WCSX Classic Cuts : The Loco-Motion
WCSX Classic Cuts
Grand Funk Railroad: “The Loco-Motion”
The Hook: Make it a party.
Album: Shinin’ On
Year: 1974
Writers: Gerry Goffin and Carole King
Stats: Topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks.
Background: How did Grand Funk come to record their cover of the 1962 Little Eva hit “The Loco-Motion,” with Todd Rundgren producing? The group’s drummer, Don Brewer, explains how it happened.
Grand Funk Railroad drummer Don Brewer on how they ended up covering Little Eva’s 1962 hit “The Loco-Motion” with Todd Rundgren producing. OC:…hour-and-a-half. :18.
“The whole reason ‘Loco-Motion’ came to be was Mark Farner went home to dinner, came back from dinner and walked in singing ‘Loc-Motion.’ [Sings: ‘Everybody’s…’] And it was like, ‘Let’s do that.’ And Rundgren’s, ‘Okay.’ And then Rundgren created this whole ‘let’s make it a party’ kind of thing – make it sound like a party. It was a hit — boom. I mean, we did that song in an hour and a half.”
