Talk:Paul Vance

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[edit] Age, birthdate questionable

If Vance indeed died at 68, he would have been no older than 15 at the end of the Korean War, and only 19 when he wrote Catch a Falling Star. --Elderjohn 04:04, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
(Comment moved here from article by Quicksilver)

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Lol he isn't dead, read this article, it's pretty funny really:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060927/ap_en_ot/itsy_bitsy_songwriter_5

Someone else can change it, I cba, I'm not a wikipedia editor or anything. And incorporate that news article I reckon, for the public interest and for anyone who reckons he's dead.

[edit] Origin

Note that the claim that the song was written about his wife being too shy to wear a bikini could not have been Van Valkenburgh, since he told his wife he had written the song, which was a hit, before they met. --Dhartung | Talk 22:59, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Ah. The problem seems to be that the story is what the real Vance told news media at the time of the song, and this was included in the original obituary published in Hartford, CT[1]. It was not what Van Valkenburgh or his wife Leroux told anybody, it was assembled from wire service records. Short answer: story stands, but maybe we need a separate source from the now-discredited AP obit. --Dhartung | Talk 23:03, 27 September 2006 (UTC)