Paul Vance

Person · Open Library

Works

3

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1929

Active to

2022

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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

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations

   · 1958 · cited 70,588x

2. “Mini-mental state”

   · 1975 · cited 67,761x

3. Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support

   · 2009 · cited 45,549x

4. Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks

   · 2003 · cited 44,773x

5. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 34,730x

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Quotes

• “Catch a falling star an’ put it in your pocket,Never let it fade away!Catch a falling star an’ put it in your pocket,Save it for a rainy day!For love may come an' tap you on the shoulder,Some starless night!”
• “One and two and three and four,Tell them what the girlie wore.It was an itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikiniThat she wore for the first time today,An itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikiniSo in the locker she wanted to stay”
• “Your lips are thrillingMy arms are willingI know that I shouldn't stay.If I don't leave I'll be sorryWhat will my Mary say?”
• “My folks were always putting her down (down, down)Because her laundry came back brown (brown, brown)I don't care if they think she's badI fell in love cuz she looked so sadI got a date tonight with the Leader Of the Laundromat .”
• “Tracy, when I'm with youSomethin' you doBounces me off the ceilingTracy, day after dayWhen you're this wayI get a lovin' feelin'.”
• “When this old world gets me down and there's no love to be foundI close my eyes and soon I find I'm in a playground in my mindWhere the children laugh and the children playAnd we sing a song all day.”

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