Claude François https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GME3fMeK5ts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnbqMKs4QN0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M90BHwNXn-0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP_tMa7VliY "*Comme d'habitude*" ([kɔm da.bi.tyd] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/French>, French for "As usual") is a French song composed in 1967 by Claude François <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Fran%C3%A7ois> and Jacques Revaux <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Revaux> with lyrics by Claude François and Gilles Thibaut <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gilles_Thibaut&action=edit&redlink=1> (fr <https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Thibaut>), originally recorded by Hervé Vilard <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herv%C3%A9_Vilard>. Paul Anka <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Anka>, after hearing the song while watching French television in Paris, bought the song's publication and adaptation rights but the original songwriters retained the music-composition half of their songwriter royalties.[1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comme_d%27habitude#cite_note-Paul_Anka_2005-1> Anka wrote English lyrics specifically for Frank Sinatra <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sinatra>, who then recorded a cross-Atlantic version of it in 1969 under the title *"My Way".* "My Way" has since been covered by many artists. The lyrics of *My Way* are related to those of *Comme d'habitude* in terms of structure and metre <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre_(poetry)>, but the meaning is completely different. The French song is about routine in a relationship that is falling out of love,[2] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comme_d%27habitude#cite_note-2> while the English language version is set at the end of a lifetime, approaching death, and looking back without regret – expressing feelings that are more related to Piaf's <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Piaf> song "Non, je ne regrette rien <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non,_je_ne_regrette_rien>". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comme_d%27habitude "*My Way*" is a song popularized in 1969 by Frank Sinatra <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sinatra>. Its lyrics were written by Paul Anka <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Anka> and set to the music of the French song "Comme d'habitude <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comme_d%27habitude>" co-composed and co-written (with Jacques Revaux), and performed in 1967 by Claude François <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Fran%C3%A7ois>. Anka's English lyrics are unrelated to the original French song. The song was a success for a variety of performers including Sinatra, Elvis Presley <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley>, and the Sex Pistols <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_Pistols>. Sinatra's version of "My Way" spent 75 weeks in the UK Top 40, a record which still stands. Paul Anka heard the original 1967 French pop song, *Comme d'habitude <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comme_d%27habitude>* (*As Usual*) performed by Claude François <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Fran%C3%A7ois>, while on holiday in the south of France. He flew to Paris to negotiate the rights to the song.[1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way#cite_note-1> In a 2007 interview, he said, "I thought it was a shitty record, but there was something in it."[2] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way#cite_note-Telegraph-2> He acquired adaptation, recording, and publishing rights for the mere nominal or formal consideration of one dollar,[3] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way#cite_note-Paul_Anka_2005-3> subject to the provision that the melody's composers would retain their original share of royalty rights with respect to whatever versions Anka or his designates created or produced.[4] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way#cite_note-4> Some time later, Anka had a dinner in Florida with Frank Sinatra and "a couple of Mob guys" during which Sinatra said "I'm quitting the business. I'm sick of it; I'm getting the hell out."[2] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way#cite_note-Telegraph-2> Back in New York, Anka re-wrote the original French song for Sinatra, subtly altering the melodic structure and changing the lyrics: "At one o'clock in the morning, I sat down at an old IBM electric typewriter and said, 'If Frank were writing this, what would he say?' And I started, metaphorically, 'And now the end is near.' I read a lot of periodicals, and I noticed everything was 'my this' and 'my that'. We were in the 'me generation' and Frank became the guy for me to use to say that. I used words I would never use: 'I ate it up and spit it out.' But that's the way he talked. I used to be around steam rooms with the Rat Pack <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Pack> guys – they liked to talk like Mob guys, even though they would have been scared of their own shadows." Anka finished the song at 5 in the morning. "I called Frank up in Nevada – he was at Caesar's Palace – and said, 'I've got something really special for you.'"[2] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way#cite_note-Telegraph-2> Anka claimed, "When my record company caught wind of it, they were very pissed that I didn't keep it for myself. I said, 'Hey, I can write it, but I'm not the guy to sing it.' It was for Frank, no one else."[2] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way#cite_note-Telegraph-2> Despite this, Anka would later record the song in 1969 (very shortly after Sinatra's recording was released). Anka recorded it four other times as well: in 1996 (as a duet with Gabriel Byrne <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Byrne>, performed in the movie *Mad Dog Time <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Dog_Time>*), in 1998 in Spanish as (a Mi Manera) (duet with Julio Iglesias <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Iglesias>), in 2007 (as a duet with Jon Bon Jovi <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Bon_Jovi>)[5] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way#cite_note-5>and in 2013 (as a duet with Garou <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garou_(singer)>).[6] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way#cite_note-6> Frank Sinatra recorded his version of the song on December 30, 1968, and it was released in early 1969 on the album of the same name <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way_(Frank_Sinatra_album)> and as a single. It reached No. 27 on the *Billboard* Hot 100 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100> chart and No. 2 on the Easy Listening <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_Contemporary_(chart)> chart in the US. In the UK, the single achieved a still unmatched record, becoming the recording with the most weeks inside the Top 40, spending 75 weeks from April 1969 to September 1971. It spent a further 49 weeks in the Top 75 but never bettered the No. 5 slot achieved upon its first chart run. [7] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way#cite_note-7> Although this work became Frank Sinatra's signature song <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signature_song>, his daughter Tina Sinatra <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Sinatra> says the legendary singer came to hate the song. "He didn't like it. That song stuck and he couldn't get it off his shoe. He always thought that song was self-serving and self-indulgent."[8] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way#cite_note-8> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way Attachments area Preview YouTube video Comme d'habitude Claude François Comme d'habitude Claude François <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GME3fMeK5ts>Preview YouTube video Claude François Comme d'habitude French / English Lyrics Subtitles Claude François Comme d'habitude French / English Lyrics Subtitles <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnbqMKs4QN0>Preview YouTube video My way Sinatra Subtitled My way Sinatra Subtitled <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M90BHwNXn-0>Preview YouTube video My Way - Paul Anka w/ Frank Sinatra My Way - Paul Anka w/ Frank Sinatra <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP_tMa7VliY>
