The great lyricist Sammy Cahn - he wrote the lyrics to many of Frank Sinatra's best-known hits - published a funny, swaggering boastful memoir called I Should Care. Not a man to hid his light under a bushel, Sammy claimed that as soon as he heard a melody, a title would flash into his head. 'I don't write a song so much as it writes me. What I do is sort of trigger it with a title and then follow where it leads.' Elsewhere, in an introduction to his own rhyming dictionary, Cahn argued that a lyric's most important quality...
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