September Of My Years

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Total Tracks: 13   Total Length: 44:31

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Will Friedwald

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05.18.10
Balancing sincere sentiment with self-deprecating wit
2004 | Label: Frank Sinatra Enterprises

It's hard to believe that Sinatra, upon turning 50, felt like celebrating the September of his years — especially when he had another 30-plus years of living to do. For this 1965 album, which utilized the marvelously Brahmsian arrangements of Gordon Jenkins, Sinatra contemplated life and love and the passage of time, never failing to balance sincere sentiment with self-deprecating wit. "It was a Very Good Year," Ervin Drake's epic metaphor of existence and experience depicted as vintages of wine, is the song you know, but the rest of the album, particularly the title track, is every bit as good.

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September of My Years is one of Frank Sinatra’s triumphs of the ’60s, an album that consolidated his strengths while moving him into new territory, primarily in terms of tone. More than the double-disc set A Man and His Music — which was released a year after this album — September of My Years captures how Sinatra was at the time of his 50th birthday. Gordon Jenkins’ rich, stately, and melancholy arrangements give the album an appropriate reflective atmosphere. Most of the songs are new or relatively recent numbers; every cut fits into a loose theme of aging, reflection, and regret. Sinatra, however, doesn’t seem stuck in his ways — though the songs are rooted in traditional pop, they touch on folk and contemporary pop. As such, the album offered a perfect summary, as well as suggesting future routes for the singer. – Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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