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“But for real what is the saddest most beautiful song about September?”

Is there any contest?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdc4oBnu_fw

Though I love this version too:

Aw, c’mon:

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycPoxZ1NPBY&w=420&h=315%5D

(Always interesting to see actors doing things so seemingly out of character. Jerry Orbach?)

Corey, you speak my thoughts. This was one of my dad’s favourites, and we sang it to him in his hospital bed. He died in December. It’s been a long year, and it’s only September.

…remember the day, my daddy died

10 points for Corey. I was thinking the same thing. Sinatra (the part we all know starts at 1:23, the stuff before is, well, it’s there on almost all those B’way songs, but it’s almost never sung outside of the show context):

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjiVbaA1-sc&w=420&h=315%5D

On “Don’t Wait” – the bass! the bass! rocks. I agree w/ Belle, the autotune is OK.

rea: I have other elderly relatives who hold seances.

Thanks for brightening my morning with the EWF gem. Like many straight white male teens of the time I hated disco, but even then, that song was undeniable. My favourite version (too lazy to link) is live from Brazil. That audience gets it, and is putting on an even bigger show than EWF themselves.

Corey my have already won the thread, but I have to mention “September When It Comes“. It didn’t work last time I tried it, but let me see if I can embed that:

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2WilM6ljUg?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360%5D

@1: It’s a silly song. And it skips right over October, which down east is as good as it gets.

That Mapei song is good! I’m not sure I totally love the vocals, but the instrumentation is super. Thanks! (And I’d somehow managed to get through the last 3 months or so of my life without listening to September Gurls. This has now been righted.)

I have a hard time getting into show tunes-y stuff, but the JB version is awesome! (I know, shocker.)

Alright, what’s the trick to making embed code work here again? Anyway, here’s Moondog:

I think Sarah’s version of September Song is probably my favorite. I imagine it’s probably on youtube… Oh, what the hell, here it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otPzP4YYFpE
I won’t mention Lou Reed’s version though. There, I just lied. I’m a liar.

BTW, as I recall now the hocus-pocusery, you have to not have any more text after the URL if you want the video to automatically embed.

I believe there is a version of Kurt Weill actually sing September Song. I think I heard a bit of it on NPR once, but now I can’t find it anywhere. Anyone know of it?

It is the beginning of Spring here, so quite cheerful and lovely with the flowers. It is also the ending of the football season which is very important to many people, so this is the only Australian September song I can think of, although possibly there are other Spring related and not -football related ones but I can’t bring them to mind

http://youtu.be/IIqmsxQ-ChY

Forever Autumn

“Let us make a pledge to meet in September…”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvP42bkrhO4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Zing. :p

HTML fails me! The right Bangles link.

31: this September related song was a domestic hot in Australia even though it’s lyrics make no sense at all for the southern hemisphere

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TtqnOPArMRw

Obviously the only way you’re ever going to see a country song in one of Belle’s music posts is if somebody else links one.

I believe Belle’s country music bona fides but, since I didn’t get them embedding to work last time, I’ll use this an excuse to plug “September when it comes” again. A song by county music royalty, written by Rosanne Cash, and performed as a duet with Johnny, recorded when he was close to his death — I haven’t seen the recording date, but the album was released six months before Cash’s death (in September of 2003).

Rosanne says, this about the process:

“He was in bad health, he got very ill for a while,” Rosanne said at the time. “I was facing my dad’s mortality for the first time. It’s deeply unsettling when you come to that point in your life when your parents suddenly become frail and ill. Of course, I was very affected by it. So I called him—I was going down to Nashville anyway—and I said, ‘Dad, I’m going to bring the tape, and if you’re feeling well enough when I’m down there….’ He said, ‘I can’t promise, but if I feel well enough I will.’ And I could tell that morning he really didn’t feel well, but he said he would do it. So we went over to the little studio he has in the woods.”

As her father learned the song, Rosanne says, his energy started to perk up. “He was getting into doing it,” she recalled, smiling. “And then he was calling for more takes: ‘No, let me try that part again!’ When we finished, I said, ‘Dad, it’s beautiful, you sound great.’” . . . Her dad, of course, later told her, “You know, I really could have done it better.”

Trying one more time.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/J2WilM6ljUg?feature=player_detailpage

… apparently the correct title is “If We Make It Through December”

Now you’re just taunting me. . . Though I feel don’t feel as incompetent as I might have because I see that you misspelled the title of the song.

Hey, let’s not forget the 16th century! “Within her Bosom is September” is a pretty fresh line from the madrigal “April Is in my Mistress’ Face,” Thomas Morley.

Not a September title, but credit perhaps for the lyric “September skies, Bodies falling Never again will you catch me admiring Those vast September skies.”

And besides, any excuse for Cowboy Junkies…

Speaking of samba and saudade, and in response to some comments above on the lack of seasonal songs from the globe’s southern half, I love this beautiful song by Tom Jobim and Chico Buarque called “Anos Dourados”. It has an impression of December’s meaning from a southern point of view. There’s something about the angle of light when the earth reaches that point in its annual trek.

The Lou Reed is one of my favorites, too, but I tell you there is no substitute for Walter Huston, firstest with the mostest:

and a pony
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_TMtgjQuZI&w=640&h=390%5D
(sweetiebelle?!)

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