[78-L] fwd: FW: Sinatra Song Often Strikes Deadly Chord ^

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Mon Feb 8 19:19:51 PST 2010


No..because nobody cares! The song was unknown until Anka made it into a hit. 
It's not even a very good melody. My Way isn't a good song by any stretch of 
the imagination, any more than Jacques Brel's "Le Moribond" was anything till 
Rod (Blechh) McKuen adapted it into Sneezin In The Sun, which STILL lay 
deservedly dead for a decade till Terry Jacks somehow turned it into the most 
nauseating piece of crap after My Way and could afford to go fishing for the 
next 40 years.

dl

Kristjan Saag wrote:
> "The Sinatra Song"...
> "The Anka Song"...
> Has anyone mentioned that "My Way" is a French song, "Comme d'habitude", 
> written by Jacques Revaux and rewritten in collaboration with singer Claude 
> Francois and lyricist Gilles Thibaut.
> Here's the original:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQUq2w6_Rhw
> Kristjan 
> 
> ____________________________________



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