September In the Rain

September 23, 2016 11:19 AM

The leaves of brown came tumbling down
  Remember, in September, in the rain
  The sun went out just like a dying ember
  That September in the rain

posted by y2karl (27 comments total)

If this is a thread for these kinds of songs, have another.
posted by lagomorphius at 12:15 PM on September 23, 2016

Mod note: Per OP request, removed link to cartoon. Carry on, September people.
posted by LobsterMitten (staff) at 12:24 PM on September 23, 2016

Here again...
posted by davebush at 12:24 PM on September 23, 2016 [1 favorite]

September songs? Earth, Wind & Fire made my favorite, although this one is pretty good.
posted by koeselitz at 12:36 PM on September 23, 2016

Autumn Leaves -- Rickie Lee Jones
posted by y2karl at 12:52 PM on September 23, 2016

Ok, one more. The remix of September from Babel.
posted by lagomorphius at 12:56 PM on September 23, 2016

Lennie Briscoe prompts your memory
posted by otherchaz at 12:56 PM on September 23, 2016

And now it's cold outside.
posted by JanetLand at 1:01 PM on September 23, 2016

September morning still can make me feel that way.

(On side two of that record, Diamond covers a Martha and the Vandellas song, a Monkees song, a Sammy Davis, Jr. song, a Walker Brothers song, and "Stagger Lee." Opera buffet, indeed.)
posted by octobersurprise at 1:01 PM on September 23, 2016

Well, for me, it was, is and always will be Dinah Washington's September in the Rain, which I heard when it was very, very new and I was very, very young. And which always evoked the same pining for what is lost melancholy from the first time I heard it. Funny how that works...
posted by y2karl at 1:15 PM on September 23, 2016

Oh, come on, there's only one September Song.
posted by languagehat at 1:19 PM on September 23, 2016 [4 favorites]

Nuh Uhhhhh....

God's lips, my ears:
Dinah rules, Wille Drools.

And take my word for it -- I have that on tape
posted by y2karl at 1:34 PM on September 23, 2016 [1 favorite]

Sorry, I remember the 21st night of September as a time for dancing.

Ba de ya de ya de ya
Ba de ya de ya de ya
ba de ya de ya de ya
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 1:50 PM on September 23, 2016

Ummmmm....
lagomophius kinda beat you to it there.
posted by y2karl at 2:04 PM on September 23, 2016

And, in this particular case, I believe the correct spelling is Abehammered...
posted by y2karl at 2:07 PM on September 23, 2016 [1 favorite]

When it comes to September Song, the original is still the greatest.
posted by in278s at 2:08 PM on September 23, 2016 [2 favorites]

Hammerb'ed indeed. Sorry.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 2:09 PM on September 23, 2016

> When it comes to September Song, the original is still the greatest.

Yeah, I would have linked to Walter Huston but I thought Willie would be more acceptable to your average MeFite.
posted by languagehat at 2:37 PM on September 23, 2016

I've always had a soft spot for the Beatles' version of this song, but it just lends itself well to covers in general. George Shearing's version is still my favorite though, even without words.

Somehow though I'd missed that Dinah Washington version, so thank you! Such a voice.

O/T, is there a name for that style of slice-of-life album photo shown in the Youtube link on her album? That style of album shot is so evocative of that era's albums, it seems like there has to be a name for that type of album artwork layout. Always makes me think of childhood in the 70s thumbing through my Dad's reel-to-reel (!) and album collections. The 50s just seemed so exotic and distant.
posted by los pantalones del muerte at 2:48 PM on September 23, 2016

Bah. October is where it's really at.
posted by psoas at 3:07 PM on September 23, 2016

Yeah, baby.
posted by octobersurprise at 3:10 PM on September 23, 2016

"...style of album shot is so evocative of that era's albums, it seems like there has to be a name for..."

The album was done in the early 60s.

Er Ya go.
Jazz albums of the 50s and 60s. Quite good.
posted by clavdivs at 3:46 PM on September 23, 2016

We'll go to coney and eat baloney.... on a roll
posted by hortense at 5:04 PM on September 23, 2016

This brought tears to my eyes
posted by growabrain at 5:59 PM on September 23, 2016

He was 21 years when he wrote this song. 2 minutes, 21 seconds, then Time hurried on.
posted by Twang at 8:51 PM on September 23, 2016

Django Reinhardt in 1947 and Lotte Lenya (1957; her husband Kurt Weill wrote September Song with Maxwell Anderson)
posted by indices at 10:06 PM on September 23, 2016 [1 favorite]

The choir I frequent doing Earth, Wind & Fire.
posted by dry white toast at 8:25 AM on September 24, 2016