After decades of novelty and comedy recordings, film roles and television work,
Jimmy Durante was invited into the studio to record a "serious" album of standards and originals.
Durante himself was uncertain about the project, but the resulting album was in every way a success. It was
Durante's only album to enter the Top 40, and the title track made Billboard's Top Pop 100. Mixing
Durante's utterly unique voice with lush strings and a vocal chorus,
September Song is a left-field masterpiece full of wistful and affecting performances.
Durante was by no means a technically accomplished vocalist, but he negotiated the sessions with aplomb and created a piece of work very different from, but just as charming as, the comedy that had made him a star. ~ Greg Adams