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 ...

HARTFORD, Conn. — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fans of novelty music were saddened to learn of the death of Charles Vance, co-writer of novelty hit "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" earlier this week only it wasn't that Charles ...

In 1960, songwriter Paul Vance took his family to a beach near their home on New York's Long Island. His 2-year-old daughter, Paula, was wearing a two-piece swimsuit for the first time and was shy ...

I have only recently started using emojis, and I often choose the wrong ones -- the other day, for instance, I meant to send an “astonished” face (😲) and instead sent an “embarrassed” face (😳).

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. See now: This is ...

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 ...

Paul Vance, the songwriter behind a string of hits in the 1950s and '60s, has died at age 92. Vance died on May 30 at a nursing facility in West Palm Beach, Florida, while accompanied by his daughter ...

Paul Vance, one of the most successful songwriters of the bubblegum pop era in the early 1960s, died May 30 at age 92. Born Joseph Paul Florio, Vance and cowriter Lee Pockriss were a songwriting ...