From '' Strangers In The Night ''
Label: MCA Records -- VOLC 1
Format: Vinyl, 7\"
Country: UK
Released: 1983
Tracklist
A Strangers In The Night
B Murder U.S.A.
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\"Strangers in the Night\" is a popular song composed by Bert Kampfert with English lyrics by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder.
It was originally created under the title Beddy Bye as part of the instrumental score for the movie ''A Man Could Get Killed''.
The song was made famous in 1966 by Frank Sinatra.
Reaching number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the Easy Listening chart, it was the title song for Sinatra's 1966 album Strangers in the Night, which would become his most commercially successful album.
The song also reached number one on the UK Singles Chart.
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.
Vocal improv
One of the most memorable and recognizable features of the record is Sinatra's scat improvisation of the melody with the syllables \"doo-be-doo-be-doo\" as the song fades to the end.
This inspired the name for the cartoon canine Scooby Doo.
Also the fading of the song was made too early, and many fans lament the fact that Sinatra's improvisation is cut off too soon.
For the recently released CD Nothing But The Best, the song was remastered and the running time clocks in at 2:44, instead of the usual 2:35.
The extra nine seconds is just a continuation of Sinatra's scat noises.
The track was recorded on April 11, 1966, one month before the rest of the album.
Sinatra despised the song and called it \"a piece of shit.\"
Copyright issues
It is sometimes claimed the the Yugoslav-Croatian singer Ivo Robić was the original composer of Strangers in the Night, and sold the rights to Kaempfert after he entered it without success into a song contest in Yugoslavia.
This can not be substantiated. Robić - often referred to as \"Mr. Morgen\" for his 1950s charts success with Morgen, which was created in collaboration with Bert Kaempfert - was rather the singer of the Yugoslav version of the song called Stranci u Noći.
It was published in 1966 by the Yogoslav record company Jugoton under the serial number EPY-3779.
On the label of the record \"B. Kaempfert\" and \"M. Renota\" are stated as authors, whereby Marija Renota is the creator of the Yugoslav lyrics.
The original composition of Strangers was under the title Beddy Bye - referring to the lead character William Beddoes - as an instrumental for the score of the movie A Man Could Get Killed.
The phrase Strangers in the Night was created after the composition, when the New York music publishers Roosevelt Music requested the lyricists Snyder and Singleton - then of fresh Spanish Eyes, composed by Kaempfert as Moon Over Naples, fame - to put some text to the tune. Stranci u Noći is a literal translation of this phrase.
In 1967 French composer Michel Philippe-Gérard, more commonly known just as Philippe-Gérard established a claim, that the melody of Strangers was based on his composition Magic Tango, which was published in 1953 through Chappells in New York.
Royalties from the song where thus frozen until a court in Paris ruled in 1971 against plagiarism and stated that many songs were based on similar constant factors.
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Lyrics
Strangers in the night exchanging glances
Wondering in the night what were the chances
We'd be sharing love before the night was through.
Something in your eyes was so inviting
Something in you smile was so exciting
Something in my heart told me I must have you.
Strangers in the night
Two lonely people, we were strangers in the night
Up to the moment when we said our first hello little did we know
But love was just a glance away, a warm embracing dance away.
and
Ever since that night we've been together
Lovers at first sight, in love forever
It turned out so right for strangers in the night
Strangers in the night
Strangers in the ...
Strangers in the night
Two lonely people, we were strangers in the night
Up to the moment when we said our first hello little did we know
But love was just a glance away, a warm embracing dance away.
Ever since that night we've been together
Lovers at first sight, in love forever
It turned out so right for strangers in the night
Strangers in the night
Strangers in the night
Strangers in the ...
Strangers in the night.
