What Makes It Happen

A philosophical love song from Walking Happy that asks the unanswerable question at the heart of all romance — what is it, exactly, that makes two people fall in love? Cahn poses the question with characteristic wit and leaves it happily unresolved.

Tony Bennett’s 1967 recording on his album Tony Makes It Happen — which took its title directly from this song — gave it a wider audience and a Bennett seal of approval that any Cahn lyric would be proud to carry.