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In the Wee Small Hours is the ninth studio album by Frank Sinatra, released in 1955 through Capitol Records. It was recorded while the singer went through marital troubles with his second wife, Ava Gardner, which would eventually lead to their divorce two years later.This mood of melancholic loneliness in the wake of failed relationships was reflected in the central theme of all the songs, making the record an early example of a Concept Album, virtually a whole decade before rock artists such as Frank Zappa note on Freak Out from 1966, The Beach Boys note on Pet Sounds from 1966, though some argue Little Deuce Coupe from 1963 is an early concept album and The Beatles note on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band from 1967 would make the genre popular; the only older example is Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads from 1940, and even that is debatable (In the Wee Small Hours is unified by theme and mood in a way that the narrative-oriented Dust Bowl Ballads is not). In many ways, it's considered the Ur-Example of the modern idea of a music album, both because of its use of a central concept and because of its popularization of the 12" long-playing record as the format for albums prior to the advent of the Compact Disc (previously they were literal album books filled with 78 rpm records).A success from the start, this album effectively revived Sinatra's slumping music career. It transformed him from the teen idol he was before into an artist that deserved to be taken seriously and who dealt with more mature themes.Nelson Riddle once again provides the arrangements and conducts the orchestra. This was the first album to showcase Riddle's own arranging style; of his previous efforts with Sinatra, Songs for Young Lovers mostly used George Siravo arrangements and Swing Easy! was orchestrated by Riddle in a style reminiscent of Red Norvo. |
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Face on the Cover |
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Face on the Cover: Sinatra leaning against a lamp post. He is very visible in the frame and the background has no details that detract from the action. |
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Title Track: "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" |
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Alliterative Title: "Deep in a Dream". |
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Concept Album |
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Concept Album: This album is considered one of the earliest forerunners of the genre. All the tracks are about the sad feelings you have about a broken relationship. |
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Love Hurts |
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Love Hurts: Nearly all the songs follow this theme. |
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Trope Codifier: For the album format itself, arguably. It was one of the first 12" long-playing pop music albums to be released. (Previously, 10" was the standard for pop releases, with 12" being mostly reserved for classical music.) While neither the first album ever nor the first Sinatra ever recorded, it is usually the oldest record in many "Greatest Albums" lists. |
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Cry Laughing |
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Cry Laughing: "Glad to Be Unhappy". |
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Cradle of Loneliness |
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Cradle of Loneliness: Sinatra had just gone through a few broken relationships himself; this gloomy feeling can be felt in the lyrics too. For instance in "When Your Lover Has Gone": |
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Wham Line |
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Wham Line: "I'll Never Be the Same" |
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Smoking Is Cool |
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Smoking Is Cool: Sinatra smokes a cigarette on the album cover. "Deep in a Dream": |
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Man on Fire |
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Man on Fire: "Deep in a Dream": |
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Obsession Song |
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Obsession Song: "I See Your Face Before Me" |
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Colour-Coded Emotions |
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Colour-Coded Emotions: Sinatra is wearing a blue suit on the album cover, expressing him feeling "blue". |
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Unrequited Love: A major theme. In "Glad to Be Unhappy", Sinatra even mentions "it's a bore and I've got it pretty bad". |
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Dramatic Wind: "Ill Wind". |
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Did Not Get the Girl |
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Did Not Get the Girl: "Deep in a Dream", "Can't We Be Friends?", "When Your Lover Has Gone", "I'll Be Around" and "I'll Never Be the Same" all reflect his mood on not getting the girl of his dreams. |
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Hope Crusher |
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Hope Crusher: "I'll Never Be the Same", where Sinatra feels he'll never get over his broken relationship. |
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Questioning Title? |
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Questioning Title?: "Can't We Be Friends?" and "What's This Thing Called Love?" |
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Continuity Nod |
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Continuity Nod: Sinatra leans against a lamppost at night, just like he did on the album cover of Songs for Young Lovers (1954). |
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Heartbroken Badass |
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Heartbroken Badass: Despite being heartbroken it's still Sinatra, folks! |
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Break-Up Song |
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Break-Up Song: Virtually all the songs deal with broken relationships, loneliness and depression. |
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Added Alliterative Appeal: "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" |
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Fool for Love |
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Fool for Love: "What Is This Thing Called Love?" |
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Re-Cut |
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Re-Cut: Initial CD releases in 1987 drop "Last Night When We Were Young"; the track would later be restored in 1991. While the song's exclusion was never explained, Capitol Records worked around its absence by advertising the 1987 version as a "special abridged Compact Disc version of the album." |
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Shout-Out |
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Shout-Out: Tom Waits' album cover for The Heart of Saturday Night (1974) is a homage to In the Wee Small Hours. |
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I Will Wait for You |
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I Will Wait for You: "I'll Be Around" in which Sinatra sings he'll be around for his loved one when her current partner is gone. |
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Cover Version |
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Cover Version: "Mood Indigo", a cover of Duke Ellington, "I Get Along Without You Very Well", a cover of Hoagy Carmichael, "What Is This Thing Called Love?", a cover of Cole Porter. |
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Torch Song |
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Torch Song: An entire album of them. Sinatra would revisit the concept with such subsequent albums as Where Are You? (1957), Only the Lonely (1958), No One Cares (1959), and All Alone (1962). |
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