1955 KHJ Studios, Hollywood
13460 I Get Along Without You Very Well
(Hoagy Carmichael)
Arranged & Conducted by Nelson Riddle
CDP 7-46571-2 In The Wee Small Hours
LP: W581 In The Wee Small Hours
13461 In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
(D. Mann/B. Hilliard)
(Redd Evans Music Company (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Nelson Riddle
-13 (2:59) CD: CDP 724383595228 Sinatra 80th "All TheBest"
CD: C2-94777 The Capitol Years
CD: CDP 7-46571-2 In The Wee Small Hours
LP: W581 In The Wee Small Hours
13573 When Your Lover Has Gone
(E.A. Swan)
Arranged & Conducted by Nelson Riddle
CD: CDP 7-46571-2 In The Wee Small Hours
LP: W581 In The Wee Small Hours
13574 This Love Of Mine
(Sol Parker/Henry Sanicola/Frank Sinatra)
Arranged & Conducted by Nelson Riddle
CD: CDP 7-46571-2 In The Wee Small Hours
LP: W581 In The Wee Small Hours
IN THE WEE SMALL HOURS
Frank Sinatra ( 1-12" )
Capitol W 581
A Frank Sinatra album is good sales-news
to the dealer and this is one of his best. The
singer is still very hot with the public -- as the
result of his continued success in the movies
and new-found popularity on TV and for some
reason he seems to pack more sales-punch
on LP than he does with singles. He warbles15 memorable standards, plus the
title tune( written expressly for the album ) with poignancyand feeling,
ranging in mood from the haunting"When Your Lover Has Gone" to the wistful
"I'llBe Around," "Dancing On The Ceiling," "This LoveOf Mine" and "I Get Along
Without You Very Well."
Billboard
May 14, 1955
note: Sinatra's finest album was released by Capitol
on April 15,1955. Billboard Top LP list had it charting
at #2 for 18 consecutive weeks. Nelson Riddle's goal,
in writing charts for Frank back then, was to achieve
a timeless quality that would endure for ever. Years
later he told George Robert, bass trombonist on many
sessions with Nelson and Frank, that he felt that had
happened with his work on "Wee Small Hours."
In my interviews with musicians, arrangers,
songwriters, "Wee Small . . ." is always the album
they rank as Frank's greatest. Neal Hefti, Al Porcino,
Vince DeRosa, Teddy Randazzo and others not only
sang the praises for this monumental work but told
me how many copies they wore out through the years.
According to George Jacobs, Frank referred to it as
the "Ava album." From that tumultuous relationship,
the artist channeled his agony into a masterwork
that explored the desolation and despair of unrequited
love. He sang each of the marvelous 16 songs with
a shattering honesty that will always resonant with
anyone who comes upon this remarkable work.
Ed
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