Product Code: WET30292366
Original price was: $37.99.$22.79Current price is: $22.79.In the Wee Small Hours, released in 1955, is one of Frank Sinatras most acclaimed albums and a landmark in the history of popular music. Often considered the first true concept album, it presents a unified mood of late-night reflection and melancholy, with Sinatras voice conveying vulnerability and intimacy like never before. The orchestral arrangements by Nelson Riddle are sparse and elegant, framing Sinatras interpretations of songs such as Mood Indigo, Glad to Be Unhappy, and the title track with understated beauty.
The record captures themes of loneliness, lost love, and resignation, making it resonate as deeply personal yet universally relatable. Its influence has stretched far beyond jazz and pop, inspiring generations of artists to use the album format as a canvas for emotional storytelling. In the Wee Small Hours remains not only a cornerstone of Sinatras career but also a defining example of how music can capture and preserve the complexities of the human heart.
Reviews:
In the Wee Small Hours is a stunningly cohesive work, the first concept album in popular music and still one of the greatest. AllMusic
Sinatra and Riddle created a masterpiece of mood and melancholy, an album that set the standard for all who followed. Rolling Stone
Few records have ever captured loneliness and longing with such elegance. The Guardian
This album remains one of Sinatras finest achievements, a work of art that transcends its time. NME
A1 In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
A2 Mood Indigo
A3 Glad To Be Unhappy
A4 I Get Along Without You Very Well
A5 Deep In A Dream
A6 I See Your Face Before Me
A7 Can'T We Be Friends
A8 When Your Lover Has Gone
B1 What Is This Thing Called Love
B2 Last Night When We Were Young
B3 I'Ll Be Around
B4 Ill Wind
B5 It Never Entered My Mind
B6 Dancing On The Ceiling
B7 I'Ll Never Be The Same
B8 This Love Of Mine
