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The Great American Songbook

Music: Easy Listening, Soundtracks & Musicals

Sounds of the 50s

Leo Green explores figures associated with the Great American Songbook

The Great American Songbook: Sammy Cahn

Music: Country

Music: Folk

16/02/2016

Sammy Cahn

BBC Radio 2 - The Great American Songbook, Sammy Cahn

Leo Green celebrates Oscar-winning songwriter Sammy Cahn.

Leo Green celebrates Oscar-winning songwriter Sammy Cahn, whose songs include Come Fly With Me, Be My Love, The Tender Trap and Three Coins in the Fountain.

Leo Green celebrates the Oscar winning song writer Sammy Cahn and wonders where his musical gift came from . He was born into an immigrant family from Galicia who had no history of music making where even piano lessons were 'only for girls'. The curios and talented Sammy quickly found his way to Vaudeville Theatres and into the life of a travelling musician but it's his remarkable list of songs like Come Fly With Me, The Tender Trap, My Kind Of Town and Three Coins In The Fountain that make him stand out as one for the greats of the song writing world.

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