THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN

Created on 26/04/2006
Latest update on 24/03/2012

Artist: Victor Young & chorus
Author: Jule Styne/Sammy Cahn
Label: 20th Century Fox
Year: 1954

Three women making a love wish come through throwing coins in the Trevi Fountain in Rome. Following this Academy Award winning song & film's success, said fountain became a major tourist attraction.

Jule Styne & Sammy Cahn also cowrote Saturday Night (Is The Loneliest Night In The Week) for Frank Sinatra. With Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn cowrote some more Sinatra songs, like Love And Marriage ('55) and My Kind Of Town ('64). Sammy Cahn is also the lyricist of Bei Mir Bist Du Schön, Teach Me Tonight and Let Me Try Again (see there). Jule Styne and Bob Merrill cowrote musical Funny Girl ('64); with Leo Robin Jule cowrote musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ('49).

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