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Deep Dive: 'Somewhere in the Night'

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Marc Myers
Aug 18, 2022
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The theme song most people know for Naked City, a popular TV police-drama series that aired from 1958 to 1963, is called Somewhere in the Night. It was referred to most often as the Naked City Theme, largely because there already was an older and completely different pop song called Somewhere in the Night that Frank Sinatra and others recorded. That was…

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