biography
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Cahn, Sammy
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, originally Samuel Cohen
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1913–93)
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| biography:
| Lyricist, born in New York City, New York, USA. As a boy he played the violin in a Dixieland band and began writing songs. With pianist Saul Chaplin he wrote many hits of the 1930s, and throughout the next 30 years wrote many popular songs for Hollywood, Broadway, and television with composers Jule Styne and James Van Heusen. A prolific lyricist and writer, he published The Songwriter's Rhyming Dictionary in 1984. |
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