{"id":42102,"date":"2010-09-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/september-of-my-years\/"},"modified":"2010-09-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T00:00:00","slug":"september-of-my-years","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/september-of-my-years\/","title":{"rendered":"September Of My Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Concord Records has been reissuing the Frank Sinatra Reprise Label catalogue with excellent results. The latest release is his classic 1965 album, September Of My Years.<\/o:p><\/i><\/p>\n

Frank Sinatra started the Reprise Label in 1960. He wanted a place for artists to have complete artistic control over their recordings. As the owner of the label, he was called \u201cThe Chairman Of The Board,\u201d and he ultimately recorded 34 studio albums for the label.<\/p>\n

Sinatra sold controlling interest to Warner Brothers during 1963 when the label began losing money. Reprise would release albums by Sinatra and his pals, but it would move in a pop\/rock direction, singing sign such artists as Neil Young, The Kinks, Jethro Tull, The Beach Boys, Gordon Lightfoot, and Jimi Hendrix. Reprise be deactivated in 1975-1989, but Young and Sinatra insisted that their new albums be released on the label. There were reissues of older albums, but Young and Sinatra were the only active artists on Reprise for over a decade. The label was resurrected in 1989 and today is the home for Green Day, Enya, Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac, and, of course, Neil Young. <\/p>\n

Sinatra was approaching fifty and decided to release an album to reflect that event. He and arranger Gordon Jenkins began assembling songs that were mature, meditative, and can be described as self-remembrances that Sinatra could interpret as his own. This album of mid-life tunes resonated with the record buying public, reaching number five on the United States album charts and receiving a gold record for sales. Sinatra, Jenkins, and the album itself all won Grammy Awards that year. It remains one of Sinatra\u2019s best and most popular releases. <\/p>\n

The most memorable song on this disc was the hit single \u201cIt Was A Very Good Year,\u201d originally recorded by the folk group The Kingston Trio. Sinatra turned it into a pop classic. It followed a series of relationships through the life of an individual with the summary being like vintage wine.<\/p>\n

The twelve other songs from the original release reflect the theme well. \u201cLast Night When We Were Young\u201d was a Judy Garland favorite and Sinatra gives it a smooth performance, while \u201cHello Young Lovers\u201d finds him reaching back to 1951. Other key performances include \u201cHow Old Am I,\u201d \u201cOnce Upon A Time,\u201d \u201cWhen The Wind Was Green,\u201d and the disc\u2019s title track.<\/p>\n

The album has been digitally remastered and the sound is superior to any versions that have been issued previously. The original liner notes have been included as well as an excellent biography of the making of the album. Two bonus tracks are included here as well: there is a live version of \u201cThis Is All I Ask,\u201d and the single version of \u201cHow Old Am I.\u201d<\/p>\n

September Of My Years <\/i>was a poignant album of aging and reflection for the Sinatra generation. It was released in the middle of the rock era when the new stars of the day seemed immortal. Forty-five years later, the album still resonates with a new aging generation when mortality is beginning to be faced rather than ignored. Sinatra, Jenkins, and all the songwriters featured here, except one, are gone. Only Erwin Drake, who wrote \u201cIt Was A Very Good Year,\u201d is alive in his early \u201890s.<\/p>\n

One of Frank Sinatra\u2019s best and lasting creations, September Of My Years <\/i>examines well the season of fall in all of our lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":30439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[6724],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-42102","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-frank-sinatra","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42102"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=42102"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=42102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}