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September Songs (8/31/19) It’s Labor Day weekend and John & Jessica are at the Deluxe Cabin at the lake. As summer recedes and September appears on the horizon, their musical thoughts are of songs of autumn. James Taylor - September Grass (October Road) John Pizzarelli - Rhode Island Is Famous for You (Live at Birdland) Blossom Dearie - Once Upon a Summertime (The Diva Series) Jimmy Durante - September Song (As Time Goes By: The Best of Jimmy Durante) Camille Thurman - September in the Rain (Waiting for the Sunrise) Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World Nat "King" Cole - I Was a Little Too Lonely (The Complete After Midnight Sessions) Tony Bennett w/ Bill Evans - Maybe September (Together Again) Jay Livingston - Mister Ed Theme (Television's Greatest Hits) Billie Holiday - Autumn in New York (Jazz Masters 12/Ken Burns Jazz: Billie Holiday) Gregory Porter - Ballerina (Nat "King" Cole & Me) Pat Metheny - Cherish (What's It All About) Gerald Lewis - 'Tis Autumn (Jazz Clarinet for Quitet Moments) Harry Connick, Jr. - Some Enchanted Evening (Your Songs) Barbara Cook - This Nearly Was Mine (Barbara Cook at the Met with Special Guests) John Pizzarelli - Happy Talk (With a Song in My Heart) John Pizzarelli - You've Got to Be Carefully Taught (With a Song in My Heart) Carmen McRae - Exactly Like You (Kissing Jessica Stein OMPS) Bobby Troup - The Three Bears (Tell Me You're Home) Dave Brubeck - Indian Summer (Indian Summer) Tony Bennett & Diana Krall - Nice Work if You Can Get It (Love Is Here to Stay) Ella Fitzgerald - Taking a Chance on Love (Twelve Nights in Hollywood) Nancy LaMott - The Summer Knows/Summer Me, Winter Me (Listen to My Heart) Dawes - All Your Favorite Bands (All Your Favorite Bands) Stan Getz - Early Autumn (The Best of the Verve Years) .

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