After Midnight (Nat King Cole album) explained

After Midnight
Type:studio
Artist:Nat King Cole
Cover:After Midnight (album).jpg
Recorded:August–September, 1956
Studio:Capitol, Hollywood[1]
Genre:Jazz
Length:43:41
Label:Capitol
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After Midnight is a 1957 jazz album by "Nat King Cole and his trio" on Capitol Records. It peaked at #13 on the U.S. Billboard Pop Albums chart. The Penguin Guide to Jazz listed the album as part of its suggested “core collection”.[2]

Release history

Initially, the album was released in a 33rpm LP version as well as in a set of four (7 inch) 45rpm discs. In 1987, five previously unreleased tracks recorded at the same original sessions were added as bonus tracks to the Capitol Records CD re-release titled, The Complete After Midnight Sessions. Some later re-issues, under the title, After Midnight, The Complete Session or simply, After Midnight, also include one or more alternate take(s) with the 17 songs from the original 1956 recording sessions.[3] [4] There are also at least three other reissues with 18, 19 and 21 tracks.

Track listing

LP release

LP side A:

  1. "Just You, Just Me" (Greer, Klages) – 3:00
  2. "Sweet Lorraine" (Burwell, Parish) – 4:33
  3. "Sometimes I'm Happy" (Caesar, Youmans) – 4:11
  4. "Caravan" (Ellington, Mills, Tizol) – 2:45
  5. "It's Only a Paper Moon" (Arlen, Harburg, Rose) – 3:06
  6. "You're Looking at Me" (Troup) – 4:12

LP side B:

  1. "Lonely One" (Hambro, Heller) – 3:45
  2. "Don't Let It Go to Your Head" (Hadamik, LaVere, Nast) – 3:11
  3. "I Know That You Know" (Caldwell, Youmans) – 2:28
  4. "Blame It on My Youth" (Levant, Heyman) – 4:06
  5. "When I Grow Too Old to Dream" (Hammerstein, Romberg) – 4:33
  6. "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" (Troup) – 3:41

At least one source seems to indicate the initial release did not contain "Sometimes I'm Happy (Sometimes I'm Blue)" and "When I Grow Too Old to Dream"[5] [6]

Four 7 inch 45rpm discs release

Disc 1[7]

A1. "Sometimes I'm Happy (Sometimes I'm Blue)"

B1. "Just You, Just Me"

B2. "When I Grow Too Old to Dream"Disc 2

C1. "Lonely One"

C2. "I Know That You Know"

D1. "Sweet Lorraine"Disc 3

E1. "You're Looking At Me"

F1. "Caravan"

F2. "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66"Disc 4

G1. "It's Only a Paper Moon"

G2. "Don't Let It Go To Your Head"

H1. "Blame It On My Youth"

1987 CD release, The Complete After Midnight Sessions

  1. "Just You, Just Me
  2. "Sweet Lorraine"
  3. "Sometimes I'm Happy (Sometimes I'm Blue)"
  4. "Caravan"
  5. "It's Only a Paper Moon"
  6. "You're Looking at Me"
  7. "Lonely One"
  8. "Don't Let It Go to Your Head"
  9. "I Know That You Know"
  10. "Blame It on My Youth"
  11. "When I Grow Too Old to Dream"
  12. "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66"

Bonus tracks (taken from the same 1956 recording sessions):

  1. "I Was a Little Too Lonely (And You Were a Little Too Late)" (Evans, Livingston) – 3:02
  2. "You Can Depend on Me" (Carpenter, Dunlap, Hines) – 3:55
  3. "What Is There to Say?" (Duke, Harburg) – 3:37
  4. "Two Loves Have I" (Murray, Scotto, Trivers) – 2:47
  5. "Candy" (David, Kramer, Whitney) – 3:54

Personnel

Release information

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Cogan . Jim . Clark . William . Temples of Sound: Inside the Great Recording Studios . 2003 . Chronicle Books . San Francisco, California, USA . 0-8118-3394-1 . 26–27.
  2. Book: Cook . Richard . Richard Cook (journalist) . Morton . Brian . Brian Morton (Scottish writer) . . 2008 . 9th . . 978-0-141-03401-0 . 272.
  3. http://www.discogs.com/Nat-King-Cole-And-His-Trio-After-Midnight-The-Complete-Session/release/2852908 After Midnight... at discogs.com
  4. http://www.theaudiobeat.com/music/nat_king_cole_lp.htm After Midnight at theaudiobeat.com
  5. http://www.discogs.com/Nat-King-Cole-And-His-Trio-After-Midnight/release/2096624 After Midnight (W 782) at discogs.com 1
  6. http://www.discogs.com/Nat-King-Cole-And-His-Trio-After-Midnight/release/2743245 After Midnight (W 782) at discogs.com 2
  7. http://www.discogs.com/Nat-King-Cole-And-His-Trio-After-Midnight/release/2664601 After Midnight (EAP 782) at discogs.com