Although the prevailing rumor in the 1970s was that she had received only $50 for "The Loco-Motion", it seems $50 was actually her weekly salary at the time she made her records (an increase of $15 from what Goffin and King had been paying her as nanny). She never owned the rights to her recordings. She retired from the music industry in 1971. She continued to tour and record throughout the sixties, but her commercial potential plummeted after 1964. Kennedy was assassinated while touring Dallas in an open car caravan. tour and she was set to perform for the tour's 15th show scheduled for the night of Novemat the Memorial Auditorium in Dallas, Texas when suddenly the Friday evening event was cancelled moments after U.S. In 1963, American Bandstand signed her with Dick Clark's Caravan of Stars national U.S. Boyd also recorded the song "Makin' With the Magilla" for an episode of the 1964 Hanna-Barbera cartoon series The Magilla Gorilla Show. īoyd's other single recordings were " Keep Your Hands Off My Baby", " Let's Turkey Trot", and a remake of the Bing Crosby standard " Swinging on a Star", recorded with Big Dee Irwin (though Boyd was not credited on the label). When they inquired why she tolerated such treatment, Eva replied without batting an eyelid that her boyfriend's actions were motivated by his love for her. The same year, Goffin and King wrote " He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)" (performed by the Crystals) after discovering that Boyd was being regularly beaten by her boyfriend. Īfter the success of "The Loco-Motion", Boyd was stereotyped as a dance-craze singer and was given limited material. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. Music producer Don Kirshner of Dimension Records was impressed by the song and Boyd's voice and had it released. 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". 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). As a teenager, she worked as a maid and earned extra money as a babysitter for songwriters Carole King and Gerry Goffin. At the age of fifteen she moved to the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, New York.
Boyd was born in Belhaven, North Carolina in 1943 and had twelve siblings.
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