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Frank Sinatra

1 album cover in our archive

Frank Sinatra is featured in Behind the Covers' archive with 1 album cover from the 1950s. Released on Capitol Records, the artwork sits in the jazz, pop tradition. Each cover is documented in our archive with design notes covering illustration, iconic, minimalist, portrait, hand drawn. Below you'll find the full story behind each Frank Sinatra cover — designers, photographers, label history, and the visual choices that defined the release.

In the Wee Small Hours by Frank Sinatra — album cover art

In the Wee Small Hours (1955)

Frank Sinatra stands alone under blue streetlight, cigarette burning, fedora pushed back in resignation. Painted to mirror an album about loneliness and lost love, this 1955 cover plays like a film noir poster, and it would resurface decades later in Vanilla Sky, in a syringe-wielding parody, and in Kurt Elling's careful re-pose.

Label
Capitol Records
Genre
Jazz, Pop
Decade
1950s
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