In the Wee Small Hours Frank Sinatra

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  • Release Date: 05/26/1998
  • Original Release: 1955
  • Sales Rank: 9,711
  • Label: CAPITOL
  • UPC: 724349475526

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In the Wee Small Hours

1LISTENIn the Wee Small Hours of the Morning 3:00
2LISTENMood Indigo 3:30
3LISTENGlad to Be Unhappy 2:35
4LISTENI Get Along Without You Very Well 3:42
5LISTENDeep in a Dream 2:49
6LISTENI See Your Face Before Me 3:24
7LISTENCan't We Be Friends? 2:48
8LISTENWhen Your Lover Has Gone 3:10
9LISTENWhat Is This Thing Called Love? 2:35
10LISTENLast Night When We Were Young 3:17
11LISTENI'll Be Around 2:59
12LISTENIll Wind 3:46
13LISTENIt Never Entered My Mind 2:42
14LISTENDancing on the Ceiling 2:57
15LISTENI'll Never Be the Same 3:05
16LISTENThis Love of Mine 3:33

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Expanding on the concept of Songs for Young Lovers!, In the Wee Small Hours was a collection of ballads arranged by Nelson Riddle. The first 12" album recorded by Sinatra, Wee Small Hours was more focused and concentrated than his two earlier concept records. It's a blue, melancholy album, built around a spare rhythm section featuring a rhythm guitar, celesta, and Bill Miller's piano, with gently aching strings added every once and a while. Within that melancholy mood is one of Sinatra's most jazz-oriented performances -- he restructures the melody and Miller's playing is bold throughout the record. Where Songs for Young Lovers! emphasized the romantic aspects of the songs, Sinatra sounds like a lonely, broken man on In the Wee Small Hours. Beginning with the newly written title song, the singer goes through a series of standards that are lonely and desolate. In many ways, the album is a personal reflection of the heartbreak of his doomed love affair with actress Ava Gardner, and the standards that he sings form their own story when collected together. Sinatra's voice had deepened and worn to the point where his delivery seems ravished and heartfelt, as if he were living the songs. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

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In the Wee Small Hoursby Anonymous

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February 19, 2008: You have to be careful with a CD with a bunch of ballads on it, because it can get quite boring after a while. This one is Sinatra's best though, and the only one I would recommend. I'm not saying the others are bad. I'm just saying that this is the only one I think every Sinatra fan should have. Some of the best songs are as follows: "When Your Lover Has Gone," "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning," "Glad to be Unhappy," "Mood Indigno" and "What Is This Thing Called Love." This was recorded in 1954, and the sound quality is great. That's because it was recorded at Capitol Records, and Frank was still young.

In the Wee Small Hoursby Anonymous

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January 03, 2008: I'm not going to lie to you you're not alive if you haven't heard this album. Think I'm being too grandiose in my statements, well buy this album and prove me wrong. It's Frank Sinatra's finest hour. There's not a mis-step in one of the greatest albums ever produced. Nelson Riddle's charts are soft, tender, heartbreaking and intimate unlike anything imaginable. The themes of heartbreak and loss can are identifiable to anyone with a pulse. Sinatra's voice pierces the soul. "Only connect" said E.M. Forrester when asked what was needed in order to get an audience. Sinatra realized this. That's why we're talking about it 50 years after its release.


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