"It was a very good year" (USA 1961)

"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.

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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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[Igotthemotts]

That was pretty Damn cool man.That's one of my favorite Sinatra songs.Pretty damn cool.....

[wenarto]

thank you, I did one in raegge style also, world premiere, at this site.  Search for it, thanks

[wandelvis]

Not a real singer but a voice that speaks ! it even made me cry, because im in the vintageyears myself im afraid, Thank you

[wenarto]

don't be afraid, vintage years are best, all memories you have from all those years...thanks.

[jsp010514]

pretty good my friend i also done a cover but not as good me thinks

[leblancphil]

when you where 12 years old it could have been a very good year to learn singing

[kayroz5]

This is scrumptious.

[BeccaLaughsAtBecca]

Amazing. This is one of my favorite songs and you've certainly interpreted passionately.

[93rhysie]

hahahahahahah

[mikedjmix]

lol

[Andre1214]

Pas étonnant que l'unique commentaire négatif et déplaisant soit venu en français... tsk tsk tsk..

[Channelsnature]

Bellisimo!

[SKORE16]

Trop drole mdr !!!!

[waldorfguru]

This is very very cool! XD