RIP Lee Pockriss, 87, wrote ‘Itsy Bitsy’ Bikini and other hits

[Wayback]

Lee Pockriss wrote the music for '50s & '60s pop hits like “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini,” Perry Como's “Catch a Falling Star,” Shelly Fabares “Johnny Angel,” "Leader of the Laundromat," a 1964 spoof of the Shangri-Las' "Leader of the Pack" by the Detergents; "Tracy" for the Cuff Links and "Playground in My Mind" for Clint Holmes. He also wrote songs for “Sesame Street,” including “My Polliwog Ways,” sung by Kermit the Frog: www.youtube.com/watch?v=67XSt4SwnbE
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/arts/music/lee-pockriss-composer-and-songwriter-is-dead-at-87.html

[ggould]

Lee Pockriss wrote the music for 1950s & '60s pop hits like “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini,” Perry Como's “Catch a Falling Star” and Shelly Fabares “Johnny Angel.”   He also wrote songs for “Sesame Street,” including “My Polliwog Ways,” sung by Kermit the Frog: www.youtube.com/watch?v=67XSt4SwnbE
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/arts/music/lee-pockriss-composer-and-songwriter-is-dead-at-87.html

I never knew who wrote these songs, but I was a big fan of Bikini and Johnny Angel.

[RGMike]

Lee Pockriss wrote the music for 1950s & '60s pop hits like “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini,” Perry Como's “Catch a Falling Star” and Shelly Fabares “Johnny Angel.”   He also wrote songs for “Sesame Street,” including “My Polliwog Ways,” sung by Kermit the Frog: www.youtube.com/watch?v=67XSt4SwnbE
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/arts/music/lee-pockriss-composer-and-songwriter-is-dead-at-87.html

I never knew who wrote these songs, but I was a big fan of Bikini and Johnny Angel.

Perry Como was big in my house when I was 5 or 6. "Catch a Falling Star", "Hot Diggity" and so on.

[ggould]

Lee Pockriss wrote the music for 1950s & '60s pop hits like “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini,” Perry Como's “Catch a Falling Star” and Shelly Fabares “Johnny Angel.”   He also wrote songs for “Sesame Street,” including “My Polliwog Ways,” sung by Kermit the Frog: www.youtube.com/watch?v=67XSt4SwnbE
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/arts/music/lee-pockriss-composer-and-songwriter-is-dead-at-87.html

I never knew who wrote these songs, but I was a big fan of Bikini and Johnny Angel.

Perry Como was big in my house when I was 5 or 6. "Catch a Falling Star", "Hot Diggity" and so on.

As the young folk used to say, True Dat!