Strangers In The Night - Frank Sinatra - Piano Cover

"Strangers in the Night" is a popular song, made famous in 1966 by Frank Sinatra.

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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.

The English lyrics were written by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder. The music was originally recorded by Ivo Robić for the music festival in Split, Croatia. Robić later sang the song in German "Fremde in der Nacht" and in Croatian language "Stranci u Noći". A thorough adaptation and an arrangement of the piece was done for Sinatra's version by Bert Kaempfert (who had included an instrumental version in his score for the film A Man Could Get Killed); however, this adaptation was taken to court in 1966 by composer Ralph Chicorel, who claimed that 24 of "Strangers"' 32 bars had been copied from his song, "You Are My Love." Chicorel's song, "You Are My Love", was the title tune of a 12-song 1965 LP demo, submitted to both Sinatra and Jack Jones' record companies through the Detroit, Michigan distributor of their labels in 1966. (Jones would record his own rendition of "Strangers" that year.) Also claiming composing rights was Kaempfert's colleague at the time, Herbert Rehbein. 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. Not widely known is that Glen Campbell plays rhythm guitar on this track.

Petula Clark covered the song in a pop/rock style on her 1966 album I Couldn't Live Without Your Love, as a response to Sinatra's cover of her own hit Downtown.
Andy Williams covered it on his 1967 album Born Free/Love, Andy.
Teddy Harold & Jeremy recorded a nice camp version with sound effects in 1974.
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". It also appears on their album B-Sides and Rarities (2007).
José Feliciano covered this song as "Extraños En La Noche" on the album Sombras... Una Voz, Una Guitarra in 1967.
Violetta Villas recorded this song for her 1970 music movie "Violetta Villas sings". She started performing this song in 1967.
Argentinian singer Sandro recorded a Spanish version for his Recuerdos album from 1994
Babe recorded a Serbian version, which is also a parody, in 1994, their version titled "Stranac usranac" (trans. "Shitty Stranger").
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.
Barry Manilow covered the song on The Greatest Songs of the Sixties 2006.
The Supremes covered the song for their unreleased album The Supremes and The Motown Sound from Broadway to Hollywood. It went unreleased until 1998.
U2 performed a snippet of the song towards the end of "With or Without You" during their show in Chicago, Illinois on 12 May 2005
Bud Ice commercials showed a malevolent penguin scatting the first five notes to the song as "Dooby Dooby Doo" in ads produced for the Anheuser-Busch branded beer.
Russell Watson sang a version of this song for his third album That's Life 2007.
In the movie Scarface, this song is being played at a restaurant when two gangsters open fire upon Al Pacino
Barbara McNair covered the song for her album Here I Am.
Polish singer Halina Kunicka recorded this song with Polish lyrics in late 1960s.
In 1960s classic Polish poet and a comedian Wojciech Młynarski wrote his own lyrics for the song.

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[leemcgavinjoey]

The fact that you can hear background noise just makes it a million times better in my opinion. And those cuffs. My, those cuffs.

[joolsscott]

@leemcgavinjoey well, Lee... That's a lovely comment. Thank you. Glad u like the music, background chatter and the cuffs! Unfortunately, one cuff has recently fallen off so I only have one attached. Perhaps its time to get the needle and thread out... Thanks for listening!

[TravelerKM]

I'll do anything for a tutorial for this!

[joolsscott]

@TravelerKM sorry but i dont have time at the moment make vids, I will hopfully start again in the new year. best wishes.

[jamiroren]

buscaba una referencia, algo en que basarme para montar esta pieza y la verdad tu version me resultó bastante incosistente y por momentos se pierde la melodía, ojalá ya hayas mejorado tu interpretación.

[joolsscott]

Gracias por tu mensaje. Desde la carga de este video me han mejorado el rendimiento y en la actualidad desempeñan la correcta melodía. Un día, pronto voy a subir el vídeo de nuevo.

[RobRicoh5150]

beautiful!!!

[SR2zero]

Beautifully performed!

This reaffirms my thoughts of learning the piano.

[Tosswallyproductions]

Amazing, keep on playing and writing!

[addictxkid]

feels like you're playing in a bistro with those background noise. awesome!

[llllParamorellll]

@bowwowpow Sta pricas, bato?

[keatonguy09]

beautiful playing. Where did you get the sheet music from? could you please send it to me? your version is beautiful and it is the one I hope to be able to play.

[icasizsiv]

"-_-" sok idegen jár...

[leemcgavinjoey]

Anytime. Now head for the sewing box!

[DrummerLocsForLife]

I would love a tutorial on this song!! :) You are great!!! Keep up the piano skills! :)

*Peace and Love*