Valerie V Sings the Sammy's

Sammy Fain, original name Samuel Feinberg, born on June 17, 1902, in New York, N.Y., was a prolific American composer of more than 1,000 songs. Some of the more well-known are, Secret Love, You Brought A New Kind of Love to Me, Easy to Love, That Old Feeling, and I’ll Be Seeing You.

Coincidentally, born June 18, 1913, also in New York, was Sammy Cahn, another American lyricist, songwriter and musician. Cahn’s exhaustive list of tunes includes best known and beloved numbers such as, I’ll Never Stop Loving You, Day by Day, I Should Care, It’s Magic, Teach Me Tonight, and All My Tomorrows.

Both composers wrote hundreds of scores for films and Broadway, as well as many stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies and jazz artists. The Sacramento Jazz Coop presents local singer Valerie V, who happens to be the first cousin (once removed) of Fain, with Chad Chwalik on keys, Mat Marucci, on drums, and Kerry Kashiwagi on bass, as she sings “The Sammy’s”, the music of Sammy Cahn an Sammy Fain.