 A similar melody to "In a Little Spanish Town" was used for "Why", written by Bob Marcucci (words) and Peter de Angelis in 1959, which topped the charts for Frankie Avalon in the USA that year and then for Anthony Newley in the UK in 1960.Copyright cases were launched on both sides of the Atlantic but neither succeeded.The English High Court said that there was a degree of similarity but no infringement of copyright because the plaintiffs could not prove that there was a conscious or subconscious act of copying.