Paul Anka on writing "My Way"

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  • @angelabender8132
    @angelabender8132 6 років тому +31

    This genius enchanted us when we were kids with "Diana" and later enchanted us as older with "My way"
    😊

  • @giuseppe9145
    @giuseppe9145 4 роки тому +5

    Thank you Paul for such a great song

  • @zildaaguilar9578
    @zildaaguilar9578 3 роки тому +3

    É tão bom falar de Paul Anka. Ele me inspira tanta coisa linda. Amo tudo o que ele faz porque é tudo de bom. Dono de um talento maravilhoso e uma magia que encanta, e me dá tanta paz ouvir suas lindas canções. I love you so much!!! (From Roraima, Brasil, Amazônia)

  • @inschrijvingen-sintsintden9133
    @inschrijvingen-sintsintden9133 4 роки тому +31

    He just wrote the lyrics. The music is from the French singer Claude Francois “ Comme d’habitude”. He also wrote “my boy”, the original song is “Parce que je t’aime mon enfant”.

    • @Cruz_ignatius
      @Cruz_ignatius 2 роки тому

      Don’t discredit him lmao just wrote the lyrics huh? 😂😂yeah you are funny it isn’t the same fucking song dingus

    • @renaultmarseille6692
      @renaultmarseille6692 2 роки тому +2

      Vous avez tout dit effectivement l’original de la chanson (My boy et My way) sont créé par le grand chanteur français Claude François (Cloclo) Claude François a aussi créé l’original de la chanson(Le téléphone pleure) Thank you My friend kisses from France 🇫🇷

  • @alexandravincelli4982
    @alexandravincelli4982 4 роки тому +4

    This story gives me chills!

    • @Mildredpotka
      @Mildredpotka 3 місяці тому

      IT SHOULDNT. IT IS A FRENCH SONG. END OF STORY. STOP STEALING THINGS FROM PEOPLE.

  • @mona2242
    @mona2242 5 років тому +27

    First and foremost, I adore Paul Anka, a true natural. However, I wish he would have given Herve Villard and C.Francois credit for writing the French song in 1967. Anka hearing the song while watching French television in Paris, bought the song's publication and adapted it by writing English lyrics.

    • @masterchief5833
      @masterchief5833 5 років тому +3

      Oooh

    • @aileen694
      @aileen694 2 роки тому +2

      Wow! All these years later, we've always thought that PA wrote My Way! So, lyrics only! Yes, that is tricky. Although, without Paul's specific talent the song would probably have remained unknown!

    • @Cruz_ignatius
      @Cruz_ignatius 2 роки тому +1

      It’s a different song damn grow up.!

    • @Cruz_ignatius
      @Cruz_ignatius 2 роки тому

      @@aileen694 well no it’s still his song lmao

    • @kitgrind
      @kitgrind 2 роки тому +2

      Hear hear. "My lyric", not "My song"!!! The music was French, the song already a hit in France ("Comme d'habitude"), but M. Anka always minimizes this aspect and refers to it as if he just picked up some melody when he was in France. Agreed, it would never have become the classic smash that it is without his genius lyric (which really is genius) but credit where credit is due!

  • @natyfunelas784
    @natyfunelas784 3 роки тому +1

    Been to most of his concert all over the Us in the last 30 years I love him

  • @theycallmedrworm
    @theycallmedrworm 11 років тому +7

    Why did I never know this before??? I think that this is my favorite Sinatra song.

  • @floralewek4163
    @floralewek4163 Рік тому

    What an amazing story ❤️ I love the song 🎵 ❤️ what a great person Paul is may God bless him always ❤️ 💙 🙏

  • @pateeke
    @pateeke Рік тому +1

    My Way is the English version of the French song “comme d’habitude”, written by Jacques Revaux, Gilles Thibaut and Claude François. Claude François first performed it in 1967. Paul Anka just wrote the english lyrics…

  • @Ron71997
    @Ron71997 Рік тому

    This song is Frank Sinatra and Frank Sinatra is this song - each lyric and each note is describing Frank's life...he sings it with the passion and emotion as though he is showing us his soul. No one can sing this song like him, he owns this song..he lived this song. This is his legacy. This is his story. Thank you Paul so much for writing this song for Mr. Sinatra!

  • @jenniferwaugh4108
    @jenniferwaugh4108 2 роки тому

    Paul Anka my dear friend. God Bless ❤️

  • @lyndonsequeira4245
    @lyndonsequeira4245 3 роки тому

    Love the song my way great story Paul your fan Lyndon Sequeira from India GOA ♥️

  • @claravela5142
    @claravela5142 7 років тому +5

    Well explained.
    Simply like that.

  • @dancingjulio
    @dancingjulio 4 роки тому +21

    The French creator of the song is called Claude François, Anka only wrote english lyrics !!

    • @kentuckyfriedchildren5385
      @kentuckyfriedchildren5385 4 роки тому +5

      The lyrics are completely different in concept and the only thing the two have in common is the chord progression

    • @endikoa7928
      @endikoa7928 4 роки тому +2

      @@kentuckyfriedchildren5385 dude, music is the same, lyrics are différents. Anka just wrote lyrics. Période.

    • @fernandomacias3735
      @fernandomacias3735 3 роки тому

      @@kentuckyfriedchildren5385 SI "CLO CLO" COMO LE LLAMABAN AL FRANCÉS, NO LE HUBIERA VENDIDO LA CANCIÓN A PAUL, NO SERÍA FAMOSA EN MÉXICO NO HAY MUCHAS CANCIONES FRANCESAS QUE HAYAN SIDO FAMOSAS. UN SALUDO.🇺🇲👏

    • @renaultmarseille6692
      @renaultmarseille6692 2 роки тому +1

      @@fernandomacias3735 il s’apelle (Claude François) mais il est vrai que chez nous en France 🇫🇷 son surnom c’est (Cloclo) apars cela savait vous aussi que Claude François a créé l’original de la chanson (Le téléphone pleure) et l’original de la chanson (My boy) que Elvis a reprise par la suite ? Sans compter qu’il a créé l’original de la chanson (My way) inquire on Google, Thank you My friend kisses from France 🇫🇷

  • @Mr3kites
    @Mr3kites 7 років тому +17

    French words Comme H,abitude unique. Paul Anka words My Way unique. I am sure we all know the meaning of unique.

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      @kaisergrady3681 3 роки тому

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      @elianleo9209 3 роки тому

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      @tristanhouston7140 3 роки тому

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      @jedidiaheddie4370 3 роки тому

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      @terrencetheo568 3 роки тому

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  • @zainfadi7953
    @zainfadi7953 7 років тому +6

    a demonstration record.. so that's where "demo" comes from! so cool that i learnt this from the "source"!

  • @youlikethisusername
    @youlikethisusername 10 років тому +22

    Anka is a cool cat

    • @thephoenix3155
      @thephoenix3155 4 роки тому +1

      youlikethisusername so is his son-in-law Jason Bateman

  • @kingdoc3262
    @kingdoc3262 3 роки тому

    Never knew. Beautiful story

  • @robertlulek1634
    @robertlulek1634 3 роки тому +1

    People say it was a French writer wrote the songs but it's the lyrics that make the song

    • @ft2960
      @ft2960 Рік тому

      ..and the french lyrics are better ;

  • @PinacoladaMatthew
    @PinacoladaMatthew 3 роки тому +1

    Great lyricist is still worthy of respect....come on guys, even though he didn't write the music

    • @aileen694
      @aileen694 2 роки тому +2

      Pina Colada, So he only wrote the lyrics, but he was sharp enough to even notice the melody, buy the rights to publish, then pass it to Megastar Sinatra!

  • @danielamadeo6877
    @danielamadeo6877 2 роки тому

    OTRO GENIO DE LA MUSICA, PAUL ANKA.- ES BELLISIMA SU CANCION, PON TU CABEZA SOBRE MI HOMBRO.- RECUERDA MI ADOLESCENCIA, TIEMPOS QUE YA NO VOLVERAN.-

  • @carmenpabon8839
    @carmenpabon8839 3 роки тому +3

    I like the way Paul Anka sings it,! 😏❣️

  • @johnlloyddalauta5678
    @johnlloyddalauta5678 5 років тому +3

    Sino pumunta dito after watching kaalaman? ❣

  • @marmary5555
    @marmary5555 6 років тому +14

    "My Way" is the English adaptation of *"Comme d'habitude"* by the French singer *Claude François* and is about his break up with starlet *France Gall.* Paul Anka should at least give cred to the right guy. And no, he did not compose the music to the song. He only wrote English lyrics to an already famous french song.

    • @hruaiachawngthu507
      @hruaiachawngthu507 5 років тому +6

      He mentioned it....duh?? He said he heard the melody in Europe.

    • @claravela289
      @claravela289 5 років тому +1

      @@hruaiachawngthu507 totally right.

    • @rolanddurand3886
      @rolanddurand3886 5 років тому +1

      kittens😻 do i love you is thé english adaptation plus rien qu une adresse en commun by the french singer claude francois.the song my boy is composed by claude francois .

    • @DanWass632014
      @DanWass632014 4 роки тому +1

      Yes!!

    • @renaultmarseille6692
      @renaultmarseille6692 2 роки тому +1

      Les chansons original de (My way , Le téléphone pleure,Plus rien qu’une adresse en commun et la chanson (My boy) que Elvis a reprise par la suite (inquire on Google) sont créé par le grand chanteur Français Claude François (Cloclo) mais P.Anka aurait dû dire au moins que c’est Claude François qui l’a créé l’original mais bon je pense que le monde entier de plus en plus le savent qui l’a créé ?Claude François

  • @karalynnblack1381
    @karalynnblack1381 3 роки тому

    Terrific storey. Love it. Epic.

    • @leonardfdeweyjr1975
      @leonardfdeweyjr1975 2 роки тому

      You are not the original writer of this song only in English. This is a French song and you are French, Mr. Paul like I said you are not the original writer of the song it was written in French and you sang it better than Frank Sinatra but I do like Frank God bless your soul and go it. God bless I wish even Michael Jackson did this song and Céline Dion did it go and others I don’t know how many people recorded the song what Elvis Presley did it the best I’m sobbing Frank Sinatra‘s friends and I’m sorry, Mr. Paul Anka, but Elvis Presley did it the best but it would’ve been sad if Frank Sinatra would’ve gave up on music at least that is music today’s music, suck hip-hop is the worst idea it’s not even the music all it is is talking

  • @caogiang262
    @caogiang262 Рік тому

    Paul Anka is indeed a prolific song writer with so many hits right through 7 decades of song on charts! Why oh why he never once mentioned about the composer of My Way, Claude Francoise?? Everyone misleads the audience by saying Paul Anka wrote the song for Sinatra instead of wrote the English lyrics for Sinatra?!?!

  • @paulojansen1625
    @paulojansen1625 2 роки тому

    What a story!!!

  • @GraFiX94
    @GraFiX94 11 років тому +9

    What do you mean he downplays it he said in this interview were he got it from.Also he didn't just "slap" words onto the song,the lyrics are what make the song what it is.I'm willing to bet that it would still be successful with a different melody & the same lyrics.One other thing he did write "My Way" the lyrics are all his and that is what made it a success & him using that melody isn't that called sampling?Which is what every great artist past & present have done hell since music has existed

  • @erentxunlopez6281
    @erentxunlopez6281 4 роки тому +1

    At minute 1:09 says it all.

  • @MT-qb5qq
    @MT-qb5qq 3 роки тому

    At the beginning, my way is an adaptation of a french famous song.

    • @reynaldcriso8641
      @reynaldcriso8641 3 роки тому

      God bless you 😍 ua-cam.com/video/_bL995TZU3c/v-deo.html

  • @GunCollector007
    @GunCollector007 8 років тому

    Wow. Classic.

  • @mikyp4111
    @mikyp4111 Рік тому

    Mary Hopkin - Those Were The Days - 1968......Old Russian folk song from 1924 /Boris Fomin

  • @fredhuybens2783
    @fredhuybens2783 6 років тому +4

    He plays down the fact that he heard a complete song by original interpreter Claude François by saying it was just 'a melody I heard in Europe'. His take on the lyrics is brilliant though.

    • @angelabender8132
      @angelabender8132 6 років тому +1

      Fred Huybens
      That melody without the lyrics would be useless to the world..
      Really

    • @fredhuybens2783
      @fredhuybens2783 3 роки тому

      @@angelabender8132 Sure. The original song had its own (French) lyrics. Credit to him he gave the song a whole different meaning.

    • @fredhuybens2783
      @fredhuybens2783 3 роки тому +1

      @N G Why do you think that? On the contrary I think they are very good, they are based on his break-up with France Gall.

    • @patrickshaffer2138
      @patrickshaffer2138 2 роки тому +1

      As a musician it's probably more natural for him to call a song a melody since that is what a song is, an arrangement of sounds in an appealing way. As a songwriter or lyricist that kind of vocabulary/terminology is common, I don't think he was trying to downplay whoever wrote the melody, he just trying to explain his part in how Sinatra's version came about.

    • @fredhuybens2783
      @fredhuybens2783 2 роки тому

      @@patrickshaffer2138 maybe, but why not just use the word 'song' which it actually was? The word melody is used for a shorter sequence of notes.

  • @mikyp4111
    @mikyp4111 Рік тому +1

    PA no ! ua-cam.com/video/avr5nvY4wxg/v-deo.html he heard a complete song by original interpreter Claude François by saying it was just 'a melody I heard in Europe'.

  • @fonitfreak4658
    @fonitfreak4658 2 роки тому +1

    He could've at least given some credits to Claude François instead of just saying "I brought back some melody from France".

  • @mariamarfil1620
    @mariamarfil1620 3 роки тому +2

    He doesn’t mention the creators of the beautiful music? 🤭😟

  • @vampyros1
    @vampyros1 Рік тому

    Anka did a fine job on writing the lyrics, but the true GENIUS part of this song is the chords and melody, which Anka had nothing to do with, actually. Just ‘for the record’.

  • @TheStockwell
    @TheStockwell 11 років тому +5

    It's annoying how much everyone - including Anka - downplays the fact that Anka simply slapped words onto a French song (by Claude François, Jacques Revaux, and Gilles Thibault). Yes, the lyrics are good and Sinatra absolutely made it a hit. Still, saying you wrote "My Way" and ignoring the fact someone ELSE wrote that terrific melody is like Bernie Taupin saying he wrote "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road."
    I'm glad I have that off my chest.

  • @broccoli4781
    @broccoli4781 5 років тому +2

    okay but i want to hear that demo

  • @RoseWhite99
    @RoseWhite99 6 місяців тому

    👍👍👍

  • @alexmancera3298
    @alexmancera3298 6 років тому +1

    This reminds me “The Anacreon Song”

  • @patsoly9617
    @patsoly9617 11 років тому

    Anna si tu comprends bien l'anglais et le français, Paul Anka a écrit les paroles de la chanson pour Sinatra. Ce sont 2 textes complètements différents. Paul Anka a acheté les droits de la chanson. Donc tout est légal. Je t'invite à vérifier les informations. Sans manquer de respect, il est injuste de critiquer quand on ne connait pas toutes les informations. 2 versions différentes.

    • @daniellepatagon3594
      @daniellepatagon3594 7 років тому +1

      Mais il est tout de même très vexant de voir que Paul Anka n'aie pas un minimum d'honnêté et de respect : il ne cite pas l'auteur de la mélodie qui, à l'époque, est tout de même la chanson d'un des chanteurs nº1 en France. C'est mesquin. Sans Claude François il n'y aurait jamais eu de "My Way". Et ça c'est incontournable et très peu d'Américains le savent.

    • @rolanddurand3886
      @rolanddurand3886 5 років тому

      Pat Soly

    • @rolanddurand3886
      @rolanddurand3886 5 років тому +1

      Pat Soly paul anka oubli de dire qu il a repris la chanson de claude francois.il omet de dire qu il a repris aussi plus rien su une adresse en commun pour en faire do i love you.acheter les droits ne signifie pas avoir le droit de se déclarer compositeur.

  • @eduardoycaza3106
    @eduardoycaza3106 7 років тому +4

    MY WAY , FUE ESCRITA y CANTADA POR EL FAMOSO CANTANTE CLAUDE FRANCOIS ! FRANCES 100% , COME HABITUDE ! MELOMANO 👍👍👍

    • @ZeusTheTornado
      @ZeusTheTornado 6 років тому

      Escrita no.

    • @fernandomacias3735
      @fernandomacias3735 3 роки тому +1

      TIENES RAZÓN, PERO MY TWIN BROTHER PAUL COMPRÓ LOS DERECHOS (HAY UN VÍDEO) DONDE ÉL COMPRA LEGALMENTE Y SÓLO LE CAMBIÓ LA LETRA QUE GRACIAS A ESO LA HIZO MUNDIALMENTE FAMOSA. NO TIENE NECESIDAD DE ROBARSE NADA. ES COMPOSITOR Y DIRECTOR DE ORQUESTA DESDE QUE ERA JOVEN..YO CANTO EN KARAOKE MUCHAS DE SUS COMPOSICIONES. UN SALUDO. GREETINGS FROM NOWHERE LAND TX GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲👏👏👏👋👋👋

    • @renaultmarseille6692
      @renaultmarseille6692 2 роки тому +1

      For ever Claude François

  • @miknes12345
    @miknes12345 2 роки тому

    This is what Johnny Fontane would have looked like at 70.

  • @kristiv83
    @kristiv83 5 років тому

    💜🎶💜

  • @leonardfdeweyjr1975
    @leonardfdeweyjr1975 2 роки тому

    Also, I got bad news. Paul is not the original of this song who wrote it it was a French guy. This is a French song I don’t understand French but I am French I’m Irish, English or French but I do like Paul but like I said the King or rock a road did it better listen to 1977 even if he did look sick and aren’t too much medicine and drugs but Elvis Presley had a big hit like I said did for Frank Sinatra and it’s a shame 1960 Frank Sinatra welcome home Elvis from the army video looks really bad it is faded. It is sad.

  • @cece354
    @cece354 5 років тому +2

    The original French version was not as good as the English version. Kittens - Paul did mentioned that he heard the melody in France while he was travelling through France! It wasn’t necessary to mention the name of the person who wrote the French version. Paul wrote the English lyrics to it and it made the song famous.

  • @veronicasalazar9252
    @veronicasalazar9252 4 роки тому

    Anka unico my way!!

  • @theMarhaenist
    @theMarhaenist 3 роки тому

    what a beyond epic literally means

  • @yyohimbe1
    @yyohimbe1 2 роки тому

    Fact...after Sinatra sang it hundreds of times and people kept asking for more again and again Sinatra absolutely hated My Way.
    Check it out, its there.
    Guess after you repeated this theme again and again he said it was self serving and egotistical. from our viewpoint the song is meaningful, try singing it every day for 10 years and you will begin to dislike it too.
    As for myself I still like the song...

  • @itzleana4512
    @itzleana4512 6 років тому

    What year is this

  • @annazuccolini7622
    @annazuccolini7622 11 років тому +4

    Je trouve que Paul Anka a vraiement du culot parceque il a fait la traduction anglaise de la chanson Comme d'habitude de Claude Francois et il pretend avoir ecrit cette chanson Monsier Anka vous etes un mechant menteur Laissez le merite a Claude Francois a qui appartient cette chanson.....

    • @daniellepatagon3594
      @daniellepatagon3594 7 років тому +2

      Mais il est tout de même très vexant de voir que Paul Anka n'aie pas un
      minimum d'honnêté et de respect : il ne cite pas l'auteur de la mélodie
      qui, à l'époque, est tout de même la chanson d'un des chanteurs nº1 en
      France. C'est mesquin. Sans Claude François il n'y aurait jamais eu de
      "My Way". Et ça c'est incontournable et très peu d'Américains le savent.

    • @janmassera9496
      @janmassera9496 5 років тому

      Erreur ... Paul précise qu'il a entendu cette chanson en France et l'a adapté en anglais... soit dit entre nous, le texte américain est nettement supérieur à la daube de Claude François !!! Et dernière précision, Claude François est responsable des paroles françaises pas de la musique, composée elle par l'immense Jacques Revaux !!!

  • @ascent7
    @ascent7 11 років тому +1

    i hear you teh stockwell and am glad that i now know that he is a melody thief.

    • @fernandomacias3735
      @fernandomacias3735 3 роки тому

      DEN... HE ISN'T A THIEF BECAUSE BOUGHT THE RIGHTS FOR THE SONG. GREETINGS FROM NOWHERE LAND TX. GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!! 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

  • @nicoleponcin4109
    @nicoleponcin4109 2 роки тому +1

    arrêtez la chanson esr française coécrite par Claude François Gilles Thibaut musique de Jacques Revaux Gilles Thibaut et bien sûr Claude François

  • @nilzanovi2715
    @nilzanovi2715 5 років тому

    COME ON!!!!! THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS THAT THE MELODY OF MY WAY IS A FRENCH SONG!!!!! AS WELL "LET ME TRY AGAIN" is "L'AISSEZ MOI LES TEMPS"!!! And just to remember: "AUTUMN LEAVES", a great NAT KING COLE hit is... LE FEUILLES MORTES, even is a FRENCH SONG!!!! (Paul Anka = My idol in the old times is a VERY SMART AND INTELLIGENT COMPOSER" . (So, President Donald Trump, in his inauguration, danced, with his wife... A FRENCH SONG!)

    • @jimbehan5935
      @jimbehan5935 4 роки тому

      Probably the cleverest singer/composer of the 20th century and one of the very first to write and sing his own stuff and of course wrote very special songs for other great artists. Celion deon, Buddy Holly, Tom Jones, Sinatra. and the great Sammy Davis jr. (I'M NOT ANYONE. just to name a few. From 1957 and still doing it. OVER 60 YEARS.
      JIM BEHAN

  • @spatslondon3888
    @spatslondon3888 8 років тому +10

    In other words, he didn't write the song at all.....but just wrote a new English lyric to a French song....a lyric with no connection to the original lyric.

    • @xxyyzz8714
      @xxyyzz8714 7 років тому +2

      SpatsLondon simply to say he did not composed the melody, but he wrote the entire lyrics of my way.

    • @stephintheatre6335
      @stephintheatre6335 6 років тому

      SpatsLondon your not making sense.

    • @jrgboy
      @jrgboy 6 років тому +2

      He did what hundreds of songwriters do, added English lyrics to a foreign tune, He actually bought the rights to the music cheaply cos it had only been a minor hi in Francet, good on ya Paul...

    • @mushmorant9253
      @mushmorant9253 6 років тому +1

      Anka and Sinatra turned a limited little tuned from France with no chance of airplay or record sales beyond francophone nations into a global winner for which I'm sure the French composers of the melody were quite handsomely rewarded financially, certainly far much more than they would have been if Comme D'Habitude had never been 'covered'.
      legendsrevealed.com/entertainment/2014/01/17/did-paul-anka-get-the-publishers-rights-for-my-way-for-free/

    • @thundaga4005
      @thundaga4005 6 років тому +1

      SpatsLondon - and what exactly have you contributed to music history, you piece of shit?

  • @pexxos1
    @pexxos1 3 роки тому

    He was in France and "heard a melody" that's "his way" of crediting Claude Francois for the music. Punk.

    • @sibusisosgwane2820
      @sibusisosgwane2820 Рік тому

      But why doesn’t he state the name of the writer , Claude Francois as it is known?

  • @haggis655
    @haggis655 9 років тому +9

    Anka, and the public, tends to downplay the fact that 90% of the song is really the melody. As the world knows by now it was a French chanson, Comme d'Habitude, which actually sounds better in the original French with the repetition of the French title instead of the words "my way."
    Moreover Anka's lyrics are stilted and hardly memorable ("then you have not," "I ate it up and spit it out," "not the words of one who kneels," etc.). It's really Sinatra and the aura of his career that made the song.
    Anka was never a good lyricist, though it's impressive how he came up with so many of those teen melodies. "Put Your Head on My Shoulder" is one of those songs that seems to have always been around. I've only felt that about one other song, Stevie Wonder's "I've Just Called to Say I Love You." There are others, such as "Lonely Boy," "Puppy Love," and even the Theme to "The Longest Day."
    But Anka as a lyricist mainly relied on juvenile predictable rhymes such as "love/up above," "destiny/reverie," and the like. He does make use of clever metaphors at times ("Adam and Eve," for example) and despite the awful timbre of his voice, he had a remarkably strong voice.

    • @haggis655
      @haggis655 7 років тому

      Difference of opinion is what makes horse races, as Mark Twain wrote. And I never heard of Anka's song sung at funerals. To me it wouldn't even make sense, since the song says he's "facing the final curtain" not facing the Last Judgment. I would never have that played at my funeral. I would think other pieces far more appropriate. But each to their own. I never step on another person's opinion, like an actor never stepping on another actor's lines or "upstaging." But just as rationally, the actor insists on the lines assigned to him in the play, and I insist on my opinion.In any case, it seems that the song will soon become the most covered song in history since every singer will insist on recording it at some point in their later career! Maybe not even "White Christmas" will be covered that much.

    • @haggis655
      @haggis655 7 років тому +1

      I never contradicted you so there's no need to google. I would never want that song played. I'd prefer Sidney Bechet's "Bechet's Creole Blues" (one of the greatest funeral dirges ever wailed this side of Heaven) or Mahler's Adagietto from the Fifth Symphony or any andante from a Bach partita. But each to their own. We're not likely to posthumously enjoy it anyway, so the issue is academic.

    • @Borella309
      @Borella309 7 років тому

      Agreed - Paul Anka, who is very talented, but isn't the driving force behind this amazing song - but, the lyrics the world knows are his. The melody/music are by a French man. It's Frank Sinatra who makes this song happen, that the world knows. A heap of happy accidents that works.

    • @OnlyThe1Son
      @OnlyThe1Son 7 років тому

      Haggis you are an idiot sir!

    • @jrgboy
      @jrgboy 6 років тому

      Paul Anka bought the rights to the song, it doesn't matter about the quality of the lyrics, he can do what he likes , the fact that you think the original is better is up to you but its far to late to change the fact that My Way was a massive hit record Thibault, Francois, Revauare are all credited with writing it so there is no problem..

  • @bao6649
    @bao6649 3 роки тому

    i saw Piers...i stopped the vid...jesus christ

  • @prioress
    @prioress 2 роки тому

    Better to do it the Lord's way...

  • @TheStockwell
    @TheStockwell 11 років тому +1

    Ever HEAR the original - or David Bowie's attempt to do an English version? Yeah - David Bowie got there first. Sinatra made "My Way" a success (and got tired by the song after a while, too). And no - adding words to a song isn't sampling. And HELL NO, every great artist has NOT been sampling since music has existed. You make it sound like all musicians steal, like that's a talent. Hey, someone has to come up with the original, right? THAT person is the artist, not the person who "samples" it.

  • @henryfranqui7236
    @henryfranqui7236 5 років тому +1

    ....bullshit....the persond who wrotte the song was..claude francois the original my way...

  • @angelabender8132
    @angelabender8132 6 років тому

    Without the English lyrics and the Sinatra interpretion the french tune would have remained unknown.
    About the appropriation..the French are masters in taking for themselves the merits of others artists, like the Louvre filled mostly with Italian masterpieces ...
    Modigliani was from Livorno in Tuscany and they make him pass for French...

  • @amandajaynesparrow3591
    @amandajaynesparrow3591 8 років тому +2

    Paul Anka is a liar he didn't write the song originally "My Way" is based on the French song "Comme d'habitude" co-composed, co-written and performed in 1967 by Claude François. Anka's English lyrics are unrelated to the original French song.

    • @ClassicBoxing88
      @ClassicBoxing88 8 років тому +3

      He wrote the lyrics, it's based off the melody of the French song.

    • @claravela5142
      @claravela5142 7 років тому +9

      BaladiAkka1948
      Paul Anka wrote his own lyrics to Claude's Melody so, Paul Anka deserves credit for writing the Lyrics to My Way but Claude deserves credit for the Melody and the original idea.
      Sadly most people in America don't know who Claude Francois is and he never got the recognition he really deserved!!!!.

    • @c.danjou7343
      @c.danjou7343 7 років тому +1

      So, why don't they say that their english enterpretation is from a french composer's song. I love Frank's or Elvis or any american versions, but at least, they should mention that this song is a "french song" from Claude François. Is it too humiliating for them to do so ? Americans didn't created the world you know !

    • @renaultmarseille6692
      @renaultmarseille6692 2 роки тому +1

      @@claravela5142 je pense qu’il est tant pour l’Amérique de savoir qui est Claude François ?(Cloclo) En France 🇫🇷 chez nous une légende indémodable

  • @totosippapas7385
    @totosippapas7385 4 роки тому +1

    Copy from french.

    • @renaultmarseille6692
      @renaultmarseille6692 2 роки тому +1

      Qui s’appelle (Claude François) le créateur de la chanson original de (My way)

  • @willsr2112
    @willsr2112 3 роки тому

    fraud he didnt write it