Cahn (Kahn), Sammy

(born Samuel Cohen), American song lyricist; b. N.Y., June 18, 1913. Cahn played violin in variety shows and organized a dance band while still a teenager. In 1940 he went to Hollywood and wrote songs with JULE STYNE for several films, including Youth on Parade (1942), Carolina Blues (1944), Anchors Aweigh (1945), It Happened in Brooklyn (1947), and Romance on the High Seas (1948). In 1955 he started a music publishing company. Among his best-known songs are Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen, I Should Care, Three Coins in a Fountain, I'll Never Stop Loving You, The Tender Trap, and High Hopes (which became John F. Kennedy's 1960 campaign song). He published The Songwriter's Rhyming Dictionary in 1983.