Pop Culture Series: Twenty-first Night of September

History of September 21

By Earth, Wind & Fire

When the band Earth, Wind & Fire released the feel-good song September in 1978, it broke into the Top 10 and has been one of their biggest commercial successes.

However, it was initially released on November 18 of that year as a new song on the album “The Best of Earth, Wind & Fire, Vol. 1.”

September: Major Hit

Best of Earth, Wind & Fire, Vol 1

Rolling Stone Magazine calls September one of the “500 Greatest Songs of All Time,” and Billboard magazine ranked it sixth on their top singles.

It’s sold over a million physical copies and over two million digital copies in the U.S. In 2018, it was inducted into the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress — a notable achievement for a 40-year-old song.

It starts with:

Do you remember
The twenty-first night of September?
Love was changin’ the minds of pretenders
While chasin’ the clouds away
Our hearts were ringin’
In the key that our souls were…