Sammy Cahn

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Sammy Cahn (June 18, 1913 – January 15, 1993) was an American lyricist, singer, and guitarist.

He is best known for his romantic accompaniments to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in the Greater Los Angeles area.

During Frank Sinatra's tenure at Capitol Records, he and his collaborators had a string of hit records, but they also enjoyed hits with Dean Martin, Doris Day, and others.

He played the piano and violin.

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Life and career

Cahn was born Samuel Cohen on the Lower East Side of New York City, the only son (he had four sisters) of Abraham and Elka Reiss Cohen, who were Jewish immigrants from Galicia who were then ruled by Austria-Hungary. Sadye, Pearl, Florence, and Evelyn were among his sisters who studied the piano. Sammy's mother, however, was against it, assuaging the piano that was a woman's instrument, so he took violin lessons. He formed Pals of Harmony, a small dixieland band that toured the Catskill Mountains in the summer and performed at private parties after three lessons and after his bar mitzvah. Any hopes Cahn's parents had for him to be a career have been shattered.

He had been playing violin in a theater-pit orchestra, worked at a meat-packing plant, served as a movie-house usher, freight-elevator operator, restaurant cashier, and porter at a bindery. He was watching vaudeville at the age of 10, of which he had been a fan since the age of 10, and he noticed Jack Osterman performing a ballad Osterman had written. Cahn was inspired and wrote his first lyric, "I'm Falling for You, Baby," while on his way home from the theater. In everything I do or write, years later, he would say, "I think a sense of vaindeville is really strong in everything I do." Some of my songs even call it a "vaindeville finish," and it comes through in several of mine. Make it mine, make it mine,' or sing the end of 'All the Way' or 'Three Coins in the Fountain.' If you tell them they should applaud, they will applaud."

Cahn's early career was written in collaboration with Saul Chaplin. They first met when Cahn invited Chaplin to audition for him at the Henry Street Settlement. "I'd already learned a few chords on the piano, perhaps two," Cahn said, so I'd already attempted to write a song. "Shake Your Head from Side to Side," I said. They produced witty special material for Warner Brothers' musical short films, shot in Brooklyn, New York, and billed simply as "Cahn and Chaplin" (in the manner of "Rodgers and Hart).

"On West 46th Street, Beckman and Pransky, the MCA, the William Morris of the Borscht Belt," they were a legendary outfit." I had a room in their offices and began writing exclusive content. We'd all have us—at whatever price." They didn't make much money, but they did work with up-and-coming Milton Berle, Danny Kaye, Phil Silvers, and Bob Hope.

Lou Levy, one of his childhood friends, went from neighborhood bum to blackface dancer with the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra.

The song became the Orchestra's signature tune. The pair appeared in Glen Gray's Casa Loma Orchestra and then performed at Paramount Theatre for the first time. They also worked with Andy Kirk and his Clouds of Joy, and they wrote "Befor the Real Thing Comes Along."

Cahn wrote the lyrics to "Love and Marriage," which was later used as the FOX TV show Married... with Children's ironic theme tune. The song appeared in a 1955 television film version of Our Town and received an Emmy Award in 1956. This was just one of many songs written for Frank Sinatra by Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen. They were "mostly thought to be his personal songwriters" who were "almost considered to be his personal songwriters."

Cahn wrote lyrics for two otherworldly films about the Land of Oz (1971) and The Wizard of Oz (1982). Van Heusen was among the former members, as the latter was joined by Allen Byrns, Joe Hisaishi, and Yuichiro Oda.

Cahn was inducted into the Songwriter Hall of Fame in 1972. When Mercer became ill, he took over the presidency of the firm from his colleague Johnny Mercer. Cahn performed concerts of his own music with pianist and composer Harper MacKay as his musical director and accompanist, despite not having a great voice.

Cahn died in Los Angeles, California, on January 15, 1993, at the age of 79. His remains were laid to rest in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.

Cohen to Kahn to avoid confusion with comedian and MGM actor Sammy Cohen, and then from Kahn to Cahn to avoid confusion with lyricist Gus Kahn.

He married twice, first in 1945 to actress and former Goldwyn girl Gloria Delson, with whom he had two children. They divorced after 18 years of marriage. Mike Franks, the world class tennis player, remarried her in 1965. He married Virginia (Tita) Curtis, a former fashion coordinator for clothing designer Donald Brooks, in 1970. He was the father of Laurie Cahn and jazz/fusion guitarist Steve Khan, who, early in his career, changed the spelling of his last name to Khan in order to "create a separate identity from [his] popular father" and because he was "so hurt and angry with him over so many childhood stuff."

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