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Cahn, Sammy (kän), 1913-93, American lyricist, b. New York City as Samuel Cohen. With his first collaborator, Saul Chaplin, he wrote material for vaudeville, and scored his first success (1935) with "Rhythm Is Our Business." He was even more successful with a 1938 version of the Yiddish "Bei Mir Bist du Shoen," which became a number-one hit for the Andrews Sisters. Cahn soon moved to Hollywood, where he collaborated with composer Jule Styne (1942-51) to write songs for 19 movies. He also wrote lyrics for several Broadway musicals, beginning with High Button Shoes (1947). Later collaborating with Jimmy Van Heusen, Cahn often worked with Frank Sinatra. The singer recorded 89 Cahn songs, including "Three Coins in the Fountain" (1954), "All the Way" 1957), "High Hopes" (1959), and "Call Me Irresponsible" (1963), each of which won Cahn an Academy Award. Toward the end of his active career (1974) he starred in a one-man Broadway show featuring his songs.
Bibliography
See his autobiography, I Should Care (1974).
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American composer Sammy Cahn was one of the last of the "tin pan alley" school of tunesmiths. After five years of churning out specialty numbers and nightclub material, Cahn wrote his first film score for the 1940 Andrews Sisters/Ritz Brothers vehicle Argentine Nights. Inasmuch as the songs in this picture contained such lyrics as "Amigo we go riding tonight," Cahn had nowhere to go but up. His first big hit, "I've Heard That Song Before," was featured in the B-plus musical Youth on Parade (1942). In 1947's It Happened in Brooklyn, Cahn wrote for Frank Sinatra for the first time. It was a professional "marriage" which would result in one top-ten success after another for Sinatra over the next three decades: "Time After Time," "All the Way," "High Hopes," "The Second Time Around," "Call Me Irresponsible," "My Kind of Town" and many more. While several of these songs were not written with Sinatra in mind ("Call Me Irresponsible" was sung by Jackie Gleason in Papa's Delicate Condition [1963]), it was Ol' Blue Eyes' interpretations that made them famous. Working most often in collaboration with Jule Styne and Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn wrote for both Hollywood and Broadway during his long career: his best remembered theatrical show was Mary Martin's Peter Pan (1953) ("I Gotta Crow," "I'm Flying," etc.). Nominated 30 times for the Academy Award, Cahn took home the gold-plated statuette on four occasions. In his last two decades, Sammy Cahn showed up frequently on TV and in live concerts; an ingratiating ham, Cahn could go on all night and into the next day with his "And then I wrote..." routine. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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| Born Samuel Cohen, June 18, 1913, in New York, NY; son of Abraham and Elka Riss Cohen; died of congestive heart failure, January 15, 1993, in Los Angeles, CA; married Gloria Delson, 1945 (divorced, 1964); married Virginia “Tita” Basile, 1970; children: Steven, Laurie. Joined Dixieland group Pals of Harmony as violinist, 1927; wrote first song, c. 1929; with pianist Saul Chaplin, wrote specialty songs for vaudeville acts; wrote songs for big-band singers, including Ella Fitzgerald, mid-1930s; wrote English lyrics to Yiddish song “Bei Mir Bist Du Schön (Means That Your Grand),” 1937; worked for Vitaphone Studios, New York City, late 1930s; split from Chaplin and began working with Jule Styne; worked with Frank Sinatra, early 1940s; worked with various composers; mounted Broadway show Words and Music, 1974; toured with show, 1975-early 1990s. President of Songwriters Hall of Fame. Contributed music to films, including Lady of Burlesque, 1943; Anchors Aweigh, 1945; Tonight and Every Night, 1945; Wonder Man, 1945; The Kid From Brooklyn, 1946; Romance on the High Seas, 1948; West Point Story, 1950; April in Paris, 1953; Peter Pan, 1953; Three Coins in a Fountain, 1954; You’re Never Too Young, 1955; The Court Jester, 1956; All the Way, 1956; The Man With the Golden Arm, 1956; Serenade, 1956; The Joker Is Wild, 1959; A Hole in the Head, 1959; High Time, 1960; A Pocketful of Miracles, 1961; Papa’s Delicate Condition, 1963; Robin and the Seven Hoods, 1964; Where Love Has Gone, 1964; Thoroughly Modern Millie, 1967; and Star, 1968. Awards: Academy awards, 1954, for “Three Coins in a Fountain,” from Three Coins in a Fountain; 1957, for “All the Way,” from The Joker Is Wild; 1959, for “High Hopes,” from A Hole in the Head; 1963, for “Call Me Irresponsible,” from Papa’s Delicate Condition. National Cash Box Award, 1959, for “High Hopes.” Inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame, 1972. |
Songwriter, entertainer
Call him irrepressible—Sammy Cahn always had a way with words. As a skinny, bespectacled kid, it kept him out of trouble with his parents and the neighborhood bullies. As an adult, his way with words made him one of the most popular and successful lyricists of all time.
Young Samuel Cohen was not a good student in the classroom, but he studied the theater voraciously; from an early age, he would cut classes to see movies and watch vaudeville shows. One time when he had been at the theater instead of at school, he was spotted by a friend of his mother, who reported Sammy’s truancy. He avoided punishment by brazenly lying his way out of the jam.
As a kid, he played the violin. But this was only a hobby until he was 13. At his bar mitzvah, he saw his mother pay the musicians and realized he could make money playing the violin. A year later he joined the small Dixieland orchestra his mother had hired, the Pals of Harmony. The group played local gigs and then began traveling to perform in hotels in Atlantic City and the summer resorts of the Catskills.
Sammy Cohen, who adopted the professional surname Cahn, wrote his first song when he was about 16 years old. As he recalled in his autobiography, I Should Care, "It was actually Jackie Osterman at the Academy of Music on 14th Street who inspired my song writing career. … In the middle of the act, [Osterman] took a change of pace and said he’d like to sing a song he’d written. It was a fascinating thing for me to be actually looking at a songwriter—in person. … Walking home … I began to frame a song in my head. By the time I reached home I had actually written a lyric. … The song was a piece of idiocy called "Like Niagara Falls, I’m Falling for You—Baby!" But if, as … somebody said, a journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step, that was the first step." Soon he teamed up with the pianist from the Pals of Harmony, Saul Chaplin, and a songwriting team was born.
Teamed With Pianist; Sold Songs
The duo of Cahn and Chaplin soon began to have some success at writing specialty numbers for vaudeville acts, but they could not get their songs published. Then one day in 1935, a friend told them that the bandleader Jimmy Lunceford, who was then playing at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, needed a song. They wrote "Rhythm Is Our Business," which was recorded for the Decca label and became a modest hit. They began to write for
other big-band stars like Ella Fitzgerald ("If You Ever Should Leave"), were accepted as members of ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers), and were on their way.
The song that made Cahn and Chaplin famous and rich enough for Cahn to buy his parents a new house was the specialty number "Bei Mir Bist Du Schön (Means That You’re Grand)." Cahn heard this Yiddish song at the Apollo Theater and thought an English version would work well. He had trouble selling the idea at first, but then an as-yet-unknown sister act from the Midwest heard the song. Cahn explained in his autobiography: "One day Lou (Levy) brought the Andrews Sisters, Patty, Maxene, and LaVerne up to our apartment. On the piano was this copy of a song in Yiddish. Patty asked … ‘How does it go?’ I played it for them, and they started to sing right along and to rock with it. ‘Gee,’ said Patty, ‘can we have it?’ Cahn penned English lyrics to the song, the Andrew Sisters recorded it, and it shot both Cahn and the Sisters to national fame, eventually selling over one million copies.
During the late 1930s the team of Cahn and Chaplin wrote under contract for New York City’s Vitaphone Studios, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. that produced short feature films. The duo wrote songs sung in these films by performers such as Betty Hutton, Bob Hope, and Edgar Bergen. In 1940 Vitaphone Studios closed, and Cahn and Chaplin, still under contract to Warner Bros., moved out to Hollywood. But they had no luck with the western studios, got no commissions, and parted ways.
Film Collaboration With Jule Styne
About the time Cahn was becoming frantic from lack of work, he was asked to write songs with composer Jule Styne. "From the beginning it was fun," he remembered. "He went to the piano and played a complete melody. I listened and said ‘Would you play it again, just a bit slower?’ He played and I listened. … I then said, ‘I’ve heard that song before’—to which he said, bristling, ‘What the hell are you, a tune detective?’ ‘No,’ I said, ‘that wasn’t a criticism, it was a title: "I’ve Heard That Song Before.’" This song, the first of many Cahn and Styne hits, led to a fruitful series of film collaborations. The duo wrote songs for the films Anchors Aweigh (1945), Tonight and Every Night (1945), Wonder Man (1945), The Kid From Brooklyn (1946), Romance on the High Seas (1948), and The West Point Story (1950). Their songs include "I’ll Walk Alone," I Fall in Love Too Easily," "Saturday Night Is the Loneliest Night in the Week," "As Long as There’s Music," "Come Out, Come Out," "Five Minutes More," and "The Things We Did Last Summer."
Cahn wrote many songs specially for certain singers. After he met young Frank Sinatra singing with the Tommy Dorsey Band, he provided Sinatra with a number of songs that became hits and helped to make both men stars. In the early 1940s Sinatra was signed by MGM to appear in the musical Anchors Aweigh; he refused to sing unless Cahn wrote the material. In 1954 Cahn and Styne wrote "Three Coins in a Fountain" for Sinatra to sing in the film Three Coins in a Fountain. The song garnered Cahn his first Oscar.
During his long career, Cahn worked with many different composers. In 1957 Cahn and composer Jimmy Van Heusen won an Oscar for their song "All the Way," from the movie The Joker Is Wild; they won another in 1959 for "High Hopes," from A Hole in the Head, and in 1963 they won their third Oscar for the song "Call Me Irresponsible," from the film Papa’s Delicate Condition. The duo also received Academy Award nominations for their songs "To Love and Be Loved," "Second Time Around," "High Time," "My Kind of Town," "Where Love Has Gone," "Thoroughly Modern Millie," "A Pocketful of Miracles," and "Star." Other Cahn collaborators included Nicholas Brodsky, Sammy Fain, Arthur Schwartz, Sylvia Fine, Vernon Duke, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston, and Gene de Paul.
Hit on Broadway
In 1974 Sammy Cahn starred in his own Broadway show. Two years earlier he had been asked to put together a show to run as part of a now-legendary series at the 92nd Street YMCA called "Lyrics and Lyricists." The audience loved him. When he finally took the act, titled Words and Music, to Broadway, critics raved, and Cahn became the toast of the town. His show ran for nine months on Broadway and almost two decades on tour before declining health put an end to Cahn’s performing career.
Cahn died of congestive heart failure on January 15, 1993, at Cedars-Sinai Medial Center in Los Angeles. In 1972 he had been inducted into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame and had later served as its president. He had labored hard to establish a Songwriter’s Hall of Fame Museum, and he never lost his love for popular music of any variety. In 1992 he told Pulse! that he would love to write songs for contemporary singers like belter Michael Bolton or superstar Madonna. "My opinion of the music of today," he told Pulse!, "is simply put: Whatever the number-one song in the world is at this moment, I wish my name were on it."
Selected discography
Walking Happy, Capitol, 1966.
An Evening With Sammy Cahn, DRG, 1978, reissued, 1993.
Frank Sinatra Sings the Songs of Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne, Vintage Jazz Classics, 1993.
Sources
Books
Cahn, Sammy, I Should Care: The Sammy Cahn Story, Arbor House, 1974.
Cahn, Sammy, Sammy Cahn’s Rhyming Dictionary, Warner Bros. Publications Inc., 1983.
Songs With Lyrics by Sammy Cahn, Cahn Music Co., 1982.
Periodicals
Chicago Tribune, January 16, 1993.
Entertainment Weekly, January 29, 1993.
Gentlemen’s Quarterly, July 1991.
Facts on File, January 21, 1993.
London Times, January 18, 1993.
Los Angeles Times, July 10, 1990; January 16, 1993.
New York Times, January 16, 1993.
Newsweek, January 25, 1993.
People, February 1, 1993.
Pulse!, April 1992; October 1992.
Time, January 25, 1993.
Variety, January 25, 1993.
Washington Post, July 11, 1990; January 16, 1993.
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Biography
One of the more diverse American lyricists of the 20th century, Sammy Cahn wrote his first hit by the age of 21 and followed it with over five decades of successful and award-winning compositions. Working most frequently with Jule Styne during the '40s and Jimmy Van Heusen during the '50s (though he also composed with Axel Stordahl and Paul Weston), Cahn had a way with lovesick ballads ("I'll Walk Alone," "Only the Lonely") as well as bouncy uptempo songs ("Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!," "Saturday Night Is the Loneliest Night of the Week").Born on New York's Lower East Side in June 1913, Samuel Cohen was the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland. His mother encouraged him to take up the violin, which Cahn used to join a small orchestra which played at bar mitzvahs and other Jewish gatherings. At the age of 16, he began writing songs and later convinced orchestra-mate Saul Chaplin to join him in a partnership. The duo wrote for bands as well as vaudeville, gaining their first hit in 1935 when Jimmie Lunceford's Orchestra recorded "Rhythm Is Our Business." During the next two years, the Cahn and Chaplin team wrote three more big hits, including "Until the Real Thing Comes Along" (sung by Andy Kirk); the Yiddish novelty "Beir Mir Bist Du Schöen" (which became the Andrews Sisters' first million-selling hit); and "Please Be Kind" (popularized by Benny Goodman and Bob Crosby).
When Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin's writing contract with Warner Bros. expired in the early '40s, they decided to split up. Cahn soon found another partner, Jule Styne, the man with whom he wrote his most celebrated hits. Writing film and album songs for Frank Sinatra -- who had gotten to know Cahn during his tenure in the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra -- during the mid-'40s, Cahn and Styne were one of the most successful teams in the business, as a variety of stars gained the upper reaches of the Hit Parade with "Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)" (Sinatra, Sammy Kaye, Frankie Carle), "I've Heard That Song Before" (Harry James), "I'll Walk Alone" (Doris Day), "It's Been a Long, Long Time" (Bing Crosby, Harry James, Charlie Spivak), "Things We Did Last Summer" (Sinatra), "Five Minutes More" (Sinatra, Tex Beneke, the Three Suns, Bob Crosby), and "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" (Vaughn Monroe, Woody Herman, Connee Boswell, Bob Crosby). As well, Cahn and Styne wrote scores for several movies plus the 1947 Broadway musical High Button Shoes.
Though successful, High Button Shoes was Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne's last collaboration for almost a decade. While Styne stayed in New York, Cahn journeyed to Hollywood, recruiting Nicholas Brodszky as his new partner and writing half-a-dozen film songs for Mario Lanza plus "I'll Never Stop Loving You" for Doris Day. Cahn and Styne began working together again in 1954, and though they were together for only a year, the pair won an Oscar for Sinatra's rendition of the title song from Three Coins in the Fountain as well as writing music for Marilyn Monroe's The Seven Year Itch.
His relationship with Styne was somewhat soured by the mid-'50s, so Sammy Cahn turned to another old friend, Frank Sinatra, to rejuvenate his career. With Jimmy Van Heusen as his songwriting partner, Cahn charted a course for Sinatra with several hits from movies, like "The Tender Trap and two more Oscar winners for Best Song from a Film, "All the Way" and "High Hopes." There were many other Sinatra favorites during the late '50s to early '60s, many used as the title songs to his albums: "Come Fly with Me," "Come Dance with Me," "Only the Lonely," "No One Cares" and "September of My Years." By no means restricted to status as Sinatra's muses, Cahn and Van Heusen also collaborated on Cahn's fourth Oscar award-winning song, "Call Me Irresponsible," plus the score for a TV adaptation of Thornton Wilder's Our Town (whence came another perennial favorite, "Love and Marriage") and scores for two Broadway musicals, Skyscraper and Walking Happy.
By the end of the '60s, with enormous success connected to his name, Sammy Cahn returned to work with old partner Styne on a musical score named Look to the Lilies. Cahn entered the '70 with a new direction: performance. He wrote and starred in a one-man show named Words and Music, which gained him an award not devoid of irony -- Best New Talent on Broadway from the Outer Circle Critics. A year later, he brought the show to England, and remounted the entire spectacle in the '80s as well. Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Sammy Cahn died in Los Angeles on January 15, 1993. ~ John Bush, Rovi
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This article is about composer Sammy Cahn. For child actor Sammy Kahn, see Sammy Kahn.
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| Birth name | Samuel Cohen |
| Born | June 18, 1913 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | January 15, 1993 (aged 79), Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupations | Lyricist |
Sammy Cahn (June 18, 1913 – January 15, 1993) was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in the Greater Los Angeles Area. He and his collaborators had a series of hit recordings with Frank Sinatra during the singer's tenure at Capitol Records, but also enjoyed hits with Dean Martin, Doris Day and many others. He played the piano and violin. He won the Academy Award four times for his songs, including the popular song "Three Coins in the Fountain".
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Biography
Cahn was born as Samuel Cohen in the Lower East Side of New York City, the only son (he had four sisters) of Abraham and Elka Riss Cohen, who were Jewish immigrants from Galicia, Poland.[1] His sisters, Sadye, Pearl, Florence, and Evelyn, all studied the piano. His mother did not approve of Sammy studying it though, for she thought the piano was a woman's instrument, so he took violin lessons. After three lessons and following his bar mitzvah, he joined a small dixieland band called Pals of Harmony, that would tour the Catskill Mountains in the summer and also did private parties. This new dream of Cahn's destroyed any hopes his parents had for him to be a professional man.[2]
Some of the side jobs he had were playing violin in a theater-pit orchestra, working at a meat-packing plant, serving as a movie-house usher, tinsmith, freight-elevator operator, restaurant cashier, and porter at a bindery. At age 16, he was watching vaudeville, of which he had been a fan since the age of 10, and he witnessed Jack Osterman singing a song he, Sammy, had written. After this, he wrote his first lyric "Like Niagara Falls, I'm Falling for You." Years later he would say "I think a sense of vaudeville is very strong in anything I do, anything I write. They even call it 'a vaudeville finish,' and it comes through in many of my songs. Just sing the end of 'All the Way' or 'Three Coins in the Fountain'--'Make it mine, make it mine, MAKE IT MINE!' If you let people know they should applaud, they will applaud."[2]
Much of Cahn's early work was written in partnership with Saul Chaplin. They first met when Cahn invited Chaplin to audition for him at the Henry Street Settlement. Cahn said "I'd learned a few chords on the piano, maybe two, so I'd already tried to write a song. Something I called 'Shake Your Head from Side to Side.'" Billed simply as "Cahn and Chaplin" (in the manner of "Rodgers and Hart"), they composed witty special material for Warner Brothers' musical short subjects, filmed at Warners' Vitaphone studio in Brooklyn, New York.
"There was a legendary outfit on West 46th Street, Beckman and Prasky . . . they were the MCA, the William Morris of the Borscht Belt.I got a room in their offices, and we started writing special material. For anybody who'd have us--at whatever price." They did not make much money, but they did work with up-and-comers Milton Berle, Danny Kaye, Phil Silvers, and Bob Hope.[2]
One of his childhood friends, Lou Levy, who had gone from neighborhood bum to blackface dancer with the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra.
Lyric writing has always been a thrilling adventure for me, and something I've done with the kind of ease that only comes with joy! From the beginning the fates have conspired to help my career. Lou Levy, the eminent music publisher, lived around the corner and we met the day I was leaving my first music publisher's office. This led to a partnership that has lasted many years. Lou and I wrote "Rhythm is Our Business," material for Jimmie Lunceford's orchestra, which became my first ASCAP copyright. I'd been churning out "special lyrics" for special occasions for years and this helped facilitate my tremendous speed with lyric writing. Many might have written these lyrics better—but none faster! Glen Gray and Tommy Dorsey became regular customers and through Tommy came the enduring and perhaps most satisfying relationship of my lyric writing career – Frank Sinatra.[3]
The song became the Orchestra's signature song. The duo then worked for Glen Gray's Casa Loma Orchestra and their premiere at Paramount Theatre. They also worked for Andy Kirk and his Clouds of Joy and they wrote Until the Real Thing Comes Along.[2]
Cahn wrote the lyrics to "Love and Marriage," which was used as the theme song for the FOX TV show Married... with Children. The song originally debuted in a 1955 television production of Our Town, and won an Emmy Award in 1956. This was only one of many songs that Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen wrote for Frank Sinatra. They were "almost considered to be his personal songwriters."[4]
Cahn contributed lyrics for two otherwise unrelated films about the Land of Oz, Journey Back to Oz (1971) and The Wizard of Oz (1982). The former were composed with James Van Heusen, the latter with Allen Byrns, Joe Hisaishi, and Yuichiro Oda.
Cahn became a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972. He later took over the presidency of that organization from his friend Johnny Mercer when Mercer became ill.[5]
Personal life
Sammy Cahn died on January 15, 1993 at the age of 79 in Los Angeles, California. His remains were interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.
He was married twice: first to vocalist and former Goldwyn girl Gloria Delson in 1945, with whom he had two children, and later to Virginia "Tita" Basile in 1970. He changed his last name from Cohen to Kahn to avoid confusion with comic and MGM actor Sammy Cohen and again from Kahn to Cahn to avoid confusion with lyricist Gus Kahn.
His second wife was Virginia (Tita) Curtis, a former fashion coordinator for the clothes designer Donald Brooks. He was the father of Laurie Cahn and jazz/fusion guitarist Steve Khan[4] who, early in his career, changed the spelling of his last name to Khan in order to "create a separate identity from [his] famous father" and because he was "so hurt and angry with him for so many childhood things."[1]
Composer Garrison Hintz exchanged numerous letters with Sammy Cahn regarding musical composition and credits Mr. Cahn with teaching him the craft of lyric writing.[6]
Honors, awards and legacy
Over the course of his career, he was nominated for 23 Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, and an Emmy Award. He also received a Grammy Award nomination, with Van Heusen, for Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Show for the film Robin and the 7 Hoods.
In 1988, the Sammy Awards, an annual award for movie songs and scores, was started in his honor. When notified by Roger Hall, Cahn said he was "flattered and honored" that these awards were named after him.[7] He was chosen because he had received more Academy Award nominations than any other songwriter, and also because he received four Oscars for his song lyrics.
In 1993, taking up the sentiments expressed in the song, "High Hopes," the Cahn estate established the "High Hopes Fund" at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston. The former Joslin patient and songwriter's goal was to provide hope and encouragement to kids with diabetes while supporting research into the causes of the disease.
The lyrics he wrote for Sinatra is the subject of a chapter in Gilbert Gigliotti's A Storied Singer: Frank Sinatra as Literary Conceit, "Come [Fly, Dance, and Waltz with] Us on Equal Terms": The Whitmanesque Sinatra of Sammy Cahn," published by Greenwood Press in 2002.
Music
Cahn wrote lyrics for many songs, including:
- Academy Award winners
- 1954 – "Three Coins in the Fountain" (music by Jule Styne) introduced by Frank Sinatra in the film Three Coins in the Fountain.
- 1957 – "All the Way" (music by Jimmy Van Heusen) introduced by Frank Sinatra in the film The Joker Is Wild.
- 1959 – "High Hopes" (music by Jimmy Van Heusen) introduced by Frank Sinatra and Eddie Hodges in the film A Hole in the Head.
- 1963 – "Call Me Irresponsible" (music by Jimmy Van Heusen) introduced by Jackie Gleason in the film Papa's Delicate Condition.
- Academy Award nominees
- 1942 – "I've Heard That Song Before" (music by Jule Styne) from the film Youth on Parade.
- 1944 – "I'll Walk Alone" (music by Jule Styne) from the film Follow the Boys.
- 1945 – "Anywhere" (music by Jule Styne) from the film Tonight and Every Night.
- 1945 – "I Fall In Love Too Easily" (music by Jule Styne) introduced by Frank Sinatra in the film Anchors Aweigh.
- 1948 – "It's Magic" (music by Jule Styne) introduced by Doris Day in the film Romance on the High Seas.
- 1949 – "It's a Great Feeling" (music by Jule Styne) introduced by Doris Day in the film It's a Great Feeling.
- 1950 – "Be My Love" (music by Nicholas Brodszky) introduced by Mario Lanza and Kathryn Grayson in the film The Toast of New Orleans.
- 1951 – "Wonder Why" (music by Nicholas Brodszky) introduced by Jane Powell and Vic Damone in the film Rich, Young and Pretty.
- 1952 – "Because You're Mine" (music by Nicholas Brodszky) introduced by Mario Lanza in the film Because You're Mine.
- 1955 – "I'll Never Stop Loving You" (music by Nicholas Brodszky) introduced by Doris Day in the film Love Me or Leave Me.
- 1955 – "(Love Is) The Tender Trap" (music by Jimmy Van Heusen) introduced by Frank Sinatra in the film The Tender Trap.
- 1956 – "Written on the Wind" (music by Victor Young) for the film Written on the Wind.
- 1958 – "To Love and Be Loved" (music by Jimmy Van Heusen) for the film Some Came Running.
- 1959 – "The Best of Everything" (music by Alfred Newman) for the film The Best of Everything.
- 1960 – "The Second Time Around" (music by Jimmy Van Heusen) for the film High Time.
- 1961 – "Pocketful of Miracles" (music by Jimmy Van Heusen) for the film Pocketful of Miracles.
- 1964 – "Where Love Has Gone" (music by Jimmy Van Heusen) for the film Where Love Has Gone. (Also Golden Globe nominee)
- 1964 – "My Kind of Town" (music by Jimmy Van Heusen) for the film Robin and the 7 Hoods.
- 1967 – "Thoroughly Modern Millie" (music by Jimmy Van Heusen) for the film Thoroughly Modern Millie. (Also Golden Globe nominee)
- 1968 – "Star" (music by Jimmy Van Heusen) for the film Star!. (Also Golden Globe nominee)
- 1973 – "All That Love Went to Waste" (music by George Barrie) for the film A Touch of Class. (Also Golden Globe nominee)
- 1974 – "Now That We're In Love" (music by George Barrie) for the film Whiffs. (Also Golden Globe nominee)
- Other well-known songs
- "All My Tomorrows" (with Jimmy Van Heusen)
- "Bei Mir Bist du Schoen" (English version, with Saul Chaplin)Music by Sholom Secunda
- " The Christmas Waltz" (with Jule Styne)
- "Come Dance with Me" (with Jimmy Van Heusen)
- "Come Fly with Me" (with Jimmy Van Heusen)
- "Day by Day" (with Paul Weston and Axel Stordahl)
- "Five Minutes More" (with Jule Styne)
- "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" (with Jule Styne)
- "I'll Never Stop Loving You" (with Nicholas Brodzsky)
- "I Should Care" (with Paul Weston and Axel Stordahl)
- "I Still Get Jealous" (with Jule Styne)
- "It's Been A Long, Long Time" (with Jule Styne)
- "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow" (with Jule Styne)
- "Let Me Try Again" (with Paul Anka and Caravelli)
- "Look to Your Heart" (with Jimmy Van Heusen)
- "Love and Marriage" (with Jimmy Van Heusen)
- "Papa, Won't You Dance With Me" (with Jule Styne)
- "Please Be Kind" (with Saul Chaplin)
- "Rhythm Is Our Business" (with Saul Chaplin)
- "Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)" (with Jule Styne)
- "Teach Me Tonight" (with Gene DePaul)
- "The Things We Did Last Summer" (with Jule Styne)
- "The Secret of Christmas" (with Jimmy Van Heusen)
- "Time After Time" (with Jule Styne)
- "Until the Real Thing Comes Along" (with Saul Chaplin, Alberta Nichols, Mann Holiner, E.F. Freeman)
- "You're a Lucky Guy" (with Saul Chaplin)
- "You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly!" from Peter Pan (1953 film) (with Sammy Fain)
- "Only Trust Your Heart" (1964), with Benny Carter
Stage
Cahn wrote the lyrics for the following Broadway musicals:
- 1944 – Glad To See You music by Jule Styne
- 1947 – High Button Shoes music by Jule Styne
- 1965 – Skyscraper music by Jimmy Van Heusen
- 1966 – Walking Happy music by James Van Heusen
- 1970 – Look To The Lilies music by Jule Styne
References
- ^ Bloom, Nate (2006-12-19). "The Jews Who Wrote Christmas Songs". InterfaithFamily. http://www.interfaithfamily.com/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=ekLSK5MLIrG&b=297399&ct=3303147. Retrieved 2006-12-19.
- ^ a b c d Nolan, Frederick, American Song Lyricists, 1920-1960, Gale, ISBN 978-0-7876-6009-3, 2002
- ^ Sammy Cahn Songbook. Warner Bros. Publications Inc.. 1986. ASIN B000EA1TTW.
- ^ a b Holden, Stephen."Sammy Cahn, Word Weaver Of Tin Pan Alley, Dies at 79",The New York Times, January 16, 1993
- ^ "Songwriters Hall of Fame". http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibit_bio.asp?exhibitId=5.
- ^ Ascap Composer Sammy Cahn's signed letters to Garrison Hintz from Beverly Hills ,New York, and Chicago all dated prior to 1992 relating to song writing.
- ^ A Guide To Film Music: Songs and Scores. PineTree Press. 2007. p. 60.
External links
- Sammy Cahn at the Internet Movie Database
- Sammy Cahn at the Internet Broadway Database
- Sammy Cahn at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
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