Frank Sinatra—In the wee small hours When it comes to thinking of our favorite genre of music, it is generally held that pop-music is people’s favorite. Depending on personal experience, personality type, and emotional concern, however, we find that some people hold the idea of “old fashion” such as Jazz, Blue, Rock and Roll and so on. At that period, there existed quite a few of outstanding singers. Take Frank Sinatra, who was “one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century and had a popularity that was later matched only by Elvis Presley, The Beatles, and Michael Jackson”, for example. “He released several critically lauded albums such as In the Wee Small Hours, Songs For Swingin' Lovers, Come Fly With Me,
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The moods are depressing, bleak, dreamy, gentle, sad, sentimental, gloomy, hoping, and reflective. “This album was conducted by Nat King Cole's up-and-coming arranger, Nelson Riddle, whose melancholic strings and poignant horn work add a romantic touch to the record. The poignancy achieved by Wee Small Hours runs parallel to Sinatra's own romantic troubles at the time, divorcing his wife Ava Gardner, allegedly attempting suicide. He would become Sinatra's greatest collaborator”. This album is made of ballads. The cover portrayed a heavy-hearted man who leans on a wall in the midnight. He takes a lighting cigarette on one hand and falls into deep thinking. Blue-green background displays a melancholic and mirthless atmosphere which is parallel to Sinatra’s solitary and dejected mood. Through listening to his album, it can be impressed that he is adept to control breathe in or out every time. He sang seemingly without pause for breath in that he once spent abundant efforts on learning and practicing breathing from a trombonist, Tommy Dorsey. At first, he found that “Dorsey could effortlessly play musical passages that stretched for many bars in a smooth and continuous line”. Then Sinatra was trying to figure out how Dorsey timed his breathing. Sinatra decided to invent his own breathing style. “He began taking long swims, holding and modulating his breath underwater as he played song lyrics in his head. After a few months, he redefined”. That gave the melody a flowing, unbroken quality and made Sinatra sound different. In terms of his articulation and vocal skills, he laid the foundation of his success and
The moods are depressing, bleak, dreamy, gentle, sad, sentimental, gloomy, hoping, and reflective. “This album was conducted by Nat King Cole's up-and-coming arranger, Nelson Riddle, whose melancholic strings and poignant horn work add a romantic touch to the record. The poignancy achieved by Wee Small Hours runs parallel to Sinatra's own romantic troubles at the time, divorcing his wife Ava Gardner, allegedly attempting suicide. He would become Sinatra's greatest collaborator”. This album is made of ballads. The cover portrayed a heavy-hearted man who leans on a wall in the midnight. He takes a lighting cigarette on one hand and falls into deep thinking. Blue-green background displays a melancholic and mirthless atmosphere which is parallel to Sinatra’s solitary and dejected mood. Through listening to his album, it can be impressed that he is adept to control breathe in or out every time. He sang seemingly without pause for breath in that he once spent abundant efforts on learning and practicing breathing from a trombonist, Tommy Dorsey. At first, he found that “Dorsey could effortlessly play musical passages that stretched for many bars in a smooth and continuous line”. Then Sinatra was trying to figure out how Dorsey timed his breathing. Sinatra decided to invent his own breathing style. “He began taking long swims, holding and modulating his breath underwater as he played song lyrics in his head. After a few months, he redefined”. That gave the melody a flowing, unbroken quality and made Sinatra sound different. In terms of his articulation and vocal skills, he laid the foundation of his success and