September Song is an American standard composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Maxwell Anderson. It was introduced by Walter Huston in the 1938 Broadway musical Knickerbocker Holiday and released as a single in December 1938 (Brunswick 8272). The piece is typical of early Broadway popular music and musical theatre, with a duration of about 2 minutes and 51 seconds. In the song, a man who is aging reflects on the plentiful waste of time and the days from May to December, looking forward to spending the autumn days with his beloved. Knickerbocker Holiday, loosely based on Washington Irving's Knickerbocker's History of New York, is a political allegory criticizing the New Deal through a semi fascist portrayal of New Amsterdam. The tune has become a standard, with notable covers by Frank Sinatra on his 1946 single and the 1965 album September of My Years, and by Ian McCulloch in 1984. It has appeared in films such as September Affair (1950) and Woody Allen's Radio Days (1987).
