on a red-eye flight to a development meeting for a Saturday morning cartoon show and decided to rename the dog character to "Scooby-Doo". Ironically, Sinatra despised the song, calling it at one time "a piece of shit" and "the worst fucking song that I have ever heard." He was not afraid to voice his disapproval of performing it live. In spite of his contempt for the song, it gave him a number-one hit for the first time in 11 years and remained on the charts for 15 weeks. Personnel According to the AFM contract sheet, the following musicians played on the track. Bill Miller and Michel Rubini - pianos Al Casey, Bill Pitman, Glen Campbell and Tommy Tedesco - guitars Chuck Berghofer - bass Hal Blaine - drums Emil Richards and Eddie Brackett Jr. - percussion Sid Sharp, Leonard Malarsky, William Kurasch, Ralph Schaeffer, Israel Baker, Arnold Belnick, Jerome Reisler, Robert Sushel, John DeVoogt, Bernard Kundell, Tibor Zelig, Gerald Vinci, William Weiss, James Getzoff, Harry Bluestone and Victor Arno - violins Harry Hyams, Joseph DiFiore, Darrel Terwilliger and Alexander Neiman - violas Joseph Saxon, Jesse Ehrlich, Emmet Sargeant and Armand Kaproff - cellos Vincent DeRosa, Henry Sigismonti, Gale Robinson and Richard Perissi - French horns Bill Green and Andreas Kostelas - flutes Chart performance Commercial performance The single sold 60,000 copies in Brazil, 600,000 copies in France, combined it sold a million copies in United States and United Kingdom and over 2 million worldwide. References External links Film theme songs 1966 singles Songs with music by Bert Kaempfert Songs written by Eddie Snyder Songs written by Charles Singleton (songwriter) Frank Sinatra songs Connie Francis songs Bette Midler songs Andy Williams songs Santo & Johnny songs Connie Talbot songs Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles Cashbox number-one singles UK Singles Chart number-one singles Number-one singles in Germany Irish Singles Chart number-one singles Number-one singles in Italy Best Original Song Golden Globe winning songs Grammy Award for Record of the Year Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) 1960s jazz standards Songs written for films Song recordings produced by Jimmy Bowen Reprise Records singles Canadian-American Records singles Songs involved in plagiarism controversies