This song was written by the great Carole King and her husband Gerry Goffin, who were married at the time, and Eva Narcissus Boyd, whose stage name was Little Eva, worked as a babysitter for Carole King and Gerry Goffin.
"The Loco-Motion" was written by the great Carole King (with Gerry Goffin lyrics). I do think that if you truly love Rock and R&B, then you have to love the "Girl Groups" (as they were known) and girl singers of the early 1960s: The Chiffons, The Crystals, The Ronettes, The Shangri-Las, Lesley Gore, The Chantels, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Darlene Love, Rosie and The Originals, The Shirelles, The Marvelettes, The Exciters and The Orlons (both with one male member), The Dixie Cups, The Toys, Little Eva, Peggy March, Barbara Lewis, The Cinderellas/The Cookies, The Paris Sisters, Skeeter Davis, The Supremes, etc.
There were a few versions of this song. Little Eva was the first one to record this!! Carole King wrote so many hits for other people and finally started to sing her own songs. Check out any song from her Tapestry album. 🔥
Carol and Gerry lived across the street from me at 2635 Brown Street in Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn when I was 9 years old. They had a maid or a babysitter. A black young teenager named Eva. Eventually she recorded a song they wrote called 'The Loco Motion'.😊
Carole King was writing Motown songs and little Eva was her babysitter Carole King wrote do The Locomotion and Little Eva sang it and was no longer a babysitter after that
So many stories about this song. Originally written for Deedee Sharp who sang The Mash Potato. She rejected it and Carole King gave it to a 19 year old Little Eva (supposedly her babysitter). It went to #1 in 1962. In 1974 Grand Funk Railroad recorded it and also had a #1 hit. Finally in 1988 Kylie Minogue hit the charts with it and went to #1 in several countries but only #3 in the US. The video shown of Little Eva is supposed to be the only known existing video of her singing. She only made $50 a week and got no royalties and in the early '70s moved home to North Carolina broke. She passed away about 20 years ago. Lots of people half expected a big push to make it a hit again in the '90s.
When I was about 9 years old, there were two songs on the radio that I was absolutely obsessed with. One of them was this song. I still love it. The other was Duke of Earl. As others have mentioned, you should listen to the cover of Locomotion by Grand Funk Railroad for comparison. They stayed true to the song but gave it an updated 70's flavor.
Little Eva was the 18-year-old babysitter for the famed songwriters Carole King and Gerry Coffin, who wrote this song and got Eva to record it. You should react to some of Carole King's solo records from the early 1970s, like "You've Got a Friend," "So Far Away" and "I Feel the Earth Move (Under My Feet)." Her album "Tapestry" is a classic.
"The Locomotion" was a #1 U.S. hit in the 60's, 70's and 80's. Little Eva, Grank Funk, and Kylie Minogue. Throughout the 90's, I waited for somebody to keep the streak alive, but no such luck!
Wow! This takes me back to a youth club I used to go to back in 1962, when I was 14. The other big song at the time was Del Shannon's 'Runaway'. Such happy and uncomplicated days - for me at any rate! Little Eva was just 19 when this was released. Cheers, Harri.
This looks like it was from Shindig! A great music show in the U.S. 1964-66, and I recognize the Blossoms with Darlene Love doing the backing. So many great artists and songs on that show, and this is almost certainly live!
As "alarm clocks" go, my personal favorite is Strawberry Alarm Clock, the band that recorded the great "Incense and Peppermints," a landmark psychedelic hit from 1967. HarriBest, you oughta check it out!
I remember my parents singing and dancing to this when I was little, then all 3 kids would jump in! Such great memories. It thrilled me, then, when Grand Funk Railroad covered it for my generation in high school😎
Little Eva got this song from Carol King/Gerry Goffin who were a huge Brill Building husband and wife songwriting team (Before they divorced and Carol started her hugely successful Singer/Songwriter career) by way of being their nanny/housekeeper. There is a really good later 70's cover by Grand Funk also.
I remember as a bride 30 years ago I had almost everyone at our reception Dancing all over the hall. A big train of people connected like train. Great memories💞💜
This was great. It came out when I was eight but I was definitely aware of it! Little Eva turned it into a smash hit and credit goes to Carole King for writing another winner (she wrote so many for so many artists)! Nice 🌺✌️
Harri, I’d like to see a list of all the songs that you grew up with, only to find out now, that they were done by someone else. It blows my mind, that the songs I grew up listening to in the 50’s, 60’s, and ‘70’s, were done by someone else in the UK…and you grew up listening to a “counterfeit” version. ( it must have been a UK-thing, back in the day, to have “your” artists cover our music. ) Love your reactions and the insight you bring to this channel. Keep bursting those childhood “bubbles,” that you grew up with!!!
You're right - virtually all of 1950s and early 60s pop music in the UK was American - either the original versions or very often covers by UK artists. But there was one significant upside in particular to all this borrowing (or 'counterfeit'): UK musicians' passionate love of American music plus a far more relaxed attitude to race relations resulted in a lot of previously shamefully neglected African-American artists ending up becoming successful, well-known and greatly respected in the UK. Prior to that, back home in the States their recordings had generally been relegated to the (low) status of 'race music' and (IIUC) not played at all by radio stations catering to mainstream, white audiences. The so-called British Invasion of these black-American-music-inspired UK artists into the US, brought its own rich heritage back to America and finally into mainstream recognition there, thus completing the circle. I don't know this for sure, but I would imagine, this must have made a considerable contribution to the ending of African American segregation and disenfranchisement in the 60s.
This song was a hit three times over in three different eras in three different styles: Little Eva's early 60s quasi-Motown version; American band Grand Funk Railroad's 70s hard rock version; Kylie Minogue's late 80s dance pop version.
Little Eva was Carole King and Gerry Goffins babysitter when they lived in West Orange NJ….she was also a singer wannabe….they wrote it…she recorded it…..it was a huge hit.
Yes, as mentioned, this was written by Carole King when she was 19, along with her husband Gerry Goffin. Eva was their baby sitter. This was recorded in 1961 and released in 1962....way before Kylie whatever her name is. Interestingly, the song was written for Dee Dee Sharp. Little Eva (Boyd) recorded the demo and Dee Dee passed on it so it was re-recorded and released by Eva. Back in the day many many song writers worked in The Brill Building in NYC, affectionately as "Tin Pan Alley" where they could also collaborate with other writer, musicians, work with publishers that were housed there, etc. It was kind of all you needed in one place. King & Goffin were part of that beehive of activity that goes back to around 1900.
My mom taught me this back in the 80s..lol. ditto, Ponytime, Mash Potato, Bunnyhop,The Twist, Let's Twist Again, Land of 1000 Dances.... mom loved to dance, so did my dad. They were in high demand at dances by my friends...think they taught all of us. Sadly both were immobile in their last years. They were a lot of fun.
Carole King wrote so many songs for other artists before she got divorced and went on her own. Tapestry was an album owned by so many of us in the 70s. They even have a Broadway musical about Carole King called Beautiful. It amazing! I was in tears at the end and was trying to hide them but looked at my son and he had tears as well. The Monkees Pleasant Valley Sunday was also written by her and Geffen. It would be fun to have you do songs from musicals. You would be surprised at how good they are. This month a movie Dear Evan Hansen is coming out and many of the songs from it are amazing.
OMG-Harri this has brought back soooo many memories. When I was in my 20s there was a band -the lead singer was Eva Jo. She used to sing this and we all danced!! Thank you so much for reacting to this!! Loved this song. ❤️❤️❤️
Harri, Since your doing the original from 1962 and you already know Kylie Minogues 1988 cover please check out Grand Funk Railroads 1974 cover version. It too was a Billboard #1 here in the states
"The Loco-Motion" was written by songwriters Gerry Goffin and Carole King in 1962. Little Eva took the song to No. 1 in the U.S that same year. Grand Funk Railroad took the song to No. 1 in the U.S in 1974. Kylie Minogue took the song to No. 3 in the U.S in 1988. I barely remember her version of the song. The other two versions still sound good though. How fairy tale crazy that Little Eva started out as Goffin and King's teenage babysitter -- "they knew she could sing when they met her and it would be just a matter of time before they would have her record songs they wrote" -- How fortunate for us!
These songs were so much fun to dance to at the sock hop! (You had to take your shoes off so the gym floor didn’t get scratched up 😂. We used to have dances in the lunch room ☮️♥️🌺
Yes, I can remember trying to work out the moves to this, just from the record (no videos then), at children's parties. But the really big dance craze of the era was the Twist, and I clearly recall being taught it by a little schoolfriend, in the bathroom, before we could hit the party scene to show off our skills!
Great song and I loved this when it came out. I think the three girls were the group known as The Blossoms, who had some hits of their own. And the middle lady in the Blossoms was Darlene Love who is a legend in her own right. Darlene love is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame yet there she was singing backup for Little Eva.
Google Carole King, Harri. You'll be AMAZED at the number of hits she wrote...both for herself and other artists. And her album "Tapestry" was one of the biggest selling of all time. Every song on that record is a hit.
I needed something upbeat to hear, been feeling down today, thanks 😊 I remember dancing in the living room with my mom to this song. My parents have both passed on now, and today I turn yet another year older, not fun when you're alone. My siblings are much older and have their own lives. Music is a wonderful thing 🎶 ❤ 💕
Another really great song from roughy this era that I know you'd love is "Rescue Me" by Fontella Bass (pronounced "bass," like the fish, not like the instrument). One of my all-time favorite songs. It's just so much fun. In the early to mid '60s, there were two prime-time TV shows here in America that featured music for the younger generation -- ABC-TV's "Shindig!" and NBC-TV's "Hullaballo." This looks like it was from a "Shindig!" telecast.
A suggestion for you. This was a time in the '60s when there were quite a few different dances that came out and each had a song to go with it. You could look up the different ones and the songs, such as The Twist, The Bristol Stomp, The Peppermint Twist, The Hully Gully, The Watusi, The Swim, The Jerk and I'm sure there were others that I've forgotten about over the years.
Wow, yesterday you did a reaction to Little Peggy March , I Will Follow Him. Now Little Eva . I' ll tell you , the pre Beatles era early sixties was full of great girl and girl group music . You can't go wrong . Great Reaction. Is Leslie Gore far behind ? lol
Ok harri, this is truely a golden oldie of the 60s.💞 im like you harri i would die without music. I was born 1950. My mom said i listen to music since i was 3👍👍😎
Harri, my man, we are the boomers who were the product of all the warriors coming home after a terrible war. It was thought that we were the winners in this debacle so the energies were high high high when the boys got home and took up with their women folk again. For 10 years after this from 1945 onward the baby population went nuts and by 1960 we were starting to get together with the girls and romance was the big thing at that time. Romance was everywhere and the boomers started to blossom. By the mid 60s this huge new population of young adults was in the swing of creativity in all aspects of society. Music was the loudest but everything was changing, art, culture, everything. Peace, love, dove, flower power, dabbling in new religions and philosphies all across the world. The hormones filled the air and so the greatest flood of musical creativity was the result. It was a special time that could be reproduced but only in that one special way that this timeline was produced. Love listening with you Sir Harri... Onward and upward my man.
Little Eva in 1962 & Grand Funk in 1974, both hit #1 & both came years before Kylie Minogue who charted at #3 here in the states in 1988. Carole King & Gerry Goffin had to have made a mint off of this song alone, but they wrote tons of others.
You are reminding me of what they called The Grafton Liverpool where I think the Beatles played back in the day. The spell was " Oh the Graftom, it is a Grab a Granny place " And nothing wrong with that either !
Hey I'm new to your channel and I really enjoy your reactions. I have a recommendation for you. Colin James. He's a Canadian. He's very popular in Canada, but not well known here. I'm making it my mission to get people to listen to him. Yes I'm very passionate about this. My two favorites are "Far away like a radio" and "Man's gotta be a stone". If you give him a taste you will be pleasantly surprised.
A related question: Would there ever have been Beach Boys songs like "God Only Knows" without a song like The Ronettes titanic "Do I Love You?" It's a chain, a web of musical influences. th-cam.com/video/wL7LaOVIyXU/w-d-xo.html
This song was written by the great Carole King and her husband Gerry Goffin, who were married at the time, and Eva Narcissus Boyd, whose stage name was Little Eva, worked as a babysitter for Carole King and Gerry Goffin.
"The Loco-Motion" was written by the great Carole King (with Gerry Goffin lyrics). I do think that if you truly love Rock and R&B, then you have to love the "Girl Groups" (as they were known) and girl singers of the early 1960s: The Chiffons, The Crystals, The Ronettes, The Shangri-Las, Lesley Gore, The Chantels, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Darlene Love, Rosie and The Originals, The Shirelles, The Marvelettes, The Exciters and The Orlons (both with one male member), The Dixie Cups, The Toys, Little Eva, Peggy March, Barbara Lewis, The Cinderellas/The Cookies, The Paris Sisters, Skeeter Davis, The Supremes, etc.
SO many great songs Carole and Gerry Goffin ( once married to each other) a load of great soul hits
Yes! LOVE those Girl Groups of the Sixties!
so many ettes
There were a few versions of this song. Little Eva was the first one to record this!! Carole King wrote so many hits for other people and finally started to sing her own songs. Check out any song from her Tapestry album. 🔥
Oh, my one of my great songs we danced to in the 60s at our sock hops. Our baby boomer music from our great era.❤❤❤❤❤
Carol and Gerry lived across the street from me at 2635 Brown Street in Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn when I was 9 years old. They had a maid or a babysitter. A black young teenager named Eva. Eventually she recorded a song they wrote called 'The Loco Motion'.😊
A U.S. group called Grand Funk Railroad did a version of this in 1974. Also was a huge #1 hit!
ELP did a instrumental version that was hot. And love Grand Funk's
Carole King was writing Motown songs and little Eva was her babysitter Carole King wrote do The Locomotion and Little Eva sang it and was no longer a babysitter after that
remenmer this song being played at out school disco - Dance back in 1962/3 when I was about 15
This song hit #1 on the Billboard Charts by 3 different acts. Little Eva Grand Funk Railroad and Kylie Minogue
GRAND FUNK RAILROAD had a big hit with this song in 1974
So many stories about this song. Originally written for Deedee Sharp who sang The Mash Potato. She rejected it and Carole King gave it to a 19 year old Little Eva (supposedly her babysitter). It went to #1 in 1962. In 1974 Grand Funk Railroad recorded it and also had a #1 hit. Finally in 1988 Kylie Minogue hit the charts with it and went to #1 in several countries but only #3 in the US. The video shown of Little Eva is supposed to be the only known existing video of her singing. She only made $50 a week and got no royalties and in the early '70s moved home to North Carolina broke. She passed away about 20 years ago. Lots of people half expected a big push to make it a hit again in the '90s.
In 1974 I did when Grand Funk Railroad covered it.
Grand Funks version can't be overlooked . Much respect from MA.
When I was about 9 years old, there were two songs on the radio that I was absolutely obsessed with. One of them was this song. I still love it. The other was Duke of Earl. As others have mentioned, you should listen to the cover of Locomotion by Grand Funk Railroad for comparison. They stayed true to the song but gave it an updated 70's flavor.
Little Eva was the 18-year-old babysitter for the famed songwriters Carole King and Gerry Coffin, who wrote this song and got Eva to record it. You should react to some of Carole King's solo records from the early 1970s, like "You've Got a Friend," "So Far Away" and "I Feel the Earth Move (Under My Feet)." Her album "Tapestry" is a classic.
I love 60's dance moves. Everyone could do them. The twist, mashed potato, etc. Grand Funk had a hit in the 70's when I was around 13 yrs old.
"The Locomotion" was a #1 U.S. hit in the 60's, 70's and 80's. Little Eva, Grank Funk, and Kylie Minogue.
Throughout the 90's, I waited for somebody to keep the streak alive, but no such luck!
Wow! This takes me back to a youth club I used to go to back in 1962, when I was 14. The other big song at the time was Del Shannon's 'Runaway'. Such happy and uncomplicated days - for me at any rate! Little Eva was just 19 when this was released. Cheers, Harri.
Another favorite, Grand Funk Railroad, did a fantastic cover of this. Peace.
High-school Little Eva playing on the jukebox at the park 1960s
This looks like it was from Shindig! A great music show in the U.S. 1964-66, and I recognize the Blossoms with Darlene Love doing the backing. So many great artists and songs on that show, and this is almost certainly live!
I used the version of this song by Grand Funk Railroad as an alarm clock for my daughter while she was in High School.
As "alarm clocks" go, my personal favorite is Strawberry Alarm Clock, the band that recorded the great "Incense and Peppermints," a landmark psychedelic hit from 1967. HarriBest, you oughta check it out!
Hey Harri your a beast.This is one of my favorite old songs.The seventies generation grew up with the great version by Grand Funk Railroad. Thanx.
So catchy! And the famous "Blossoms with Darlene Love " on backup vocals!
Yes Harri we did dance to this Very popular song and dance😎
Oh the Dance floor was so much fun and yes I could shake it. Still get on the floor at the Wedding receptions. Born 1950 !
Grand Funk Railroad's version is a rocker!!
Mark Farmer did a kick butt guitar solo.
My introduction to this song was the Grand Funk Railroad version in the early 70s. It was also my introduction to the band, so a very fond memory.
Loved Little Eva!
I remember my parents singing and dancing to this when I was little, then all 3 kids would jump in! Such great memories. It thrilled me, then, when Grand Funk Railroad covered it for my generation in high school😎
Little Eva got this song from Carol King/Gerry Goffin who were a huge Brill Building husband and wife songwriting team (Before they divorced and Carol started her hugely successful Singer/Songwriter career) by way of being their nanny/housekeeper. There is a really good later 70's cover by Grand Funk also.
I remember as a bride 30 years ago I had almost everyone at our reception
Dancing all over the hall.
A big train of people connected like train.
Great memories💞💜
A girlfriend tried to teach this dance to me when the song was a hit. Never learned the dance, but the song is just fabulous!
Used to listen to a lot of Motown back in the day. You must check out Mustang Sally by Wison Pickett. It is a classic!!
Love this song 🥰😍🤩 Remember it, who can forget 😉🙃🙂😊
My dad who was born in 1950 told me that in grade 5 the class danced this song. I'll always remember that.
This was great. It came out when I was eight but I was definitely aware of it! Little Eva turned it into a smash hit and credit goes to Carole King for writing another winner (she wrote so many for so many artists)! Nice 🌺✌️
In our days it was called going to the record shop Harri...great stuff..
Harri, I’d like to see a list of all the songs that you grew up with, only to find out now, that they were done by someone else.
It blows my mind, that the songs I grew up listening to in the 50’s, 60’s, and ‘70’s, were done by someone else in the UK…and you grew up listening to a “counterfeit” version. ( it must have been a UK-thing, back in the day, to have “your” artists cover our music. )
Love your reactions and the insight you bring to this channel. Keep bursting those childhood “bubbles,” that you grew up with!!!
Early Beatles and stones were covers.
You're right - virtually all of 1950s and early 60s pop music in the UK was American - either the original versions or very often covers by UK artists.
But there was one significant upside in particular to all this borrowing (or 'counterfeit'): UK musicians' passionate love of American music plus a far more relaxed attitude to race relations resulted in a lot of previously shamefully neglected African-American artists ending up becoming successful, well-known and greatly respected in the UK. Prior to that, back home in the States their recordings had generally been relegated to the (low) status of 'race music' and (IIUC) not played at all by radio stations catering to mainstream, white audiences.
The so-called British Invasion of these black-American-music-inspired UK artists into the US, brought its own rich heritage back to America and finally into mainstream recognition there, thus completing the circle. I don't know this for sure, but I would imagine, this must have made a considerable contribution to the ending of African American segregation and disenfranchisement in the 60s.
This song was a hit three times over in three different eras in three different styles: Little Eva's early 60s quasi-Motown version; American band Grand Funk Railroad's 70s hard rock version; Kylie Minogue's late 80s dance pop version.
Little Eva was Carole King and Gerry Goffins babysitter when they lived in West Orange NJ….she was also a singer wannabe….they wrote it…she recorded it…..it was a huge hit.
Grand Funk Railroad also did this song
Yes, as mentioned, this was written by Carole King when she was 19, along with her husband Gerry Goffin. Eva was their baby sitter. This was recorded in 1961 and released in 1962....way before Kylie whatever her name is. Interestingly, the song was written for Dee Dee Sharp. Little Eva (Boyd) recorded the demo and Dee Dee passed on it so it was re-recorded and released by Eva. Back in the day many many song writers worked in The Brill Building in NYC, affectionately as "Tin Pan Alley" where they could also collaborate with other writer, musicians, work with publishers that were housed there, etc. It was kind of all you needed in one place. King & Goffin were part of that beehive of activity that goes back to around 1900.
A wonderful Carole King song covered by many many many artists. And Thank You for all the early material, rarely get to hear these anymore.
The great Carole King wrote this hit for her babysitter, Eva! We all danced to this in sixth grade.
A great song, thank you for a great reaction. Believe me we had fun .
My mom taught me this back in the 80s..lol. ditto, Ponytime, Mash Potato, Bunnyhop,The Twist, Let's Twist Again, Land of 1000 Dances.... mom loved to dance, so did my dad. They were in high demand at dances by my friends...think they taught all of us. Sadly both were immobile in their last years. They were a lot of fun.
One of the best songs ever.
Carole King wrote so many songs for other artists before she got divorced and went on her own. Tapestry was an album owned by so many of us in the 70s. They even have a Broadway musical about Carole King called Beautiful. It amazing! I was in tears at the end and was trying to hide them but looked at my son and he had tears as well. The Monkees Pleasant Valley Sunday was also written by her and Geffen. It would be fun to have you do songs from musicals. You would be surprised at how good they are. This month a movie Dear Evan Hansen is coming out and many of the songs from it are amazing.
OMG-Harri this has brought back soooo many memories. When I was in my 20s there was a band -the lead singer was Eva Jo. She used to sing this and we all danced!! Thank you so much for reacting to this!! Loved this song. ❤️❤️❤️
Chubby Checkers..The Twist...With Attitude!
Harri, Since your doing the original from 1962 and you already know Kylie Minogues 1988 cover please check out Grand Funk Railroads 1974 cover version. It too was a Billboard #1 here in the states
"The Loco-Motion" was written by songwriters Gerry Goffin and Carole King in 1962. Little Eva took the song to No. 1 in the U.S that same year. Grand Funk Railroad took the song to No. 1 in the U.S in 1974. Kylie Minogue took the song to No. 3 in the U.S in 1988. I barely remember her version of the song. The other two versions still sound good though. How fairy tale crazy that Little Eva started out as Goffin and King's teenage babysitter -- "they knew she could sing when they met her and it would be just a matter of time before they would have her record songs they wrote" -- How fortunate for us!
Little Eva was Carol King's baby sitter and was 16 years old when she recorded Locomotion.
"love the way she's standing still, yet doing all these moves" : she is doing the "local motion".
These songs were so much fun to dance to at the sock hop! (You had to take your shoes off so the gym floor didn’t get scratched up 😂. We used to have dances in the lunch room ☮️♥️🌺
Other great Carole King songs include 'Natural Woman' and 'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow"
Yes, I can remember trying to work out the moves to this, just from the record (no videos then), at children's parties. But the really big dance craze of the era was the Twist, and I clearly recall being taught it by a little schoolfriend, in the bathroom, before we could hit the party scene to show off our skills!
Great song and I loved this when it came out. I think the three girls were the group known as The Blossoms, who had some hits of their own. And the middle lady in the Blossoms was Darlene Love who is a legend in her own right. Darlene love is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame yet there she was singing backup for Little Eva.
My favorite version.
I have heard both versions. This one and the 1974 Grand Funk Railroad version. Both are great to me.
Getting into the WayBack Machine for this one Harri!
she did it the best nowow .
Google Carole King, Harri. You'll be AMAZED at the number of hits she wrote...both for herself and other artists. And her album "Tapestry" was one of the biggest selling of all time. Every song on that record is a hit.
I needed something upbeat to hear, been feeling down today, thanks 😊 I remember dancing in the living room with my mom to this song. My parents have both passed on now, and today I turn yet another year older, not fun when you're alone. My siblings are much older and have their own lives. Music is a wonderful thing 🎶 ❤ 💕
Up and dancing
Little Eva was the babysitter for Carole King & Gerry Goffin
Another really great song from roughy this era that I know you'd love is "Rescue Me" by Fontella Bass (pronounced "bass," like the fish, not like the instrument). One of my all-time favorite songs. It's just so much fun. In the early to mid '60s, there were two prime-time TV shows here in America that featured music for the younger generation -- ABC-TV's "Shindig!" and NBC-TV's "Hullaballo." This looks like it was from a "Shindig!" telecast.
Hi Mr. Harri, Ms. Little Eva is my fellow North Carolinian.. ♠W.G.
One of the first "45s" I ever bought.
Carole King wrote Natural Woman. 4 Aretha Franklin and she also sang it herself you should react to both versions
A suggestion for you. This was a time in the '60s when there were quite a few different dances that came out and each had a song to go with it. You could look up the different ones and the songs, such as The Twist, The Bristol Stomp, The Peppermint Twist, The Hully Gully, The Watusi, The Swim, The Jerk and I'm sure there were others that I've forgotten about over the years.
Written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin. Little Eva babysat for them and Carole is one of the background voices.
You should also check out Grand Funk Railroad's version from '74.
Wow, yesterday you did a reaction to Little Peggy March , I Will Follow Him.
Now Little Eva . I' ll tell you , the pre Beatles era early sixties was full of great girl and
girl group music . You can't go wrong . Great Reaction. Is Leslie Gore far behind ? lol
Sounds like the UK has covered all or most of their music from the US and took credit for it.
Ok harri, this is truely a golden oldie of the 60s.💞 im like you harri i would die without music. I was born 1950. My mom said i listen to music since i was 3👍👍😎
Written by the great Carole King inspired by watching her maid doing the hoovering :)
Harri, my man, we are the boomers who were the product of all the warriors coming home after a terrible war. It was thought that we were the winners in this debacle so the energies were high high high when the boys got home and took up with their women folk again. For 10 years after this from 1945 onward the baby population went nuts and by 1960 we were starting to get together with the girls and romance was the big thing at that time. Romance was everywhere and the boomers started to blossom. By the mid 60s this huge new population of young adults was in the swing of creativity in all aspects of society. Music was the loudest but everything was changing, art, culture, everything. Peace, love, dove, flower power, dabbling in new religions and philosphies all across the world. The hormones filled the air and so the greatest flood of musical creativity was the result. It was a special time that could be reproduced but only in that one special way that this timeline was produced. Love listening with you Sir Harri... Onward and upward my man.
Little Eva in 1962 & Grand Funk in 1974, both hit #1 & both came years before Kylie Minogue who charted at #3 here in the states in 1988.
Carole King & Gerry Goffin had to have made a mint off of this song alone, but they wrote tons of others.
Little Eva was Carol King's babysitter
Oh Harri
thanks
I heard the song many times before but I never saw this video
this video is wonderful
Thanks
Ain’t it wonderful
You know the song is great when there is SO many remakes. LOVE this classic !!
I love this version. A little before my time but that was a great era for sure!
we had a good time daning in the sixtys
You are reminding me of what they called The Grafton Liverpool where I think the Beatles played back in the day. The spell was " Oh the Graftom, it is a Grab a Granny place " And nothing wrong with that either !
Funny. I only know the Little Eva version.
Little Eva was Carole King and Gerry Goffin's babysitter.
Little Eva was actually Carole king’s babysitter. True story.
React to Chubby Checkers, The Twist please and a little it older, Fats Domino, Blue Berry Hill.
I'm not sure what year this was, but I know it was the early 60's, because. I was a child and I'm 68 now. My sisters and I all danced to it!
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Little Eva was Carole King's baby sitter.
Try Barbara Lewis "Hello Stranger". I truly believe the female singers of this era opened the door for Civil rights.
Eva did it the best.
Now you have to do Kylie minogues version it's what got her spotted in the 80's she is still going 33years later!
A related question: Would there ever have been Beach Boys songs like "God Only Knows" without a song like The Ronettes titanic "Do I Love You?" It's a chain, a web of musical influences. th-cam.com/video/wL7LaOVIyXU/w-d-xo.html
Seriously you need to check out Grand Funk Railroad's cover of this song. 😎
Funnily enough I never heard Kylie monogue version only ❤ lil eva
The 60s is just yesterday.