Kylie Minogue Chart History". RÚV. March 29, 2016. Archived from the original on January 31, 2018 . Retrieved January 30, 2018. Disco group Ritz covered this song in 1979. Their version peaked at number one in New Zealand for seven non-consecutive weeks in 1980, [33] becoming the most successful record of the year there. [34] The Ritz version was also a top-20 hit in Australia, Sweden, and Switzerland. [35] [36] The live arrangement that Kylie Minogue performed on her Golden Tour and Summer 2019 Tour is based upon this recording. Much more successful was Swingin' On A Star, a finger-snapping update of the old Jimmy van Heusen and Johnny Burke song, on which Eva duetted with Big Dee Irvin, although she was uncredited on the record label. The song was a top 10 hit in Britain in 1963-64. Top 100 Singles of '88" (PDF). RPM. Vol.49, no.10. December 24, 1988. p.9 . Retrieved March 24, 2019. Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 324. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.

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The Loco-Motion" appeared on Grand Funk Railroad's album Shinin' On and was released as a single in February 1974, eventually peaking at No.1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart for two weeks in May 1974. It also reached number 5 in Australia, peaked at number 1 in Canada, and reached number 11 in Germany. Sylvie Vartan – Le Loco-Motion / Aussi Loin Que J'irai / Oui C'est Lui / Comme L'été Dernier". Discogs. 1962 . Retrieved November 24, 2017. It is often claimed that Goffin and King were amused by Boyd's particular dancing style, so they wrote " The Loco-Motion" for her and had her record it as a demo (the record was intended for Dee Dee Sharp). However, as King said in an interview with NPR and in her "One to One" concert video, 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, the most successful being "The Loco-Motion". Music producer Don Kirshner of Dimension Records was impressed by the song and Boyd's voice and had it released. [2] The song reached No. 1 in the United States in 1962. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. [2] Little Eva" was a USAAF Consolidated B-24 Liberator which crashed north-west of Burketown, Queensland (near the Gulf of Carpentaria) on 2 December 1942. The aircraft was returning from a bombing mission when its crew became lost. As the fuel supply approached exhaustion some of the crew took to their parachutes. The survivors, now in two groups, set out on foot. Two of the crew travelled east and came across people after twelve days. The other party travelled west, with the only surviving member being found some five months later.Boyd was born in Belhaven, North Carolina in 1943 and had twelve siblings. At the age of fifteen, she moved to the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, New York. [1] [2] As a teenager, Boyd worked as a maid and earned extra money as a babysitter for songwriters Carole King and Gerry Goffin. [2] a b "Australian Music Report No 677 – 13 July 1987 > Singles: New Releases". Australian Music Report . Retrieved August 24, 2017– via Imgur.com.

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Topsy (left) and Little Eva, characters from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851–52); lithograph by Louisa Corbaux, 1852. National Top 100 Singles for 1980". Kent Music Report. January 5, 1981 . Retrieved January 17, 2022– via Imgur. December 1942 Crash of a B-24 Liberator near Burketown, QLD". 11 May 2010 . Retrieved 3 August 2012.Dinah, the only survivor, claims her disturbed younger sister Eve finally went mad and offered her whole family up as a sacrifice to the strange being known as the Adder they’ve been raised to worship. What exactly happened to Eve and to the residents of Atnaharra is a story that only the rest of the novel can tell, but trust when I tell you its secrets are nothing like what you think. Legend has it variously that King and Goffin discovered Eva's talent when they heard her singing around the house, or when her informal dancing inspired the duo to compose the Loco-motion. King's more prosaic version was that she was already aware of her maid's vocal abilities when she hired her.