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

In a career that spanned more than 50 years, Strouse wrote more than a dozen Broadway musicals, as well as film scores and ...

The composer’s musicals, including “Annie” and “Bye Bye Birdie,” captured essential elements of American culture. Here are five of his most memorable songs.

Those Were the Days,” co-written by the late Charles Strouse, revolutionized the form — while slyly mocking Archie Bunker’s ...

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

NEW YORK — Charles Strouse, the composer of classic theater hits “Annie,” Bye, Bye Birdie” and “Applause,” has died. He was 96. Strouse died Thursday, May 15 in his home in New York, his family said ...

Broadway composer Charles Strouse, creator of the hit musicals Bye Bye Birdie, Applause and Annie, died at his home in New York City on Thursday.

Charles Strouse, the celebrated composer behind Broadway hits like ‘Annie’ and ‘Bye Bye Birdie’, has died at 96. His family ...

Three-time Tony Award-winner Charles Strouse, Broadway’s industrious, master melody-maker who composed the music for such ...

He’s known for such songs as “Tomorrow,” “It's the Hard Knock Life,” “Put on a Happy Face” and the ‘All in the Family’ theme ...

He missed that birdie putt, one of the few chances he didn't convert. There was little to complain about on a day of hardly any wind, a course in mint condition and warm sunshine that added to the ...