At his bar mitzvah, he saw his mother pay the musicians and realized he could make money playing the violin. His facility as a lyricist and his earthy manner, along with his long career in Hollywood, caused him to be underestimated both for the quality of his work and its emotional content. Because each style has its own formatting nuances that evolve over time and not all information is available for every reference entry or article, Encyclopedia.com cannot guarantee each citation it generates. A year later he joined the small Dixieland orchestra his mother had hired, the Pals of Harmony. Sammy Cahn died in 1993 at the age of 79 in Los Angeles, California. In 1965 Cahn and Van Heusen tried their hands at Broadway with the musical Skyscraper. Recorded live in Tokyo, Japan. . In 1937, they adapted "Bei Mir Bist Du Shon", which they mistakenly believed to be a Yiddish folk song--it was actually a modern Yiddish theater song by Sholom Secunda--into English for the then-unknown Andrews Sisters. If you tried to slip in anything other than gold-plated smashes, Sammy would growl menacingly, 'That's not a money song.' Quintet with Chambers, Allende, Quiones, Rubn Rodriguez. 23 Feb. 2023 . Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. ." In 1992 he told Pulse! In 1974, Cahn did a one-man show on Broadway . Published in 1950, it was written for Mario Lanza, who sang it with Kathryn Grayson in the 1950 movie The Toast of New Orleans. 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Sammy Cahn was in a relationship with Jill St. John (1980). Max Wilk, Theyre Playing Our Song (1973), has a chapter featuring an interview, and David Ewen, American Songwriters (1987), contains a good entry. Download our mobile app for on-the-go access to the Jewish Virtual Library, 1998 - 2023 American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise. Billed simply as Cahn and Chaplin, they composed witty special material for Warner Brothers' musical short subjects. Lou Levy, the eminent music publisher, lived around the corner and we met the day I was leaving my first music publisher's office. ." He worked extensively with other composers on film projects and independent songs. Working again with JuleStyne, Cahn won an Oscar for the title song of the 1954 film Three Coins in the Fountain. Sammy Cahn had been friendly with Frank Sinatra from Sinatra's early days with Tommy Dorsey, and many of his songs had been written for Sinatra's movies. Cahn long association with Frank Sinatra led to Sinatra's recording 89 of Cahn's songs, many of them more than once. Cahn long association with Frank Sinatra led to Sinatra's recording 89 of Cahn's songs, many of them more than once. . [5], Last edited on 23 November 2022, at 20:09, The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steve_Khan&oldid=1123448313. Login He became friendly with fellow band-member, pianist Saul Chaplin, and they began writing songs together. Mr. Styne married Margaret Ann Bissett Brown, a English-born former model, in 1962, and they had two children, Nicholas and Katherine. After dropping out of high school, Cahn published his first song, Shake Your Head From Side to Side (1933), the only song for which he wrote both the words and music. They would write songs together for 19 films between 1942 and 1951. He wrote songs for two movies Land of Oz, Journey Back to OZ (1971) and The Wizard of OZ (1982). [2] He was a member of the R&B band Friends of Distinction, recorded with keyboardist Phil Moore, then played on the album Bullitt by Wilton Felder ("one of my heroes"). The result was the enormously popular "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" (music by Sholom Secunda), which launched the recording career of the Andrews Sisters and became a No. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. 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. Sextet with Patitucci, DeJohnette, Badrena, Quintero, Irizarry. Sammy Cahn married Gloria Delson, a musician and Goldwyn girl in 1945. The song won Cahn his third Oscar, and later (with a revised lyric) became John F. Kennedy's campaign song. 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. 'What's wrong?' [15] When notified by Roger Lee Hall, Cahn said he was "flattered and honored" that these awards were named after him. Digitized at 78 revolutions per minute. 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. From the Broadway-inspired musical tunes of the 1940s he moved smoothly to ballads for the 1950s and 1960s. ." Cahn proved to be a survivor by adapting to the changing musical tastes of a nation. ." GLAD TO SEE YOU Starring Jane Withers Broadway Cast, High Button Shoes 1947 Original Broadway Cast Starring Phil Silvers, SKYSCRAPER Original 1965 Broadway Cast Starring Julie Harris, Best Song Academy Award winning songwriters. 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. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. Songs With Lyrics by Sammy Cahn, Cahn Music Co., 1982. In fairness, those clicky-clacky theme-songs won Sammy four Oscars (an unbroken record) and one of them, 'Three Coins In The Fountain' (1953), is all the film has going for it. Sammy Cahn achieved the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972. Both wrote songs for Warner Brothers in a studio in Brooklyn, New York. He had four siblings -all sisters - Sadye, Pearl, Florence, and Evelyn. Both on Broadway and in Hollywood, the ground was shifting away from the conventional pop lyricists, and Sammy took to 'special material', rewriting his own and other lyrics for testimonials, gala performances, etc. They had two more songs in the hit parade before the end of the year: Until the Real Thing Comes Along (a revision of L. E. Freeman and Mann Holiners song Till the Real Thing Comes Along), recorded by Andy Kirk and His Twelve Clouds of Joy, and If Its the Last Thing I Do, recorded by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra. [5], Cahn wrote the lyrics to "Love and Marriage," later used as the ironic theme song for the FOX TV show Married with Children. Cahn's autobiography, I Should Care, was published in 1974, the year he starred on Broadway in a one-man show about his career. They were one of a select team of composer/lyricists who wrote the year's top ten hits, year in and year out. They had their first success in 1935 with "Rhythm Is Our Business," written for the bandleader Jimmie Lunceford; it later became his signature song. Frank Sinatra Sings the Songs of Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne, Vintage Jazz Classics, 1993. In 1955 Cahn formed his third long-term songwriting partnership, with James Van Heusen at the instigation of Sinatra. Cahn won his fourth Oscar, and Van Heusen his third, in 1963 for "Call Me Irresponsible", from Papa's Delicate Condition. They returned to the hit parade eleven months later with I Want My Share of Love, recorded by Larry Clinton and His Orchestra. 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 Schn (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. And, whatever the changes in pop music taste, his craftsmanship - his understanding of the relationship between words and music - remains an object example to anyone. Stories about Cole Porters life are often as creative as the songs he wrote. But movie music moved into different forms, and Cahn, ever the professional, adapted. The couple had two children. I got a room in their offices, and we started writing special material. Sammy Cahn Popularity Most Popular #157377 First Name Sammy #43 He is best known for his romantic lyrics to tin pan alley and Broadway songs, as recorded by Frank Sinatra, Doris Day and many others. Asked what comes first - the words or the music - he'd reply, 'The phone call.' Over his long career, Sinatra recorded more songs by Cahn than by any other songwriter. [4], He has also produced recordings for fellow guitarists Larry Coryell, Mike Stern, Birli Lagrne, and Bill Connors, as well as pianist Eliane Elias. Sammy Cahn covered Rhythm Is Our Business, Please Be Kind, I've Heard That Song Before, Five Minutes More and other songs. Encyclopedia.com gives you the ability to cite reference entries and articles according to common styles from the Modern Language Association (MLA), The Chicago Manual of Style, and the American Psychological Association (APA). The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives. Contemporary Musicians. His mother did not approve of Sammy studying it though, feeling that the piano was a woman's instrument, so he took violin lessons. It included "Love And Marriage". In 1970, he married Virginia (Tita) Curtis, a former fashion coordinator for the clothes designer Donald Brooks. Sammy had no illusions about his work. 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 Papas Delicate Condition. Argentine Nights (Rogell); Ladies Must Live (Smith), Time Out for Rhythm (Salkow); Go West, Young Lady (Strayer); Sing for Your Supper (Barton); Rookies on Parade (Santley); Two Latins from Manhattan (Barton); Honolulu Lu (Barton), Two Yanks in Trinidad (Ratoff); Johnny Doughboy (Auer); Blondie Goes to College (Strayer); Blondie's Blessed Event (Strayer); Youth on Parade (Rogell), Crazy House (Cline); Lady of Burlesque (Wellman); Let's Face It (Lanfield); Thumbs Up (Santley); The Heat's On (Ratoff), Follow the Boys (Sutherland); Knickerbocker Holiday (Brown); Jam Session (Barton); Carolina Blues (Jason); Step Lively (Whelan); Jamie (Curtiz); A Song to Remember (C. Vidor); Tonight and Every Night (Saville), Anchors Aweigh (Sidney); The Stork Club (Walker); Thrill of a Romance (Thorpe), The Kid from Brooklyn (McLeod); Cinderella Jones (Berkeley); Earl Carroll Sketchbook (Rogell); Tars and Spars (Green); The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi (Bernhard); It Happened in Brooklyn (Whorf), Romance on the High Seas (Curtiz); Sons of Adventure (Canutt); Two Guys from Texas (Butler); Miracle of the Bells (Pichel), It's a Great Feeling (Butler); Borderline (Seiter); Always Leave Them Laughing (Del Ruth); Anna Lucasta (Rapper), Young Man with a Horn (Curtiz); The Toast of New Orleans (Taurog); The West Point Story (Del Ruth), Rich, Young and Pretty (Taurog); Sugarfoot (Marin); Two Tickets to Broadway (Kern); Double Dynamite (Cummings), April in Paris (Butler); She's Working Her Way Through College (Humberstone); Stazione Termini (Indiscretion of an American Wife) (De Sica), Because You're Mine (Hall); Peter Pan (Luske, Geronimi, and Jackson); Three Sailors and a Girl (Del Ruth) (+ pr), Three Coins in the Fountain (Negulesco); Vera Cruz (Aldrich), The Tender Trap (Walters); Love Me or Leave Me (C. Vidor); The Court Jester (Panama and Frank); Anything Goes (Lewis); Pete Kelly's Blues (Webb); You're Never Too Young (Taurog); How to Be Very, Very Popular (Johnson); Ain't Misbehavin' (Buzzell); The Seven Year Itch (Wilder), Meet Me in Las Vegas (Rowland); Written on the Wind (Sirk); Quincannon, Frontier Scout (Selander); Serenade (A. Mann); Somebody Up There Likes Me (Wise); Forever Darling (Hall); The Opposite Sex (Miller) Pardners (Taurog); Beau James (Shavelson), Pal Joey (Sidney); The Joker Is Wild (C. Vidor); Until They Sail (Wise); Ten Thousand Bedrooms (Thorpe); Don't Go Near the Water (Walters); This Could Be the Night (Wise), The Long Hot Summer (Ritt); Indiscreet (Donen); Paris Holiday (Oswald); Some Came Running (Minnelli); Home Before Dark (LeRoy); Rock-a-Bye Baby (Tashlin); The Sound and the Fury (Ritt); Party Girl (Ray); Kings Go Forth (Daves), A Hole in the Head (Capra); Who Was That Lady? Here he entertained his new dream. A favourable mention en passant in a subordinate clause of a newspaper feature would invariably be followed by a fax or telegram from Sammy revealing that he was putting the article up for a Special Grammy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Musicological Analysis. Then, copy and paste the text into your bibliography or works cited list. (b. 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. From the beginning it was fun, he remembered. Known for songs such as Come Fly with Me and Love and Marriage. Kampel, Stewart "Cahn, Sammy [4] This new dream of Cahn's destroyed any hopes his parents had for him to be a professional man. 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. 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. At first they wrote specialty numbers for vaudeville acts. His songs were recorded by virtually every major singer. Therefore, its best to use Encyclopedia.com citations as a starting point before checking the style against your school or publications requirements and the most-recent information available at these sites: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html. Only an idiot would do that.' In its day, 'Five Minutes More' outsold the entire Gershwin catalogue. The song achieved the Emmy Award in 1956. If you let people know they should applaud, they will applaud."[5]. He was always an economical lyricist: 'Give me Five Minutes More/Only Five Minutes More/ Let me stay/Let me stay in your arms.' They did not make much money, but they did work with up-and-comers Milton Berle, Danny Kaye, Phil Silvers, and Bob Hope.[5]. 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 ballad Osterman had written. He was never one for false modesty. He got the Grammy Award. In 1948, for the Doris Day film Romance on the High Seas, they wrote "It's Magic" and "Put 'Em In A Box, Tie 'Em With A Ribbon". Steve Khan (born Steven Harris Cahn ; April 28, 1947) [1] is an American jazz guitarist. In 1947, Styne and Cahn wrote a successful Broadway musical High Button Shoes. In 1960, he even managed a song for the widowed and divorced, 'The Second Time Around', tackling a difficult assignment tastefully and sensitively. During the late 1930s the team of Cahn and Chaplin wrote under contract for New York Citys Vitaphone Studios, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. that produced short feature films. He died in 1993, at the age of 79. FamousBirthdays.com - use subject to the practices disclosed in our privacy policy. Within months, Sinatra was back on the charts with another CahnVan Heusen song, (Love Is) the Tender Trap, from his film The Tender Trap (1955). Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. Songwriter, singer, record company executive While not possessing a great voice, Cahn sang concerts of his own music with pianist and composer Harper MacKay serving as his musical director and accompanist.[9][10]. He was married at least twice; first to Gloria Delson in 1945, and later to Virginia Basile in 1970. Cahn, Sammy, Sammy Cahns Rhyming Dictionary, Warner Bros. Publications Inc., 1983. His remains were interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. As Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin, they formed a writing partnership, initially penning special material for vaudeville acts. He played the piano and violin. Cahn said, "I'd learned a few chords on the piano, maybe two, so I'd already tried to write a song. In fact, he was a consummate craftsman whose lyrics hold up well against those of the classic songwriters who preceded him by a decade or so on Broadway, and for all his disclaimers, his words revealed him to be an unashamed romantic who reveled in detailing the wonders of love through verse. Steve Khan (born Steven Harris Cahn; International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers. You Can Fly! (February 23, 2023). They also worked for Andy Kirk and his Clouds of Joy and they wrote "Until the Real Thing Comes Along". The songwriting team of Cahn and Chaplin had their first hit with Rhythm Is Our Business (1935), written for bandleader Jimmie Lunceford. In 1965, she married Mike Franks, a top-class tennis player. On the piano was this copy of a song in Yiddish. As Cahn had been a patient at Joslin himself, the estate's goal was to provide hope and encouragement to children with diabetes while supporting research into the causes of the disease. Selected discography Sammy Cahn died in Los Angeles, California on January 15, 1993. Updates? The late 1950s and the early 1960s were a "Golden Age" for Cahn and Van Heusen. In 1954 Cahn and Styne wrote Three Coins in a Fountain for Sinatra to sing in the film Three Coins in a Fountain. . Cahn was inspired and, on his way home from the theater, wrote his first lyric, which was titled "Like Niagara Falls, I'm Falling for You Baby. He became a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972. Born: Samuel Cohen in New York City, 18 June 1913. In 1947 they finally succeeded on Broadway, writing the songs for the musical High Button Shoes, which opened on 9 October and ran for 727 performances, the longest-running musical of the 19471948 season. They were the producers of Sinatra's 1959-60 television series. 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. All the four sisters studied piano. Contemporary Musicians. The group played local gigs and then began traveling to perform in hotels in Atlantic City and the summer resorts of the Catskills. Fox Trot; Vocal Chorus by. Khan is main guitarist here and wrote two of the nine tracks. View wiki [2] The band's guitarist exposed him to the albums Tough Talk by The Crusaders and Movin' Wes by Wes Montgomery. He went to the piano and played a complete melody. He attended Seward Park High School on Manhattans Lower East Side but dropped out before graduating. Accustomed to Tin Pan Alleymen demo-ing the tune in a pared-down piano version, he was presented with a fully synthesized wall of sound: 'I could write to that kind of tune,' he reckoned, 'if only I could hear it.' Unfortunately the Sinatra rage ended with the coming of the Beatles. In fact, it was usually the lyric - pounded out on an old typewriter in the confidence that the first draft would be the final one. The former were composed with Van Heusen, the latter with Allen Byrns, Joe Hisaishi, and Yuichiro Oda. He was nominated for 22 others. It also serves as the show's closing theme as an instrumental version. Set to Jule Styne's wonderfully translucent melody, it conjures a mood of ravishingly romantic contentment. He had labored hard to establish a Songwriters Hall of Fame Museum, and he never lost his love for popular music of any variety. Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week), "All those Holiday/Christmas Songs: So Many Jewish Songwriters! On paper, 'Time After Time/I tell myself that I'm/So lucky to be loving you' looks like nothing. Khan on one track. He was covered by numerous singing legends and used across multiple media. In the 1950s he teamed with Nicholas Brodszky to write several forgettable songs from movies such as The Toast of New Orleans and Love Me or Leave Me. Obituary in Classic Images (Muscatine), April 1993. They also wrote the light-hearted High Hopes for Sinatra to sing in the film A Hole in the Head (1959), resulting in another Academy Award and a Grammy nomination for song of the year. The songwriters work in 1964 on the movie musical Robin and the Seven Hoods, starring Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Bing Crosby, included My Kind Of Town, an Oscar nominee that became a Sinatra signature song. Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. Sammy Cahn was a 4-time Academy Award-winning American lyricist, songwriter and musician. (February 23, 2023). As the pop singles market turned toward rock and roll, while pop singers remained dominant in the LP format, Cahn and Van Heusen contributed title songs to classic Sinatra albums such as Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely, Come Dance with Me!, and No One Cares, released in 1958 and 1959. His next top-ten hit, in December 1956, came with Sinatras recording of Hey! The Sammy Film Music Awards founded in his honor. Nationality: American. Eyewitness from 1981-83 w/ Anthony Jackson, Steve Jordan & Manolo Badrena. 'Sing me his medley,' he'd say, and off you'd go, treading carefully. Khan on guitar, tracks El Camino, El Arbol, Luca. Musical idioms had changed and the contributions of Sammy Cahn would fade into the world of nostalgia. Let It Snow! (February 23, 2023). Sammy Cahn was known for his speed and professionalism. Retrieved February 23, 2023 from Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/cahn-sammy. [3] He was signed to Columbia Records through the efforts of Bobby Colomby and Bob James. Sammy Cahn, byname of Samuel Cohen, (born June 18, 1913, New York, N. Y., U.S.died Jan. 15, 1993, Los Angeles), American lyricist who, in collaboration with such composers as Saul Chaplin, Jule Styne, and Jimmy Van Heusen, wrote songs that won four Academy Awards and became number one hits for many performers, notably Frank Sinatra. Cohen changed his name twice to avoid uncertainty and finally settled at Cahn. 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 joined ASCAP in 1936, and his chief musical collaboraors included Saul Chaplin, Jule Styne, and James Van Heusen. . In 1959 came Sinatra's film A Hole in the Head, for which they wrote "High Hopes". Four stylii were used to transfer this record. Despite his father's advice to avoid a career in the music business, he graduated from UCLA with a degree in music composition and theory. ." He won four Academy Awards: for Three Coins in the Fountain from 1954, All the Way from 1957, High Hopes from 1959, and Call Me Irresponsible from 1963. Encyclopaedia Judaica. Neither man ended up covered in glory, but, whereas Styne stuck it out to become Broadway's most successful post-war composer, Cahn quickly retreated back to undemanding Hollywood. Sammy Cahn (18 June 1913 - 15 January 1993) was a Jewish-American songwriter and musician, playing the piano and violin. [2], In the early 1970s, he performed in an acoustic guitar duo with Larry Coryell and was a member of the Brecker Brothers band. Cahn and Brodszkys title song for the Lanza film Because Youre Mine (1952) was another major hit and Academy Award nominee. . (McLaglen), The Heartbreak Kid (May); A Touch of Class (Frank), Whiffs (Post); I Will, I Will . They divorced after 18 years of marriage. https://www.encyclopedia.com/movies/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/cahn-sammy, Gomery, Douglas "Cahn, Sammy Short vocal comp., acc. They wrote the title song for the 1955 Sinatra film The Tender Trap. They wrote Rhythm Is Our Business, which was recorded for the Decca label and became a modest hit. Sinatra also had a hit with I Should Care, which Cahn wrote with Axel Stordahl and Paul Weston for the film Thrill of a Romance (1945), and insisted that Cahn and Styne be engaged to write songs for his film Anchors Aweigh (1945), among them I Fall in Love Too Easily. The songwriters most successful song of 1945 was Its Been a Long, Long Time, with a lyric perfectly timed to appeal to returning GIs and their loved ones; three different recordings of the song each hit number one toward the end of the year. Sammy Cahnmarried Gloria Delson, a musician and Goldwyn girl in 1945. Sources ." Call him irrepressibleSammy Cahn always had a way with words. Sammy Cahn, one of the most renowned and celebrated lyricists of the past six decades, died Friday of congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in L.A. The song originally debuted in a 1955 television production of Our Town, and won an Emmy Award in 1956. His show ran for nine months on Broadway and almost two decades on tour before declining health put an end to Cahns performing career. Quartet with Patitucci, DeJohnette, Badrena, plus. Associated With His collaborations with Frank Sinatra were closely examined by music scholars and historians. They obtained a copyright for this song. or solo. 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. Eyewitness quartet plus Allende, Quiones. He studied the violin as a child, and in his teens worked as an itinerant fiddler at weddings and bar mitzvahs. Born on New York's Lower East Side in June 1913, Samuel Cohen was the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland. Something I called 'Shake Your Head from Side to Side.'" Despite the legendary egomania, Sammy would readily regale you with the most obscure songs by Mitchell Parish or Dorothy Fields. These were recorded flat and then also equalized with Turnover: 300.0, Rolloff: -10.0. Cahn wrote lyrics for many songs, including: Lyrics for film musicals include Journey Back to Oz (1971) (music by Van Heusen) and The Wizard of Oz (1982) (music by Joe Hisaishi). Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography. Many of the team's 1940s songs became synonymous with wartime nostalgia: "I'll Walk Alone," "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry," and "It's Been a Long, Long Time." Encyclopedia.com. "There was a legendary outfit on West 46th Street, Beckman and Pransky they were the MCA, the William Morris of the Borscht Belt. The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives. I then said, Ive heard that song beforeto which he said, bristling, What the hell are you, a tune detective? No, I said, that wasnt a criticism, it was a title: Ive Heard That Song Before. This song, the first of many Cahn and Styne hits, led to a fruitful series of film collaborations. 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