"Strangers in the Night" is a popular song, made famous in 1966 by Frank Sinatra.
Reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100, 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 despised the song, however, and called it "a piece of shit", blank">Sinatra's TV specials from classictvinfo.com and "the worst song I ever fucking heard". 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.
One of the features most recognized with the song is Sinatra imitating the melody again with the syllables "doo-be-doo-be-doo", as the track 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. In fact, in the last second of the recording can be heard Sinatra singing "We...", seeming some extra lyrics from the song not included on its original write. Subsecuent seconds of the recording remain unreleased and unrevealed.
The track was recorded on April 11, 1966, one month before the rest of the album. Strangely, the recording contains some pitch noises, most notouriusly on seconds 1:05-1:06 on the left channel.
