“Strangers In The Night” by Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra made "Strangers in the Night" his own in 1966, though the melody had already lived another life: Bert Kaempfert first used it, titled "Beddy Bye", in the instrumental score for the film A Man Could Get Killed, and the English lyrics came from Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder. Sinatra glides through it with unhurried cool, traditional pop sung by a man who sounds like he owns the room.

His record went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and the Easy Listening chart and topped the UK Singles Chart at the same time. At the 1967 Grammys it won Record of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, plus an arranging award for Ernie Freeman, and the hit spawned a Strangers in the Night album that became the most commercially successful of Sinatra's career.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.