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| From | "David Bash" <bashpop@earthlink.net> |
| Subject | Re: FW: Spectropop - Little Eva |
| Date | Sun, 13 Apr 2003 21:48:36 -0700 |
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--- In audities@yahoogroups.com, Craig Leve <snap_crackle_pop@c...> wrote:
> 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
Yeah, this is a real shame. Of course everyone knows about "The
Loco-Motion", but fans of the Magilla Gorilla show may also know that it was
Little Eva who sang another excellent dance tune "Makin With The Magilla" .
I found this out completely by accident: I had loved the song ever since I
heard it on the cartoon, but I never knew who did it until one day in the
'80s when my friend Bruce was compiling several tapes of 1964 chart hits. I
was at his apartment helping him audition some of the tunes, and he played
what he thought going to be "Opportunity" by The Jewels, on the Dimension
label. It turned out to be "Makin With The Magilla", which I had never
known was on a record! We checked out The Jewels' discography and it wasn't
listed. I thought "maybe the record is mis-labeled", and it occured to me
that the vocalist did sound like another Dimension artist, Little Eva. I
looked up her discography, and there was "Makin With The Magilla"!
You can now find the song and many other great ones on several Little Eva CD
comps, the best one being "LLLL Little Eva: The Dimension Recordings", on
West Side Records.
That's my digression for the night.
--
Pop Rules!!!!!
Take Care,
David
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