Frank Sinatra — Reflecting on the 70th Anniversary of “In the Wee Small Hours”

 

 "Frank Sinatra’s ninth studio album and overall artistic achievement In the Wee Small Hours remains among pop music’s most lusciously atmospheric recordings, its arrangements humming with a unique poetry all their own. An early prototype of the soon-to-be-popularized “concept” album, In the Wee Small Hours unites its 16 haunting tracks with a shared theme of melancholy, experienced, it would seem, while smoking ragged, filterless cigarettes beneath the ghostly indigo glow of ancient streetlamps, along an empty street late at night, while the rest of the world is fast asleep. "

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