In the Wall Street Journal today, I write on Frank Sinatra's Strangers in the Night—the single and the album (go here). Fifty years ago this week, the single went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the album soon became a chart-topper in July, resulting in four Grammys the following year. For the article, I tracked down Jimmy Bowen, the song's legend…
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