Frank Sinatra - In The Wee Small Hours (Mono) AUDIOPHILE

Frank Sinatra - In The Wee Small Hours (Mono)

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Frank Sinatra - Vocals [click here to see more Vinyl / SACD featuring Frank Sinatra]

Trumpet - Harry "Sweets" Edison

Drums - Alvin Stoller, Frank Carlson, Lou Singer

Guitar - Bobby Gibbons, George Van Eps

Bass - Edward Gilbert, Joe Comfort, Mike Rubin, Morty Corb, Phil Stevens

Trombone - Francis Howard, Tommy Pederson

French horn - John Cave, John Graas, Joseph Eger, Richard Perissi, Vincent DeRosa

Celeste - Paul Smith

Violin - Alex Beller, David Frisna, Erno Neufeld, Eudice Shapiro, Felix Slatkin, George Kast, Harry Bluestone, Henry Hill, Marshall Sosson, Mischa Russell, Nathan Ross, Paul Nero, Paul Shure, Victor Bay, Walter Edelstein

Viola - Alvin Dinkin, David Sterkin, Maxine Johnson, Paul Robyn, Stan Harris

Harp - Ann Mason Stockton, Kathryn Julye

Cello - Armand Kaproff, Cy Cernard, Edgar Lustgarten, Eleanor Slatkin, James Arkatov, Joseph Saxon, Kurt Reher, Raphael Kramer

Reeds - Arthur "Skeets" Herfurt, Babe Russin, Bart Caldarelll, Champ Webb, Harry Klee, James Williamson, Mahlon Clark, Morton Friedman, Ted Nash

Flute - Arthur Gleghorn, George Poole, Jules Kinsler, Luella Howard

Conducted by Nelson Riddle, Bill Miller

Arranged by Nelson Riddle

Written by Bob Hilliard (A1), Dave Mann (A1), Barney Bigard (A2), Duke Ellington (A2), Irving Mills (A2), Richard Rodgers (A3, B5-6), Lorenz Hart (A3, B5-6), Hoagy Carmichael (A4), Eddie De Lange (A5), Jimmy Van Heusen (A5), Arthur Schwartz (A6), Howard Dietz (A6), Kay Swift (A7), Paul James (A7), E. A. Swan (A8), Cole Porter (B1), E. Y. Harburg (B2), Harold Arlen (B2, B4), Alec Wilder (B3), Ted Koehler (B4), Frank Signorelli (B7), Gus Kahn (B7), Matty Malneck (B7), Frank Sinatra (B8), Henry Sanicola (B8), Sol Parker (B8)

 

 

 

1 LP, Gatefold jacket

Original analog Master tape : YES

Heavy Press : 180g

Record color : black

Speed : 33RPM

Size : 12”

Mono

Studio

Record Press : Record Technology Incorporated

Label : Blue Note Tone Poet

Original Label : Capitol

Recorded on March 1, 1954 (B2), February 8 – March 4, 1955 at KHJ Studio, Hollywood

Original session produced by Voyle Gilmore

Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio

Reissue produced by Joe Harley

Photography by William Claxton & Ken Veeder

Originally Released in April 1955

Reissued in October 2025

 

 

Tracks :

Side A:

  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 Is Gone

Side B:

  1. What Is This Thing Called Love
  2. Last Night When We Were Young
  3. I'll Be Around
  4. I’ll Wind
  5. It Never Entered My Mind
  6. Dancing on the Ceiling
  7. I'll Never Be the Same
  8. This Love of Mine



 

Awards:

Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Ranked 282

 

          Review :

          “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.” AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

           

          Frank Sinatra's seminal 1955 Capitol Records album In the Wee Small Hours is a melancholy masterpiece of lost love and heartbreak that was a pivotal album in the legendary vocalist's career. Produced by Voyle Gilmore, the album embodied Sinatra's artistic growth into a more mature singing style with stunning renditions of Great American Songbook standards given sublime arrangements by Nelson Riddle. Sinatra conceived of In the Wee Small Hours as a full-length album, rather than a collection of singles, creating one of the first-ever concept albums and becoming one of the first pop albums to be released as a 12-inch LP. The album was met with immediate critical and commercial success, reaching #2 on the Billboard charts and bolstering Sinatra's career resurgence following his signing to Capitol Records in 1953 and his Academy Award win for his role in the film From Here to Eternity.

          The Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series was born out of Blue Note President Don Was' admiration for the exceptional audiophile Blue Note LP reissues presented by Music Matters. Was brought Joe Harley, a.k.a. the "Tone Poet," on board to curate and supervise a series of reissues from the Blue Note family of labels.

           

          Rating:

          AllMusic : 5 / 5 ; Discogs : 4.45 / 5

           

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