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September in the Rain

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In 1937, a forgettable movie with a forgettable operatic vocalist introduced a song that was quite unforgettable. The movie was Melody for Two, and the song, by Harry Warren and Al Dubin, was September in the Rain. Over the years, the pop song originally sung earnestly became an early-autumn pop classic and then a jazz standard.

Here are 10 of my favorite versions with a bonus clip:

Here's Red Garland with Paul Chambers and Art Taylor in 1956....



Here's the George Shearing Quintet in 1949...



Here's Sarah Vaughan in 1959...



Here's Jo Stafford with a Paul Weston arrangement in 1953...



Here's Nelson Riddle in 1957...



Here, three years later, Riddle dusted off the instrumental and fashioned it for Frank Sinatra in 1961...



Here's Dinah Washington in 1961...



Here's Sue Raney with a Billy May arrangement in 1960...



Here's the Dave Brubeck Octet in 1950...



And here's Paul Weston in 1950...



Bonus: Here's Jamile accompanied by Tony Davis earlier this year...

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This story appears courtesy of JazzWax by Marc Myers.
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