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| Released | December 12, 2005 | |||
| Recorded | 2005 | |||
| Studio | Firehouse Studios, Pasadena, California | |||
| Genre | Pop, rock, vocal [1] | |||
| Label | Justice Entertainment | |||
| Producer | Justin Guarini, Greg Gordon Smith | |||
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Stranger Things Have Happened is the second studio album of jazz standards by singer Justin Guarini that was released in 2005.
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [1] |
Stephen Erlewine at AllMusic wrote that this album was the American Idol runner-up's attempt to reinvent himself after the failure of the movie From Justin to Kelly . The result is "loungey, Am-Idol-styled vocal jazz, but Stranger Things Have Happened is vocal jazz all the same...Guarini has genuine, natural charisma as a supper club-styled singer, and that charisma when contrasted with his band's jazz chops has a nice, relaxed appeal." Despite its weaknesses, the album was "a surprisingly successful reinvention." [1]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Night & Day" | Cole Porter | 3:44 |
| 2. | "My Funny Valentine" | Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers | 3:51 |
| 3. | "Just Squeeze Me" | Duke Ellington, Lee Gaines | 2:34 |
| 4. | "I'll Take Romance" | Ben Oakland, Oscar Hammerstein II | 3:23 |
| 5. | "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" | Hart, Rodgers | 2:49 |
| 6. | "I Love You" | Porter | 3:20 |
| 7. | "Young and Foolish" | Albert Hague, Arnold B. Horwitt | 2:25 |
| 8. | "All of You" | Porter | 3:33 |
| 9. | "Stranger Things Have Happened to Me" | Greg Gordon Smith | 3:34 |
| 10. | "Sing" | Joe Raposo | 2:05 |
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