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 ...

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 ...

The post R.I.P. Paul Vance, “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini” Songwriter Dead at 92 appeared first on Consequence. Paul Vance, the songwriter behind “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow ...

The man who co-wrote the song “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini” had the unsettling experience this week of reading his own obituary — the result of an impostor who went through life ...

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, 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 ...