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| From | Craig Leve <snap_crackle_pop@comcast.net> |
| Subject | FW: Spectropop - Little Eva |
| Date | Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:46:35 -0700 |
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forwarded from Spectropop. Everyone do the Loco-motion with me.
-craig
-----Original Message-----
From: John Clemente
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 1:03 PM
To: Spectropop
Subject: Spectropop - Little Eva
Hello All,
It is with much regret that I pass along the following
information:
Singer Little Eva of 'Loco-Motion' fame dies at 59
Friday, April 11, 2003 Posted: 4:22 PM EDT (2022 GMT)
MIAMI, Florida (Reuters) -- Singer Little Eva, who as a
teenager recorded the hit 1960s dance song "The Loco-Motion,"
has died after a long battle with cervical cancer, her manager
said Friday. She was 59. Eva Narcissus Boyd died Thursday at
Lenoir Memorial Hospital in Kinston, North Carolina, manager
Brenda Cape said.
"She had cancer. She fought it for a long time," Cape said.
Boyd was working as a baby sitter 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. Boyd had other minor hits including "Keep Your Hands Off
My Baby" in 1962 and "Old Smokey Loco-Motion" in 1963. She sang
background for The Drifters, Ben E. King and others. Cape said
Boyd continued to work until October 2001 when she became too
weak from her illness to perform. Boyd is survived by two
daughters, a son, 15 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
I was fortunate enough to interview Little Eva for 'Girl Groups'.
May her legacy never die.
John Clemente
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