Boys' Night Out (song)

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"Boys' Night Out" is a popular 1962 song by Jimmy Van Heusen (music) and Sammy Cahn (words). It is the title song from the 1962 film of the same name. It was recorded by Patti Page, who also sang it in the movie, and reached #49 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1962. [1] In the same year the song was covered by Frank Sinatra.

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Samples and references by later artists

A snippet of the Sinatra version was sampled on "Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)" by Blu Cantrell.

"Boys Night Out" (score)
Jimmy Van Heusen (music)
Sammy Cahn (words)
©13 March 1962 EU710563
Maraville Music Corp. (Los Angeles) [2]
OCLC   221765870

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  1. Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art,, by Will Friedwald, Scribner (1995), pg. 298; OCLC   32552191 Excerpt: "In 1962, Sinatra and May undertook two new Cahn and Van Heusen numbers, 'Boy's Night Out' (a very '60s sounding movie-title theme which had been a hit for Patti Page) and 'Cathy,' which the singer decided did not amount ..."