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| 01/13/2008 (4 out of 5 stars) Eileen Barton s 1950 recording of If I Knew You Were Comin I d ve Baked a Cake was songwriter Bob Merrill s very first pop hit, and he went on to create such pop classics as Rosemary Clooney s Mambo Italiano, Guy Mitchell s (There s a Pawnshop on a Corner in) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Patti Page s mega-hit How Much Is That Doggie in the Window? However, Merrill s major claim to fame (infamy?) was writing . . . one of the most recognizable, most parodied, and (for non-Streisand fans) most irritating lyrics of all time: People/People who need people/Are the luckiest people in the world. (Marc Steyn, in an article posted on slate.com, dated April 9, 1998) Furthermore, writes Steyn, Merrill is the man who single-handedly produced the worst songs of the decade and so debauched the currency of mainstream Tin Pan Alley that it had no moral authority to resist rock n roll.