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Little Eva - The Best Of Little Eva (1963)

Track listing:
  1. The Loco-Motion 2:28
  2. Keep Your Hands Off My Baby 2:35
  3. Where Do I Go 2:12
  4. Let's Turkey Trot 2:32
  5. Swinging On A Star 2:39
  6. Old Smokey Locomotion 2:35
  7. The Christmas Song 3:11
  8. What I Gotta Do (To Make You Jealous) 2:00
  9. The Trouble With Boys 2:34
  10. Heigh-Ho 2:37
  11. Just A Little Girl 2:58
  12. Please Hurt Me 2:48
  13. Makin' With The Magilla 2:27
  14. Wake Up John 1:59
  15. Get Him 2:22

Notes

Collectables' The Best of Little Eva features her smash "The Loco-Motion," her follow-up hits "Keep Your Hands off My Baby" and "Let's Turkey Trot," as well as less-distinctive songs that are enjoyable but don't play to her strengths in the ways that her best-known songs do. Songs like "Where Do I Go?" and "Get Him" attempt to recast Little Eva as a more conventional girl group singer, while "Swinging on a Star" and "Old Smokey Loco-Motion" attempt to capitalize on her biggest hit with diminishing returns. "The Trouble With Boys," "What I Gotta Do (To Make You Jealous)," and "Makin' With the Magilla" come closest to matching the heights of her best work, but just don't have as much fun and dance-ability as "The Loco-Motion." Llll-Little Eva!: The Complete Dimension Recordings is the definitive Little Eva collection, but The Best of Little Eva provides all of her hits and enough interesting misses to make it a worthwhile retrospective as well.