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 ...

On this day in 1974, a song that had already been a No. 1 hit once before pulled off something almost unheard of—it climbed all the way back to the top again. At the time, it was only the second song ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Singer Little Eva (full name: Eva Narcissus Boyd), died yesterday (April 10) in Kinston, N.C., after a long illness, according to her manager. Her exact age isn't known but she was believed to be… 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, ...

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 ...

C. – Eva Narcissus Boyd – a teen sensation known as Little Eva when her first recording, “The Loco-Motion,” was No. 1 on the charts in 1962 – died Thursday after a long illness. The cause of death ...