September of My Years

September of My Years
Studio album by Frank Sinatra
Released	October 1965
Recorded	April 13–May 27, 1965, Hollywood
Genre	Traditional pop music, Vocal jazz
Length	44:02
Label	Reprise
Producer	Sonny Burke
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September of My Years
Studio album by Frank Sinatra
Released	August 31, 2010
Recorded	April 13-May 27, 1965, Hollywood, Los Angeles, June 10, 1984, Carnegie Hall, New York City, New York
Genre	Traditional pop music, Vocal jazz
Length	50:21
Label	Concord
Producer	Sonny Burke

September of My Years is a 1965 studio album by the American singer Frank Sinatra, arranged by Gordon Jenkins.

Sinatra was to turn 50 years old in December 1965, and the release of this album along with A Man and His Music and Strangers in the Night marked a surge of popularity in Sinatra's music. Both September of My Years and A Man and His Music won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

Sinatra's performance of "It Was a Very Good Year" won the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male, at the Grammy Awards of 1966. Arranger Gordon Jenkins was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) for the same song. This was the first album Sinatra and Jenkins had recorded together since 1959's No One Cares. Jenkins and Sinatra would next work together on the 1980 album Trilogy: Past Present Future.

CBS television cameras were rolling the night Sinatra recorded "It Was a Very Good Year". The edited result was included in a Walter Cronkite CBS News special about the singer's 50th birthday, broadcast on November 16, 1965.

On the 2010 CD reissue of the album, two bonus tracks are included: A live performance of "This Is All I Ask" at Carnegie Hall in June 1984, and the 45 rpm single mix of "How Old Am I?".

Track listing

1. "The September of My Years" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn) – 3:12
2. "How Old Am I?" (Gordon Jenkins) – 3:30
3. "Don't Wait Too Long" (Sunny Skylar) – 3:04
4. "It Gets Lonely Early" (Van Heusen, Cahn) – 2:57
5. "This Is All I Ask" (Jenkins) – 3:03
6. "Last Night When We Were Young" (Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg) – 3:33
7. "The Man in the Looking Glass" (Bart Howard) – 3:25
8. "It Was a Very Good Year" (Ervin Drake) – 4:25
9. "When the Wind Was Green" (Henry Stinson) – 3:22
10. "Hello, Young Lovers" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 3:41
11. "I See It Now" (Alec Wilder, William Engvick) – 2:50
12. "Once Upon a Time" (Charles Strouse, Lee Adams) – 3:30
13. "September Song" (Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson) – 3:30

    Bonus tracks included on the 2010 reissue:

14. "This Is All I Ask" - 3:49 live performance at the Carnegie Hall, New York City, New York, June 12, 1984
15. "How Old Am I?" - 3:30 (1968 Single Version)

Personnel

• Frank Sinatra - vocals
• Gordon Jenkins - arranger, conductor