"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 #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on July 2, 1966, it was the title song for Sinatra's album Strangers in the Night, which would become his most commercially successful album. The track was recorded on April 11, 1966, one month before the rest of the 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.
Ironically, Sinatra despised the song, calling it , "a piece of sh--," and "the worst f----- song that I have ever heard." In spite of his contempt for the song, for the first time in eleven years, he had a number one song that topped the charts.
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