In the Wee Small Hours

In the Wee Small Hours
Frank Sinatra's studio album
Publication (s)	April 25, 1955
admission	March 1, 1954 February 8, 1955 to March 4, 1955
Label (s)	Capitol Records
Format (s)	LP , CD , MC
Genre (s)	Vocal jazz , traditional pop , jazz standards
Title (number)	16
running time	48:41
occupation	See cast note
production	Voyle Gilmore
Studio (s)	KHJ Studios, Hollywood
chronology Swing Easy! (1954) In the Wee Small Hours Songs for Swingin 'Lovers (1956)

Sinatra in 1960

In the Wee Small Hours is Frank Sinatra's ninth studio album from 1955. The vocal jazz album is considered one of the very first concept albums. The album topped the Billboard 200 after its release .

The ballad album was arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle ; In addition to a sparse rhythm section with piano, celesta , bass and drums, strings are used. It is considered to be one of Sinatra's most jazz-heavy works. The songs are mostly melancholy and sad; they seem like a processing of Sinatra's recently failed marriage with actress Ava Gardner .

The title song In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning has been covered many times since its release, for example by Johnny Hartman , Astrud Gilberto , Lou Rawls , Carly Simon , Art Blakey , Count Basie , Andy Williams , Wes Montgomery , Ruby Braff , Jamie Cullum and John Mayer .

admission

The recordings for the album took place on February 8, 16 and 17 and on March 4, 1955, according to the album title in the early hours of the morning. A selected audience attended the recordings and created the desired “night club atmosphere”.

occupation

• Singing : Frank Sinatra
• Violin : Victor Bay, Alexander Beller, Harry Bluestone, Nathan Ross, Mischa Russell, Paul Shure, Felix Slatkin, Marshall Sosson, Eudice Shapiro, Walter Edelstein, Erno Neufeld, Henry Hill, David Frisina, Paul Nero, George Kast
• Cello : James Arkatov, Cy Bernard, Armand Kaproff, Ray Kramer, Edgar Lustgarten, Kurt Reher, Joseph Saxon, Eleanor Slatkin
• Viola : Maxine Johnson, Alvin Dinkin, Paul Robyn, Stan Harris, David Sterkin
• Flute : Arthur Gleghorn, Luella Howard, Jules Kinsler, George Poole
• Horn : John Cave, Vincent DeRosa, Joseph Eger, Richard Perissi
• Trumpet : Tommy Pederson, Francis Howard
• Trumpet : Harry Edison
• Piano : Bill Miller
• Woodwind instrument : Morton Friedman, Skeets Herfurt
• Saxophone : Morton Friedman, Harry Klee , Babe Russin , Ted Nash, James Williamson, Champ Webb, Bart Caldarell
• Seven-string guitar : George Van Eps , Bobby Gibbons
• Double bass : Phil Stephens, Joe Comfort, Morty Corb , Mike Rubin, Edward Gilbert
• Drums : Lou Singer, Alvin Stoller, Frank Carlson
• Harp : Kathryn Julye, Ann Mason Stockton
• Clarinet : Peanuts Hucko , Mahlon Clark
• Celesta : Paul Smith

^NoteThe overview work Put Your Dreams Away - A Frank Sinatra Discography , compiled by Luiz Carlos do Nascimento Silva, offers a complete list of all musicians and arrangers involved .

Track list

Cover of the album
1955
Link to the picture (please note copyrights )

page 1

1. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning ( Bob Hilliard , David Mann ) - 3:00
2. Mood Indigo ( Barney Bigard , Duke Ellington , Irving Mills ) - 3:30
3. Glad to Be Unhappy ( Richard Rodgers , Lorenz Hart ) - 2:35
4. I Get Along Without You Very Well '' (Except Sometimes) ( Hoagy Carmichael , Jane Brown Thompson) - 3:42
5. Deep in a Dream ( Eddie DeLange , Jimmy Van Heusen ) - 2:49
6. I See Your Face Before Me ( Howard Dietz , Arthur Schwartz ) - 3:24
7. Can't We Be Friends? ( Paul James , Kay Swift ) - 2:48
8. When Your Lover Has Gone ( Einar Aaron Swan ) - 3:10

Page 2

1. What Is This Thing Called Love? ( Cole Porter ) - 2:35
2. Last Night When We Were Young ( Harold Arlen , Yip Harburg ) - 3:17
3. I'll Be Around ( Alec Wilder ) - 2:59
4. Ill Wind (Arlen, Ted Koehler ) - 3:46
5. It Never Entered My Mind (Rodgers, Hart) - 2:42
6. Dancing on the Ceiling (Rodgers, Hart) - 2:57
7. I'll Never Be the Same ( Gus Kahn , Matty Malneck , Frank Signorelli ) - 3:05
8. This Love of Mine (Sol Parker, Henry W. Sanicola, Jr., Frank Sinatra ) - 3:33

reception

source	rating
Allmusic
Laut.de

In the Wee Small Hours was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1984. Rolling Stone magazine ranks the album at number 101 of the 500 best albums of all time . Was also recognized In the Wee Small Hours of Time Magazine with the inclusion in the selection of the top 100 albums. The New Musical Express voted it 374 of the 500 best albums. Robert Dimery reviews the album first in his book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die . The daily Telegraph took In the Wee Small Hours on in a compilation of the "20 best break-up albums".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jim Cullen: Restless in the promised land Rowman & Littlefield, 2001, p. 98.
2. ↑ Chart overview at allmusic.com , accessed on September 10, 2011.
3. ^ In The Wee Small Hours on allmusic.com, accessed September 10, 2011.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Discogs.com album review , accessed September 10, 2011.
5. ^ John Frayn Turner: Frank Sinatra ; Taylor Trade Publishing, 2004, p. 88; ISBN 1-58979-145-2 ; here online at books.google, accessed on September 10, 2011.
6. ↑ Luiz Carlos do Nascimento Silva: Put Your Dreams Away: A Frank Sinatra Discography (Discographies 84). Greenwood Press, Westport 2000, pp. 225-227.
7. ↑ ^{a b} In The Wee Small Hours on discogs.com; Retrieved September 10, 2011.
8. ↑ Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine on AllMusic.com; accessed on February 14, 2018
9. ^ Artur Schulz: Review at laut.de.
10. ↑ entry at grammy.org; Retrieved September 10, 2011.
11. ^ Rollingstone.com , accessed September 10, 2011.
12. ↑ The All-TIME 100 Albums . time.com; Retrieved September 10, 2011.
13. ↑ The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time: 400-301 at nme.com (accessed February 14, 2018)
14. ↑ Joe Levy (Ed.): Rolling Stone. The 500 best albums of all time . (Original edition: Rolling Stone. The 500 Greatest Albums of all Time . Wenner Media 2005). Translation: Karin Hofmann. Wiesbaden: White Star Verlag, 2011, p. 101.
15. ↑ The 20 best break-up albums on telegraph.co.uk (accessed February 14, 2018)