In the Wee Small Hours

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Description: In the Wee Small Hours (original issue: Capitol W-581) is an album by Frank Sinatra with arrangements by Nelson Riddle, released in 1955. It is with this album that Sinatra perfected the concept album, fully realizing the ideas he had been grappling with in record presentation going all the way back to The Voice from 1946. It remains ... (more)

Manufacturer : Capitol
Release date : 4 March 1955
Number of discs : 1
EAN: 0077779682621 UPC: 077779682621

Ballads (2), Pop (2), 1955 (2), Concept Album (2), Vocal Jazz (2), Traditional Pop (1), Vocal (1), Vocalist (1), Love Songs (1), 1950s (1), Vocal Pop (1), Torch Songs (1)

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""In the Wee Small Hours, the first collection of songs Sinatra recorded specifically for an LP, sustains a midnight mood of loneliness and lost love - it's a prototypical concept album. From the title track, brought in on the bell tones of a celesta, through a trenchant recast of "This Love of Mine," a hit from his Tommy Dorsey days, Sinatra - reeling from his breakup with Ava Gardner - is never less than superb. His voice rarely hits the same downbeat as his languorous rhythm section, yet they'"

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"“For a decade, Sinatra pushed to make a cohesive LP at a time when no one in the record business was thinking beyond singles. Finally, his break-up with Ava Gardner provided the perfect catalyst. These 16 ballads, recorded in just a few days, are the authoritative take on masculine loneliness. Like all Sinatra songs, they're not just beautifully sung but interpreted into drama: the title track is the initial confession of pain, Rodgers and Hart's "Glad to Be Unhappy" and Cole Porter's "I Get A"

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"Label: Capitol Nation: USA Running Time: 50:25 Year: 1955"

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