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"September Song" was used as diegetic music in the 1950 film September Affair. [9] The song is used in the 1987 Woody Allen film Radio Days; Allen has stated that the song may be the best American popular song ever written. [10] In "Previews", the Season 1/Episode 14 of the TV series Smash, the character of producer Eileen Rand sings a version ...
"September" has a funk groove based on a four-measure pattern that is consistent between verses and choruses, built on a circle of fifths. [7]Written in the key of A major, and using a chord progression written by Earth, Wind & Fire guitarist Al McKay, vocalist Maurice White and songwriter Allee Willis wrote the song over one month.
Knickerbocker Holiday is a 1938 musical written by Kurt Weill (music) and Maxwell Anderson (book and lyrics); based loosely on Washington Irving's Knickerbocker's History of New York about life in 17th-century New Netherland (old New York). The musical numbers include "September Song", now considered a pop standard.
The song was written after the September 11 attacks. The song is based on Jackson’s own experience on September 11, 2001. Jackson had finished walking outside and returned indoors to discover news of the attacks on television. He immediately wanted to write a song expressing his thoughts and emotions, but he found it hard to do so for many weeks.
The band performed the song live for the Howard Stern Show in October 2019, alongside an interview with Armstrong discussing the song's origin. [66] Armstrong again performed the song for One World: Together At Home, a charity live stream dedicated to COVID-19 relief efforts hosted by Global Citizen, in April 2020. [67]
“I was surprised that some songs were born in a time of crisis or war,” says Michael P. Foley, a professor at Baylor University who researched the origins of popular Christmas songs for his ...
"Satellites" is the first single by Petra Marklund (performing as September) from her second album In Orbit, and is the first single released under her contract with Catchy Tunes. The single was a success in Sweden and Finland and was later released in variety of countries worldwide, such as Poland, Romania, Spain, Israel, the United Kingdom and the United States, being September's first ...
International Talk Like a Pirate Day is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur and Mark Summers of Albany, Oregon, [1] who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate (that is, in English with a stereotypical West Country accent). [2] It has since been adopted by the Pastafarianism ...