In The Wee Small Hours:

Sinatra on Capitol

capitol CDP 7 46571 2

The Wee Small Hours album was recorded on February 8, 16, 17, 23 and March 4, 1955. This marked the beginning of a pioneering series of "concept" albums. The songs are all standards and several had been previously recorded by Frank at Columbia, but with his now deeper baritone and insightful interpretations, these ballad performances remain unparalleled. It's Tony Bennett's all time favorite Sinatra album and is one of the most beautiful albums of ballads ever made. Sinatra's rendition of Duke Ellington's Mood Indigo was declared by writer, historian Leonard Feather to be one of the finest versions of the song ever recorded.

TRACKS:

• 1. In The Wee Small Hours (Bob Hilliard-David A. Mann)
• 2. Mood Indigo (Duke Ellington-Barney Bigard-Irving Mills)
• 3. Glad To Be Unhappy ()Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart)
• 4. I Get Along Without You Very Well (Hoagy Carmichael)
• 5. Deep In A Dream (Jimmy Van Heusen-Edgar DeLange)
• 6. I See You Face Before Me (Arthur Schwartz-Howard Dietz)
• 7. Can't We Be Friends (Kay Swift-Paul James)
• 8. When Your Lover Has Gone (Einar Aaron Swan)
• 9. What Is This Thing Called Love (Cole Porter)
• 10. I'll Be Around (Alec Wilder)
• 11. Ill Wind (Harold Arlen-Ted Koehler)
• 12. It Never Entered My Mind (Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart)
• 13. Dancing On The Ceiling (Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart)
• 14. I'll Never Be The Same (Matt Malneck-Frank Signorelli-Gus Kahn)
• 15. This Love Of Mine (Barry Parker-Henry Sanicola-Frank Sinatra)

Pour yourself a drink, get a big towel, turn out the light, sit back and just listen...Been there, done that!