September Song

For other uses, see September Song (disambiguation).
"September Song"
Single by Walter Huston[1]
B-sideThe Scars[2]
PublishedSeptember 24, 1938 (1938-09-24) by Crawford Music Corp., New York[3]
ReleasedDecember 1938 (1938-12)[1]
RecordedNovember 14, 1938 (1938-11-14)[2]
StudioColumbia Records, 1776 Broadway, New York
GenrePopular music, musical theatre[1]
Length2:51
LabelBrunswick 8272[2]
ComposerKurt Weill[2]
LyricistMaxwell Anderson[2]

"September Song" is an American standard popular song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Maxwell Anderson. It was introduced by Walter Huston in the 1938 Broadway musical production Knickerbocker Holiday.[1] The song has been recorded by numerous singers and instrumentalists.

Origins

The song originated from Walter Huston's request that he should have one solo song in Knickerbocker Holiday if he were to play the role of the aged governor of New Netherland, Peter Stuyvesant. Anderson and Weill wrote the song in a couple of hours for Huston's gruff voice and limited vocal range.[4]

Knickerbocker Holiday was roughly based on Washington Irving's Knickerbocker's History of New York set in New Amsterdam in 1647. It is a political allegory criticizing the policies of the New Deal through the portrayal of a semi–fascist government of New Amsterdam, with a corrupt governor and councilmen. It also involves a love triangle with a young woman forced to marry the governor Peter Stuyvesant while loving another.[5] The musical closed in April 1939 after a six-month run.[1]

Lyric content

In "September Song", a man now recognizes the "plentiful waste of time" of earlier days, and in the "long, long while from May to December", having reached September, he is looking forward to spending the precious days of autumn with his loved one.[6]

Covers

Frank Sinatra's 1946 version, in an arrangement by Axel Stordahl, reached No. 8 on the Billboard charts that year.[7] He went on to re-record the song twice: in the 1962 album Point of No Return again arranged by Stordahl, and three years later, on the 1965 album September of My Years,[8] arranged by Gordon Jenkins.

Ian McCulloch of Echo & the Bunnymen released a version as his debut solo single (backed with a rendition of "Molly Malone") which reached number 51 on the UK Singles Chart in 1984.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Chronology". 2013-07-06. Archived from the original on 6 July 2013. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Brunswick 78rpm numerical listing discography: 8000 – end of series (8517)". www.78discography.com. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
  3. ^ Library of Congress. Copyright Office. (1938). Catalog of Copyright Entries 1938 Musical Compositions New Series, Vol. 33, Pt. 3 for the Year 1938. United States Copyright Office. U.S. Govt. Print. Off.
  4. ^ Lisle, Tim (1994). Lives of the Great Songs. London: Penguin. p. 54. ISBN 0-14-024957-5.
  5. ^ Ewen, David. Complete Book of the American Musical Theater, Revised. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco pp. 224–225
  6. ^ Joe Horowitz (September 11, 2022). "Did Kurt Weill 'Look Back'?". artsjournal.
  7. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1986). Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890–1954. Wisconsin: Record Research. p. 576. ISBN 0-89820-083-0.
  8. ^ "September of My Years: Frank Sinatra". AllMusic. Retrieved January 6, 2025.
  9. ^ "Official Charts Company – Ian McCulloch". Official Charts. 19 January 2013.

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