"The Loco-Motion" is a 1962 pop song written by the husband-and-wife team of Gerry Goffin and Carole King. The song and dance took off when their babysitter Eva Boyd — better known as Little Eva — recorded it and choreographed the chugga-chugga-motion.

The song is notable for appearing at the Top-3 of the US "Billboard Hot 100" three separate times, each time in a different decade: in 1962 by Little Eva (U.S. No. 1); in 1974 by the band Grand Funk Railroad (also U.S. No. 1); and in 1988 by the Australian singer Kylie Minogue (U.S. No. 3).

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