In The Wee Small Hours
| PROFILE | |
| Composer | David Mann |
| Lyricist | Bob Hilliard |
| Year Written | 1955 |
| About In The Wee Small Hours | |
| This song is, of course, widely identified with Frank Sinatra, who anchored his well-received concept album In the Wee Small Hours around this song. Interestingly, the song almost didn’t get written. The two songwriters were working in Hilliard’s home in New Jersey. It was well past midnight and Mann was getting ready to leave for home in New York. Hilliard urged him to stay and Mann came up with the tune, to which Hilliard quickly wrote the lyric. | |
Lyrics
When the sun is high
In the afternoon sky
You can always find something to do
But from dusk til dawn
As the clock ticks on
Something happens to you
In the wee small hours of the morning
While the whole wide world is fast asleep
You lie awake and think about the girl
And never even think of counting sheep
When your lonely heart has learned its lesson
You’d be hers if only she would call
In the wee small hours of the morning
That’s the time you miss her most of all
Session / Album Information
1964
“In The Wee Small Hours” was recorded on February 26, 1964; it was released in 1966 on the album A Time To Love. The song was arranged by Ralph Sharon.
This recording released on:
- 1966: CBS LP 12″: SBPG 62800 — A Time For Love [UK]
- 1966: Columbia LP 12″: CL 2560 — A Time For Love
- 1966: Columbia LP 12″: CS 9360 — A Time For Love
- 1990: CBS/Sony CD: CSCS-5243 — A Time For Love [Japan]
- 1995: Sony Music Special Products CD: A-26012 — The Many Moods of Romance: Dream Along with Me
- 2011: Disc #33 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK32) A Time For Love