Collectables' The Best of Little Eva features her smash "The Loco-Motion," her follow-up hits "Keep Your Hands off My Baby" and "Let's Turkey Trot," as well as less-distinctive songs that are enjoyable but don't play to her strengths in the ways that her best-known songs do. Songs like "Where Do I Go?" and "Get Him" attempt to recast Little Eva as a more conventional girl group singer, while "Swinging on a Star" and "Old Smokey Loco-Motion" attempt to capitalize on her bigg...   [ read more ]

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Thanks to the crack songwriting team of Carole King and Gerry Goffin, Little Eva (Eva Boyd was actually Goffin & King's babysitter at the time) burst on the pop scene with two memorable singles in 1962, the undeniably catchy "The Locomotion" and the brilliantly realized "Keep Your Hands Off My Baby," but unfortunately that was pretty much it ("Let's Turkey Trot" did at least chart a year later) as Eva's producers reduced her to recording mindless fare like {&"Old Smokey Loco-M...   [ read more ]

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