Three-time Tony Award winner Charles Strouse composed the music for such classics as “Annie,” “Bye Bye Birdie” and “Applause.

and featured Margret’s now iconic performance of the film’s newly added title song, “Bye Bye Birdie.” Strouse would later win a 1996 Emmy Award for the new song, “Let’s Settle Down ...

You know his songs, from "It's the Hard Knock Life" to "Those Were the Days," the theme from All in the Family.

and featured Margret’s now iconic performance of the film’s newly added title song, “Bye Bye Birdie.” Strouse would later win a 1996 Emmy Award for the new song, “Let’s Settle Down,” written with ...

Charles Strouse, a composer whose hits on the Broadway shows “Annie” and “Bye Bye Birdie” earned him three Tony Awards, a ...

In a career that spanned more than 50 years, Strouse wrote more than a dozen Broadway musicals, as well as film scores and ... on a Happy Face” from “Bye Bye Birdie,” his first Broadway ...

He wrote some of the most enduring musical theater numbers of his era and earned three Tony Awards, a Grammy and an Emmy. The composer Charles Strouse in 2002. His Broadway hits included “Annie ...

‘By Bye Birdie’ lifts him upHis Broadway career ... Strouse remembered.The popularity of “Birdie” spawned a film (with Van Dyke, Janet Leigh and Ann-Margret) in 1963 and a television ...

The 1982 film version, which featured Carol Burnett ... and “Bring Back Birdie” (1981), a sequel to “Bye Bye Birdie.” Yet even his flops contained impressive music, particularly “Rags ...