{"id":19054,"date":"2025-09-16T03:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/19054\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T03:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:08:07","slug":"frank-sinatra-album-in-the-wee-small-hours-to-be-reissued-on-vinyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/19054\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Sinatra Album \u2018In the Wee Small Hours\u2019 to Be Reissued on Vinyl"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFrank Sinatra<\/a>\u2019s classic 1955 Capitol Records album In the Wee Small Hours will be reissued in Blue Note\u2019s Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Series on Nov. 14, marking the album\u2019s 70th anniversary. The album, which was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1984, has been called Sinatra\u2019s \u201cmelancholy masterpiece.\u201d One of the first concept albums, it was an obvious inspiration for such subsequent moody collections as Linda Ronstadt<\/a>\u2019s What\u2019s New, a surprise hit in 1983.<\/p>\n

\n\tProduced by Voyle Gilmore, and featuring arrangements by Nelson Riddle<\/a>, In the Wee Small Hours was Sinatra\u2019s third studio album for Capitol Records, following Songs for Young Lovers (which was inducted into the National Recording Registry in 2002), and Swing Easy!, both from 1954.<\/p>\n

\n\tSinatra conceived of In the Wee Small Hours as a full-length album, rather than a collection of singles. It was issued as two 10-inch LP discs, but also as one\u00a012-inch record\u00a0LP, one of the first in the pop field. The success of the album helped popularize the 12-inch LP in popular music. The 10-inch format soon fell into obsolescence.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe LP reached No. 2 on a Billboard chart that predated the arrival the following spring of the Billboard 200. \u00a0The album reinforced Sinatra\u2019s career resurgence following his signing to Capitol Records in 1953 and his Oscar win in March 1954 for his supporting role in From Here to Eternity, that year\u2019s best picture winner.<\/p>\n

\n\tProduced for release by Joe Harley, the new Tone Poet Vinyl Edition was mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at Record Technology Inc. (RTI), and comes packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket featuring session photos by William Claxton and Ken Veeder, as well as an essay by Rita Kirwan.<\/p>\n

\n\tSinatra would successfully continue recording concept albums with such subsequent releases as\u00a0Songs for Swingin\u2019 Lovers!\u00a0(1956),\u00a0Where Are You?\u00a0(1957),\u00a0Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely\u00a0(1958) and\u00a0No One Cares\u00a0(1959).<\/p>\n

\n\tSinatra, widely acknowledged as the GOAT of traditional pop singers, was the first artist to win the Grammy for album of the year three times. He was just the second artist (following Bing Crosby<\/a>) to receive a Grammy lifetime achievement award. He received that accolade in 1965, the year he turned 50. He received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1983. He died in 1998 at age 82.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere\u2019s the full track listing for In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning:<\/p>\n

\t\tSide 1\t<\/p>\n

\n\t1. \u201cIn the Wee Small Hours of the Morning\u201d (Dave Mann-Bob Hilliard)<\/p>\n

\n\t2. \u201cMood Indigo\u201d (Duke Ellington-Irving Mills-Barney Bigard)<\/p>\n

\n\t3. \u201cGlad to Be Unhappy\u201d (Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart)<\/p>\n

\n\t4. \u201cI Get Along Without You Very Well\u201d (Hoagy Carmichael)<\/p>\n

\n\t5. \u201cDeep in a Dream\u201d (Jimmy Van Heusen-Eddie DeLange)<\/p>\n

\n\t6. \u201cI See Your Face Before Me\u201d (Arthur Schwartz-Howard Dietz)<\/p>\n

\n\t7. \u201cCan\u2019t We Be Friends?\u201d (Kay Swift-Paul James)<\/p>\n

\n\t8. \u201cWhen Your Lover Has Gone\u201d (E.A. Swan)<\/p>\n

\t\tSide 2\t<\/p>\n

\n\t1. \u201cWhat Is This Thing Called Love?\u201d (Cole Porter )<\/p>\n

\n\t2. \u201cLast Night When We Were Young\u201d (Harold Arlen-E.Y. Harburg)<\/p>\n

\n\t3. \u201cI\u2019ll Be Around\u201d (Alec Wilder)<\/p>\n

\n\t4. \u201cIll Wind\u201d (Harold Arlen-Ted Koehler)<\/p>\n

\n\t5. \u201cIt Never Entered My Mind\u201d (Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart)<\/p>\n

\n\t6. \u201cDancing on the Ceiling\u201d (Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart)<\/p>\n

\n\t7. \u201cI\u2019ll Never Be the Same\u201d (Matty Malneck-Frank Signorelli- Gus Kahn)<\/p>\n

\n\t8. \u201cThis Love of Mine\u201d (Sol Parker-Henry Sanicola-Frank Sinatra)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frank Sinatra\u2019s classic 1955 Capitol Records album In the Wee Small Hours will be reissued in Blue Note\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18287,146,2646,85,46,1098,18288],"class_list":["post-19054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-catalog","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-pop","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music-news","tag-vinyl-albums"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}