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’d ...

I think a lot of people are familiar with this song going back to 1962, performed by Little Eva which was a #1 hit for her that summer. A song about a dance! Some twelve years later, a hard-rock band ...

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 ...

Kylie Minogue was already on the right track when she recorded her cover of "The Loco-Motion" in 1987. The dance anthem kicked off a decades-spanning career and one of the most passionate fan bases in ...

Kylie Minogue used to find performing 'The Loco-Motion' "so uncool". The 56-year-old pop idol has her 1988 cover of the 1962 dance-pop song penned by Gerry Goffin and Carole King to thank for ...

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, ...

Australian singer Kylie Minogue is in the Los Angeles airport, about to catch a flight for Japan, where she will spend a week promoting her current album, ”Kylie,” and generally furthering her music ...

The Australian pop diva explained to ET how an impromptu performance unexpectedly led to her breakout success on the music scene. Kylie Minogue was already on the right track when she recorded her ...