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June 21, 2021
April 11, 2021
45 RPMs 60: Frank Sinatra ~ Strangers in the Night
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Strangers in the Night is a song composed by Bert Kaempfert with English lyrics by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder. Actually, there are considerable legal issues as to WHO really wrote it, Avo Uvezian, Ivo Robić or Philippe-Gérard (link below). Kaempfert originally used it 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. It was initially offered to Melina Mercouri but she thought a man's vocal would better suit the melody and therefore declined to sing it.
Strangers in the Night was recorded on April 11, 1966, one month before the rest of the vinyl LP with the same title (link below). Glen Campbell played rhythm
guitar and Hal Blaine was on drums with his backup group, The Wrecking Crew; Don Randi, Al De Lory,
Carol Kaye, Bill Pitman, Tommy Tedesco, Irving Rubins, Roy Caton, Jay Migliori, Hal Blaine, Steve Douglas, and Ray Pohlman. According to Blaine, he reused the drum beat from Be My Baby by the Ronettes in a slower, softer arrangement.
One
of the most memorable and recognizable features of the song is
Sinatra's scat improvisation of the melody (on take two) with the
syllables "doo-be-doo-be-doo" as the song fades to the end. In 1968, CBS
television executive Fred Silverman was inspired by the scat while
listening to the tune on a red-eye flight to a development meeting for a
Saturday morning cartoon show and decided to rename the dog character
to "Scooby-Doo".
Actually,
Sinatra despised the song, calling it at one time "a piece of shit" and
"the worst fucking song that I have ever heard." He was not afraid to
voice his disapproval of singing it live. In spite of his contempt for
the song, for the first time in 11 years he had a #1 hit, and it
remained on the charts for 15 weeks.
photo by Styrous®
The "B" side has a great song, Oh, You Crazy Moon, that is really nice. Chet Baker does a cover of it that is slower than Sinatra's with some nice trumpet work by him (link below).
photo by Styrous®
Tracklist:
Side 1:
A - Strangers In The Night
Arranged By – Ernie Freeman
Producer – Jimmy Bowen
Written by Kaempfert*, Singleton*, Snyder*
Arranged By – Ernie Freeman
Producer – Jimmy Bowen - 2:35
Side 2:
B - Oh, You Crazy Moon
Arranged By – Nelson Riddle
Producer – Sonny Burke
Written by Burke-Van Heusen* - 3:12
Companies, etc.
Side 1:
A - Strangers In The Night
Arranged By – Ernie Freeman
Producer – Jimmy Bowen
Written by Kaempfert*, Singleton*, Snyder*
Arranged By – Ernie Freeman
Producer – Jimmy Bowen - 2:35
Side 2:
B - Oh, You Crazy Moon
Arranged By – Nelson Riddle
Producer – Sonny Burke
Written by Burke-Van Heusen* - 3:12
Companies, etc.
Published By – Champion Music Corp.
Published By – Brown Music Co.
Published By – M. Witmark & Sons
Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Santa Maria
Published By – Brown Music Co.
Published By – M. Witmark & Sons
Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Santa Maria
Notes:
Strangers In The Night (From The Universal-International Film "A Man Could Get Killed")
Published By – Champion Music Corp. / Brown Music Co.
Oh, You Crazy Moon - Published By – M. Witmark & Sons ASCAP
From the Reprise Album F/FS 1018 Moonlight Sinatra
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Strangers In The Night (From The Universal-International Film "A Man Could Get Killed")
Published By – Champion Music Corp. / Brown Music Co.
Oh, You Crazy Moon - Published By – M. Witmark & Sons ASCAP
From the Reprise Album F/FS 1018 Moonlight Sinatra
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Matrix / Runout (Label Side A): J4195
Matrix / Runout (Label Side B): H3900
Rights Society: BMI
Rights Society: ASCAP
Matrix / Runout (Side A (etched)): S J4195-2 #0470
Matrix / Runout (Side B (etched)): S H 3900 #0470
YouTube links:
Matrix / Runout (Label Side B): H3900
Rights Society: BMI
Rights Society: ASCAP
Matrix / Runout (Side A (etched)): S J4195-2 #0470
Matrix / Runout (Side B (etched)): S H 3900 #0470
Frank Sinatra – Strangers In The Night / Oh, You Crazy Moon
Label: Reprise Records – 0470
Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single, Santa Maria Pressing
Country: US
Released: 1966
Genre: Jazz, Pop
Style: Easy Listening, Swing, Vocal
Label: Reprise Records – 0470
Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single, Santa Maria Pressing
Country: US
Released: 1966
Genre: Jazz, Pop
Style: Easy Listening, Swing, Vocal
Viewfinder links:
YouTube links:
Frank Sinatra ~
Styrous® ~ Sunday, April 11, 2021
July 7, 2018
45 RPMs 23: The Platters ~ My Prayer
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Just before my 16th birthday, right after finishing my Sophomore year in high school, The Platters released the single, My Prayer. The date was July 7, 1956,
I loved that song then and I still do, sixty two years later.
The Platters ~ My Prayer
45 RPM single
photo by Styrous®
My Prayer was written in 1939 with music by salon violinist Georges Boulanger and lyrics by Carlos Gomez Barrera and Jimmy Kennedy. It was originally written by Boulanger with the title Avant de Mourir (Before Dying) in 1926. The lyrics for this version were added by Kennedy in 1939. Glenn Miller recorded the song that year and it became a number two hit. The Ink Spots also did a version that same year and it reached number three on the charts.
The list of performers who have covers of My Prayer is marvelous: Vera Lynn, Patti Page, Brenda Lee, Pat Boone, Bing Crosby, Vikki Carr, Tom Jones, Jerry Vale, Jay and the Americans, Solomon Burke, Harry Connick Jr., Chet Atkins, Glen Campbell, Jimmy Dorsey, Ella Fitzgerald, and the list goes on and on. It has also been used in various films as well.
The flip side of the single is the song, Heaven on Earth, which is a slightly faster song with a mellow guitar intro and a decidedly less dramatic feeling.
The Platters ~ Heaven on Earth
45 RPM single
photo by Styrous®
"My Prayer"
When the twilight is gone and no songbirds are singing
When the twilight is gone you come into my heart
And here in my heart you will stay while I pray
My prayer is to linger with you
At the end of the day in a dream that's divine
My prayer is a rapture in blue
With the world far away and your lips close to mine
Tonight while our hearts are aglow
Oh tell me the words that I'm longing to know
My prayer and the answer you give
May they still be the same for as long as we live
That you'll always be there at the end of my prayer
When the twilight is gone you come into my heart
And here in my heart you will stay while I pray
My prayer is to linger with you
At the end of the day in a dream that's divine
My prayer is a rapture in blue
With the world far away and your lips close to mine
Tonight while our hearts are aglow
Oh tell me the words that I'm longing to know
My prayer and the answer you give
May they still be the same for as long as we live
That you'll always be there at the end of my prayer
Tracklist:
| A | My PrayerFeaturing – Tony Wilson (9)Written-By – Boulanger*, Kennedy* |
2:45 |
| B | Heaven On EarthWritten-By – Buck Ram |
2:33 |
Companies, etc.
- Published By – Skidmore Music Co. Inc.
- Published By – Peter Maurice
- Published By – Panther Music
- Record Company – Mercury Record Corporation
Credits:
- Vocals – The Platters
Notes:
Mercury Record Corporation, Made in U.S.A.
Side A originally performed by Ambrose & His Orchestra
Side A, publishers; Skidmore Music Co. Inc. / Peter Maurice (ASCAP)
Side B, publisher; Panther Music (ASCAP)
Side A originally performed by Ambrose & His Orchestra
Side A, publishers; Skidmore Music Co. Inc. / Peter Maurice (ASCAP)
Side B, publisher; Panther Music (ASCAP)
Viewfinder link:
The Platters
YouTube links:
Styrous® ~ Saturday, July 7, 2018
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April 11, 2018
20,000 Vinyl LPs 136: Frank Sinatra ~ Strangers In the Night 4.11.66
vinyl LP front cover detail
detail photo by Styrous®
The song, Strangers in the Night, was recorded by Frank Sinatra on April 11, 1966, one month before the rest of the album with the same title. From May 11 to May 16, 1966, Sinatra, recorded the album, Strangers In the Night. Hal Blaine was the drummer on the record and Glen Campbell played rhythm guitar It was issued by Reprise Records on
May 30, 1966. It marked Sinatra's return to #1 on the pop album charts.
vinyl LP front cover
cover photo by Ed Thrasher
photo of album by Styrous®
Sinatra recorded for Columbia Records in the 40's then for Capitol Records until 1960 when he started his own record company, Reprise Records, and after a string of successful albums, he recorded the pensive and nostalgic, September of My Years.
vinyl LP back cover
photo by Styrous®
Strangers In the Night was a combination of Broadway show tunes and standards. My favorite from the album is Summer Wind which is a 1965 song, originally released in Germany as Der Sommerwind. It was written by Heinz Meier, a German pianist, songwriter and arranger, with German language lyrics by Hans Bradtke. Johnny Mercer
re-wrote the song into English using the same themes as the original,
which talked of the changing of the seasons using the Southern European sirocco wind as a metaphor. In America, it was first recorded by Wayne Newton, Bobby Vinton and Perry Como. Heinz Meier, Hans Bradtke, Johnny Mercer) (arranged by Nelson Riddle).
vinyl LP back cover detail
detail photo by Styrous®
At the Grammy Awards of 1967 Sinatra won two Grammys for this album, including the Record of the Year for the title track, Strangers in the Night, as well as Best Male Vocal Performance for the same song. It became his most commercially successful album.
vinyl LP back cover detail
detail photo by Styrous®
The song, Strangers in the Night is credited to Bert Kaempfert with English lyrics by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder. Kaempfert originally used it under the title Beddy Bye as part of the instrumental score for the movie A Man Could Get Killed. It was initially given to Melina Mercouri, who thought that a man's vocals would suit more to the melody and therefore declined to sing it. There are several disputes about who wrote the song (link below).
It reached #1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the Easy Listening chart. The song also reached #1 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.
vinyl LP back cover detail
detail photo by Styrous®
vinyl LP plastic record sleeve
photo by Styrous®
vinyl LP plastic record sleeve detail
photo by Styrous®
vinyl LP plastic record sleeve detail
photo by Styrous®
vinyl LP, side 1
photo by Styrous®
vinyl LP, side 1
photo by Styrous®
Side 1:
A1 - Strangers In The Night, arranged By Ernie Freeman, Producer – Jimmy Bowen, written by Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton, Eddie Snyder
A2 - Summer Wind, written by Mayer*, Mercer*
A3 - All Or Nothing At All, written by Altman*, Lawrence*
A4 - Call Me, written by Tony Hatch
A5 - You're Driving Me Crazy, written by Walter Donaldson
Side 1:
B1 - On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever), written by Lerner*, Lane*
B2 - My Baby Just Cares For Me, written by Kahn*, Donaldson*
B3 - Downtown, written by Tony Hatch
B4 - Yes Sir, That's My Baby, written by Kahn*, Donaldson*
B5 - The Most Beautiful Girl In The World, written by Rodgers-Hart*
Companies, etc.
Recorded At – United Western Studios
Recorded At – Eastwest Studios
Credits:
Arranged By – Nelson Riddle (tracks: A2 to B5)
Art Direction, Photography – Ed Thrasher
Conductor – Nelson Riddle
Engineer – Eddie Brackett, Lee Herschberg
Liner Notes – Stan Cornyn
Producer – Sonny Burke
Notes:
Manufactured for Bristol Productions.
Made/printed in U.S.A. Warner Bros. Records, Inc.
Track A1 from the Universal Picture "A Man Could Get Killed".
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Matrix / Runout (Vinyl Label: A-side): 30,509
Matrix / Runout (Vinyl Label: B-side): 30,510
Matrix / Runout (Runout: A-side): 30509-FS-1017A-1J
Matrix / Runout (Runout: B-side): 30510-FS-1017B-1L
Matrix / Runout (Runout [variation 1]: Side A - etched): 30509 FS 1017A 1C.
Matrix / Runout (Runout [variation 1]: Side A - etched): 30510-FS-1017B-1C.
Matrix / Runout (Runout [variation 2]: Side A - etched): 30509-FS-1017A-1E
Matrix / Runout (Runout [variation 2]: Side B - etched): 30510-FS-1017-B-1F
Matrix / Runout (Runout [variation 3]: Side A - etched P upsidedown): P 30509-FS-1017A-1A 0
Matrix / Runout (Runout [variation 3]: Side B - etched P upsidedown): P 30510-FS-1017-B-1J 0
Other (Code on back cover, bottom-left): ELT
Frank Sinatra – Strangers In The Night
Label: Reprise Records – FS 1017, Reprise Records – FS-1017
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country: US
Released: 1966
Genre: Jazz
Style: Easy Listening
Viewfinder link:
Frank Sinatra articles/mentions
Net link:
Authorship disputes
YouTube links:
Strangers In the Night
Summer Wind
On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever)
"I'm gonna live 'til I Die!"
~ Frank Sinatra
Styrous® ~ Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Glen Campbell articles/mentions
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The Platters ~ My Prayer
Frank Sinatra ~ Strangers In the Night
date & photographer unknown
August 8, 2017
20,000 Vinyl LPs 100: Glen Campbell ~ The Wichita Lineman
vinyl LP record cover
cover photo photographer unknown
photo of album cover by Styrous®
photo of album cover by Styrous®
Glen Campbell died today, Tuesday, August 8, 2017. The first song of his that always pops into my mind is Wichita Lineman which was written by Jimmy Webb in 1968 (link below). Love that song!
Glen Campbell - 1967
Glen Campbell & Stevie Wonder ~ 1969
"Wichita Lineman"
I am a lineman for the county and I drive the main road
Searchin' in the sun for another overload
I hear you singin' in the wire, I can hear you through the whine
And the Wichita Lineman is still on the line
I know I need a small vacation but it don't look like rain
And if it snows that stretch down south won't ever stand the strain
And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time
And the Wichita Lineman is still on the line
[Instrumental Interlude]
And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time
And the Wichita Lineman is still on the line
[Instrumental to end]
Writer: Jimmy Webb
Glen Campbell - 1975
Glen Campbell - Getty Images/NBC
Styrous® ~ Tuesday, August 8, 2017
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