on 4/28/03 6:57 PM, Gabriel Orgrease at [log in to unmask] wrote:

Carole Kings remarks, on public radio, about Eva depicted a relationship
that was more the that of a employer/employee.  Little Eva was something
special to King and to all of use who listened to her.



> Clipped from the Dead Mule blog:
>
> "Good bye to Little Eva
> For those of you old enough to remember everybody's doin' the
> loco-motion -- let us all have a moment of silence for Little Eva who
> died Thursday after a long illness. Eva Narcissus Boyd, one kid who made
> it big out of a family of 15 children, passed from this world leaving
> behind a minor musical legacy, The Loco-Motion was #1 in 1962. Carole
> King and Gerry Goffin hired Little Eva as a babysitter and discovered
> her singing talents. Ain't that sumpin? Apparently, King and Goffin
> wrote Loco-Motion just for Little Eva. Imagine that -- one of Belhaven
> NC's own, making the big time in the Big Apple.
>
> Everyone, put on your Hyde County Reeboks (don't know what those are?
> white plastic crabber boots) and dance down the street to the loco-motion."
>
> --
> To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the
> uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to:
> <http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>

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To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the
uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to:
<http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>