1. Words to the Music By: Katie Smith
Sammy Cahn
Words to the Music
By: Katie Smith

2. Early Life/Career
Name Change: Was born Sammy Cohen to a Jewish family; changed his last name from Cohen to Kahn so he wouldn’t be confused with another famous lyricist, George M. Cohen; then he had to change the spelling of Kahn to Cahn so he wouldn’t be confused with Gus Cahn, another successful song writer
Tin Pan Alley Composer

3. Career
First started working with Saul Chaplin who wrote most of the music for Cahn’s songs
Chaplin also taught Cahn more on the piano
Cahn used his bar mitzvah money to take violin lessons
After Cahn started to gain a name from Tin Pan Alley his name attracted celebrities that wanted to sing his songs
Wrote musicals in Hollywood and Broadway

4. His Career is pretty eventful…
Cahn became a well known lyricist and teamed up with James Van Heusen who wrote much of the music for Cahn’s songs
The pair became a good team and ended up writing over 80 songs for none other than Frank Sinatra
He also wrote songs for Doris Day, Mario Lanza, Jackie Gleason, Judy Garland, Nat King Cole and many others

5. Have I ever heard his music?
The answer is quite simply: yes
Ever listen to Christmas music?
He wrote “Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!”
Any Disney fans?
He wrote “You Can Fly, You Can Fly, You Can Fly!”
I think he liked repetition…

6. Other Famous Works
“Saturday Night is the Loneliest Night of the Week”: performed by Frank Sinatra
“Call Me Irresponsible”: Covered here by Michael Buble
“High Hopes”, “Come Dance with Me”, “Ain’t That a Kick in the Head?”, “Come Fly With Me”