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Strangers in the Night
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- This article is about the song. For the album by Frank Sinatra, see Strangers in the Night (Frank Sinatra album).
- For the album by UFO, see Strangers in the Night (UFO album).
"Strangers in the Night" is a song made famous by Frank Sinatra, who recorded it in 1966. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, and was the title song for his most successful album. One of the song's most recognized features is Sinatra beginning the melody again with the syllables "doo-be-doo-be-doo," as the track fades to the end. The song was featured in the film "A Man Could Get Killed" starring James Garner, and inspired the name for the cartoon canine Scooby Doo.
The English lyrics were written by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder. The music was originally composed by Ivo Robić for the music festival in Split, Croatia. Robić later sang the song in German ("Fremde in der Nacht") and in Croatian ("Stranci u Noći"). A thorough adaptation and an arrangement of the piece was done for Sinatra's version by Bert Kaempfert; however this adaptation was taken to court in 1963 by composer Ralph Chicorel who claimed that 24 of "Strangers'" 32 bars had been copied from his song, "You Are My Love." The case was settled out of court after years of Kaempfert not showing up to court dates. Chicorel still claims that "true justice" has not been served as the song's success and "wrongful attribution" were not made up for in the settlement.
- Allan Sherman parodied this song in his Strangers in My Soup.
- Cake covered this song for the soundtrack to the videogame Stubbs the Zombie in "Rebel Without a Pulse".
- José Feliciano covered this song as "Extraños En La Noche" on the album Sombras... Una Voz, Una Guitarra in 1967.
- A cover version by Bette Midler was released from her 1976 album Songs For The New Depression, but failed to chart aside from a minor placing on the Adult Contemporary charts.
- Rodney Dangerfield covered the song before his death.
- Michael Bublé sang the song in the film Duets (2000).
| Preceded by "Paperback Writer" by The Beatles |
Billboard Hot 100 number one single July 2, 1966 |
Succeeded by "Hanky Panky" by Tommy James & the Shondells |
Ralph Chicorel partial discography
"You Are My Love" (1963)- out of print
"The Music of Raphael Chicorel" (1970) Pleasure Records
"A Gift of Music" (1978) Pleasure Records
"I'm In Love With You" (1972) Pleasure Records
"Great Expectations" (1995) Original Cast Record
"Anna Karenina" (2003) LML Music
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