Get happy (Frank Sinatra) (LP 346 - 347)

Frank Sinatra Swing Easy! (Vinyl, World Record Club, 1954) ****
Frank Sinatra In The Wee Small Hours (Vinyl, Capitol Records, 1955) **

Genre: Jazz Vocal

Places I remember: Swing Easy! comes from my parents' record collection - mum was the Sinatra fan. Small Hours was found in a charity shop in Caterham during our recent stay in the UK. It's in excellent condition too, given it's probably been in someone's possession since 1955!!!

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Get Happy




Gear costume:  I Get A Kick Out of You, A Foggy Day

Active compensatory factors:  These are both in weird formats. Bear with me.

Swing Easy! was originally released as a 10 inch, eight song 'album'. My copy is the extended 12 inch LP version which adds the eight songs from the 10 inch 'album' Songs for Young Lovers, featuring (as above) the Swing Easy! cover but including a miniature inset of the Songs for Young Lovers cover. It's ugly but it gets the point across.

Mum and dad belonged to the World Record Club and obviously bought this through the mail. The label is therefore cheesily stylised as the 'Light Music Club'.

In The Wee Small Hours was originally released as two 10 inch 'albums'. I have part 1, so side 1 and side 2. Which is fine, as the lonely early morning mood conjured up by the songs, the cover picture, and Frank's delivery doesn't move me especially.

Much better is the 12 inch long player of Swing Easy! released a year earlier - Swing Easy! is a spot on title by the way. Frank sashayes his way through the material and Nelson Riddle's arrangements and orchestration are justifiably lauded.


Where do they all belong? I stretch to a Greatest Hits CD and tha tha that's all folks.