# Earliest non-descriptive album title.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 22, 2017, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-non-descriptive-album-title/785013 "2017-04-22T19:18:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-non-descriptive-album-title/785013/21 "2017-04-24T16:28:09Z")

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How about _Wizard of the Vibes_ by Milt Jackson, released in 1952? That seems vague enough that you can’t say it’s really descriptive of Jackson or the album.

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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-non-descriptive-album-title/785013/22 "2017-04-24T16:49:41Z")

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Sinatra’ 1955 In the Wee Small Hours is generally considered the first “concept album” well before Sgt Peppers. The title reflects the mood of the album Sinatra wanted.

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**Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-non-descriptive-album-title/785013/23 "2017-04-24T17:56:24Z")

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But Wee Small Hours of the Morning was a song on that album.

Kingston Trio’s At Large 1959? There’s not a song by that name on it. It doesn’t reference the group or a movie.

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**Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-non-descriptive-album-title/785013/24 "2017-04-24T18:28:30Z")

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Spike Jones and his City Slickers: “[Dinner Music for People Who Aren’t Very Hungry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner_Music_for_People_Who_Aren%27t_Very_Hungry)” from 1956. Not dinner music, and there’s no song by that name.

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**Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-non-descriptive-album-title/785013/25 "2017-04-24T19:44:42Z")

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> [@hogarth](#):
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> I wonder when the first recording of Erik Satie’s “Trois morceaux en forme de poire” (Three Pieces in the Form of a Pear) was.

There’s one from [1963](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trois_morceaux_en_forme_de_poire#Recordings).

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-non-descriptive-album-title/785013/26 "2017-04-27T11:44:31Z")

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“Birth of the Cool” by Miles Davis in 1957

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