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Play it again, Sammy? Cahn will
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Lyricist Sammy Cahn is a frustrated performer.
Never mind that the 77-year-old show-biz veteran wrote the words
for such classics as "My Kind of Town (Chicago Is)," "I'll Walk
Alone," "Three Coins in a Fountain," "All the Way" and "Call Me
Irresponsible." Forget that 28 of his several hundred songs were
nominated for Academy Awards and four of them won Oscars. Never mind
that Frank Sinatra had an affinity for Cahn's lyrics and that Cahn
collaborated with such legendary songwriters ...
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Play it again, Sammy? Cahn will
Chicago Sun-Times
; Lyricist Sammy Cahn is a frustrated performer. Never mind that the 77-year-old show-biz veteran wrote the words for such classics as "My Kind of Town (Chicago Is "I'll Walk Alone," "Three Coins in a Fountain," "All the Way" and "Call Me Irresponsible." Forget that 28 of his several hundred songs
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Sing to me, Mister C // Sammy Cahn to open show in his kind of town, Chicago
Chicago Sun-Times
; There's something wonderfully undressed about a song performed by its composer or lyricist. More often than not, great songwriters can't sing or act very well. But they tend to possess an uncanny gift for selling their material and for displaying its most elemental strengths. When a songwriter
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Sammy Cahn refreshes sweet memories
Chicago Sun-Times
; Chances are, every person in the Wellington Theater Wednesday night for "Sammy Cahn in Person: Words and Music" had a few encounters with goosebumps, lumps in the throat or other manifestations of sweet nostalgia. Maybe it was when Joie Gallo, Raymond Saar and Alisa Gyse were taking turns in a Cahn
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Telly for toddlers // British show for very young
Chicago Sun-Times
; staff writer `Teletubbies" arrives stateside on Monday. After nearly a year of heated controversy and hot consumerism in England, these colorful plush creatures - stars of a television series geared for children age 1 to preschool - come to PBS. And it looks as if they will become the next child
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Sammy Cahn, Legendary Pop Lyricist, at 79
Chicago Sun-Times
; LOS ANGELES Legendary lyricist Sammy Cahn, "the song-a-minute man" whose "Three Coins in the Fountain" and "Love and Marriage" were among dozens of hummable American classics, died Friday of congestive heart failure. He was 79. The prolific New York-born lyricist and producer, who wrote hits for
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Duvin, Cahn & Barnard. (Transition)
Crain's Cleveland Business
; DUVIN, CAHN & BARNARD: Richard M. Humphreys and Barton A. Bixenstine to partners.
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Sammy Cahn & His Hit Parade;The Irrepressible Lyricist at 75, Bringing His Sparkle to Ford's
The Washington Post
; "I've had a most extraordinary life-it's just beyond fascination," says songwriter Sammy Cahn.The stories he could tell. Actually, if you're breathing and in the vicinity, it's the stories he will tell. "Tell me a name and I'll tell you a story of a one-on-one experience," burbles the spry
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TOP TAILGATING PRO SKIPS GAMES FOR PARKING LOT SHOW.(METRO)
The Capital Times (Madison, WI)
; THE SELF-APPOINTED Commissioner of Tailgating is going to be in Madison on Friday, but he'll miss the season's first tailgate party, which of course is Saturday - before, during and after the UW football season opener against Washington State. The question is: How can a man who has attended
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THEATER; Cahn: He's a Pro; At Ford's, the Lyricist Proves a Socko Showman
The Washington Post
; Sammy Cahn is a songwriter-a lyricist, really. He's one of the few guys who'd dare put words in Frank Sinatra's mouth, the man who made the whole world sing "I've Heard That Song Before." And plenty of others. At Ford's Theatre in "Words and Music," a spiffy showcase summing up sixty-odd years of
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Catherine Cahn Dies; Advised On Personnel Management
The Washington Post
; Catherine Fogler Merkel Cahn, 54, a former government personnel management specialist who had headed her own international consulting firm since 1991, died of lung cancer May 7 at the Southern Maryland Hospital Center. Mrs. Cahn was president of Cahn Associates, which counted among its clients the
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