“The song ‘Let It Snow’ was written on Hollywood and Vine on the hottest day of the year. I said to Jule Stein, ‘Why don’t we go down to the beach and cool off?’ He said, ‘Why don’t we stay here and write a winter song.’ I went to the typewriter. ’Oh the weather outside is frightful‘--architecture-‘But the fire is so delightful, and since we’ve got no place to go, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.’ Now we three ’let t snows’? Why not two or four? Because three is lyric.” --Lyricist Sammy Cahn (1913-1992), recalling the genesis of his holiday classic, quoted in Songwriters on Songwriting: Expanded Fourth Edition, by Paul Zollo (2003)
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