Little Eve

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Eisenmann, Linda (1998). Historical Dictionary of Women's Education in the United States. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0313293238.

If historical fiction is not normally the genre for me...I can now say that gothic-tinged historical fiction is DEFINITELY not the genre for me. The Loco-motion also found swift popularity abroad. In Britain, Little Eva's record swept aside a feeble cover version by the Vernons Girls, and only the Tornadoes' Telstar kept it from number one. In 1963, she made the first of several tours of Britain. Chartifacts: The ARIA Report". No.239. Australian Recording Industry Association. September 11, 1994 . Retrieved May 17, 2016. The song is an enduring example of the dance-song genre; much of the lyric is devoted to a description of the dance itself, usually performed as a type of line dance. However, the song pre-dates the dance.Top 25 Dance Singles of '88" (PDF). RPM. Vol.49, no.10. December 24, 1988. p.10 . Retrieved July 14, 2019.

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. [2] The song reached No. 1 in the United States in 1962. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. [2] Weld, Theodore Dwight" (Sixthed.). The Columbia Encyclopedia. 2001–2005. Archived from the original on February 25, 2009 . Retrieved May 15, 2007. Even though Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century, far more Americans of that time saw the story as a stage play or musical than read the book. [136] Historian Eric Lott estimated that "for every one of the three hundred thousand who bought the novel in its first year, many more eventually saw the play." [137] In 1902, it was reported that by a quarter million of these presentations had already been performed in the United States. [138] Legend has it variously that King and Goffin discovered Eva's talent when they heard her singing around the house, or when her informal dancing inspired the duo to compose the Loco-motion. King's more prosaic version was that she was already aware of her maid's vocal abilities when she hired her. Badia, Janet Badia; Phegley, Jennifer (2005). Reading Women: Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0802094872.Hot off the success of The Last House on Needless Street and Sundial, Catriona W a b Dave Thompson (September 22, 1992). "He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss) – The Crystals | Listen, Appearances, Song Review". AllMusic. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015 . Retrieved August 18, 2015. This gothic tale includes so many bloody murders, jaw dropping, heart throbbing moments and the story unfolds with a twist that you didn’t see it coming! Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn March 3rd 1965, Little Eva performed "The Loco-Motion" on the ABC-TV program 'Shindig!'... 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.