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 ...

Eva Narcissus “Little Eva” Boyd, the teenaged baby sitter who jumped to the top of the pop charts with her single “The Loco-motion,” died Thursday April 9 after a long illness. She was 59 and had ...

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’d ...

LITTLE EVA, who has died aged 59, had a Number One hit with The Locomotion, the song which sparked off one of several popular dance crazes of the 1960s. In 1962 Eva Boyd was 19 and working in New York ...

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 ...

Eva Narcissus Boyd (Little Eva), singer: born Belhaven, North Carolina 29 June 1943; married 1962 James Harris (died 1983; one son, two daughters); died Kinston, North Carolina 10 April 2003. In 1962 ...

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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 ...