After Midnight (Nat King Cole album)

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After Midnight
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Studio album by
Released1957 (1957)
RecordedAugust–September, 1956
Studio Capitol, Hollywood [1]
Genre Jazz
Length43:41
Label Capitol
Nat King Cole chronology
This Is Nat King Cole
(1957)
After Midnight
(1957)
Just One Of Those Things
(1957)
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After Midnight is a 1957 jazz album by "Nat King Cole and his trio" on Capitol Records. It peaked at number 13 on the U.S. Billboard Pop Albums chart. The Penguin Guide to Jazz listed the album as part of its suggested "core collection". [3]

Contents

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. [4] [5] 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, Raymond 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, Roberta Heller) – 3:45
  2. "Don't Let It Go to Your Head" (Henry Hadamik, Frank LaVere, Bob Nast) – 3:11
  3. "I Know That You Know" (Youmans, Caldwell) – 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

A later reissue of the album did not contain "Sometimes I'm Happy (Sometimes I'm Blue)" and "When I Grow Too Old to Dream" [6] [7]

Four 7-inch 45rpm discs release

Disc 1 [8]

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" (Scotto, Barry Trivers, Jack Murray) – 2:47
  5. "Candy" (Kramer, David, Whitney) – 3:54

Personnel

Release information

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