Ian Mc Culloch - September song (7" single, vinyl rip). 1984.

   September's here and the days are becoming shorter...
   This is the first cloudy and rainy day here after almost two months of heatwave (above 40)! 
   Let's welcome this beautiful season with an excellent song written for the occasion!
   This single is the very first release by Echo and the Bunnymen's singer Ian Mc Culloch. In 1984, right after their "Ocean Rain" LP, he released this cover to Kurt Weill's classic song "September song" (first public performance in the 1938 Broadway musical  Knickerbocker Holiday). 
   It has since been recorded by numerous singers (James Brown, Lou Reed, Bryan Ferry, Robert Wyatt are some of them).

   The wonderfull classic Irish song "Molly Malone" or "Cockles and Mussels" is on the b-side. The song tells the fictional tale of a beautiful fishmonger who plied her trade on the streets of Dublin, but who died young, of a fever. She is typically represented as a hawker by day and part-time prostitute by night.
    In contrast she has also been portrayed as one of the few chaste female street-hawkers of her day. 
   In 1988 the Dublin Millennium Commission endorsed claims concerning a Molly Malone who died on 13 June 1699, and proclaimed 13 June to be "Molly Malone day". The city of Dublin made a statue of Molly Malone in 1988.

Have a nice Autumn!

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