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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724349475526
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
Item Dimensions: 21
Label: Capitol
Manufacturer: Capitol
MPN: 94755
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Capitol
Release Date: May 26, 1998
Studio: Capitol
Disc 1:- In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
- Mood Indigo
- Glad to Be Unhappy
- I Get Along Without You Very Well
- Deep in a Dream
- I See Your Face Before Me
- Can't We Be Friends?
- When Your Lover Has Gone
- What Is This Thing Called Love?
- Last Night When We Were Young
- I'll Be Around
- Ill Wind
- It Never Entered My Mind
- Dancing on the Ceiling
- I'll Never Be the Same
- This Love of Mine
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential recording:
The first of many artistic milestones in the long and illustrious collaboration of Frank Sinatra and arranger Nelson Riddle that began at Capitol Records, In the Wee Small Hours is a first in other notable ways, as well: it was the pair's first 12-inch LP; their first album devoted entirely to ballads; the first "concept album," a program of songs designed to be heard in a particular sequence that sustains a mood and suggests a story; the introduction of Sinatra's definitive "saloon singer" persona; and the first flowering of Sinatra's mature artistic sensibility. Oh, and it's a masterpiece, too. The cover portrait suggests the mood of late-night desolation almost as effectively as the music, with Sinatra in the corner, smoking a solitary cigarette on deserted street illuminated only by the a foggy, blue-green glow of lamplight. Loneliness, thy name is Frank! They say that memories of Ava Gardner caused him to break down after finishing this aching version of "When Your Lover Has Gone." Riddle's clarinet theme for "What Is this Thing Called Love?" is as haunting as Cole Porter's melody itself. And if there's a more devastating evocation of solitude than "It Never Entered My Mind"... well it must be on Only the Lonely. With songs like "I'll Be Around" and "Dancing on the Ceiling" to suggest at least the hope of hope, Wee Small Hours may flirt with despair, but never succumbs to it. It's the kind of comforting company that misery likes best. --Jim Emerson
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Average Rating: 
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The sound quality on these remastered Frank Sinatra tracks is absolutely fantastic! This is one of the best MP3 purchases I've made yet from Amazon.
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--For my friend Mike, my mentor on Frank.--
People debate over who had the first popular music concept album: the Beatles, the Who, The Pretty Things, but actually, it was Frank's idea. Sinatra was doing albums that centered around themes before there WAS rock and roll.
1954s Wee Small Hours may be the very first example, but that is not the only first on this materpiece. This was just as 33 rpms were replacing 78s, which meant that you could string related songs together. ... Read More
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THIS ALBUM IS FLAWED---
When Your Lover has Gone is MISSING.
Replaced with much worse song.
DO NOT PURCHASE
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I was a 14 year old in love with Elvis when my Dad brought this lp home in 1955. Don't know why, but I played it and fell in love with Sinatra then and there. Didn't have a date? Went downstairs and put this lp on. Broke up with a boy, went downstairs and listened to this one. Got divorced, well, here comes Frank to comfort me. Been like that for 54 years. To me, this is his best, even over "Only the Lonely."
I saw Sinatra several times and he was awesome. But in lieu of seeing ... Read More
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As I get older, prejudices that used to prevent me from enjoying many different artists and genres of music are melting away. Case in point: I picked up a copy of the latest remaster of "In the Wee Small Hours" a few weeks ago, and now I'm hooked on Sinatra. Obsession followed, and I'm now trying to put together the best sounding collection of Sinatra I can afford, so I picked up the two Mobile Fidelity titles that are presently in print, and I'm buying the latest Capitol and Reprise remasters.
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