June 28, 2009

September Song | Jimmy Durante | 1955

I could do without the choral woo-ooo-ooohs, but aside from that, I really like this version of the Kurt Weill/Maxwell Anderson chestnut.

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  1. Lucy Foley on June 28th, 2009 at 2:36 pm

    Yes for a long time, even up to the time of Tom Waits, record company people were very nervous about a plain dry scratchy voice like this, had to pile on the strings and the woo woo girls. Of course, all the poignancy and feeling of the song comes from Durante’s clipped, plain phrasing.

  2. Sheila Ryan on June 28th, 2009 at 2:41 pm

    Strings and woo-woo have undercut so many fine recorded performances. You just have to activate your internal woo-woo masking device and really listen, don’t you?

  3. Lucy Foley on June 28th, 2009 at 2:48 pm

    yes.

  4. Sheila Ryan on June 28th, 2009 at 4:53 pm

    Nervous laughter following “watch the late, late, late . . . late . . . show”.

  5. Lucy Foley on June 28th, 2009 at 5:28 pm

    Tellin’ it like it is.

  6. Rick Neece on June 28th, 2009 at 5:38 pm

    I have to say. This piece, September…1955. That’s the month and year I was born. Have to say the lyrics ring. Let’s get busy, y’all. None of us have a minute to waste.

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