Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few songs in pop history are a hit one time. “The Loco-Motion” did it three times. The song was originally recorded almost by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Few songs in pop history are a hit one time. “The Loco-Motion” did it three times. The song was originally recorded almost by accident by Little Eva—who had been babysitting for Goffin and King at the ...