My Way

My way is a Chanson American E, adaptation of the song of Claude François entitled As usual .

As usual

This song is initially intended for Herve Vilard, only artist having accepted to record it after the refusal, inter alia, of Michel Sardou.

Jacques Revaux, which wished to work with Claude François, request with Herve Vilard to agree to give up the song which it will take again however a few years later.

The melody was made up with an anglophone text entitled For Me . Claude François proposes a new idea set of themes: the routine of the daily newspaper within the life of a couple. On this basis, the lyric writer Gilles Thibaut creates As usual .

Jacques Revaux composes the verse, Claude François prolongs it and composes the refrain-bridge (passage which goes up) whereas Gilles Thibaut sign the text, inspired of a recent event in the life of Claude François: its sentimental rupture with France Gall.

Finalized French version

This song is regarded as being taken again more in the world

My Way

Paul Anka, of passage to Paris, brings back a copy of the disc of Claude François in his luggage. He acquires of them the rights for his American production company . A few months later, it writes an adaptation on a different topic, a kind of retrospective on the life of a man of ripe age and pensive glance which affirms, in connection with each striking fact of its existence: “I did it with my own way”. Paul Anka presents his adaptation to his/her friend Frank Sinatra who engraves it at once. My Way knows a good diffusion which is worth to him a 27e position with the Hit-parade states-unien in March 1969.

Finalized American version

  • Words of Paul Anka.
  • Arranger for Sinatra: Gift Costa

World recoveries

  • the song is recorded by Elvis Presley little time before its death and the 45 turns which drawn is reached by it this time the 22e position in November 1977.

  • Other foreign adaptations

    • In Italian: Like sempre , words of Andrea Lo Vecchio.
    • In Spanish: has Semi Manera , words of Roberto Livi. The song is in particular interpreted by Raphael (1972), the Gipsy Kings and Julio Iglesias (1996), and in version Salsa by Richie Ray & Bobby Cruz and by Rey Ruiz.

  • In 1977, Claude François discovers that the rights which were versed to him for the adaptations were not calculated correctly. Its file enables him to obtain win towards the end of the same year (source: Arte).

See too

Related articles

External bond

  • On the creation of As usual

References

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