Songs About Autumn & Fall

It’s that time of year again. With the kids back in school once again and the days growing shorter and the shadows growing longer. The long hot days are over as the temps are getting milder and evenings getting cooler. Depending upon where you live, we’re finally getting that long awaited rainfall that we haven’t experienced much of since last spring. Breathing that brisk air is exhilarating and refreshing once more. Yes, it’s that time of year again….. Autumn — when the slanting rays of fading summer sun turn the leaves from bright green to harvest gold, barn red, and every color in between… eventually giving way to barren treetops. It’s my favorite time of year to take a long drive through meandering country roads, maybe stop to pick out the perfect pumpkin, sip hot apple cider, and reminisce with old friends. It’s the little things in life that make the journey worth traveling. Little things like a good song and good company. It’s a great time to put together your own mp3 playlist or burn your next seasonal CD with the music of the changing seasons. A lot of these are tranquil and mood reflecting to unwind with while a few others are more hip and invite you to unleash your inner-self. There’s a variety of genres here to choose from to reflect your taste and mood. Enjoy!

1. Autumn – Barbara Streisand
2. Autumn Afternoon – The Sandpipers
3. Autumn Almanac – The Kinks
4. Autumn Changes – Donna Summer
5. Autumn In New York – Sarah Vaughn
6. Autumn In New York – Frank Sinatra
7. Autumn In Rome – Robert Goulet
8. Autumn Leaves – Roger Williams
9. Autumn Leaves – Mitch Miller & His Gang
10. Autumn Love Song – Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra
11. Autumn Nocturne – Henry Mancini & His Orchestra
12. Autumn of My Life – Bobby Goldsboro
13. Autumn Rhapsody – Ronnie Dove
14. Autumn Serenade – Harry James & His Orchestra
15. Autumn Song – Van Morrison
16. Autumn Sweater – Yo La Tengo
17. Autumn Waltz – Tony Bennett
18. Autumn Wind – The Serendipity Singers
19. Autumn’s Not That Cold – Lorrie Morgan
20. Blue Autumn – Bobby Goldsboro
21. California Dreamin’ – Mamas & The Papas
22. Chill of An Early Fall – George Strait
23. Cool Change – Little River Band
24. Dark Moon -Bonnie Guitar
25. Dead Leaves & The Dirty Ground – The White Stripes
26. Early Autumn – Woody Herman & Stan Getz
27. Evidence of Autumn – Genesis
28. Fall In Philadelphia – Hall & Oates
29. Falling Leaves – Glen Miller & His Orchestra
30. Forever Autumn – Moody Blues
31. Gone Til November – Wyclef Jean
32. Grand Theft Autumn – Fall Out Boy
33. Harvest Moon – Neil Young
34. In The Fall – The Twilight’s Moon
35. Indian Summer – Ella Fitzgerald
36. Indian Summer – The Doors
37. Indian Summer – Poco
38. Indian Summer – Brooks & Dunn
39. It Might As Well Rain Until September – Carole King
40. The Last Leaf – The Cascades
41. Lullaby of The Leaves – The Ventures
42. Moments To Remember – The Four Lads
43. Moondance – Van Morrison
44. November Rain – Guns N’ Roses
45. November Sky – Yanni
46. November Twilight – Julie London
47. October – U2
48. October Morning – Fourplay
49. October Road – James Taylor
50. Old Cape Cod – Patti Page
51. Seasons – Charles Fox
52. Seasons Change – Expose
53. See You In September – The Happenings
54. September – Earth Wind & Fire
55. September Gurls – Big Star
56. September In Seattle – Shawn Mullins
57. September In The Rain – Dinah Washington
58. September Morn’ – Neil Diamond
59. September of My Years – Frank Sinatra
60. September Skies – Brian Setzer Orchestra
61. September Song – Jimmy Durante
62. September Song – Frank Sinatra
63. Shine On Harvest Moon – The Four Aces
64. Summer’s Gone – Paul Anka
65. Sweet Seasons – Carole King
66. Thirteen Autumns & A Widow – Cradle of Filth
67. ‘Tis Autumn – Ella Fitzgerald & Joe Pass
68. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) – The Byrds
69. Wake Me Up When September Ends – Green Day
70. WhenAll Is Said & Done – Abba
71. When October Goes – Barry Manilow

American Pride & Patriotic Songs

Here is a sampling of some traditional patriotic songs about American Pride ….. the ultimate sounds of patriotism at it’s finest spanning over the past century and then some. Suitable for formal civic gatherings, memorials, dedications, military honors, parades as well as private family functions honoring long time veterans celebrating retirement or recent family members returning home from service to our country in the Middle East or elsewhere overseas. These also can make a nice playlist for your celebrations of Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Labor Day, Flag Day or Patriots Day (honoring those who lost their lives on our darkest day during the tragic attacks of September 11 in New York City).

9/11: Songs of Remembrance & Tribute For Patriot’s Day

These have been recorded by several artists and musicians over the years but I have listed the “best of” renditions whenever possible.

• America (My Country ‘Tis of Thee)
• America The Beautiful – Frank Sinatra/Elvis Presley/Ray Charles
• Anchors Aweigh (US Navy Anthem)
• Battle Hymn of The Republic – Mitch Miller & His Gang
• Caissons Go Rolling Along (US Army Anthem)
• Dixie
• From The Halls of Montezuma (US Marines Anthem)
• God Bless America – Kate Smith
• Star Spangled Banner – Whitney Houston
• Stars and Strips Forever – John Philips Sousa
• When Johnny Comes Marching Home
• Wild Blue Yonder (US Air Force Anthem)
• Yankee Doodle – James Cagney
• You’re A Grand Old Flag
• The Gettysburg Address – recited by Johnny Cash

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Check out this post of 100 more songs that I did back in June of this year by clicking this link. >>> “Songs to Celebrate America’s 4th Of July”

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Below are the words to a very powerful tribute to the USA delivered on Canadian radio back in 1973. I personally have both copies of the original vinyl 45 rpm, one delivered on the air by Gordon Sinclair and a second by Byron MacGregor. Both are collector’s items. They serve as a heartfelt and stirring tribute to the very root as well as the backbone of what America stands for ….. as meaningful today (probably even more so considering what this country has been through since 1973) as it was 26 years ago……….

Here is the You Tube link if you care to watch plus listen to it while reading below.

The Americans:

A Canadian’s Opinion

by Gordon Sinclair

[originally radio broadcast on June 5, 1973 in Ontario Canada]

The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French, and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971, and this Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous, and possibly the least-appreciated, people in all the earth.

As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Well who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did, that’s who.

They have helped control floods on the Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges, and the Niger. Today, the rich bottom land of the Mississippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. Germany, Japan, and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of those countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.

When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. And I was there — I saw that. When distant cities are hit by earthquake, it is the United States that hurries into help, Managua, Nicaragua, is one of the most recent examples.

So far this spring, fifty-nine American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped. The Marshall Plan, as well as the Truman Policy all pumped billions upon billions of dollars into discouraged countries. And now, newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, war-mongering Americans.

Now, I’d like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplanes.

Come on now, you, let’s hear it! Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tristar, or the Douglas 10? If so, why don’t they fly them? Why do all international lines except Russia fly American planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or a woman on the moon?

You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times, and, safely home again. You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at. Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They’re right here on our streets in Toronto. Most of them, unless they’re breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend up here.

When the Americans get out of this bind — as they will — who could blame them if they said “the hell with the rest of the world.” Let somebody else buy the bonds. Let somebody else build or repair foreign dams, or design foreign buildings that won’t shake apart in earthquakes.” When the railways of France, and Germany, and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both of ‘em are still broke.

I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name to me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don’t think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.

Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I am one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them kicked around. They’ll come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they’re entitled to thumb their noses at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of these. But there are many smug, self-righteous Canadians.

And finally, the American Red Cross was told at its 48th Annual meeting in New Orleans this morning that it was broke.

This year’s disasters — with the year less than half-over — has taken it all. And nobody, but nobody, has helped.

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Here is the You Tube link again for your convenience.

• 9/11: Songs of Remembrance & Tribute For Patriot’s Day

• 100+ Songs To Celebrate America’s_4th of July