It Was a Very Good Year

"It Was a Very Good Year"
Single by Frank Sinatra
from the album September of My Years
B-side"Moment to Moment"
ReleasedDecember 1965
Recorded1965
StudioUnited Western Recorders, United A
GenrePop
Length4:25
LabelReprise
Songwriter(s)Ervin Drake
Producer(s)Sonny Burke
Frank Sinatra singles chronology
"Ev'rybody Has the Right to Be Wrong! (At Least Once)"
(1965)		 "It Was a Very Good Year"
(1965)		 "Strangers in the Night"
(1966)

"It Was a Very Good Year" is a song composed by Ervin Drake in 1961 and originally recorded by Bob Shane of the Kingston Trio for their album Goin' Places. It was made famous by Frank Sinatra's version in D minor from his album September of my Years, which won the Grammy Award for Best Male Vocal Performance at the 8th Annual Grammy Awards in 1966 and became Sinatra's first number one Adult Contemporary single, also peaking at No. 28 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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