Little Eva Lets Turkey Trot ( Shindig, March 3, 1965)

Perhaps no babysitter in history got a bigger break than Eva Boyd, who baby sat for songwriters Carole King and Gerry Goffin. King and Goffin asked her to record a song they had written called The LocoMotion. Eva Narcissus Boyd was born June 29, 1943 in Bell Haven, North Carolina. In 1962, she moved to the Brighton Beach area of Brooklyn where she had relatives. One of her relatives new the Cookies and suggested her as a standin. So whenever one of the Cokies couldn t get out of class, Eva subsituted for her. Since the work was sporadic Eva often found herself babysitting songwriters Carol King and Gerry Goffin. Returning home one day they found her singing a song theyhad written for Dee dee Sharp. They Liked what they heard, so they rushed her into the sudio, with King doing the backing vocals. Eva Narcissus Boyd was born in Bellhaven, North Carolina in 1946, one of sixteen children. Little Eva was only sixteen when The Locomotion hit, 1. Her salary as the Goffins babys