Label: Capitol / Blue Note

Reissued 11/14/2025, Originally released 1955

Frank Sinatra's seminal 1955 Capitol Records album In the Wee Small Hours is a melancholy masterpiece of lost love and heartbreak that was a pivotal album in the legendary vocalist's career. Produced by Voyle Gilmore, the album embodied Sinatra's artistic growth into a more mature singing style with stunning renditions of Great American Songbook standards given sublime arrangements by Nelson Riddle. Sinatra conceived of In the Wee Small Hours as a full-length album, rather than a collection of singles, creating one of the first-ever concept albums and becoming one of the first pop albums to be released as a 12-inch LP. The album was met with immediate critical and commercial success, reaching #2 on the Billboard charts and bolstering Sinatra's career resurgence following his signing to Capitol Records in 1953 and his Academy Award win for his role in the film From Here to Eternity.

Track listing:

1. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
   
2. Mood Indigo
   
3. Glad to Be Unhappy
   
4. I Get Along Without You Very Well
   
5. Deep in a Dream
   
6. I See Your Face Before Me
   
7. Can't We Be Friends?
   
8. When Your Lover Has Gone
   
9. What Is This Thing Called Love
   
10. Last Night When We Were Young
11. I'll Be Around
12. Ill Wind
    
13. It Never Entered My Mind
    
14. Dancing on the Ceiling
    
15. I'll Never Be the Same
    
16. This Love of Mine