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Paul Vance
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American record producer and songwriter (1929–2022)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Catch a Falling Star
- Weep-Pea and the Big Fat Juicy Red Strawberry
- Five Dysfunction of a Team
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1929
- Active to
- 2022
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 192
- Total plays
- 677
Paul Vance (born November 4, 1929[1] in Brooklyn, New York, United States) is an American songwriter and record producer. With over 300 recorded songs, Vance co-wrote (with Lee Pockriss) such hits as "Catch a Falling Star," recorded in 1957 by Perry Como, which topped Billboard's "Most Played By Jockeys" chart and became one of Como's signature songs, and "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini," recorded in 1960 by Brian Hyland, which rose to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. <a href
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Paul
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn
- Place of death
- West Palm Beach
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- popular music
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- date of birth
- 1929-11-04
- pseudonym
- Paul J. Vance
- date of death
- 2022-05-30
- birth name
- Joseph Paul Florio
- copyright representative
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
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