Frank Sinatra’s ultra-classic It Was A Very Good Year was written in the hard, gloomy, haunted key of D minor, and juxtaposed with the most graceful of all speeds. The result is a masterpiece, spanning the generational divide between when my grandfather jack was born in Hoboken, almost 108 years ago, and this morning, where an excellent CNN video montage featured the “Best of 2007″ with Frank’s song in the background.
Although the average and the mean speed of this song lies in the speed territory range of Grace, we see each emotion. categories of emotion within a speed territory have been called “mean emotions.” We have found that on a consistently excellent basis the song found with an average tempo between 70-76 beats per minute emote grace. What could be more graceful than that of a Chairman, going through nearly every speed (no drum machine for Frank, baby!): sublime, melodramatic, sincere, ceremonial, graceful, bittersweet, lonely and renewal.
Then again, what would one expect from that of a late Frank Sinatra, singing about the entirety of his life? The emotion is all over the place, but sum it up or find the mean, and here: Pure Grace of Frank.
The charts are mean speed of 13 takes—and because of the orchestra, the syncopations, Frank’s unique rapport with his orchestra: no doubt the most difficult song I’ve ever calibrated.
Take a look at the graph featuring the photograph of Frank Sinatra as Major Marco in the Manchurian Candidate. Seems that The Chairman cannot escape grace.
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green When I was seventeen [brief instrumental] When I was twenty-one it was a very good year It was a very good year for city girls It Was a Very Good Year — Frank Sinatra
September of My Years — Frank Sinatra
1965 — Reprise Records (FS-1014)
Recorded on an Audio-Technica AT PL120 Turntable
When I was seventeen it was a very good year
It was a very good year for small town girls and soft summer nights
We’d hide from the lights on the village green
When I was seventeen
[brief instrumental]
When I was twenty-one it was a very good year
It was a very good year for city girls who lived up the stair
With all that perfumed hair and it came undone
When I was twenty-one
[brief instrumental]
Then I was thirty-five it was a very good year
It was a very good year for blue-blooded girls
Of independent means, we’d ride in limousines their chauffeurs would drive
When I was thirty-five
[brief instrumental]
But now the days grow short, I’m in the autumn of the year
And now I think of my life as vintage wine from fine old kegs
From the brim to the dregs, and it poured sweet and clear
It was a very good year
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his rendition of the Sinatra classic “It Was a Very Good Year” on The Mike Douglas Show in the early ’70s….shatner sinatra
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a very good (ie vintage) year. Lyrics ==== When I was seventeen It was a very good year It was a very good year “It Was a Very Good Year” is a song composed by Ervin Drake in 1961 and subsequently made famous by Frank Sinatra. His version won the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male in 1966. Gordon Jenkins was awarded Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) for the Sinatra version. It can be found on the Frank Sinatra album September of My Years (1965).
The song recounts the type of girls the singer had relationships with at various years in his life. When he was 17, small-town girls on the village green; 21, city girls who lived up the stair; 35, blue-blooded girls of independent means. Each of these he calls a “very good year.” But now that the singer is older, he thinks back on his life “as vintage wine.” All of these romances were sweet to him, like a wine from a very good (i.e. vintage) year.
Lyrics
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When I was seventeen
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for small town girls
And soft summer nights
Wed hide from the lights
On the village green
When I was seventeen
When I was twenty-one
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for city girls
Who lived up the stair
With all that perfumed hair
And it came undone
When I was twenty-one
When I was thirty-five
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for blue-blooded girls
Of independent means
Wed ride in limousines
Their chauffeurs would drive
When I was thirty-five
But now the days grow short
Im in the autumn of the year
And now I think of my life as vintage wine
from fine old kegs
from the brim to the dregs
And it poured sweet and clear
It was a very good year
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A timeless classic….”It Was a Very Good Year” sung by Frank Sinatra…Frank Sinatra
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This video is based one picture of Frank Sinatra and also to remembered his excellent voice and his song…Frank Sinatra When Was Seventeen
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1966). Composed by: Drake / Performed by: Sinatra, Basie, Count & The Orchestra.…It Was Very Good Year Frank Sinatra
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Meanspeed-Carlton Music Summary for It Was A Very Good Year -
average tempo (meanspeed)=71.8 beats per minute
mean emotion according to meanspeed music theory=graceful
beat frequency=1.197 beats per second
average beat length=836 milliseconds
corresponding pitch= 306 Hertz.
Hunter Newman
May 9, 2008
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