Little Things Mean a Lot

"Little Things Mean a Lot"
Single by Kitty Kallen
B-side"I Don't Think You Love Me Anymore"
ReleasedMarch 8, 1954 (1954-03-08)
RecordedDecember 30, 1953
StudioDecca, New York City
GenreTraditional pop
Length2:57
LabelDecca
Songwriter(s)Edith Lindeman, Carl Stutz
Producer(s)Jack Pleis
Kitty Kallen singles chronology
"Are You Looking for a Sweetheart?"
(1953)
"Little Things Mean a Lot"
(1954)
"In the Chapel in the Moonlight"
(1954)

"Little Things Mean a Lot" is a popular song, with lyrics by Edith Lindeman and music by Carl Stutz, published in 1953.[1] Lindeman was the leisure editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and Stutz, a disc jockey from Richmond, Virginia.[1] Stutz and Lindeman are also known for writing Perry Como's 1959 hit, "I Know" (which reached No.47 on the U.S. Billboard chart, No.32 in Canada, and No.13 on the UK Singles Chart).[2]

The best known recording of "Little Things Mean a Lot," by Kitty Kallen (Decca 9-29037), reached No.1 on the Billboard chart in 1954, and also reached No.1 on the Cash Box chart the same year. Billboard ranked it as the No. 1 song of 1954. In addition, the track climbed to the top spot in the UK Singles Chart in September of that same year.[1]

  1. ^ a b c Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 14. ISBN 0-85112-250-7.
  2. ^ "CHUM Hit Parade - June 29, 1959".