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

[Bertrand CHAUMELLE]

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> "Le moribond" by Jacques Brel was a great, great song.
>
> Please don't judge by what the English adaptators did to it afterwards.
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> Same thing happened to "Je t'appartiens" (Let It Be Me) for instance.
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> BC
> Le 9 févr. 10, à 04:19, David Lennick a écrit :
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>>
>> 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
>>
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