The September of My Years

1965 song by Frank Sinatra

"The September of My Years"
Song by Frank Sinatra
from the album September of My Years
Released	1965
Recorded	May 27, 1965
Genre	Traditional pop
Length	3:26
Label	Reprise Records
Composer(s)	Jimmy Van Heusen
Lyricist(s)	Sammy Cahn
Producer(s)	Sonny Burke

"The September of My Years" is a song about nostalgia^[1] composed in 1965 by Jimmy Van Heusen, with lyrics by Sammy Cahn, and introduced by Frank Sinatra as the title track of his 1965 album of the same name.

At the Grammy Awards of 1966, "The September of My Years" was nominated for the Grammy Award for Song of the Year.

Notable recordings

Frank Sinatra - September of My Years (1965), Sinatra at the Sands with Count Basie (1966), Sinatra: Vegas (2006)
Bob Dylan - Triplicate (2017)

References

^ Browne, Ray Broadus; Ambrosetti, Ronald J. (1993). Continuities in Popular Culture: The Present in the Past & the Past in the Present and Future. ISBN 9780879725938.

Frank Sinatra

Studio
albums

Columbia	The Voice of Frank Sinatra Songs by Sinatra Christmas Songs by Sinatra Frankly Sentimental Dedicated to You Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra
Capitol	Songs for Young Lovers Swing Easy! In the Wee Small Hours Songs for Swingin' Lovers! Close to You A Swingin' Affair! Where Are You? A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra Come Fly with Me Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely Come Dance with Me! No One Cares Nice 'n' Easy Sinatra's Swingin' Session!!! Come Swing with Me! Point of No Return Duets Duets II
Reprise	Ring-a-Ding-Ding! Sinatra Swings I Remember Tommy Sinatra and Strings Sinatra and Swingin' Brass All Alone Sinatra Sings Great Songs from Great Britain Sinatra–Basie: An Historic Musical First The Concert Sinatra Sinatra's Sinatra Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, and Other Academy Award Winners America, I Hear You Singing It Might as Well Be Swing 12 Songs of Christmas Softly, as I Leave You September of My Years My Kind of Broadway A Man and His Music Moonlight Sinatra Strangers in the Night That's Life Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim The World We Knew Francis A. & Edward K. The Sinatra Family Wish You a Merry Christmas Cycles My Way A Man Alone Watertown Sinatra & Company Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back Some Nice Things I've Missed Trilogy: Past Present Future She Shot Me Down
Qwest	L.A. Is My Lady

Live
albums

Sinatra at the Sands
The Main Event – Live
Sinatra Saga
Sinatra Saga, Vol. 2
Sinatra & Sextet: Live in Paris
Sinatra 80th: Live in Concert
With Red Norvo Quintet: Live in Australia, 1959
Sinatra '57 in Concert
Live from Las Vegas
Sinatra: Vegas
Frank Sinatra: The Greatest Concerts
Live at the Meadowlands
Sinatra: New York
Best of Vegas
Sinatra: London
Sinatra: World On a String
Sinatra: Standing Room Only

Compilations

This Is Sinatra!
This Is Sinatra Vol. 2
Look to Your Heart
All the Way
Sinatra Sings of Love and Things
Sinatra '65: The Singer Today
Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits
Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
Portrait of Sinatra – Forty Songs from the Life of a Man
Sinatra–Jobim Sessions
Screen Sinatra
All-Time Greatest Dorsey/Sinatra Hits, Vol. 1-4
Capitol Collector's Series
Sinatra Reprise: The Very Good Years
Sinatra Sings the Songs of Van Heusen & Cahn
Sinatra: Soundtrack to the CBS Mini-Series
The Best of the Capitol Years
Christmas Songs by Sinatra
Frank Sinatra Sings the Select Johnny Mercer
Frank Sinatra Sings the Select Rodgers & Hart
The Complete Recordings Nineteen Thirty-Nine
Sinatra 80th: All the Best
Everything Happens to Me
Frank Sinatra Sings the Select Cole Porter
Frank Sinatra Sings the Select Sammy Cahn
Greatest Hits: Early Years
The Very Best of Frank Sinatra
Portrait of Sinatra: Columbia Classics
Lucky Numbers
Classic Sinatra: His Greatest Performances 1953–1960
Super Hits
My Way: The Best of Frank Sinatra
Love Songs
Greatest Love Songs
Christmas with the Rat Pack
Frank Sinatra Christmas Collection
Romance
Duets/Duets II: 90th Birthday Limited Collector's Edition
Romance: Songs from the Heart
Sinatra at the Movies
Nothing but the Best
Seduction: Sinatra Sings of Love
Classic Sinatra II
Christmas with Sinatra & Friends
36 Greatest Hits!
Come Fly Away
Sinatra/Jobim: The Complete Reprise Recordings
Sinatra/Basie: The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings
Sinatra: Best of the Best
Best of Duets
Sinatra, with Love

Soundtrack
albums

High Society
Young at Heart
Robin and the 7 Hoods

Other
albums

Frank Sinatra Conducts the Music of Alec Wilder
Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color
The Man I Love
Sleep Warm
Frank Sinatra Conducts Music from Pictures and Plays
Syms by Sinatra

Box
sets

Sinatra–Jobim Sessions
The Reprise Collection
The Capitol Years
Concepts
The Complete Recordings
The Song Is You
The V-Discs
The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings
The Complete Capitol Singles Collection
The Best of the Columbia Years
Frank Sinatra & the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
The Capitol Years
Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre
Frank Sinatra in Hollywood
The Real Complete Columbia Years V-Discs
The Voice: Frank Sinatra, the Columbia Years (1943–1952)
The Reprise Years
Duets: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
Ultimate Sinatra

Tribute
albums

A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra
Perfectly Frank
Manilow Sings Sinatra
...Allow Us to Be Frank
Bolton Swings Sinatra: The Second Time Around
A Tribute to Frank Sinatra

Tribute
films

The Rat Pack
The Night We Called It a Day

Videography

A Man and His Music
A Man and His Music – Part II
A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim
Francis Albert Sinatra Does His Thing
Sinatra
Sinatra in Concert at Royal Festival Hall
Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back
Sinatra – The Main Event
Sinatra and Friends
The First 40 Years
The Man and His Music

Digital

Reprise Rarities (Volume 1)
Reprise Rarities (Volume 2)
Reprise Rarities (Volume 3)
Reprise Rarities (Volume 4)
Reprise Rarities (Volume 5)

Category

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Discography
Columbia singles (1939–1940)	"All or Nothing at All"
RCA Victor singles (1940–1942)	"Imagination" "I'll Be Seeing You" "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" "I'll Never Smile Again" "The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)" "Our Love Affair" "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)" "Stardust" "Dolores" "It's Always You" "Oh! Look at Me Now" "Without a Song" "Let's Get Away from It All" "This Love of Mine" "Blue Skies" "Pale Moon (An Indian Love Song)" "Embraceable You" "Just as Though You Were Here" "Take Me" "In the Blue of Evening" "How About You?" "There Are Such Things"
Bluebird singles (1942–1943)	"Night and Day" "The Night We Called It a Day" "The Song Is You"
Columbia singles (1943–1953)	"Close to You" "You'll Never Know" "Sunday, Monday, or Always" "People Will Say We're in Love" "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" "A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening" "White Christmas" "Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)" "I Dream of You (More Than You Dream I Do)" "Ol' Man River" "Stormy Weather" "When Your Lover Has Gone" "Dream" "If I Loved You" "You'll Never Walk Alone" "Mighty Lak' a Rose" "Nancy (with the Laughing Face)" "America the Beautiful" "Day by Day" "Full Moon and Empty Arms" "Soliloquy (Part 1 & 2)" "Begin the Beguine" "Silent Night" "Adeste Fideles" "Jingle Bells" "Oh! What It Seemed to Be" "September Song" "Five Minutes More" "Sweet Lorraine" "Time after Time" "Mam'selle" "Almost Like Being in Love" "Tea for Two" "My Romance" "So Far" "A Fellow Needs a Girl" "But Beautiful" "I've Got a Crush on You" "All of Me" "Nature Boy" "Everybody Loves Somebody" "My Melancholy Baby" "Autumn in New York" "Why Can't You Behave?" "Some Enchanted Evening" "Bali Ha'i" "Let's Take an Old Fashioned Walk" "I Only Have Eyes for You" "The Old Master Painter" "Peachtree Street" "Goodnight, Irene" "Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You)" "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" "We Kiss in a Shadow" "April in Paris" "I Could Write a Book" "The Birth of the Blues"
Capitol singles (1953–1961)	"I'm Walking Behind You" "I've Got the World on a String" "My One and Only Love" "South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)" "I Love You" "Young at Heart" "Don't Worry 'bout Me" "Three Coins in the Fountain" "The Gal That Got Away" "Someone to Watch Over Me" "Melody of Love" "Learnin' the Blues" "Love and Marriage" "(Love Is) The Tender Trap" "You're Sensational" "True Love" "Well, Did You Evah!" "Mind If I Make Love to You?" "Hey! Jealous Lover" "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" "All the Way" "Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)" "Witchcraft" "Mistletoe and Holly" "French Foreign Legion" "High Hopes" "Old MacDonald" "My Blue Heaven" "I'll Remember April" "I Love Paris"
Reprise singles (1961–1983)	"Granada" "I'll Be Seeing You" "The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)" "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" "Without a Song" "Stardust" "Come Rain or Come Shine" "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" "Me and My Shadow" "Call Me Irresponsible" "I Have Dreamed" "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" "My Kind of Town" "Softly, as I Leave You" "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" "The Little Drummer Boy" "It Was a Very Good Year" "Strangers in the Night" "Summer Wind" "You Make Me Feel So Young" "That's Life" "The September of My Years" "Somethin' Stupid" "The World We Knew (Over and Over)" "My Way" "Goin' Out of My Head" "Something" "Bein' Green" "Send In the Clowns" "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" "Theme from New York, New York" "Here's to the Band" "To Love a Child"
Qwest singles (1983–1984)	"Teach Me Tonight" "Mack the Knife" "It's All Right with Me" "Until the Real Thing Comes Along"
Compositions	"This Love of Mine" "Sheila" "Peachtree Street" "Take My Love" "I'm a Fool to Want You" "Mistletoe and Holly" "Mr. Success"
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