July 2, 1966 –
The title track of Frank Sinatra’s comeback album, Strangers in the Night reached the number one spot (on this date) on the Billboard charts and marked his return to the top of the pop charts in the mid-‘60s.
Sinatra knocked The Beatles down a peg when this song hit #1 in the US and pushed Paperback Writer to #2. After one week, the group reclaimed their spot at the top. A month earlier, Strangers in the Night dominated the UK chart for three weeks before The Beatles’ song took over. Surprisingly, Sinatra despised the song, calling it “a piece of shit.” Even though it was his biggest hit in 11 years, the singer never included this number in any of his late 1960s specials.
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