"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.
"It Was a Very Good Year" is a 7" single by The Reverend Horton Heat. It was released in March of 2000 on Time Bomb Recordings.
It was released as a promo for the group's Spend a Night in the Box album and was given away with the purchase of the album.
