See you in September
In honor of my birthmonth, a list of songs about September:

1. See You in September (The Happenings) (video)
2. Wake Me Up When September Ends (Green Day) (live video)
3. September Song (written by Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson for the 1938 Broadway show Knickerbocker Holiday; performed by many including Willie Nelson, Sarah Vaughan, Frank Sinatra) (video - Sinatra and Denver)
4. September (Earth Wind and Fire) (listen)
5. September Morn (Neil Diamond) (video (cover))
6. September When It Comes (Roseanne Cash) (video)
7. The September of My Years (Frank Sinatra)
8. Nightswimming (REM) (live on Jools Holland)
9. Try to Remember (from The Fantasticks) (live performance by Jerry Orbach) (Thanks, Janice!)
10. September Gurls (Big Star, covered by The Bangles) (live performance by Susanna Hoffs)
11. September in the Rain (Al Dubin; performed by James Melton in Melody for Two in 1937) (cover by Deborah Cox) (cover by The Beatles in a 1962 audition)
    

More obscure:

• Maybe September (Tony Bennett)
• Come September (Natalie Imbruglia) (homemade video)
• Remember September (Belinda Carlisle)
• Raining in September (Rufio)
• It Might As Well Rain Until September (Carole King) (listen)
• Wet Day in September (Pussycat) (video)
• September Rain (Sentimental Graffiti)
• September All Over (September) (bad video)
• Late September (Deepest Blue)
• September Girl (Martin Klingman) (video)
• Pale September (Fiona Apple) (homemade video)
  

The overall theme is one of regret and the approaching end of good things, though usually colored with anticipation of a peaceful (albeit permanent) rest. September is melancholy but not depressing. I've left out the many 9/11-themed songs, though many existing September songs were repurposed as tributes.
- posted by Diane @ 8:19 PM