Strangers in the Night

This article is about the song. For other uses, see Strangers in the Night (disambiguation).
"Strangers in the Night"
Single by Frank Sinatra
from the album Strangers in the Night
B-side"Oh, You Crazy Moon"
ReleasedApril 12, 1966; 58 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; 59 years ago (1965)) 		"Strangers in the Night"
(1966) 		"Summer Wind"
(1966; 58 years ago (1966))
Audio sample

"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]

Sinatra's recording of 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 the album Strangers in the Night which included the title song. 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]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Eddie Snyder obituary". The Daily Telegraph. March 31, 2011. Archived from the original on January 12, 2022. Retrieved April 2, 2011.
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  4. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)
  5. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. pp. 191–2. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
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