Sammy Cahn, songwriter: reference sources (web and print); selected songs; recordings, videos; miscellany

Cafe Songbook Music-Video Cabinet: Sammy Cahn

• 1. All My Tomorrows
  
• All the Way
• Bei Mir Bist Du Shoen
• The Brooklyn Bridge
  
• Call Me Irresponsible
  
• Come Fly with Me
  
• Day by Day
  
• Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry
  
• I Fall in Love Too Easily
  
• I Should Care
  
• I've Heard That Song Before
• I'll Walk Alone
  
• It's Been a Long, Long Time
• It's Magic
• Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!
  
• My Kind of Town
  
• Please Be Kind
  
• Saturday Night Is the Loneliest Night in the Week
  
• The Second Time Around
  
• The September of My Years
  
• Teach Me Tonight
  
• The Tender Trap
  
• The Things We Did Last Summer
  
• Time After Time
  
• Until [Till] the Real Thing Comes Along
  

Research Resources: Sammy Cahn

• Amazon (books, recordings, videos, etc. -- See espeically Sammy's Songs for Sinatra including 1 1/2 hour interview with the songwriter.);
• DBOPM (Database Of Popular Music: song list; awards; hit songs; co-writers)
• Discogs.com (songwriting and arranging credits)
• Internet Broadway Database (Broadway productions and song credits)
• Internet Movie Database (brief biography, filmography, movie song credits)
• New York Public Library (catalog entries for books, recordings, sheet music, etc.)
• The New York Times (articles about the songwriter);
• NPR Music (relevant programs often including audio segments);
• Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list)
• Wikipedia (Sammy Cahn article)
• ASCAP Biographical Dictionary of Composers, Authors and Publishers, New York: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (dates, career, shows/movies, songs; 3rd edition, 1966, entry p. 99)
• Sammy Cahn. I Should Care: The Sammy Cahn Story . New York: Arbor House, 1970 (contains chronology of songs).
• Max Wilk. They're Playing Our Song: Conversations with America's Classic Songwriters. New York and Stratford, CT: Easton Studio Press, 2008. (originally published 1973 as They're Playing Our Song: From Jerome Kern to Stephen Sondheim—The Stories behind the Words and Music of Two Generations) chapter on Sammy Cahn, pp. 200-223, paper-bound ed.;
• Richard F. Shephard. "A Lyric Arpeggio of Songs of the City." The New York Times. Oct. 16, 1979 (a reporter's encounter with Sammy Cahn in New York).
• David Ewen. American Songwriters, An H. W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1987 (Cahn entry pp. 78-82) (book includes 146 bios of composers and lyricists). -- a wide selection of used copies at abebooks.com.
• Stephen Holden. "Sammy Cahn, Word Weaver of Tin Pan Alley, Dies at 79." The New York Times, Jan. 16, 1993 (obituary);
• Ken Bloom. The American Songbook, The Singers, The Songwriters and the Songs. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2005 (entry--Burke, Van Heusen, Cahn--pp. 190-192).

Photo portrait of Sammy Cahn: (This picture from http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/sammy-cahn/ Its use here is for illustrative purposes of the subject of an article. No free images of Sammy Cahn could be found. It is unlikely that there are any free images of Sammy Cahn) / Wikipedia;

• Sammy Cahn Obit.: shoobshelb
• Sammy Cahn/Sesame Street: kostrofs

Notes

• Sammy's Songs for Sinatra (The three tracks on this CD devoted to an interview with Cahn total almost 1 1/2 hours.)
• Sinatra Sings The Select Sammy Cahn

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