Frank Sinatra In The Wee Small Hours ( 180g vinyl LP )

Release date 14-05-2012（originally released in 1955）

2012 reissue EU 180g vinyl LP - A classic Sinatra LP from 1955. With the Nelson Riddle orchestra= the ninth studio album, generally regarded as one of the first concept albums.  It was released in April 1955 on Capitol Records, produced by Voyle Gilmore. Regarded as one of Sinatra's best, often being ranked alongside Songs for Swingin' Lovers! (1956) and Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely (1958). It is also considered by many to be one of the best vocal jazz releases of all time.

Tracks:
Side A
A1 In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
A2 Mood Indigo
A3 Glad To Be Unhappy
A4 I Get Along Without You Very Well
A5 Deep In A Dream
A6 I See Your Face Before Me
A7 Cant We Be Friends
A8 When Your Lover Has Gone

Side B
B1 What Is This Thing Called Love
B2 Last Night When We Were Young
B3 Ill Be Around
B4 Ill Wind
B5 It Never Entered My Mind
B6 Dancing On The Ceiling
B7 Ill Never Be The Same
B8 This Love Of Mine
B9 Stormy Weather*

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.-allmusic