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 ...

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, ...

Grand Funk (née Grand Funk Railroad) weren't the best of the early-'70s hard-rock titans, but they were probably the most shameless. The Michigan band were already tremendously popular arena-wreckers ...

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 ...

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 ...

Few songs in pop history are a hit one time. “The Loco-Motion” did it three times. The song was originally recorded almost by accident by Little Eva—who had been babysitting for Goffin and King at the ...