And we were just getting used to Spring. Ah, well--time to assemble our Autumn Playlist, with recommended versions.
"'Tis Autumn"--Chet Baker
"Autumn Serenade"--Johnny Hartman and John Coltrane
"Early Autumn"--the coda to Ralph Burns's "Summer Sequence"--the Woody Herman original, with Stan Getz and Terry Gibbs
"Early Autumn"--Ella Fitzgerald, to hear Johnny Mercer's lyrics--"There's a dance pavilion in the rain..."
"Autumn Leaves"--has to be Yves Montand. "Les Feuilles Mortes"
"Autumn in New York"--Jo Stafford
"September Song"--only and always Walter Huston
"September in the Rain"--the recording that introduced the George Shearing Quintet. As terrific today as it was in 1949.
"Indian Summer"--Sinatra with Ellington
"Indian Summer"--Sarah Vaughan with Basie
"Lullaby of the Leaves"--Vic Dickenson and/or Dizzy Gillespie with strings
"The Things We Did Last Summer"--Nancy Wilson with Shearing
"When October Goes"--Johnny Mercer's last lyrics, set to music by Barry Manilow, with an assist from Sergei Rachmaninoff--Rosemary Clooney
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