Loco-Motion singer dies

NEW YORK (Oldies Music Website) - The singer Little Eva, best known for recording The Loco-Motion as a teenager in the 1960s, has died of cancer aged 59. She was working as a babysitter for songwriters Carole King and Gerry Goffin in 1962 when they asked her to record a song they had written called The Loco-Motion.
The song became a hit for Little Eva that year and again for Grand Funk Railroad in 1974.

Australian soap star Kylie Minogue taught a whole new generation how to "do the loco-motion" with a version in 1988.
Eva Narcissus Boyd died of cervical cancer on 9 April at Lenoir Memorial Hospital in Kinston, North Carolina, manager Brenda Cape said.
"She had cancer. She fought it for a long time," Ms Cape said.

Ms Boyd had other minor hits including Keep Your Hands Off My Baby in 1962 and Old Smokey Loco-Motion in 1963, as well as singing background for The Drifters, Ben E King and others.
The singer, who continued to perform until 2001 when her illness made her too weak, leaves two daughters and a son.