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In The Wee Small Hours

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Track Listings

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

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.92 x 5.55 x 0.47 inches; 3.03 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Universal Music Group
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 1807853
  • Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 1998
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ October 21, 2006
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Universal Music Group
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000006OHD
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
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  • Tonya
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Own Albume
    Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2025
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    Considered to be the first concept album. I bought it out of curiosity and fell in love with it.
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  • B. Derschau
    5.0 out of 5 stars The quietest album I own
    Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2024
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    Wow! Absolutely remarkable. This is the quietest album. Absolutely no audible surface noise. It's incredible
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  • Sharon Reese
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Sinatra
    Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2024
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    Remasters sound excellent. Understated orchestra supporting the songs and voice perfectly
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  • Social science professor
    5.0 out of 5 stars A lovely, sad Sinatra album with Nelson Riddle's orchestra, terrifically reissued on vinyl by Capitol Records
    Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2017
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    Released in 1955 when most albums were just collections of individual songs, "Wee Small Hours" was a concept album - more than the sum of its parts. The songs fit together and are well-sequenced. Sinatra and Nelson Riddle intended this music to be listened to as an album, though it's true that individual songs did extremely well on the radio. You've probably read that Sinatra's marriage to Ava Gardner was disintegrating during this period; Sinatra was heart-broken by Gardner's infidelities, despite having affairs of his own during this time. The songs are about failed relationships, lost love, and loneliness. On the cover is a sad-looking Sinatra on a lonely, unnamed city street in the middle of the night, by himself, looking pensively downward.

    Nelson Riddle's orchestral arrangements on this album are amazing, and the orchestral mix is perfect. Riddle's orchestrations and the melancholy vibe throughout really transport you to another era.

    The vinyl pressing of this Capital reissue is very good. There is very little surface noise. The record is perfectly flat and the grooves are perfectly centered around the spindle hole. The record is in mono, as it was made in 1955, just a year or two before the stereophonic era began. While I much prefer stereo to mono, I find that my ears adjust to the mono very quickly; then I forget it's not stereo and I just enjoy it. The sound quality is phenomenal for a recording from the 1950s--warm and airy with good soundstage and good separation between Frank's voice and the various sections of Nelson Riddle's orchestra.

    This recording is available on CD, too, and if both had the same sound quality I would choose the CD for the greater convenience of digital. But for this record, I strongly recommend the vinyl LP over the CD. The CD sounds good compared to other CDs of recordings from this period. But the CD isn't as warm-sounding and doesn't have as much dynamic range as the LP. Plus, as Trent Reznor says and it's especially apt here, this record is a physical object that exists with you in the real world, not just a bunch of 0s and 1s that can streamed over the internet or stored on your phone and listened to with less intense attention while you check your emails and stock prices and weather. Nope. The vinyl demands your full attention, and rewards you with a real experience.

    A great record, highly recommended--especially on vinyl.
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  • Samuel
    5.0 out of 5 stars That's Entertainment! (But you have to learn how to listen.)
    Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2003
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    Although it's a mistake to overlook Sinatra's 1940s/Columbia period (the Tommy Dorsey phrasing! the vocal mastery of "If You Are but a Dream"!), "In the Wee Small Hours" is the first of a series of Capitol dates that must be considered not merely the apex of Sinatra's artistry but the most convincing evidence available in support of the American popular song as a unique, complex, infinitely expressive art form of the highest order. The only argument remaining is the place of this first Sinatra/Riddle achievement with respect to those that would follow.

    Practically each of the Capitol sessions--including those orchestrated by Jenkins, May, Stordahl--deserves consideration, and it's no exaggeration to claim each as a masterwork. Perhaps "Only the Lonely" is the consummate example of the potential of the long-playing album as a complete, thematically-linked whole--a collection of popular songs arranged so as to form a single wondrous "tone poem." And given the fragmentation of the "album" by the new age of digital technology, it's a recording that, much like Duke Ellington's greatest suites, is unlikely to be repeated--a high-water mark in American popular music. Nevertheless, the Sinatra-Riddle magic is no less in evidence on the individual selections comprising "In the Wee Small Hours." There's no end of sweet and sentimental, basically bland treatments of "I'll Never Be the Same," but Sinatra's meditative reading and Riddle's inspired counter-motifs (reminiscent of the evocative score to Chris Marker's film about time and change "La Jetee") ensures a performance of "I'll Never Be the Same" that is anything but the same. And if Sinatra-Riddle can perform miracles with mundane material, imagine the results when the song is representative of a composer's very best.

    Harold Arlen's "Last Night When We Were Young" is a single-sentence meditation on the passage of time, moving from measured contemplation to agitated anguish if not despair. Most singers will think twice, however, before performing a lyric that reaches its musical climaxes on upper-register notes bearing the short-vowel, throat-closing sounds of the words "think" and "clung." At best, they might perform the tune at a slightly brisker tempo and choose to emphasize the vowel-friendly words. Not Old Blue. He slows it to a meterless tempo and requires only a single pass to realize the full impact of the lyric's internal drama, drawing out the eternity of "aaaages ago" before delivering the bracing, extended "thiiiink" (the discovery that the past has slipped away) and following it with a "cluuunng" so powerful it suggests less the subject's desperation than his victory over time.

    They tell me songs and performances such as this were once considered pop music. Perhaps when Shakespeare was the entertainer of his day.
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  • Katherine M.
    5.0 out of 5 stars I have first pressings, Mobile fidelity...This new pressing is top notch!
    Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2024
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    On a top level state of the art system, Frank's in your living room. Dead quiet. Better be dressed.
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  • William O. Ross Jr.
    4.0 out of 5 stars Old Blue eyes
    Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2021
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    This album was a good view into the time it was recorded. Good listen. Only issue is that the individual tracks are not labeled
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  • Elliot
    5.0 out of 5 stars Just what you need
    Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2023
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    Actually, the very first 'concept' album. The idea being you put this record on after dinner and by the last song you are exactly where you want to be. Sinatra said that he's certain most baby boomers were conceived with this as the soundtrack.
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  • Fred
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very good
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 22, 2025
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    Very good no problems
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  • Emel Akkaya
    5.0 out of 5 stars Toll 🤩
    Reviewed in Germany on December 22, 2024
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    Ich bin sehr zufrieden 👍🏻👏🏻😍
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    5.0 out of 5 stars x
    Reviewed in France on October 29, 2024
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    Todo perfecto
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    5.0 out of 5 stars PERFETTO!
    Reviewed in Italy on August 29, 2024
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    PERFETTO!
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  • Johnny Lewis
    5.0 out of 5 stars So romantic and relaxing!
    Reviewed in Canada on April 8, 2021
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    If you are looking for swinging songs, don't ever buy this CD. But if you want some slow, romantic, relaxing songs, this one his for you. In fact, I find there are four CD's of Frank Sinatra to have in that category, it's like one doesn't go without the others: and I put them in order of personal preference: 1) in the wee small hours 2) Sings for only the lonely 3) Where are you and 4) No one cares (which is a bit more sleepy music but still great. "In the wee small hours" is my favorite of all Sinatra's CD's. These are all great with candelight supper with your lover, and a glass of wine., or to remove the stress of s big hard day. I keep playing them over and over.
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