#Sammy Cahn

[lydiahosek]

[Image ID: A traditional pencil drawing of Suki and Sokka from Avatar: The Last Airbender in a modern setting. They sit together on a couch, leaning against each other, with a blanket draped over their shoulders. They are dressed in sweatshirts and pajama pants. Suki's sweatshirt is partially obscured but the letters "oshi" are visible on the front. She drinks from a mug and Sokka reaches into a bowl of snacks. Behind them is a window. It is dark outside and snow is falling and piling on the sill. /.End ID]

And since we've no place to go

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

Sukka Week Wild Card: Snowed In

They're watching that classic B movie, The Boy in the Iceberg. Sokka said it was weather-appropriate.

Prompts by @sukka-week

"Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn

#sukkaweek #avatar the last airbender #sukka #couple #cuddling #food #snow #please note suki supporting the team #atla #let it snow let it snow let it snow #jule styne #sammy cahn #sukkaweek2023 #drawing

[citizenscreen]

Birthday remembrance - lyricist Sammy Cahn #botd

#sammy cahn

[oldshowbiz]

Berle and Hoffman

#dustin hoffman #milton berle #sammy cahn #the mike douglas show

[ulrichgebert]

Sehr wahrscheinlich ist The Court Jester der erste Film mit Angela Lansbury, den ich je gesehen habe. Damals war es aber vor allem der Film mit dem Kelch mit dem Elch und dem Becher mit dem Fächer. Oder war es...? Wenn man keine Kindheitserrinnerungen damit verbindet, kann es einem -hohe Sondheimdivendichte Und Basil Rathbone hin oder her- weil eben doch vor allem Danny Kaye at his Dannykayest, wahrscheinlich schon auch auf die Nerven gehen. Der Tobi rollt jedenfalls ziemlich mit den Augen.

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#The Court Jester #Danny Kaye #Angela Lansbury #Glynis Johns #Basil Rathbone #Mildred Natwick #Cecil Parker #Film gesehen #Melvin Frank #Norman Panama #Musical #Sammy Cahn #Sylvia Fine

[musicthyme]

“All For One And One For All” from Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)

Sung by Peter Falk Arranged by Nelson Riddle Written by Sammy Cahn & Jimmy Van Heusen

#peter falk #robin and the 7 hoods #robin and the seven hoods #movie musical #nelson riddle #sammy cahn #jimmy van heusen #cahn & van heusen #1964

[audiemurphy1945]

#music #1962 #marty robbins #jimmy van heusen #sammy cahn #marty after midnight #60s #country music #vintage #...

[egoschwank]

al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1301

first posted in facebook april 19, 2024

niko pirosmani -- "little girl with a balloon" (ca. 1900s)

"a hat's not a hat till it's tilted" … sammy cahn

“new wisdom pierced his wond’ring brain; he saw the world with different eyes, he saw it smile, he heard it speak, he knew the meaning of its sighs. all things that breathed or lived had tongue, held converse soft in language strange" … vazha pshavela (pirosmani's favorite poet)

"darkness at the break of noon shadows even the silver spoon the handmade blade, the child's balloon eclipses both the sun and moon to understand you know too soon there is no sense in trying" … bob dylan

"a balloon's not a balloon if it's quilted" … al janik

#niko pirosmani #little girl with a balloon #sammy cahn #a hat #tilted #vazha pshavela #wisdom #language strange #bob dylan #the child's balloon #quilted #al things considered

[raynbowclown]

High Hopes [song lyrics]

Song lyrics to High Hopes (1959) Written by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen, written for A Hole in the Head Next time you’re found, with your chin on the groundThere a lot to be learned, so look around Just what makes that little old antThink he’ll move that rubber tree plantAnyone knows an ant, can’tMove a rubber tree plant But he’s got high hopes, he’s got high hopesHe’s got high apple pie,…

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#Jimmy Van Heusen #Oscar #Sammy Cahn

[principiumindividuationis777]

#Sammy Cahn #lyricist #photography #art #men's hat

[the-paper-apricot]

Paul, Porter and "I love you"

The accepted explanation of the writing of the Wings hit 'Silly Love Songs', including that offered several times over the years by Paul McCartney himself, is that it was a riposte to criticism of his more sentimental love songs as light and insignificant.

I was getting slagged off for writing luv songs. You see, I’m looking at love not from the perspective of ‘boring old love’, I’m looking at it like when you get married and have a baby. That’s pretty strong: it’s something deeper.

Paul McCartney, from Club Sandwich N°47/48, Spring 1988 (cited here)

Although I've never seen this discussed anywhere, it's long seemed to me that there's another possible influence on the song. To my knowledge no one has ever asked Paul directly about this, so what follows remains just my headcanon. (If anyone knows something to the contrary, please let me know!)

Cole Porter, another preternaturally talented Gemini lefty.

While writing the songs destined for the musical Mexican Hayride (1944), Cole Porter was presented with a challenge by his close friend Monty Woolley. (Woolley was an American actor who you may remember in the delicious role of the Professor in the Christmassy classic film The Bishop's Wife.) Woolley reasoned that because Porter's songwriting mastery came in part from his unhackneyed, fresh lyrical ideas, he wouldn't be able to write a hit song with the simple, rather too obvious, repeated refrain of "I love you".

Monty Woolley with Cole Porter

It became a $25 wager, and Woolley also stipulated that his friend include reheated stale lines about spring and "birds on the wing". Porter duly wrote 'I Love You', which was the only standout in the show and in time topped the U.S. Hit Parade for several weeks, so he won his bet.

I would quite like to have been sort of a nineteen-twenties writer, 'cause I like that thing, you know. You know, up in top hat and tails and sort of coming on ... so, this kind of number, I like that thing. But, so this is just me doing it, and pretending I'm living in 1925.

Paul McCartney, talking about 'Honey Pie', interview with Radio Luxembourg, 1968

Melvyn Bragg: What's the longest you've ever worked over a song? 'Cause a lot of the lyrics, the more you read them, the more - and then they always read very straightforwardly and seamlessly, but when you read them again and again they're very complicated, and a lot of internal rhyming going on and a lot of extremely clever play. Does that - do you work on them quite hard? Do you go over them again and again? Paul: Well, you know I'm a fan of all that, the old-fashioned writing. You know, sort of Sammy Cahn's era, you know, Cole Porter, and I do like all that, when it comes off! I mean, I hate just silly rhymes, just, you know - but when it really comes off those are great little things in songwriting. So I was always aware of that from people like Cole Porter. So I'd always try and put something like that kinda thing in, sorta little internal rhymes, you were always going for that kinda thing. ... I can't explain it, you know, I've never been able to explain it, but it's like it comes in out of the blue. It sort of comes at you, you know, and - I'm sure the funnel that it's coming through's a lot to do with it, 'cause your little computer in here - my computer's sort of heard Billy Cotton Band Show going back there, you know and Cole Porter there, and this there and it's heard millions of influences through to Chuck Berry ...

from 'Paul McCartney: Songsmith' (The South Bank Show) January 1978

George Eells' book The Life That Late He Led: A Biography of Cole Porter was published in 1967 and remained the definitive life for about a decade. It mentions the 'I Love You' wager (p212), which became one of the better-known song origin anecdotes.

I have no idea if Paul McCartney knew this story. But I can imagine the professional challenge appealing to him, and perhaps especially tempting is the playful pairing of commercial reward with artistic defiance. 'Silly Love Songs', like 'I Love You' before it, was a big hit: Number 2 in the UK chart, and top of the Billboard chart in the States.

Did he dare himself to write a pop chorus that repeated the refrain "I love you", because Porter had done so? I dunno.* For what it's worth, I think the three melodic lines in the chorus of 'Silly Love Songs' exceed Porter's tune in both beauty and memorability.** (Although I do enjoy this sultry version recorded by Julie London.)

(*Just like I don't know if 'Why Don't We Do It In The Road' found any precedent in Porter's celebrated and racy-for-its-day song, 'Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love'.)

(**But I mean, you'd expect me to say that, you know I've made paper dolls of him in his little Wings outfits tbf.)

#Apricot's headcanon #Silly Love Songs #Paul McCartney #Cole Porter #'I Love You' #this post brought to you by my weird varied interests

[shyolet]

Playing I Fall In Love Too Easily by Jule Styne :3

Since I'm mute and can't sing the lyrics by Sammy Cahn i'll post them here

I fall in love too easily I fall in love too fast I fall in love too terribly hard For love to ever last

My heart should be well-schooled 'Cause I've been fooled in the past And still I fall in love too easily I fall in love too fast

My heart should be well-schooled 'Cause I've been fooled in the past And still I fall in love too easily I fall in love too fast

#it's a jimindorothy arrangement i learned to try to borrow concepts for my own arranging from! #her stuff is incredibly and I highly recommend them #my music #piano progress update #jazz piano

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Song of the Day - Today marks the 65th anniversary of the recording session that gave us the sublime John Coltrane version of “Time After Time”- July 11th, 1958. “Time After Time” was composed by Jule Styne with lyrics by Sammy Cahn, in 1947, for Frank Sinatra to sing in the movie “It Happened In Brooklyn”. Since then, it has been covered by dozens of artists. This version was made 65 years ago today by Trane with Red Garland on the piano, Art Taylor on drums, and Paul Chambers on bass. The songs recorded this day became the album “Stardust” which would be released in October. A snappy but soothing rendition of this gorgeous standard.

[Thank you Mary Elaine LeBey]

#Mary Elaine LeBey #Time After time #John Coltrane #music #songs #standards #Youtube

[fashionbooksmilano]

Branded Youth and other Stories  by Bruce Weber

designed by Dimitri Levas. Lyrics by Sammy Cahn, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, and Patti Smith; Poems by Charles Bukowski, A. E. Houseman and Allen Ginsberg; and essays by Ingrid Sischy, Martin Harrison, and Charles Saumarez Smith.

Bulfinch Press/Little Brown and Company, Boston New York 1997, 278 pages, 28 x 22 cm., ISBN  9780821225257

euro 110,00

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“Branded Youth And Other Stories” was published in conjunction with Bruce’s exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery London in 1997. The title refers to a story of some wild-child teenagers he met in Montana, who in an act of teenage bonding had branded each other on the shoulder with the heated blade of an army bayonet. The reckless romance of this band-of-brothers fable sets the tone for the photographs of this volume–images that evoke youth, freedom, adventure…and the ties that bind. This book opens with a portfolio of Hollywood’s brightest lights, actors of todays’ A-list like Leonardo diCaprio, Christina Ricci, Natalie Portman and Mark Wahlberg, all caught at the moment just before their biggest breaks.  Their innocence stands in stark contrast to the “Court TV” chapter that follows, Polaroid stills from the time when when cable crime reportage became a national fixation, the lurid underbelly of fame represented by the Menendez brothers, Amy Fisher, and Lorena Bobbitt. “Branded Youth” is very much concerned with a search for lost innocence, that “big fantasy life” only dangerous because of its elusiveness. The book traces Bruce’s travels and adventures over the course of several years, from Vietnam to South Africa, Mississippi to Montana. Everywhere he witnesses and documents families celebrating together, children, elderly folks, life-long friends, enchanted landscapes. The prevailing feeling is of possibility and love and faith, the desire people share to build communities and live in harmony with one another, regardless of the injustice or violence of the past. In these photographs, Bruce captures an openness to life as it presents itself to his lens–the pictures resonate, above all, with hope. The book ends as it began, with a study in contrasts. Youthful friendship and loyalty are celebrated in photographs of athletes (at Dan Gable’s Wrestling Camp in Iowa) and Boy Scouts (specifically, Troop 1426 of Virginia). Adolescence and sexuality get their due in a series of figure studies which end the book. But even with its prevailing exuberance, Bruce Weber closes “Branded Youth” with a thoughtful essay expressing the ephemeral nature of such joy. 

09/03/23

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[fyeahcindie]

The C-indies haven't posted many Christmas tunes this year, but this one from 陳虹竹 Red pig and guitarist 王家鴻 Jahong Wang is gorgeous. =D

Laufey (Laufey Lin Jónsdóttir) blew up over the last year or so, releasing albums and touring the world. She released a 2-song holiday single with Norah Jones in November, and here they are on The Today Show a few weeks ago, sounding quite lovely:

Here's a song from Laufey's 2023 holiday ep, A Very Laufey Holiday! written by Jule Styne & Sammy Cahn:

Links: Official,  Instagram,  Spotify,  YouTube,  SoundCloud,  Twitter,  TikTok,  Weibo,  Wikipedia

#陳虹竹 Red pig #王家鴻 Jahong Wang #Laufey #Norah Jones #Laufey Lin Jónsdóttir #christmas music #music video #taiwan #iceland #Youtube

[muppetydyke]

Muppet Mainstage, December 9th, 2023

“Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!” was written by Julie Styne and Sammy Cahn in 1945. In 1998 the Count (Jerry Nelson) and Countess (Fran Brill) performed the song as part of the album Elmo Saves Christmas: Holiday Favorites. It has been performed several other times through the Muppet properties as well.

#mupposts #muppets #muppet mainstage #sesame street #Youtube

[audiemurphy1945]

#music #1956 #anita o'day #sammy cahn #jule styne #50s #jazz #vintage #...