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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's ...

Grand Funk (née Grand Funk Railroad) weren't the best of the early-'70s hard-rock titans, but they were probably the most shameless. The Michigan band were already tremendously popular arena-wreckers ...

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 ...