Carl Stutz; Wrote Music for ‘Little Things Mean a Lot’

Carl Stutz, 80, a former radio announcer who co-wrote the song “Little Things Mean a Lot.” Stutz, who wrote the music for the song, collaborated with Edith Lindeman Calisch, a journalist, who wrote the lyrics. “Little Things Mean a Lot” was recorded by singer Kitty Kallen and sold more than 1 million copies. The sentimental song led the nationwide radio and television program “Your Hit Parade” in 1951. Stutz, a veteran announcer of radio station WRVA in Richmond, Va., later became a high school mathematics teacher. On Tuesday in Richmond, Va.