Unsophisticated voices.Ĭarole King: Eva sang, and I sang background with her. Gerry Goffin: She would always sing along to the songs we were writing in our little apartment. So I said, “Well, yeah, because in between sessions I’m gonna need some money.” Carole had one daughter, Lulu, and she was pregnant at the time. Little Eva: I wanted to be a recording artist-that was my dream. So, come on, come on do the Loco-Motion with meĪ somewhat similar account of the Little Eva/King/Goffin moment has been relayed by Vanity Fair writer, David Kamp:
It even makes you happy when you’re feeling blue There’s never been a dance that’s so easy to do Now that you can do it, let’s make a chain nowĪ chugga, chugga motion like a railroad train nowĭo it nice and easy now, don’t lose controlĬome on, come on, do the Loco-Motion with meĭo it holding hands if you get the notion So, come on, come on, do the Loco-Motion with me My little baby sister can do it with ease I know you’ll get to like it if you give it a chance now Sorcerers Carole King and Gerry Goffin had just conjured up a song called ‘the Loco-Motion’…” Abracadabra! And lyrics appeared describing Eva’s dance. “Then, poof! In a cloud of smoke-because Gerry was chained to cigarettes-he used his magic wand-a pencil-to write words on a pad. ‘What you’re doing reminds me of a locomotive!,’ exclaimed Carole’s 22-year-old husband …watching Eva dance.
And one day, as Carole sat conjuring up a new tune, Eva went so far as to invent a dance to it.
Sometimes she even learned the songs and sang them almost before her employers had finished writing them…. “…While the lady of the house, a girl only two years the baby-sitter’s senior, walked about the apartment bouncing her daughter to the rhythm of new melodies being born in her head, the baby-sitter dusted, polished, cleaned and picked up to the same bounce. 1 hit of 1962, on the Dimension record label. In 1962, sixteen year-old Eva Boyd was working as a live-in domestic and babysitter for the famous 1960s songwriting husband-and-wife team of Carole King and Gerry Goffin. King and Goffin were one of the teams that music publisher Don Kirshner had assembled at New York’s famed Brill Building, where a long list of successful pop music hits were hatched in the mid-1950s-through mid-1960s period. In Little Eva’s case, some of her innocent on-the-job dance moves and singing while babysitting led to a Goffin-King song idea that became “The Loco-Motion.” According to one 1963 story that ran in The Saturday Evening Post, the alleged “inventive moment” was reported to have occurred as follows:Ī 45 rpm record of "The Loco-Motion," Little Eva's No. It turns out that “The Loco-Motion” is one of a very few songs that managed to rise to the top of the popular music charts - to No.1, in fact - in three separate decades. “The Loco-Motion” topped the music charts of its day, and later went on to future fame with two other artists - Grand Funk Railroad, an American rock band of the 1970s, and Kylie Monogue, the Australian pop star of the 1980s and 1990s. “The Loco-Motion” is the name of a 1962 dance song recorded by a young artist named Eva Boyd, then known as Little Eva. ‘Little Eva’ Boyd of the 1960s shown on a later 2001 U.K.
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