Throughout Sammy Cahn’s legendary career, he was nominated for more than 30 Academy Awards and won four times. His songs were recorded by virtually every major singer including Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Doris Day and many more. And he wrote some of the best known of all popular songs including “Come Fly With Me,” “Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow,” “Love and Marriage,” “My Kind of Town,” “The Second Time Around,” and hundreds more.

In 1942 Cahn began writing with Jules Styne. They would write songs together for 19 films between 1942 and 1951. Among their songs were “I’ve Heard That Song Before” (1942); “I’ll Walk Alone”(1944); “Saturday Night Is The Loneliest Night Of The Week”(1944); “It’s The Same Old Dream” (1947); and “Time After Time” (1947).

In 1947, Styne and Cahn wrote a successful Broadway musical HIGH BUTTON SHOES. Other results of Cahn’s collaboration with Styne were “Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow,” “There Goes That Song Again,” “The Things We Did Last Summer,” and “Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out To Dry.” Working again with Jules Styne, Cahn won an Oscar for the title song of the 1954 film Three Coins in the Fountain.

Frank Sinatra and Sammy Cahn had been friendly from Sinatra’s early days with Tommy Dorsey, and many of his songs had been written for Sinatra’s movies. In 1955, Sinatra introduced Cahn to composer Jimmy Van Heusen, beginning Cahn’s last major collaboration. They wrote the title song for the 1955 Sinatra film The Tender Trap. Also, in 1955, Cahn and Van Heusen wrote a TV musical version of Our Town, which starred Sinatra, Paul Newman, and Eva Marie Saint and produced the classic tune “Love And Marriage.”

In 1957, Cahn and Van Heusen wrote “All The Way” for the Sinatra film The Joker Is Wild. It won Cahn his second Oscar. Several of Cahn and Van Heusen’s songs were written as title songs for Sinatra albums, including 1957’s “Come Fly With Me,” 1958’s “Only The Lonely,” 1959’s “Come Dance With Me” and “When No One Cares,” and 1965’s “September Of My Years.”

In 1959 came Sinatra’s film A Hole in the Head, for which they wrote “High Hopes.” The song won Cahn his third Oscar, and later (with a revised lyric) became John F. Kennedy’s campaign song. Cahn won his fourth Oscar in 1963 for “Call Me Irresponsible,” from Papa’s Delicate Condition.

Cahn’s long association with Frank Sinatra led to Sinatra recording 89 song written by Cahn, many of them more than once.

He became a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972 and took over as President of the Songwriters Hall of Fame and now has a Lifetime Achievement Award in his name.

Sammy Cahn died in Los Angeles, California on January 15, 1993.

Bio is Courtesy of Songwriters Hall of Fame.