Sammy Cahn
Award winning songwriter ("All the Way"
[Academy Award, 1957], "Three Coins in
the Fountain" [Academy Award, 1954],
"Love and Marriage", "High Hopes"
[Academy Award, 1959], "Call Me
Irresponsible" [Academy Award, 1963])
composer, author and publisher, educated
at Seward Park High School in New York.
Arriving in Hollywood in 1940, he wrote
many title and theme songs along with film
scores and incidental music. His Broadway
stage scores include "High Button Shoes",
"Two's Company" and "Skyscraper".
He joined ASCAP in 1936, and his chief
musical collaboraors included Saul Chaplin
Jule Styne, and James Van Heusen. He
became a musical publisher in 1955. His
other song compositions include "Shoe
Shine Boy", "Please Be Kind", "I've
Heard That Song Before", "I'll Walk
Alone", "Saturday Night is The Loneliest
Night of the Week", "I Fall in Love Too
Easily", "What Makes the Sunset",
"It's Been a Long, Long Time",
"Day By Day", "Let It Snow, Let It Snow,
Let It Snow", "I Should Care",
"The Things We Did Last Summer", "Five Minutes More",
"Time After Time", "You're My Girl", "It's Magic", "Be My Love",
"Because You're Mine", "Teach Me Tonight", "The Second Time
Around", "September of My Years", "My Kind of Town", "I Like
to Lead When I Dance", "Everybody Has a Right to Be Wrong",
and the film title songs for "The Tender Trap", "It's A Woman's World",
"The Long Hot Summer", "Indiscreet", "Pocketful of Miracles",
"Come Blow Your Horn", "The Best of Everything", and
"Where Love Has Gone"
Jule Styne
Jule Stein left his homeland of England with his parents, bound for the United States.
The year was 1912, and the young boy who would one day become Jule Styne, Broadway and Hollywood composer
was on his way to Chicago.
In 1934, Styne and his wife (he had married six years before) moved to New York and was soon discovered by 20th Century
Fox president, Joseph Schenck, who brought him to Hollywood to work with
stars such as Shirley Temple, Alice Faye, Tony Martin, The Ritz Brothers and others. From 20th, he moved on to Paramount
Pictures, where he met and wrote with Frank Loesser "I Don't Want To Walk Without You Baby," which remained
for 20 weeks on radio's "Your Hit Parade." His next partner was the lyricist, Sammy Cahn who co-wrote a host of
hits, including "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry," "I Fall in Love Too Easily" and "Time After Time,"
all of which were hits for Frank Sinatra.
The team made its way back to New York and Broadway and soon came up with a score for "High Button Shoes,"
which ran for 727 performances. Styne, with Leo Robin, had another hit with "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,"
which with the song, “Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend," helped Carol Channing and Marilyn Monroe make musical comedy
history.
Later, Styne revived his partnership with Sammy Cahn to write the title song for "Three Coins In The Fountain," which
won them an Oscar. Styne and Cahn also produced the hit song, "Its Magic," for the film Romance On
The High Seas, which starred Doris Day. Yet another hit brought Styne together with Betty Comden and Adoph Green for
the score Bells Are Ringing, which contained “Just In Time" and "The Party's Over," two more great hits.
Other Jule Styne shows continued, including titles like "Funny Girl," "Hallelujah, Baby!" and of course, the
incredibly successful collaboration with Stephen Sondheim, "Gypsy."
He received the Kennedy Center Award for Artistic Achievement. He is in The Songwriters' Hall of Fame
and the Theatre Hall of Fame, has two Grammy awards, a Tony award, an Oscar, an Emmy, the Donaldson Award and The
Drama Critics Circle Award.
Jule Styne died in 1994 in New York City.
I'll Walk Alone
Words & music by:-
Sammy Cahn & Jule Styne
I'll walk alone
Because, to tell you the truth, I am lonely
But I don't mind being lonely
When my heart tells me you are lonely, too
I'll walk alone,
And when they ask me I'll tell them I'd rather
There are dreams I must gather
Dreams we fashioned the night you held me tight
I'll always be near you wherever you are each night
In every prayer
If you call I'll hear you, no matter how far
Just close your eyes and I'll be there
Please walk alone
But send your love and your kisses to guide me
Till you're walking beside me,
I'll walk alone