Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle – #737. Our host is
Brenda Warren; her prompt words for this week are
shown below. Here’s where the prompts took me.
lingering, felt, sharp, human, point, oddly,
full, sense, instead, joy, sit, and place
Tag: Sinatra
September Song
This week at Glyn Wilton’s Mixed Music Bag,
he’s asking us to write about a song in which
the title or a line mentions the current month.
Here’s my September artist and his song.
Faking It
Written for Esther’s “Can You Tell A Story In…..?
#285” – exactly 18 words including the following
prompts: ‘gobbledegook’, ‘chairman’, and ‘sale’.
In exactly 18 words, this is my story.
Smooth Saturday Sounds: It Was A Very Good Year
“It Was A Very Good Year”
Written by: Ervin Drake
Recorded: 1965
Producer: Sonny Burke
Conductor: Gordon Jenkins
Arranger: Gordon Jenkins
Released: December 1965
Available on:
September Of My Years (1965)
Sinatra At The Sands (1966)
Personnel:
Frank Sinatra – vocals
Featuring Gordon Jenkins and his Orchestra
Ervin Drake’s “It Was A Very Good Year” was written in 1961 and originally recorded by Bob Shane of The Kingston Trio that same year but it was Frank Sinatra’s rendition in 1965 that made the song legendary with his Grammy Award-winning version.
The nostalgic and melancholic song recounts the type of girls with whom the singer had relationships at various years in his life: when he was 17, “small-town girls … on the village green“; at 21, “city girls who lived up the stair“; at 35, “blue-blooded girls of independent means“. Each of these years he calls “very good“. In the song’s final verse, the singer reflects that he is older and in the autumn of his years, and he thinks back on his entire life “as vintage wine”. All of these romances were sweet to him, like a wine from a very good year.
Sinatra’s version of the song, which won Best Vocal Performance, Male, also took home the Grammy for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist by Gordon Jenkins. The song became Sinatra’s first #1 single on The Adult Contemporary chart and reached #28 on Billboard Hot 100.
Ervin Drake commented on Sinatra’s rendition saying, “Someone played it to me down a telephone. It wasn’t a great phone line but I knew I’d heard a masterpiece and I fell in love with it. I’ve never stopped loving it.”
This is Frank Sinatra with “It Was A Very Good Year”
May your Saturday be smooth sailing. Thanks for stopping by.
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