Award-winning songwriter , "The Impatient Years", "Look to Your Heart", "I'll Never Stop Loving You", "Hey, Jealous Lover", "The Second Time Around", "September of My Years", "My Kind of Town", "I Like to Lead When I Dance", "Love Is a Bore", "Everybody Has a Right to Be Wrong", "I'll Only Miss Her When I Think of Her", 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".
Wrote his first lyric, "Like Niagara Falls, Im Falling for You" at age 16.
At one point, he earned more than $1000 for his writing.
Won Academy Awards for four songs: "Three Coins in the Fountain", "High Hopes", " All the Way" and "Call Me Irresponsible".
Holds the record for most "Oscars for Best Song" alone.
Inducted into the American Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972.
Father of famous jazz fusion guitarist Steve Khan.
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 3, 1991-1993, pages 91-94. New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 2001.
He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6540 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 2, 1990.
Changed his last name from Cohen to Kahn to avoid confusion with actor/comedian Sammy Cohen and again from Kahn to Cahn to avoid confusion with lyricist Gus Kahn.
Following his death, he was interred at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.
The line "sleep with a smile" is written on his gravestone.
Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song. .
