SEPTEMBER

This page is for the Earth, Wind & Fire song titled SEPTEMBER. For the 南波志帆 song of the same title, please see September.

SEPTEMBER

Song Information

Cover Version

SEPTEMBER's GuitarFreaks & DrumMania jacket.

Composition/Lyrics: Maurice White, Al McKay, Alta Sherral
Vocals/Chorus: Clyde Williams
Guitars: tiem-P
Bass: Ken Sasaki
Trumpet: Komizo Narita
Trombone: Kakuko Daimon
Drums: Osamu Yoshikawa
Original Artist: Earth, Wind & Fire
Album: SEPTEMBER (1978)
BPM: 125
Length: 1:38
Movie: 粕谷 宗弘 (WelzAnimationStudios), 八木 昌彦 (WelzAnimationStudios)
First Music Game Appearance: GuitarFreaks V4 & DrumMania V4 Яock×Rock
Other Music Game Appearances:

• GuitarFreaksXG & DrumManiaXG

Original Version

September's jukebeat jacket.

Artist: Earth, Wind & Fire
Composition/Lyrics: Maurice White, Al McKay, Alta Sherral
Album: SEPTEMBER (1978)
BPM: 119-129
Length: 2:00 (jukebeat), 2:14 (pop'n music)
First Music Game Appearance: pop'n music (Wii)
Other Music Game Appearances:

• jukebeat Earth, Wind & Fire pack
• jukebeat location test

Lyrics

The lines marked with an asterisk (*) are only present on the original version of September. Lines marked with ※ are only present on the pop'n music cut of the song, and fades out towards the end, after "Ba de ya, never was a cloudy day" is sung.

Do you remember the 21st night of September?
Love was changing the minds of pretenders
While chasing the clouds away

Our hearts were ringing
In the key that our souls were singing
As we danced in the night
Remember how the stars stole the night away

Hey hey hey
Ba de ya, say do you remember
Ba de ya, dancing in September
Ba de ya, never was a cloudy day

Ba duda, ba duda, ba duda, badu
Ba duda, badu, ba duda, badu
Ba duda, badu, ba duda

* My thoughts are with you
  Holding hands with your heart to see you
  Only blue talk and love
  Remember how we knew love was here to stay
※ Now December found the love that we shared in September
   Only blue talk and love
   Remember the true love we share today

   Hey hey hey
   Ba de ya, say do you remember
   Ba de ya, dancing in September
   Ba de ya, never was a cloudy day

Ba de ya de ya de ya
Ba de ya de ya de ya
Ba de ya de ya de ya de ya

  Ba de ya de ya de ya
  Ba de ya de ya de ya
  Ba de ya de ya de ya de ya

Song Connections / Remixes

• The GuitarFreaks & DrumMania series uses a cover of SEPTEMBER, while jukebeat uses the original version of the song.
• A house remix of SEPTEMBER, titled September '99, appears in DanceDanceRevolution UNIVERSE.

Trivia

This song has different backgrounds, banners, jackets, or other related images. For more information, please see this page.

• SEPTEMBER is Earth, Wind & Fire's 13th single. The song later appeared on their compilation album The Best of Earth, Wind & Fire, Vol. 1 several days later.
• SEPTEMBER is one of Earth, Wind & Fire's highest charting singles, reaching as high as #8 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and #3 on the UK Singles Chart.
• The cover version of SEPTEMBER is not a constant 125 BPM. The BPM changes are as follows: 121→124.5→125.5→126→127→128.
• In jukebeat and pop'n music, SEPTEMBER's title is capitalized as September.

Song Production Information

96-chan

To the nowadays young people, it's SEPTEMBER, right?
Do you know this song?
Adults who went to old, noisy discos, naturally know this song, right?
By all means, please play it with a mirror ball and afro hair set!
Pantaloons (pants with a wide trumpet hem) and platform London boots are also essential.

Video Production Information

None.

Difficulty & Notecounts

GF/DM difficulty rated from 1 to 99.
GF/DM XG and GITADORA difficulty rated from 0.00 to 9.99.
jubeat to clan difficulty rated from 1 to 10.
No difficulty ratings are shown for ポップンミュージック and its American/European counterparts. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd and Zenius -I- vanisher.com.)

GuitarFreaks & DrumMania

Original Series

Game	Drum			Guitar			Bass			Open
	Basic	Advanced	Extreme	Basic	Advanced	Extreme	Basic	Advanced	Extreme	Basic	Advanced	Extreme
Notecounts	130	330	565	194	200	200	209	211	-	194	200	200
GF/DM V4→V8	13	29	48	13	20	28	16	23	-	13	21	30

Other charts not shown on the above table:

• GF/DM V4 Drum EASY chart: Total notes: 114.
• GF/DM V4 Guitar EASY chart: Total notes: 164.

XG & GITADORA Series

Game	Drum				Guitar				Bass
	Basic	Advanced	Extreme	Master	Basic	Advanced	Extreme	Master	Basic	Advanced	Extreme	Master
Notecounts	126	302	546	-	164	197	200	-	155	208	211	-
GF/DM XG→XG3	1.20	2.20	3.50	-	1.30	2.05	3.55	-	1.65	2.10	3.55	-

jubeat

jukebeat location test Charts

Game	Level
	Basic	Advanced	Extreme
Notecounts	?	?	?
jukebeat location test	3	5	8

jukebeat Charts

Game	Level
	Basic	Advanced	Extreme
Notecounts	190	340	694
jukebeat	3	5	8

pop'n music

Game	Game Type
	1 Player		2 Player
	Standard	Challenge	1P	2P
Notecounts	135	195	160	160
pop'n music (Wii)	N/A	N/A	N/A