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September 26, 2006
I can't believe what I did
Last Friday, Christy, our friend Lindsey and I drove to Cleveland. We spent most of our night at Corky's, where we owned the karaoke stage. Our friends in Cleveland have started playing a devious game wherein they enter karaoke songs for each other without telling them what it is. So, one would get called up to sing without knowing what will come up on the karaoke monitor.
I fell victim to this, and was forced to sing "Yellow Polka Dot Bikini." My terrible, horrible, no good very bad rendition must have reverberated throughout the country, because the fellow who wrote it croaked. Way to go, Christy!
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 Vance, whose real name was Paul Van Valkenburgh, died Sept. 6 at his home in Ormond Beach, Fla., said his wife of 32 years, Rose Leroux. He had been battling lung cancer for two years.
Posted by oz115 at September 26, 2006 09:47 PM
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Paul Vance my mom was a huge Perry Como fan and I believe he wrote "catch a falling star" a no #1 way back when :)
Posted by: khalli-vegas at September 27, 2006 07:37 AM