Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours

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May 20, 2016 Sold Date

Mar 25, 2016 Start Date

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Article name: In the Wee Small Hours
Genre: Jazz Product type: LP (Vinyl) Label: Capitol Number of tracks: 16

Tracklist LP - 1

1. Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning 2. Frank Sinatra - Mood Indigo 3. Frank Sinatra - Glad to Be Unhappy 4. Frank Sinatra - I Get Along Without You Very Well 5. Frank Sinatra - Deep in a Dream 6. Frank Sinatra - I See Your Face Before Me 7. Frank Sinatra - Can't We Be Friends? 8. Frank Sinatra - When Your Lover Has Gone 9. Frank Sinatra - What Is This Thing Called Love 10. Frank Sinatra - Last Night When We Were Young 11. Frank Sinatra - I'll Be Around 12. Frank Sinatra - Ill Wind 13. Frank Sinatra - It Never Entered My Mind 14. Frank Sinatra - Dancing on the Ceiling 15. Frank Sinatra - I'll Never Be the Same 16. Frank Sinatra - This Love of Mine

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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. [In the Wee Small Hours was reissued on LP in 2014.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Stephen Thomas Erlewine