{"id":13371,"date":"2025-09-27T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=13371"},"modified":"2025-09-27T16:46:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:46:00","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-september-songs-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/27\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-september-songs-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: September Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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But first the absolute best version of Dylan’s From a Buick Six<\/a>\u00a0just to get your blood up. But now that Gary U. S. Bond is in the house, here is\u00a0Twist, Twist, Senora<\/a>\u00a0with a trio of 1940s dancing girls.\u00a0New Orleans<\/a>, live, with Jeff Beck.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/span><\/p>\n

September ends.\u00a0 A transitional month leading from hot August to glorious October, Kerouac month in the\u00a0MavPhil<\/em> secular ‘liturgy.’<\/span><\/p>\n

Dinah Washington,\u00a0September in the Rain<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Rod Stewart,\u00a0Maggie May<\/a>.\u00a0“Wake up Maggie, I think I got something to say to you\/It’s late September and I really should be back at school.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Carole King,\u00a0It Might as Well Rain Until September<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

George Shearing,\u00a0September in the Rain<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Walter Huston,\u00a0September Song<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This from a London reader:<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks for linking to the George Shearing \u2018September\u2019. I had forgotten he grew up in London (in Battersea, just down the road from me). I love the Bird-like flights on the piano. Indeed I think he wrote \u2018Lullaby of Birdland\u2019. Another Londoner is Helen Shapiro who does a great version<\/a> of \u2018It might as well rain until September.’ Great alto voice, never made it in the US as far as I know.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I was first hipped to Shearing by Kerouac who referred to him in\u00a0On the Road<\/em>.\u00a0 I too love the ‘Bird’-like flights on the piano. The allusion is to Charley ‘Bird’ Parker, also beloved of Kerouac.\u00a0 Helen Shapiro is new to me, thanks. She does a great job with the Carole King composition.\u00a0 Believe it or not, King’s version is a demo<\/em>. That’s one hell of a demo. A YouTuber points out that Shapiro was not part of the 1964 ‘British Invasion.’\u00a0 I wonder why.<\/span><\/p>\n

UPDATE\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jim Soriano recommends\u00a0Try to Remember\u00a0<\/a>\u2014 which I had forgotten.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mark Anderson introduces me to Big Star,\u00a0September Gurls<\/a>. Nice clangy, jangling guitar work reminiscent of the Byrds and some Beatle cuts.\u00a0\u00a0Wikipedia article<\/a>.\u00a0 Which Beatle cuts?<\/span><\/p>\n

Well,\u00a0Rain<\/a>\u00a0is one,\u00a0And Your Bird Can Sing<\/a> is another.\u00a0 Wow! I forgot how good these songs are.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But first the absolute best version of Dylan’s From a Buick Six\u00a0just to get your blood up. But now that Gary U. S. Bond is in the house, here is\u00a0Twist, Twist, Senora\u00a0with a trio of 1940s dancing girls.\u00a0New Orleans, live, with Jeff Beck. \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. September ends.\u00a0 A transitional month leading from hot August to glorious … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: September Songs”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13372,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13371\/revisions\/13372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}