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For instance, in "It Was a Very Good Year," the narrator looks back upon his life at ages 17, 21, 35, and now, in his personal "September." The structure of the song, which lasts almost four and a half minutes, was highly unusual for a popular song of the time, as it exceeded most other songs of that era by more than a minute.
It's a Lonesome Old Town: 1958: Charles Kisco, Harry Tobias: It's a Long Way (From Your House to My House) 1951: Roy C. Bennett, Sid Tepper: It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow: 1940: Irving Berlin: It's a Wonderful World: 1961: Harold Adamson, Jan Savitt, Johnny Watson It's All So New to Me: 1941 (radio) Pearl Black It's All Right With Me: 1959, 1984 ...
The following year, Sinatra sang for the last time on February 25, 1995, before a live audience of 1200 select guests at the Palm Desert Marriott Ballroom on the closing night of the Frank Sinatra Desert Classic golf tournament. [346] Esquire reported of the show that Sinatra was "clear, tough, on the money" and "in absolute control". [347]
Kelly Clarkson's son, Remy, 8, sang Frank Sinatra's "My Way" for the audience of her talk show "The Kelly Clarkson Show" before her Nov. 27 episode.
"The September of My Years" is a song about nostalgia [1] composed in 1965 by Jimmy Van Heusen, with lyrics by Sammy Cahn, and introduced by Frank Sinatra as the title track of his 1965 album of the same name. At the Grammy Awards of 1966, "The September of My Years" was nominated for the Grammy Award for Song of the Year.
A majority of these special "Man and His Music" LP's were given away as door prizes by Sinatra at a party in Palm Springs. The party celebrated the singer's 50th birthday, as well as the airing of Sinatra's 1965 NBC television special of the same name (Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music).
Mel Tormé hosted a 1971 summer television show named It Was a Very Good Year, using the song as opening and closing theme music. [citation needed] The Muppets Statler and Waldorf (Richard Hunt and Jim Henson) sing the song in episode 407 of The Muppet Show from 1979. Frank Sinatra's version of the song is featured in the Spike Lee film Jungle ...
I think it's one of the top 10 Christmas songs of all time now. [5] Although Williams recorded multiple other versions throughout his life, [6] [7] the original 1963 version remains the most popular and well-known. [8] The song was selected as the theme song for Christmas Seals in 1968, [9] 1976, [10] 2009 and 2012.