Frank Sinatra scored a number one song with his single “Strangers In the Night” on July 2, 1966. The track was originally composed as an instrumental for the film “A Man Could Get Killed” and was later adapted with a lyric specifically for Sinatra.Sinatra recorded his arrangement of the tune, composed by Ernie Freeman, in one quick session backed by a live orchestra. Freeman had composed the arrangement and hired the orchestra in just three days and the final take was recorded in just four hours. The single was receiving radio spins around the country three days after its completion.The track served as the title number from Sinatra’s 1966 release, which became his most commercially successful album. The song would be Sinatra’s only number-one hit during the 1960s rock and roll explosion and knocked the Beatles’ “Paperback Writer” out of the top position. “Strangers in the Night” held on at the number-one position for one week before the Fab Four reclaimed the top position again with “Paperback Writer.”