Career
Collaborating with lyricist Edith Lindeman, he wrote the music for several popular songs in the 1950s. His most well-known composition was "Little Things Mean a Lot", which was the #1 song in the United States. in 1954. The Kitty Kallen recording sold over a million copies in just a few weeks.
He and Lindeman also collaborated on "Red Headed Stranger", which was a hit song for Willie Nelson, and "Blackberry Winter", which became a back-door million-seller as the B-side of Mitch Miller"s recording of The Yellow Rose of Texas, a #1 hit in the United States. in 1955.
During his songwriting years, Stutz was an announcer at powerhouse radio station WRVA in Richmond, Virginia. He later became a high-school mathematics teacher.
Carl Stutz died, at age 80, in Richmond on October 8, 1996.
