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September Song
"September Song" is an American pop standard composed by Kurt Weill, with lyric by Maxwell Anderson, introduced by Walter Huston in the 1938 Broadway musical ''Knickerbocker Holiday''. It has since been recorded by numerous singers and instrumentalists. It was also used in the 1950 film ''September Affair'', and for the credits in the television series ''May to December'' (a quote from the opening line of the song).
==Origins==
The song originated from Walter Huston's request that he should have one solo song in ''Knickerbocker Holiday'', if he was going to play the role of the aged dictator Peter Stuyvesant. Anderson and Weill wrote the song specifically for Huston's gruff voice and limited vocal range, in a couple of hours.
''Knickerbocker Holiday'' was roughly based on Washington Irving's "Father Knickerbocker's History of New York," set in New Amsterdam in 1647. It is a political allegory attacking the New Deal through the semi–fascist government of New Amsterdam with a corrupt governor, Peter Stuyvesant, and corrupt councilmen. It also involves a minor love triangle with a young woman forced to marry Stuyvesant while loving another.〔Ewen, David "Complete Book of the American Musical Theater, Revised" Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco pp 224–225 〕 The musical enjoyed only moderate success and closed in April 1939 after six months. "September Song" was seldom recorded in the 1940s, with recordings by Bing Crosby (1943) and Frank Sinatra (1946) being the most notable. But after Huston's version was used in the 1950 film ''September Affair'', and reached number one on the pop music chart (see below), the song quickly became established as a modern standard, with many subsequent recordings.
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