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Small Eva Narcissus Boyd was a babysitter for Carole Ruler and Gerry Goffin when the songwriting group was inspired to create “The Loco-Motion,” a music predicated on a dance that Eva would do throughout the house. Eva also surely got to sing on the demonstration, which impressed Don Kirshner plenty …

The Chicago-based power pop quartet Cupcakes includes vocalist Preston Graves, guitarist/vocalist Greg Suran, bassist Solomon Snyder, and drummer Matt Walker. Before they created the Cupcakes, Walker, Snyder, and Graves performed in a music group known as Tribal Opera. When that group dissolved in the middle-’90s, Graves started collaborating with Suran, …