Quote of the Day (Sammy Cahn, on the Unlikely Making of “Let It Snow”)

“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)