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"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", and "the worst song I ever fucking heard". ). A thorough adaptation and an arrangement of the piece was done for Sinatra's version by Bert Kaempfert; 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. 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" hasn't been served as the song's success and "wrongful attribution" were not made up for in the settlement.

Cover versions

Allan Sherman parodied this song in his Strangers in My Soup.
Cake covered this song for the 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.
Argentinian singer Sandro recorded a Spanish version for his Recuerdos album from 1994
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

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