See now: This is the type of shit that makes me wonder what I was thinking when I took this whole fucking column on in the first place. For one week in 1960, enough people decided that they wanted to ...

Paul Vance, a longtime Brill Building songwriter best-known for co-writing the infamous 1960 chart-topper "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini," has died. The Washington Post reports that ...

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - Brian Hyland hit the Top 40 charts as a teen heartthrob in the summer of 1960. Born in 1943 in Brooklyn, New York, he studied guitar and clarinet while at the same time ...

Songwriter Paul Vance, who earned pop culture immortality with the 1960 smash about a bashful bather, “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini,” has died. He was 68. The New Milford-raised ...

HARTFORD, CONN. (AP) - Paul Vance remembers calling his friend and fellow songwriter Lee Pockriss more than 50 years ago to share the lyrics of a song he had just written: “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie ...

HARTFORD — Lee Pockriss, who wrote pop hits such as "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" for an eager, youthful post-World War II generation, has died in Connecticut after a long illness ...

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See now: This is the type of shit that makes me wonder what I was thinking when I took this whole fucking column on in the first place. For one week in 1960, enough people decided that they wanted to ...

Paul Vance, writer of “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini,” has died, his daughter Paula Vance revealed via Facebook. According to his daughter’s post, Vance — born Joseph Paul Florio on ...

HARTFORD, Conn.HARTFORD, Conn. — Paul Vance remembers calling his friend and fellow songwriter Lee Pockriss more than 50 years ago to share the lyrics of a song he had just written: “Itsy Bitsy Teenie ...

He also wrote "Catch a Falling Star" and "Tracy," and his songs were performed by the likes of Frank Sinatra, Shirley Bassey, and Robert Goulet. Sara Netzley has over 25 years of experience covering ...