After Midnight (Nat King Cole album)
album by Nat King Cole
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".
Release history
Initially, the album was released in a 33 rpm LP version as well as in a set of four (7-inch) 45 rpm 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. There are also at least three other reissues with 18, 19 and 21 tracks.
Track listing
LP release
LP side A:
"Just You, Just Me" (Greer, Raymond Klages) – 3:00
"Sweet Lorraine" (Burwell, Parish) – 4:33
"Sometimes I'm Happy" (Caesar, Youmans) – 4:11
"Caravan" (Ellington, Mills, Tizol) – 2:45
"It's Only a Paper Moon" (Arlen, Harburg, Rose) – 3:06
"You're Looking at Me" (Troup) – 4:12
LP side B:
"Lonely One" (Hambro, Roberta Heller) – 3:45
"Don't Let It Go to Your Head" (Henry Hadamik, Frank LaVere, Bob Nast) – 3:11
"I Know That You Know" (Youmans, Caldwell) – 2:28
"Blame It on My Youth" (Levant, Heyman) – 4:06
"When I Grow Too Old to Dream" (Hammerstein, Romberg) – 4:33
"(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".
Four 7-inch 45rpm discs release
Disc 1
A1. "Sometimes I'm Happy (Sometimes I'm Blue)"
B1.
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