# Carl Stutz

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{{Short description|American composer (?–1996)}}
'''Carl Stutz''' (died October 8, 1996) was an American composer, radio announcer and teacher.

Collaborating with lyricist [Edith Lindeman](/source/Edith_Lindeman), he wrote the music for several popular songs in the 1950s. His most well-known composition was "[Little Things Mean a Lot](/source/Little_Things_Mean_a_Lot)", which was the #1 song in the U.S. in 1954. The [Kitty Kallen](/source/Kitty_Kallen) recording sold over a million copies in just a few weeks. He and Lindeman also collaborated on "[Red Headed Stranger](/source/Red_Headed_Stranger_(song))", which was a hit song for [Willie Nelson](/source/Willie_Nelson), and  "[Blackberry Winter](/source/Blackberry_winter)", which became a  back-door million-seller as the [B-side](/source/A-side_and_B-side) of [Mitch Miller's](/source/Mitch_Miller) recording of [The Yellow Rose of Texas](/source/The_Yellow_Rose_of_Texas_(song)), a #1 hit in the U.S. in 1955.<ref name="obit">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/14/arts/carl-stutz-radio-announcer-80.html |title=Carl Stutz, Radio Announcer, 80 |work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times) |date=1996-10-14 |accessdate=2015-01-25 }}</ref><ref name="edith">{{cite news |url=http://www.outsidethewalls.org/obit.pdf |title=Edith Lindeman Calisch, critic and lyricist, dies |work=[Richmond Times-Dispatch](/source/Richmond_Times-Dispatch) |location=Richmond, Virginia |date=1984-12-24 |accessdate=2015-01-25 }}</ref>

During his songwriting years, Stutz was an announcer at powerhouse radio station [WRVA](/source/WRVA_(AM)) in [Richmond, Virginia](/source/Richmond%2C_Virginia). He later became a high-school mathematics teacher at [Manchester High School](/source/Manchester_High_School_(Virginia)) in [Chesterfield](/source/Chesterfield_County%2C_Virginia), [Virginia](/source/Virginia). Carl Stutz died, at age 80, in Richmond on October 8, 1996.

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