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Strangers in the Night

December 15, 2023

This article is about the song. For other uses, see Strangers in the Night (disambiguation).

"Strangers in the Night" is a song composed by Bert Kaempfert with English lyrics by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder.[1] Kaempfert originally used it under the title "Beddy Bye" as part of the instrumental score for the movie A Man Could Get Killed.[1] The song was made famous in 1966 by Frank Sinatra.[2][3]

"Strangers in the Night"
Single by Frank Sinatra
from the album Strangers in the Night
B-side"Oh, You Crazy Moon"
ReleasedApril 12, 1966; 57 years ago (1966-04-12)
RecordedApril 11, 1966 (1966-04-11)
StudioUnited Western Recorders
GenreTraditional pop
Length2:35
LabelReprise[1]
Composer(s)
Lyricist(s)
Producer(s)Jimmy Bowen[1]
Frank Sinatra singles chronology
"It Was a Very Good Year"
(1965; 58 years ago (1965)) 		"Strangers in the Night"
(1966) 		"Summer Wind"
(1966; 57 years ago (1966))
Audio sample

The song reached No. 1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the Easy Listening chart,[4] and it was also simultaneously a No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart.[5] The success of the song led to the release of Strangers in the Night with it the title song, and this release became Sinatra's most commercially successful album.

Sinatra's recording won him the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and the Grammy Award for Record of the Year, as well as a Grammy Award for Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist or Instrumentalist for Ernie Freeman at the Grammy Awards of 1967.[6]

Origin edit

The song was originally an instrumental theme tune from the soundtrack of the film A Man Could Get Killed written by German composer Bert Kaempfert. Part of the melody could be heard in the orchestral title song of the film as well as the end credits. Music publisher Hal Fine played some tracks from the film to Frank Sinatra's producer Jimmy Bowen, and Bowen indicated that Sinatra would record the theme tune titled "Beddy Bye" if lyrics were written for the song, and that the title needed to be changed.[7][8]

The writing of the lyrics, however, took a few months.[8] Two sets of lyrics were produced but both were rejected. Lyrics were then added by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder, which were accepted.[6] To write the lyrics, Singleton and Snyder took cue from the film where the principal actors James Garner and Melina Mercouri exchanged glances at a bar and became lovers by the end of the film.[7] Snyder suggested that he also had a hand in writing the music, and that he, Singleton and Kaempfert spent two weeks perfecting the song.[2] The song was said originally to have been sung by Melina Mercouri, who thought that a man's vocals would better suit the melody and therefore declined to sing it.[citation needed]

Contested authorship edit

A number of people have claimed authorship of the song.

In an interview with The New York Times, Avo Uvezian discussed the origins of "Strangers in the Night", saying that he had composed the melody while he was in New York. He was introduced to Frank Sinatra via a mutual friend, and he presented to Sinatra the tune he composed titled "Broken Guitar" with lyrics written by someone else. Sinatra liked the tune but did not like the lyrics, and asked that they be rewritten. Studio songwriters were engaged to produced new lyrics, but Sinatra was said to hate the new lyrics, and announced: "I don't want to sing this." However, he was later persuaded to record the song as "Strangers in the Night".[9]

Uvezian said that Kaempfert was a friend of his, and before he had shown Sinatra the song, he had sent it to Kaempfert for publication in Germany. The melody was used in the film A Man Could Get Killed, but with Kaempfert credited as the sole composer. Uvezian said that he was acknowledged by Kaempfert to be the composer of the song multiple times, including in a written letter.[9]

The Croatian singer Ivo Robić is also said to be the original author of "Strangers in the Night", which he sold to Kaempfert.[2] In an interview on Croatian TV with Croatian composer Stjepan Mihaljinec, Robić said that he had composed a song "Ta ljetna noć" (That Summer Night) as an entry to the Split Festival in the former Yugoslavia, where it was rejected. He sang a first few bars from that song that were identical to "Strangers in the Night".[10] Robić then sold the rights of this song to Kaempfert, who used it in the film.[2] Kaempfert later gave the German version of the song, "Fremde in der Nacht", for Robić to record.[10] Robić is not credited as a songwriter in his 1966 German recording of the song,[11] nor his Croatian version titled "Stranci u noći" released the same year by the Yugoslav record company Jugoton.[12]

In 1967, French composer Michel Philippe-Gérard (more commonly known as Philippe-Gérard) claimed that the melody of "Strangers" was based on his composition "Magic Tango", which was published in 1953 through Chappell & Co. in New York.[13] Royalties from the song were thus frozen[14] until a court in Paris ruled in 1971 that there was no plagiarism, stating that many songs were based on "similar constant factors".[15]

Recording and release edit

A number of artists recorded the song before Frank Sinatra, including Bobby Darin who recorded the song on March 23, 1966, Jack Jones on April 8, as well as Al Martino.[7][6] Bowen, however, was unaware that Fine had given the song for others to record, and was surprised when he came across Jones who informed him that he would be recording the song and that it would be released within days.[6] Bowen quickly contacted Ernie Freeman to come up with an arrangement for Frank Sinatra to record "Strangers in the Night" to beat Jones to the song's release.[8]

Bowen already had booked a session at the United Western Recorders on Sunset Boulevard with a 35-piece orchestra for 7–10 pm, April 11, 1966. The studio session was originally intended for Dean Martin to record songs for an album including "Let the Good Times In", and Bowen asked Martin to come in an hour later as Martin tended to record quickly.[7] Hal Blaine was the drummer at the recording;[16] according to Blaine, he reused the iconic drum beat from "Be My Baby" by the Ronettes in a slower and softer arrangement.[17] Also present among the musicians was Glen Campbell, who was brought in the last minute to play rhythm guitar in his first session with Sinatra. As Campbell could not read sheet music, he spent the first take listening to the melody instead of playing, which prompted Sinatra to yell out at him if he was sleeping.[7]

One of the most memorable and recognizable features of the record is Sinatra's scat improvisation of the melody (on take two) with the syllables "doo-be-doo-be-doo" as the song fades to the end.[3] For the CD Nothing but the Best, the song was remastered and the running time is 2:45 instead of the usual 2:35. The extra ten seconds is just a continuation of Sinatra's scat singing.

The song features a half-tone key change around 2/3 of the way into song, which created a problem when Sinatra could not adjust to the key change. According to Bowen, he resolved the issue by asking Sinatra to sing until the just before the key change, stopped, then gave him a bell tone so he could sing the next section in the new key.[6]

Sinatra arrived at 8 pm and the recording was completed by 9 pm.[8] Bowen then spent the night splicing the two parts of the recording together, before mixing and mastering the tape. The following day, couriers with the recording by Sinatra in acetate that gave the highest quality sound flew out by plane and delivered the record to radio stations in all top 50 markets to play before Jones' recording arrived.[6][18]

Due to the rush-release of Sinatra's record, Jones' version failed to chart. Jones' recording became instead the B-side to "The Impossible Dream", which followed Sinatra's "Strangers in the Night" as No. 1 on the Easy Listening (AC) chart.[19] Darin's recording was never released, while Martino was out of the country and could not promote the song when Sinatra's version was released.[6]

Reception edit

The song first entered Billboard Hot 100 on chart dated May 7, 1966,[20][21] reaching No. 1 on July 2, 1966 in the US. It also reached the top of the of the Easy Listening chart, where it was No. 1 for seven weeks. It also reached No. 1 in seven other countries, including the UK for three weeks.[6]

The single sold 60,000 copies in Brazil,[22] 600,000 copies in France,[23] combined it sold a million copies in United States and United Kingdom[23] and over 2 million worldwide.[24]

"Strangers in the Night" was Sinatra's first number one on the Hot 100 in 11 years and it remained on the charts for 15 weeks. Sinatra, however, despised the song, calling it at one time "a piece of shit" and "the worst fucking song that I have ever heard."[25] Joe Smith, then head of Reprise Records, said "[Sinatra] thought it was about two fags in a bar!" [26] Dean Martin had teased Sinatra when the song was being released, saying that he turned down the song because "it's about two faggots".[27] In concert, Sinatra had on many occasions sang the lines "Love was just a glance away, a warm embracing dance away" as "a lonesome pair of pants away".[18]

The song was received the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and the Grammy Award for Record of the Year, as well as a Grammy Award for Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist or Instrumentalist for Ernie Freeman at the Grammy Awards of 1967.[6] It also received the award for best original song at the 24th Golden Globe Awards.[2]

Charts edit

Personnel edit

According to the AFM contract sheet, the following musicians played on the track.[53]

In popular culture edit

The name of cartoon dog character Scooby-Doo is derived from the scat in the song. CBS television executive Fred Silverman listened to the song in 1968 while on a red-eye flight to a development meeting for Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and was inspired by the scat.[54]

Other versions edit

Around 200 versions of the song have been released by 1967. [14] Kaempfert himself released an instrumental version soon after Sinatra's version was released, and it reached No. 8 on the AC chart.[55] Bette Midler released a version in 1976, which reached No. 45 on the AC chart.[56]

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This article is about the song For other uses see Strangers in the Night disambiguation Strangers in the Night is a song composed by Bert Kaempfert with English lyrics by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder 1 Kaempfert originally used it under the title Beddy Bye as part of the instrumental score for the movie A Man Could Get Killed 1 The song was made famous in 1966 by Frank Sinatra 2 3 Strangers in the Night Single by Frank Sinatrafrom the album Strangers in the NightB side Oh You Crazy Moon ReleasedApril 12 1966 57 years ago 1966 04 12 RecordedApril 11 1966 1966 04 11 StudioUnited Western RecordersGenreTraditional popLength2 35LabelReprise 1 Composer s Bert KaempfertLyricist s Charles Singleton Eddie Snyder 1 Producer s Jimmy Bowen 1 Frank Sinatra singles chronology It Was a Very Good Year 1965 58 years ago 1965 Strangers in the Night 1966 Summer Wind 1966 57 years ago 1966 Audio sample source source filehelpThe song reached No 1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the Easy Listening chart 4 and it was also simultaneously a No 1 on the UK Singles Chart 5 The success of the song led to the release of Strangers in the Night with it the title song and this release became Sinatra s most commercially successful album Sinatra s recording won him the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and the Grammy Award for Record of the Year as well as a Grammy Award for Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist or Instrumentalist for Ernie Freeman at the Grammy Awards of 1967 6 Contents 1 Origin 1 1 Contested authorship 2 Recording and release 3 Reception 4 Charts 4 1 Weekly chart 4 2 Year end charts 5 Personnel 6 In popular culture 7 Other versions 8 References 9 External linksOrigin editThe song was originally an instrumental theme tune from the soundtrack of the film A Man Could Get Killed written by German composer Bert Kaempfert Part of the melody could be heard in the orchestral title song of the film as well as the end credits Music publisher Hal Fine played some tracks from the film to Frank Sinatra s producer Jimmy Bowen and Bowen indicated that Sinatra would record the theme tune titled Beddy Bye if lyrics were written for the song and that the title needed to be changed 7 8 The writing of the lyrics however took a few months 8 Two sets of lyrics were produced but both were rejected Lyrics were then added by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder which were accepted 6 To write the lyrics Singleton and Snyder took cue from the film where the principal actors James Garner and Melina Mercouri exchanged glances at a bar and became lovers by the end of the film 7 Snyder suggested that he also had a hand in writing the music and that he Singleton and Kaempfert spent two weeks perfecting the song 2 The song was said originally to have been sung by Melina Mercouri who thought that a man s vocals would better suit the melody and therefore declined to sing it citation needed Contested authorship edit A number of people have claimed authorship of the song In an interview with The New York Times Avo Uvezian discussed the origins of Strangers in the Night saying that he had composed the melody while he was in New York He was introduced to Frank Sinatra via a mutual friend and he presented to Sinatra the tune he composed titled Broken Guitar with lyrics written by someone else Sinatra liked the tune but did not like the lyrics and asked that they be rewritten Studio songwriters were engaged to produced new lyrics but Sinatra was said to hate the new lyrics and announced I don t want to sing this However he was later persuaded to record the song as Strangers in the Night 9 Uvezian said that Kaempfert was a friend of his and before he had shown Sinatra the song he had sent it to Kaempfert for publication in Germany The melody was used in the film A Man Could Get Killed but with Kaempfert credited as the sole composer Uvezian said that he was acknowledged by Kaempfert to be the composer of the song multiple times including in a written letter 9 The Croatian singer Ivo Robic is also said to be the original author of Strangers in the Night which he sold to Kaempfert 2 In an interview on Croatian TV with Croatian composer Stjepan Mihaljinec Robic said that he had composed a song Ta ljetna noc That Summer Night as an entry to the Split Festival in the former Yugoslavia where it was rejected He sang a first few bars from that song that were identical to Strangers in the Night 10 Robic then sold the rights of this song to Kaempfert who used it in the film 2 Kaempfert later gave the German version of the song Fremde in der Nacht for Robic to record 10 Robic is not credited as a songwriter in his 1966 German recording of the song 11 nor his Croatian version titled Stranci u noci released the same year by the Yugoslav record company Jugoton 12 In 1967 French composer Michel Philippe Gerard more commonly known as Philippe Gerard claimed that the melody of Strangers was based on his composition Magic Tango which was published in 1953 through Chappell amp Co in New York 13 Royalties from the song were thus frozen 14 until a court in Paris ruled in 1971 that there was no plagiarism stating that many songs were based on similar constant factors 15 Recording and release editA number of artists recorded the song before Frank Sinatra including Bobby Darin who recorded the song on March 23 1966 Jack Jones on April 8 as well as Al Martino 7 6 Bowen however was unaware that Fine had given the song for others to record and was surprised when he came across Jones who informed him that he would be recording the song and that it would be released within days 6 Bowen quickly contacted Ernie Freeman to come up with an arrangement for Frank Sinatra to record Strangers in the Night to beat Jones to the song s release 8 Bowen already had booked a session at the United Western Recorders on Sunset Boulevard with a 35 piece orchestra for 7 10 pm April 11 1966 The studio session was originally intended for Dean Martin to record songs for an album including Let the Good Times In and Bowen asked Martin to come in an hour later as Martin tended to record quickly 7 Hal Blaine was the drummer at the recording 16 according to Blaine he reused the iconic drum beat from Be My Baby by the Ronettes in a slower and softer arrangement 17 Also present among the musicians was Glen Campbell who was brought in the last minute to play rhythm guitar in his first session with Sinatra As Campbell could not read sheet music he spent the first take listening to the melody instead of playing which prompted Sinatra to yell out at him if he was sleeping 7 One of the most memorable and recognizable features of the record is Sinatra s scat improvisation of the melody on take two with the syllables doo be doo be doo as the song fades to the end 3 For the CD Nothing but the Best the song was remastered and the running time is 2 45 instead of the usual 2 35 The extra ten seconds is just a continuation of Sinatra s scat singing The song features a half tone key change around 2 3 of the way into song which created a problem when Sinatra could not adjust to the key change According to Bowen he resolved the issue by asking Sinatra to sing until the just before the key change stopped then gave him a bell tone so he could sing the next section in the new key 6 Sinatra arrived at 8 pm and the recording was completed by 9 pm 8 Bowen then spent the night splicing the two parts of the recording together before mixing and mastering the tape The following day couriers with the recording by Sinatra in acetate that gave the highest quality sound flew out by plane and delivered the record to radio stations in all top 50 markets to play before Jones recording arrived 6 18 Due to the rush release of Sinatra s record Jones version failed to chart Jones recording became instead the B side to The Impossible Dream which followed Sinatra s Strangers in the Night as No 1 on the Easy Listening AC chart 19 Darin s recording was never released while Martino was out of the country and could not promote the song when Sinatra s version was released 6 Reception editThe song first entered Billboard Hot 100 on chart dated May 7 1966 20 21 reaching No 1 on July 2 1966 in the US It also reached the top of the of the Easy Listening chart where it was No 1 for seven weeks It also reached No 1 in seven other countries including the UK for three weeks 6 The single sold 60 000 copies in Brazil 22 600 000 copies in France 23 combined it sold a million copies in United States and United Kingdom 23 and over 2 million worldwide 24 Strangers in the Night was Sinatra s first number one on the Hot 100 in 11 years and it remained on the charts for 15 weeks Sinatra however despised the song calling it at one time a piece of shit and the worst fucking song that I have ever heard 25 Joe Smith then head of Reprise Records said Sinatra thought it was about two fags in a bar 26 Dean Martin had teased Sinatra when the song was being released saying that he turned down the song because it s about two faggots 27 In concert Sinatra had on many occasions sang the lines Love was just a glance away a warm embracing dance away as a lonesome pair of pants away 18 The song was received the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and the Grammy Award for Record of the Year as well as a Grammy Award for Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist or Instrumentalist for Ernie Freeman at the Grammy Awards of 1967 6 It also received the award for best original song at the 24th Golden Globe Awards 2 Charts editWeekly chart edit Charts 1966 Peak positionArgentinian Singles Chart 28 1Australian Singles Chart 29 4Austria O3 Austria Top 40 30 1Belgium Ultratop 50 Flanders 31 1Belgium Ultratop 50 Wallonia 32 1Brazilian Singles Chart 28 1Canada Top Singles RPM 33 3Danish Singles Chart DGGIF 34 6French Singles Chart 35 1Greek Singles Chart 34 6Hong Kong Singles Chart 29 5Ireland IRMA 36 1Israeli Singles Chart 29 3Italian Singles Chart Musica e Dischi 28 1Mexican Singles Chart Audiomusica 29 3Netherlands Dutch Top 40 37 2Norway VG lista 38 5Philippines Singles Chart 35 1Singapore Singles Chart 29 9Swiss Singles Chart 28 1UK Singles OCC 39 1US Billboard Hot 100 40 1US Adult Contemporary Billboard 41 1West Germany Official German Charts 42 1 Year end charts edit Chart 1966 RankAustralia AMR 43 11Belgium Ultratop 50 Flanders 44 1Canada CHUM 45 39Canada RPM 46 25Netherlands Dutch Top 40 47 3Japan Foreign Hits Billboard 48 5South Africa 49 3UK Singles 50 2US Billboard Hot 100 51 8US Cashbox 52 4Personnel editAccording to the AFM contract sheet the following musicians played on the track 53 Bill Miller and Michel Rubini pianos Al Casey Bill Pitman Glen Campbell and Tommy Tedesco guitars Chuck Berghofer bass Hal Blaine drums Emil Richards and Eddie Brackett Jr percussion Sid Sharp Leonard Malarsky William Kurasch Ralph Schaeffer Israel Baker Arnold Belnick Jerome Reisler Robert Sushel John DeVoogt Bernard Kundell Tibor Zelig Gerald Vinci William Weiss James Getzoff Harry Bluestone and Victor Arno violins Harry Hyams Joseph DiFiore Darrel Terwilliger and Alexander Neiman violas Joseph Saxon Jesse Ehrlich Emmet Sargeant and Armand Kaproff cellos Vincent DeRosa Henry Sigismonti Gale Robinson and Richard Perissi French horns Bill Green and Andreas Kostelas flutesIn popular culture editThe name of cartoon dog character Scooby Doo is derived from the scat in the song CBS television executive Fred Silverman listened to the song in 1968 while on a red eye flight to a development meeting for Scooby Doo Where Are You and was inspired by the scat 54 Other versions editAround 200 versions of the song have been released by 1967 14 Kaempfert himself released an instrumental version soon after Sinatra s version was released and it reached No 8 on the AC chart 55 Bette Midler released a version in 1976 which reached No 45 on the AC chart 56 References edit a b c d e Rice Jo 1982 The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits 1st ed Enfield Middlesex Guinness Superlatives Ltd p 101 ISBN 0 85112 250 7 a b c d e Eddie Snyder obituary The Daily Telegraph 2011 03 31 Archived from the original on 2022 01 12 Retrieved 2011 04 02 a b Gilliland John 1969 Show 22 Smack Dab in the Middle on Route 66 A skinny dip in the easy listening mainstream Part 1 audio Pop Chronicles University of North Texas Libraries Track 3 Whitburn Joel 1996 The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits 6th Edition Billboard Publications Roberts David 2006 British Hit Singles amp Albums 19th ed London Guinness World Records Limited pp 191 2 ISBN 1 904994 10 5 a b c d e f g h i Hyatt Wesley 1999 The Billboard Book of Number One Adult Contemporary Hits Billboard Books pp 41 44 ISBN 0823076938 a b c d e Leigh Spencer 2015 Frank Sinatra An Extraordinary Life McNidder and Grace Limited ISBN 9780857160881 a b c d Bronson Fred 1997 The Billboard Book of Number One Hits Billboard Books p 202 ISBN 9780823076413 a b Wilson Michael 2015 12 07 A Manhattan Theft Rooted in a Tale of Songwriting Sinatra and Cigars The New York Times Retrieved 2022 01 27 a b Ivo Robic confirms authorship of Strangers in the night Ivo Robic je autor pjesme Stranci u noci Croatian Radiotelevision Event occurs at October 1 1982 Ivo Robic Fremde In Der Nacht Offizielle Deutsche Charts Ivo Robic Stranci U Noci Discogs Court Told Music Hit Plagiarized French Composer Asks 400 000 For Sinatra Record Toledo Blade 7 December 1968 p 4 a b Charge Is Holding Up Strangers Royalties Billboard 15 April 1967 p 52 Writer Loses Strangers Case Billboard 17 April 1971 p 50 Hartman Kent The Wrecking Crew The Inside Story of Rock and Roll s Best Kept Secret Thomas Dunne Books St Martin s Press New York 2012 pp 133 134 Mattingly Rick Hal Blaine www pas org Percussive Arts Society Retrieved 25 March 2021 a b Friedwald Will Bennett Tony Sinatra The Song Is You A Singer s Art Chicago Review Press ISBN 9781613737736 Hyatt Wesley 1999 The Billboard Book of Number One Adult Contemporary Hits Billboard Books p 45 ISBN 0823076938 Hot 100 Billboard May 7 1966 p 20 Billboard April 23 1966 57 years ago 1966 04 23 p 18 International Brazil PDF Cash Box October 8 1966 p 58 Retrieved August 7 2021 via World Radio History a b Murrells Joseph 1985 Million selling records from the 1900s to the 1980s an illustrated directory Arco Pub p 231 ISBN 0668064595 Combined U S British sales were over a million France over 600 000 sold Don Gigilio November 26 1966 Frank Fisher A Win Parley at Las Vegas PDF Billboard p 28 Retrieved August 7 2021 via World Radio History Summers Anthony Swan Robbyn Sinatra The Life Random House Digital Inc New York 2006 p 334 Frank Sinatra s I ve Got You Under My Skin The Full Story Vanity Fair 2015 10 22 Retrieved 2023 08 26 Besides the title song which was a massive hit though Frank hated it He thought it was about two fags in a bar said Joe Smith the head of Warner Reprise Leigh Spencer 2015 Frank Sinatra An Extraordinary Life McNidder and 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