{"id":1855,"date":"2022-09-24T17:22:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T17:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/09\/24\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-september-songs\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T17:22:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T17:22:49","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-september-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/09\/24\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-september-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: September Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

September's on the wane.  A transitional month leading from hot August to glorious October, Kerouac month in the MavPhil<\/em> 'secular liturgy.'<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Rod Stewart, Maggie May<\/a>. "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, It Might as Well Rain Until September<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

And while we have Miss King cued up, lend an ear to One Fine Day<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 'sixties forever! We were young, raw, open, impressionable, experience-hungry; we lived intensely and sometimes foolishly.  We felt deeply, and suffered deeply. Youth has its truth. And our popular music put to shame the crap that came before and after. Or so we thought. And so we still think. Would I want to live though the 'sixties again? Hell no, I am having too good a time enjoying it memorially at a safe distance.  Youth has its truth, but if you can make it into old age with health and intellect intact, and a modicum of the lean green, you are winning the game. <\/span><\/p>\n

Django Reinhardt, September Song<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

Van Morrison, September Night<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Brothers Four, Try to Remember<\/a>. I do remember when I was "a tender and callow fellow." <\/span><\/p>\n

Billie Holliday, September Song<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Addendum<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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

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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.\u2019  Great alto voice, never made it in the US as far as I know. There is an  account of her conversion to Christianity here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I was first hipped to Shearing by Kerouac who referred to him<\/a> in On the Road<\/em>.  I too love the 'Bird'-like flights on the piano. The allusion is to Charley 'Bird' Parker, also beloved of Kerouac.  Helen Shapiro is new to me, thanks. She does a great job with the Carole King composition.  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.'  I wonder why.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

September's on the wane.  A transitional month leading from hot August to glorious October, Kerouac month in the MavPhil 'secular liturgy.' Dinah Washington, September in the Rain Rod Stewart, Maggie May. "Wake up Maggie, I think I got something to say to you\/It's late September and I really should be back at school." Carole King, It Might as Well … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: September Songs”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855","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=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}