I recently picked up a pretty good Sammy Cahn compilation- 42 tracks on 2 CDs, not much to complain about. One minor frustration is that there are no detailed credits.
The performers are listed, but the co-writers are not listed. Sammy Cahn did have some songs that he wrote on his own, but mostly he wrote lyrics in collaboration with a composer who handled the music.
Thanks to my mad research skillz, I have been able to identify the co-writers for all the songs except one.
“Fred” is the song title.
On this compilation, it is performed by Tony Bennett.
Searching “Sammy Cahn” Fred “Tony Bennett” gets me nothing- there are too many results that include a person named Fred (many of the results show pages that mention Sammy Cahn, Tony Bennett, and Fred Astaire).
Searching select lyrics has yielded nothing. I’ll submit some lyrics here though in case the lyrics jog anyone’s memory: He never ever has a penny
The park at night makes quite a bed
Does he have problems? No, not any
I mean that nothing bothers Fred
It’s a pretty fun upbeat song. I’d link to it but, again, I’ve found it to be unsearchable so far- so, if it’s on the internet I haven’t found it yet.
Does anyone know this song? Know who the co-writer was?
Ha! Thank you!
I just went through the motions and got the Songwriters Hall of Fame link at #7 (I’m using Bing instead of Google). I think my initial instincts were that a simple “Fred” would not be sufficiently helpful, so I don’t think I even bothered with the simplest search of “Sammy Cahn” Fred. On the various searches that I did try, I poured through to the fourth or fifth page on every variant of the search.
Simpler is better, it seems.
I didn’t know Neal Hefti’s name before but he’s got a mountain of amazing credits as I look at his Wiki page. He wrote the theme to “Batman” for chrissakes!!!
You’re welcome. And welcome to start a Sammy Cahn Appreciation Thread. One of my favorites is Betty Hutton singing “Public Jitterbug No. 1” (link), dancing with Hal Le Roy and Chaz Chase. Music by Saul Chaplin.
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