September Song Jimmy Durante 1955

Another version of "September Song" to mark the passing of the year.

For a while, Jimmy Durante was probably the best-known performer of this song. It's easy to see why. It's a song for a man past his prime, and Durante had no vanity about his appearance. And the wistfulness at the heart of the lyric matched something in his personality. The fact that his technical gifts as a singer were nowhere near those of, say, Sinatra, in this case actually reinforce the song's theme. Sure, the backup vocals now seem too sweet by half, but hey, perfection is for some other world, not this one.