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 ...
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 ...
I think a lot of people are familiar with this song going back to 1962, performed by Little Eva which was a #1 hit for her that summer. A song about a dance! Some twelve years later, a hard-rock band ...
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 ...
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 ...
Grand Funk Railroad is the very cool band with the very cool name recording some of the greatest hits of the 1970s that we still love today. The founding members Don Brewer (drums, vocals), Mark ...
FOR Ally Fowler it was a decision between recording a cover version of The Loco-Motion or concentrating on new music. Fowler, who was a music and television star in the 1980s, has revealed the ...
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 ...