No One Cares

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = No One Cares | type = album | artist = Frank Sinatra | cover = NoOneCares.jpg | alt = | released = July 20, 1959 | recorded = March 24, 25, 26, May 14, 1959 | venue = | studio = Capitol Studio A (Hollywood) | genre = {{hlist|Vocal jazz|traditional pop}} | length = 37:35 | label = Capitol | producer = Dave Cavanaugh | prev_title = Look to Your Heart | prev_year = 1959 | next_title = Nice 'n' Easy | next_year = 1960 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = Allmusic | rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r24110|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]</ref> | rev2 = ''Uncut'' | rev2Score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Aiken |first=Kit |date=November 2003 |title=Croon squad |magazine=Uncut |page=92 |issue=20}}</ref> | rev3 = ''DownBeat'' | rev3score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name=":10">{{Cite journal |last=Uncredited |first= |date=September 17, 1959 |title=In Review |journal=DownBeat |volume=46 |issue=18 |pages=33–34}}</ref>

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'''''No One Cares''''' is the seventeenth studio album by Frank Sinatra, released on July 20, 1959. It is generally considered a sequel to Sinatra's 1957 album ''Where Are You?'' (also arranged by Gordon Jenkins), and shares a similar sad and lonesome, gloomy theme and concept as ''In the Wee Small Hours'' and ''Only the Lonely'' (both arranged by Nelson Riddle).<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r24110|label=No One Cares}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=The Virginian-Pilot from Norfolk, Virginia on August 30, 1959 · 27 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/846222252/ |access-date=2023-03-11 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}}</ref>

''No One Cares'' was described by critics as the singer's saddest and darkest album<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Liverpool Echo from Liverpool, Merseyside, England on September 5, 1959 · 27 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/796842215/ |access-date=2023-03-11 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Tampa Tribune from Tampa, Florida on September 20, 1959 · 64 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/330331013/ |access-date=2023-03-11 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}}</ref> – Sinatra himself purportedly referred to it as a collection of "suicide songs".{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}}

==Background== At a press interview given around the time of the album's release, Sinatra summed up the mood of the album as:<blockquote>“We left out 'Gloomy Sunday’ [a song that reportedly has supplied the impetus for a dozen or so suicides] because it was too swingin'. Seriously though, it was a tough album to make and a tough mood to sustain. But Gordon Jenkins and I were thinking alike and everything came out perfectly. I liked doing this album because I think it will mean something to a lot of people - people who know how it is when no one cares."<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=August 13, 1959 |title=Records |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/824138951/ |access-date=March 10, 2023 |publisher=The Macon News |page=13 |language=en |publication-place=Macon, Georgia |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref></blockquote>

=== Versions === ''No One Cares'' was originally released on July 20, 1959, in both stereo and monaural Hi-Fi versions, each containing eleven songs.

A twelfth song, "The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)", was recorded at the sessions, but left unreleased until 1973. In 1990, that song was released in the 3-disc set "The Capitol Years", but whereas the 1973 release included two carefully placed edits to correct a gaffe in the lyrics and a poorly played string passage, the 1990 track was presented raw, without these corrections.{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}}

The 1991 CD reissue of the album contains a new mix from the 3-track tapes. All other issues, including the release in the 1998 UK boxed set, use the original 1959 stereo mix.

Tracks 1 and 10, though arranged by Gordon Jenkins as part of the original concept, were conducted by Nelson Riddle (uncredited) in Jenkins' absence.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Sinatra/capitol1.php |title=Frank Sinatra - Capitol |publisher=JazzDiscography.com |access-date=2012-03-03}}</ref> On CD, the final three bonus tracks were not part of the original album, and are arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle. One of these, "This Was My Love", was recorded at the same session as "When No One Cares" and "I'll Never Smile Again".

=== Artwork === The photograph used for the cover artwork was taken at Sinatra's Puccini restaurant in Beverly Hills, California (which he co-owned with Peter Lawford).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pam |first=Jerry |date=August 8, 1959 |title=Screen Drama Music |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/580323640/ |access-date=March 10, 2023 |publisher=The Valley Times |language=en |publication-place=North Hollywood, California |via=Newspapers.com |quote=Sinatra's latest album cover "No One Cares" was shot at his Puccini restaurant.}}</ref> The liner notes were written by ''Jazz'' magazine critic Ralph Gleason.<ref name=":0" /> In promotion of the album, Capitol Records had 2,000 giant blowups of the cover printed for display at point-of-purchase locations.<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/cashbox20unse_44 |title=Cash Box |date=1959-08-01 |publisher=Cash Box Pub. Co. |others=William and Mary Libraries Special Collections Research Center}}</ref>

== Track listing == Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.<ref name="bookletNoOneCAres">{{cite book|title=No One Cares ''liner notes''|year=1959|publisher=Capitol Records}}</ref>

{{track listing | headline = ''No One Cares'' track listing | title1 = When No One Cares | music1 = {{hlist|Cahn|Van Heusen}} | length1 = 2:42 | title2 = A Cottage for Sale | music2 = {{hlist|Conley|Robinson}} | length2 = 3:16 | title3 = Stormy Weather | music3 = {{hlist|Arlen|Koehler}} | length3 = 3:20 | title4 = Where Do You Go? | music4 = {{hlist|Sundgaard|Wilder}} | length4 = 2:34 | title5 = I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You | music5 = {{hlist|Crosby|Washington|Young}} | length5 = 3:16 | title6 = Here's That Rainy Day | music6 = {{hlist|Burke|Van Heusen}} | length6 = 3:34 | title7 = I Can't Get Started | music7 = {{hlist|Duke|Gershwin}} | length7 = 4:01 | title8 = Why Try to Change Me Now? | music8 = {{hlist|Coleman|McCarthy}} | length8 = 3:41 | title9 = Just Friends | music9 = {{hlist|Klenner|Lewis}} | length9 = 3:40 | title10 = I'll Never Smile Again | music10 = {{hlist|Lowe}} | length10 = 3:46 | title11 = None But the Lonely Heart | music11 = {{hlist|Tchaikovsky|Westbrook}} | length11 = 3:41 | total_length = 37:35 }}

{{track listing | headline = ''No One Cares'' – 1991 bonus tracks | title12 = The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else) | music12 = {{hlist|Jones|Kahn}} | length12 = 3:05 | title13 = This Was My Love | music13 = {{hlist|Jim Harbert}} | length13 = 3:27 | title14 = I Could Have Told You | music14 = {{hlist|Van Heusen|Sigman}} | length14 = 3:18 | title15 = You Forgot All the Words (While I Still Remember the Tune) | music15 = {{hlist|Wayne|Jay}} | length15 = 3:20 | total_length = 50:46 }}

==Personnel== * Frank Sinatra - vocals * Gordon Jenkins - arranger, conductor<ref>Put Your Dreams Away: A Frank Sinatra Discography</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

== External links == * [https://open.spotify.com/album/1nnCD4VLdJ4n6lnOOUNUMc ''No One Cares''] at Spotify (streamed copy where licensed)  * {{AllMusic}} * {{Discogs master|144090|No One Cares|type=album}} * {{MusicBrainz release group|mbid=5e97f43a-5b44-3b1c-aa51-6a3a81d016e2|name=No One Cares}} * [http://www.johnbrown.tv/linernotes Ralph J. Gleason liner notes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313214442/http://johnbrown.tv/linernotes |date=March 13, 2016 }}

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