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

Kristjan Saag saag at telia.com
Tue Feb 9 02:41:01 PST 2010


I wrote:
>> 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:




> 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.I wrote:






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