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Frank Sinatras seminal 1955 Capitol Records album In The Wee Small Hours will be reissued in Blue Notes acclaimed Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Series on November 14 marking the albums 70th anniversary. Produced for release by Joe Harley, the new Tone Poet Vinyl Edition was mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analogue master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at Record Technology Inc. (RTI), and comes packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket featuring session photos by William Claxton and Ken Veeder, as well as an essay by Rita Kirwan.

In The Wee Small Hours is a melancholy masterpiece of lost love and heartbreak that was a pivotal album in the legendary vocalists career. Produced by Voyle Gilmore, the album embodied Sinatras artistic growth into a more mature singing style with stunning renditions of Great American Songbook standards given sublime arrangements by Nelson Riddle, creating one of the first-ever concept albums.

Sinatra conceived of In The Wee Small Hours as a full-length album, rather than a collection of singles, and it would become one of the first pop albums to be released on 12-inch LP. The album was met with immediate critical and commercial success, reaching #2 on the Billboard charts and bolstering Sinatras 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.