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Established in 1998,
Nostalgia Central is your one stop reference guide through five decades of music, movies, television, pop culture
and social history
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Little Eva
Eva Narcissus Boyd was working as a babysitter for songwriters Carole
King and Gerry Goffin when they asked her to record a song
they had written called The Loco-Motion in 1962. The song
was a hit for "Little Eva" that year and again for Grand
Funk Railroad in 1974 (and later still for Kylie
Minogue).
Boyd had other minor hits including Keep Your Hands Off My
Baby in 1962 and Old Smokey Loco-Motion in 1963. She
also sang background for The Drifters, Ben
E. King and others.
Eva died in April 2003 at Lenoir Memorial Hospital in Kinston,
North Carolina, after a long battle with cervical cancer. She was
59.
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