November: My Music Month B4 Christmas 25.

Julie London had a quiet song called, 'November Twilight'. 

She's known for her, 'Cry Me A River' big hit.

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Gone Till November, 

November Has Come, 

November, 

November Boogie, 

8th Of November 

and 

November Twilight 

are pop songs about this month.

It's November, my month because it's this time of the year when I was born but a long time ago. So it's my favourite season.

There are some sweet songs about this cool, autumnal spell, definitely more than two dozens, but my post is about every named month on the calendar; so let's find out how many melodies there are.

This list is but a fraction:

June In January - Bing Crosby 
February Brings The Rain - Julie London
Melancholy March - Julie London 

April Love - Pat Boone 
April In Portugal - Les Baxter

Pieces of April - 

First Of May - Bee Gees 

June Is Busting Out All Over - Rodgers/Hammerstein 
July Morning - Uriah Heep 

August, October - Robin Gibb
September In The Rain - Frank Sinatra, Carole King 
September Morn - Neil Diamond

When October Goes - Barry Manilow 

This October - Julie London
November Twilight - Julie London 

November Rain - Guns n Roses
I Can See The Sun In Late December - Stevie Wonder
December Song - George Michael.

The cover of London's famous Long Play she recorded depicting months.

Julie London woos Calendar months? 

On the same subject, Ms London had specially recorded a Long Play record in 1956 using all the names of the months for the titles of her songs. Unique indeed. Here they are:

June in January 
February Brings The Rain 
Melancholy March 

I'll Remember April 

People Who Are Born In May 
Memphis In June 

Sleigh Ride In July 
Time For August 

September In The Rain 

This October 
November Twilight 
Warm In December 
Thirteenth Month.

All calendar months were featured in many pop songs of the past. Most of them are still playing over the radio today. April Love, April In Portugal, First Of May, an instrumental Come September, were some of the top hits in Singapore.

These particular songs were heard on radio, Rediffusion, in cabarets and hotel nightspots during the 60s and available on vinyl too. At that time most music was copied from the west and resurrected on vinyl with local artistes and bands singing and playing them. 

Then Neil Sedaka came, with one of his biggest hits and highlighted the calendar girl. The world and Singapore went wild.

A nostalgic November to all.

CALENDAR GIRL (N.Sedaka/H.Greenfield). 

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I love, I love, I love my calendar girl

Yeah, sweet calendar girl

I love, I love, I love my calendar girl

Each and every day of the year

(January) You start the year off fine

(February) You're my little valentine

(March) I'm gonna march you down the aisle

(April) You're the Easter Bunny when you smile

Yeah, yeah, my heart's in a whirl

I love, I love, I love my little calendar girl

Every day (every day), every day (every day) of the year

(Every day of the year)

Cover of Julie London's record done in 1956, special indeed those years.

(May) Maybe if I ask your dad and mom

(June) They'll let me take you to the Junior Prom

(July) Like a firecracker all aglow

(August) When you're on the beach you steal the show

Yeah, yeah, my heart's in a whirl

I love, I love, I love my little calendar girl

Every day (every day), every day (every day) of the year

(Every day of the year)

Yeah, yeah, my heart's in a whirl

I love, I love, I love my little calendar girl

Every day (every day), every day (every day) of the year.

November Twilight. Julie London. 

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When Sagittarius appears and shoots his heart out,

near end November, a month before Christmas Day.

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Original article: 

Andy Lim.

Re-edited on: 27 October 2024.

December Songs Before Christmas Songs 2021 Covid Times

Dewy, damp, dreamy December.

Here he is again folks. December is like the last tin soldier in the flank of 12. Still, strong, resolute and steadfast, he has held on to his position until the 11 other soldiers have completed their round of duties to serve 2021. 

Now the wet spell hits, with heat and rain in the tropics and snow, fog and mist in the northern hemisphere. The listed songs below describe some of these conditions, emotional ones most possibly, e.g., ''warm, cold, white December'', till it, ''slips away... and we make it through.''

 December will need to stand for about 24 days before the festivities begin as Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ on the 25th and Christians fill the churches on their holy week.

Whatever comes your way, the Covid-19 Connection especially, just be more careful when masking, washing, crowding and dining.😷

Have a great December everyone.

Months of the year

Here are a few songs on December, beside the Christmas ones, that you could be familiar with...

Back to December - Taylor Swift [new]

December - Ariana Grande [new]

December Love -New Kids on the Block

December Song, I Dreamed Of Christmas - George Michael

December Day - Willie Nelson

If We Make It Through December - Merle Haggard

George Michael - 'December Song - I Dreamed Of Christmas'  

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Warm December - Julie London

After December Slips Away - Donny Osmond

Cold December Night - Michael Buble

White December - Kylie Minogue [image]

25th of Last December - Roberta Flack

December 1983, Oh What A Night - Frankie Valli, 4 Seasons

White December - Kylie Minogue album

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Songs of October - Rustling, Crispy Autumn, Chilly, Gusty Winds

Nat Cole, Simon and Garfunkel, 

Barry Manilow, Donna Summer

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From late September, October and November the leaves start to change colour and fall in abundance on the earthy ground.  Green, brown, red, yellow, orange, gold; chase one and somehow you can catch the hue you're seeking. 

Living in the tropics, I miss these 3 months, having lived in Canada for some years. This is the period when ''autumn leaves start to fall, [J. Kosma/1945]'' rustling and crisp; the wind is usually chilly and often times gusty...

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''From the dew-soaked hedge creeps a crawly caterpillar

When the dawn begins to crack, it's all part of my human almanac

Breeze blows leaves of a multi-coloured yellow...

For lack of sun because the Summer's all gone...

Yes, yes, yes, it's my autumn almanac...''

[The Kinks - Autumn Almanac - Ray Davies 1967]

Official video - The Kinks - Autumn Almanac

There are at least 100 pop songs in English with autumnal themes. Here are a handful of them from the 1950s onwards.

This October - Julie London

Secret Oktober - Duran Duran

October Song - Amy Winehouse

When October Goes - Barry Manilow

October Skies  - Mumford and Sons

August October - Robin Gibbs

October Road - James Taylor

October - U2

October [Autumn Song] - Tchaikovsky

Nat King Cole - 'Autumn Leaves' [c. 1945/r. 1955]

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Autumn Leaves - Nat King Cole

Autumn Changes - Donna Summer

Autumn Almanac - The Kinks

Autumn in New York  - Billy Holiday

When the leaves come falling down - Van Morrison 

Leaves that are Green - Simon and Garfunkel

Readers are welcome to add in more titles.

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Weather Forecast September Morn In The Rain - Frank Sinatra, Neil Diamond 9/11

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It’s always been an important month for me during my younger days because of the constant reminder of incessant rain that pours from above. This weather persists in Singapore. 

In Canada, England or in Scotland, that’s when students either enjoy returning to their universities for another new year or dread the coming months after sunshine Summer sets. It’s like sensational sun in sizzling Summer and sobering school sessions in showery September. Lectures and term papers get wet in the Northern Hemisphere.

“The leaves of brown 

Came tumbling down 

Remember, in September, 

In the rain...”

(September In The Rain)

That's a Sinatra number, with another by him, called, September Song. Then came Earth Wind Fire with September. Earlier we saw Gina Lollobrigida in a movie and a song too, entitled, Come September, an instrumental by Billy Vaughn and his Orchestra. Popular Bobby Darin made it with a cover too. Kool and The Gang came later with September Love. Mostly had covers by other artistes like Andy Williams, Sarah Vaughn and of course Willie Nelson. Gruff with his bass baritone, Neil Diamond came on with the unforgettable, September Morn and it became one of the biggest hits in the 70's.

In all its beauty September was always auspicious; the people call the period FALL. Ironically the word to describe Autumn, when Nat Cole sang about the falling autumn leaves drifting by his window, some wicked people attacked New York's busy Twin Towers and numbers nine and eleven became symbols of disaster, heartache and hate. FALL had another meaning that September morn at 8.46.

"Nine eleven", we call it even today, remembered every year since September 11 in 2001 when four coordinated attacks took place in the US. September mourns! A season so lovely has a scar on its face but now about 20 years later, September still reigns supreme. 

Do you have a story about September? Or a song about this month that you love and why?  Pray tell.

Fire In The Sky by Rhonda Lee: The 9/11 Terrorist Attract Interpretation.

So  as it showers outside, here's Julie London, singing her experience with September in the Rain, a refreshing rendition.

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  Julie London September in the Rain.

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