September of My Years
Released September 1965 (LP)
October 1986 (CD)
Recorded April 13-14, 22 and May 27, 1965, Hollywood
Genre Traditional pop, vocal jazz
Length 44:02
Label Reprise
FS 1014
Producer Sonny Burke
Sinatra was to turn 50 years old in December 1965, and the release of this album along with A Man and His Music and Strangers in the Night marked a surge of popularity in his music. Both September of My Years and A Man and His Music won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. CBS television cameras were rolling the night Sinatra recorded “It Was a Very Good Year”. The edited result was included in a Walter Cronkite CBS News special about the singer’s 50th birthday, broadcast on November 16, 1965.
Sinatra’s performance of “It Was a Very Good Year” won the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male, at the Grammy Awards of 1966. Arranger Gordon Jenkins was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) for the same song. This was the first album Sinatra and Jenkins had recorded together since 1962’s All Alone. Jenkins and Sinatra would next work together on the 1980 album Trilogy: Past Present Future.
The album was remastered for compact disc and released on October 10, 1986, as part of the Entertainer of the Century series done together by Reprise and Capitol Records. That version is currently out of print. Concord Records reissued the album again, newly remastered on compact disc, on August 31, 2010. This version includes two bonus tracks, a live performance of “This Is All I Ask” recorded at Carnegie Hall in June of 1984, and the single mix of “How Old Am I?” released in 1968.
Track listing
“The September of My Years” (Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn) – 3:12
“How Old Am I?” (Gordon Jenkins) – 3:30
“Don’t Wait Too Long” (Sunny Skylar) – 3:04
“It Gets Lonely Early” (Van Heusen, Cahn) – 2:57
“This Is All I Ask” (Jenkins) – 3:03
“Last Night When We Were Young” (Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg) – 3:33
“The Man in the Looking Glass” (Bart Howard) – 3:25
“It Was a Very Good Year” (Ervin Drake) – 4:25
“When the Wind Was Green” (Don Hunt, Henry Stinson)[1] – 3:22
“Hello, Young Lovers” (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 3:41
“I See It Now” (Alec Wilder, William Engvick) – 2:50
“Once Upon a Time” (Charles Strouse, Lee Adams) – 3:30
“September Song” (Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson) – 3:30
Bonus tracks included on the 2010 reissue:
“This Is All I Ask” – 3:49
“How Old Am I?” – 3:42
Notes
The Orchestra on “September of My Years” features 9 Violins
The Orchestra on Tracks 2-13 and 15 features 16 Violins
Henry Stinson is also known as Donald Henry Stinson
Personnel
Frank Sinatra – vocals (All Tracks)
Bob Bain – guitar (1)[5]
Max Bennett – additional bass guitar (15)[3]
Buddy Collette – saxophone, woodwind (1)
Joe Comfort – string bass (1)
Irv Cottler – drums (1, 14)[5][7]
Alvin Dinkin – viola (1-2, 4-5, 7-9, 11-12, 15)[3][7][8][9][10]
Melinda Eckels – oboe (2, 4-5, 7-8, 15)[11][12], flute (3, 6, 9-13)[13][14]
Nick Fatool – drums (2-13, 15)
Bert Gassman – oboe (3, 6, 9-13)
Chuck Gentry – saxophone, woodwind (1)
Justin Gordon – saxophone, woodwind (1)
Stanley Harris – viola (1)
Al Hendrickson – guitar (9, 11-12)[6]
Lloyd Hildebrand – bassoon (2-13, 15), flute (3, 6, 9-13)
Clyde Hylton – clarinet (2-13, 15), flute (3, 6, 9-13)
Gordon Jenkins – arranger (All Tracks), conductor (1-13, 15)
Kathryn Julye – harp (1)
Armand Kaproff – cello (1-2, 4-5, 8-9, 11-12, 15)
Louis Kievman – viola (2, 4-5, 7-9, 11-12, 15)
Harry Klee – clarinet (2-13, 15), flute (3, 6, 9-13), saxophone, woodwind (1)
Arnold Koblentz – oboe (2, 4-5, 7-8, 15)
Cappy Lewis – trumpet (1)
Edgar Lustgarten – cello (1)
Ray Menhennick – viola (3, 6, 10, 13)[15][16]
Bill Miller – piano (1-13, 15)
Dick Nash – trombone (1)
Tommy Pederson – trombone (1)
Bill Pitman – guitar (1)
Kurt Reher – cello (3, 6, 10, 13)
George Roberts – bass trombone (1)
Paul Robyn – viola (2-13, 15)
Mike Rubin – string bass (1-13, 15)
Sanford Schonbach – viola (3, 6, 10, 13)
Willie Schwartz – saxophone, woodwind (1)
Tom Shepard – trombone (1)
Barbara Simons – viola (1)
Eleanor Slatkin – cello (1)
Wayne Songer – clarinet (2-13, 15)
Vincent Terri – guitar (2-8, 10, 13, 15)
Kathryn Thompson Vail – harp (2-13, 15)
Joe Parnello – piano, conductor (14)
Tommy Mottola – guitar (14)
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