show was one of her final performances until 1988, when she began performing in concerts with Bobby Vee and other singers. In a 1991 Richard Nader concert, she performed "Loco-Motion" and "Keep Your Hands Off My Baby". The concert was partially documented on videotape, albeit of marginal quality. She continued performing until she was diagnosed with cervical cancer in October 2001. She died on April 10, 2003 in Kinston, North Carolina, at the age of 59, and is buried in a small cemetery in Belhaven, North Carolina. Her gravesite was sparsely marked until July 2008, when a report by WRAL-TV of Raleigh, North Carolina highlighted deteriorating conditions at the cemetery and efforts by the city of Belhaven to have it restored. A simple white cross had marked the site until a new gravestone was unveiled in November of that year. Her new grey gravestone has the image of a steam locomotive prominently engraved on the front and the epitaph reads: "Singing with the Angels". Eva's eldest daughter, Dorothea, died April 6, 2013, from heart failure. "The Loco-Motion" is a 1962 pop song written by American songwriters Gerry Goffin and Carole King. "The Loco-Motion" was originally written for Dee Dee Sharp, but Sharp turned the song down. The song is notable for appearing in the American Top 5 three times, each time in a different decade: in 1962 by the American pop singer Little Eva,(U.S. No. 1); in 1974 by the American band Grand Funk Railroad (U.S. No. 1); and finally in 1988 by the Australian singer Kylie Minogue (U.S. No. 3). The song is a popular and enduring example of the dance-song genre: much of the lyrics are devoted to a description of the dance itself, usually performed as a type of line dance. However, the song came before the dance. "The Loco-Motion" was also the second song to reach No. 1 by two different musical acts. The earlier song to do this was "Go Away Little Girl", also written by Goffin and King. It is one of only nine songs to achieve this feat.[5] King and Goffin wrote "The Loco-Motion" in hopes to have it recorded by Dee Dee Sharp, who had a smash hit with "Mashed Potato Time". Sharp passed on the song leaving the opportunity open for Eva Boyd, who had recorded the demo. Boyd's version was released, and her name was changed to Little Eva. Boyd was actually Carole King's babysitter, having been introduced to King and King's husband Gerry Goffin by The Cookies, a local girl group who would also record for the songwriters. "The Loco-Motion" was the first release by the new Dimension Records company, whose releases were mostly penned and produced by Goffin and King. There are two common versions of the song in circulation; one includes handclaps during the verses; the other has no handclaps. King performed the backup vocals in the recording. In the United States, "The Loco-Motion" was the sixth most successful single of 1962, according to Billboard. It was also the third most successful single of 1962 in South Africa. In March 1965, Little Eva sang the song on the ABC-TV series Shindig!, and this is the only known video of her singing this song. A cover version of the song was recorded quickly by British girl group The Vernons Girls and scored the chart the same week as the Little Eva version. The Vernons Girls' version stalled at No. 47 in the UK, while the Little Eva version reached No. 2 on the UK charts. It re-entered the chart some 10 years later and almost became a top 10 again, peaking at No. 11. The Little Eva version of the song was later featured in the David Lynch film Inland Empire (2006). "The Loco-Motion" is ranked No. 359 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". The widely believed story of how the song "The Loco-Motion" came to be is that Carole King was playing music at home and Eva Boyd was doing some chores and started dancing to it; the dance The Loco-Motion was born. However, this is not true. Eva Boyd was introduced to Goffin and King and they realized she had a good singing voice, so they had her record "The Loco-Motion". Carole King stated this during an interview on National Public Radio (NPR) shortly after Little Eva died. As the song came before the dance, there was no dance when the song was originally written. When the song became a smash hit, Eva Boyd ended up having to create a dance to go along with the song. Carole King stated this in her "One to One" concert video. In live performances of the song, Little Eva can be seen doing her version of the dance. Another bit of the conventional lore is that she had received only $50 for "The Loco-Motion". However, although she never owned the rights to her recordings, it seems $50 was actually her weekly salary during the years she was making records (an increase of $15 from what Goffin and King had been paying her as nanny). In 1971, she moved to South Carolina and lived in obscurity on menial jobs and welfare, until being rediscovered in 1987. She died of cervical cancer in 2003. Read more on Last.fm. 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