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Vocal popularized by Frank Sinatra

This article is about the song popularized by Frank Sinatra. For other uses, see My Mode (disambiguation).

"My Manner"
My Way - Frank Sinatra.jpg

German release
Single by Frank Sinatra
from the album My Manner
B-side "Blue Lace"
Released March 1969 (U.S.)
Recorded December 30, 1968, Los Angeles
Genre Traditional pop
Length four:35
Label Reprise
Songwriter(due south)
  • Claude François
  • Jacques Revaux
  • Paul Anka (English lyrics)
Producer(s) Sonny Burke
Alternative cover
A-side label of US single

A-side label of US single

"My Way" is a song popularized in 1969 by Frank Sinatra set to the music of the French song "Comme d'habitude" composed and written past French songwriters Claude François and Jacques Revaux[1] [2] and first performed in 1967 by Claude François. Its English lyrics were written by Paul Anka and are unrelated to the original French song.

The song was a success for a variety of performers including Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and Sid Fell. Sinatra's version of "My Mode" spent 75 weeks in the UK Top 40, which is 2nd place all-fourth dimension.

Groundwork [edit]

In 1967, Jacques Revaux wrote a carol named "For Me", with English lyrics virtually a couple falling out of dear.[two] According to Revaux, the demo was then sent to Petula Clark, Dalida, and Claude François, to no avail. Revaux rejected a version by Hervé Villard and reworked the rail into Comme d'habitude ("As usual") with the help of Claude François.[3] It was released in November 1967 and was at the top of the French pop chart for ane week in February 1968.[4]

Paul Anka heard the French original, while on holiday in the south of France. He flew to Paris to negotiate the rights to the song.[v] [6] He acquired adaptation, recording, and publishing rights for the nominal merely formal consideration of i dollar,[vii] discipline to the provision that the tune's composers would retain their original share of royalty rights with respect to whatsoever versions Anka or his designates created or produced.[8] Some time afterward, Anka had a dinner in Florida with Frank Sinatra and "a couple of Mob guys" during which Sinatra said: "I'k quitting the business. I'g ill of it; I'm getting the hell out."[6]

Dorsum in New York, Anka re-wrote the original French vocal for Sinatra, subtly altering the melodic structure and irresolute the lyrics:

At ane o'clock in the forenoon, I sat down at an sometime IBM electric typewriter and said, 'If Frank were writing this, what would he say?' And I started, metaphorically, 'And now the end is nearly.' 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 information technology upwardly and spit it out.' But that's the way he talked. I used to exist effectually steam rooms with the Rat Pack guys—they liked to talk like Mob guys, fifty-fifty though they would have been scared of their own shadows.

Anka finished the song at five in the morning: "I called Frank up in Nevada—he was at Caesars Palace – and said, 'I've got something actually special for you.'"[6] Anka asserted: "When my record company defenseless air current of it, they were very pissed that I didn't go on it for myself. I said, 'Hey, I can write it, merely I'm not the guy to sing it.' It was for Frank, no one else."[vi]

Despite this, Anka would tape the vocal in 1969 very shortly subsequently Sinatra's recording was released. Anka recorded it iv other times besides: in 1996 (as a duet with Gabriel Byrne, performed in the picture Mad Domestic dog Fourth dimension); in 1998 in Spanish as "A Mi Manera" (duet with Julio Iglesias); in 2007 (every bit a duet with Jon Bon Jovi);[9] and in 2013 (equally a duet with Garou).[x]

On Dec thirty, 1968, Frank Sinatra recorded his version of the song in 1 have, featuring session drummer Buddy Saltzman among the band.[11] "My Way" was released in early 1969 on the My Way LP and every bit a single. Information technology reached No. 27 on the Billboard Hot 100 nautical chart and No. ii on the Easy Listening chart in the US. In the UK, the single achieved a all the same unmatched record, becoming the recording with the virtually weeks within the Top twoscore, spending 75 weeks from Apr 1969 to September 1971. Information technology spent a further 49 weeks in the Elevation 75 simply never bettered the No. v slot achieved upon its first nautical chart run.[12]

Although this work became Frank Sinatra'due south signature song, his daughter Tina says the singer came to hate the song: "He didn't like information technology. That song stuck and he couldn't go it off his shoe. He ever thought that song was self-serving and cocky-indulgent."[13]

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Versions [edit]

Dorothy Squires [edit]

In the midst of Sinatra's multiple runs on the U.k. Singles Chart, Welsh vocalizer Dorothy Squires also released a rendition of "My Fashion" in Summer 1970. Her recording reached number 25 on the Britain Singles Nautical chart and re-entered the nautical chart twice more during that yr.

Elvis Presley [edit]

"My Mode"
Elvis Presley My Way Single Cover.jpg
Unmarried by Elvis Presley
from the album Elvis in Concert
B-side "America"
Released Oct iii, 1977
Recorded June 21, 1977
Genre Pop
Length 3:51
Label RCA Records
Songwriter(south) Paul Anka and Claude François
Elvis Presley singles chronology
"Way Down"
(1977) 		"My Fashion"
(1977) 		"Unchained Melody"
(1978)

Elvis Presley began performing the song in concert during the mid-1970s, despite Anka's suggestions that the song did not arrange him. Nevertheless, on January 12 and 14, 1973, Presley sang the song during his satellite show Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite, beamed live and on deferred ground (for European audiences, who too saw it in prime time), to 43 countries via Intelsat.

On Oct 3, 1977, several weeks after Presley'due south death, his live recording of "My Way" (recorded for the Elvis In Concert CBS-TV special on June 21, 1977) was released as a single. In the U.S., it reached number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart in tardily 1977/early on 1978 (college than Frank Sinatra's peak position), number 6 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary nautical chart, and went golden for its successful sales of over a million copies. The following year the unmarried reached number two on the Billboard Country singles chart simply went all the way to number i on the rival Cash Box State Singles chart. In the U.k., it reached number 9 on the Uk Singles Nautical chart.

Presley'south version is featured in the climax of the 2001 movie 3000 Miles to Graceland with Kurt Russell and Kevin Costner. (Paul Anka appears in a cameo as a casino pit boss who loathes Presley.)

Presley's studio recording of the song was included on the Fourth Disc of "Walk a Mile in My Shoes: The Essential '70s Masters".

Certifications [edit]

Sid Vicious [edit]

"My Way"
Single by Sid Vicious
from the album The Great Rock 'north' Roll Swindle
Released 1978
Recorded Jan–August 1978
Genre Punk rock
Length 4:06
Label Virgin Records
Songwriter(southward) Paul Anka, Sid Vicious (A few lines)
Producer(s) Beak Price, Simon Jeffes

Sex Pistols' bassist Sid Barbarous did a punk rock version of the vocal, in which a large body of the words were changed and the system was sped up. The orchestral backing was arranged by Simon Jeffes.

Interviewed in 2007, Paul Anka said he had been "somewhat destabilized by the Sexual practice Pistols' version. It was kind of curious, but I felt he (Sid Vicious) was sincere about it."[6]

Vicious and his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, inverse many of the words when information technology was recorded, including use of the swear words "cunt" and "fuck" besides every bit the word "queer" (slang for a gay homo). Brutal's reference to a "prat who wears hats" was an in-joke directed towards Vicious's friend and Sex activity Pistols bandmate Johnny Rotten, who was addicted of wearing different kinds of hats he would pick up at rummage sales.[ citation needed ]

Leonard Cohen said of the song:

I never liked this song except when Sid Fell did it. Sung direct, information technology somehow deprives the appetite of a certain gustation nosotros'd similar to take on our lips. When Sid Barbarous did it, he provided that other side to the song; the certainty, the cocky-congratulation, the daily heroism of Sinatra's version is completely exploded by this desperate, mad, humorous voice. I can't go round in a raincoat and fedora looking over my life proverb I did information technology my way — well, for 10 minutes in some American bar over a gin and tonic yous might be able to get away with it. Just Sid Vicious's rendition takes in everybody; everybody is messed up like that, everybody is the mad hero of his own drama. It explodes the whole civilization this self-presentation can take place in, and then it completes the song for me.[27]

The 1986 flick Sid and Nancy features a scene where Gary Oldman, portraying Vicious, performs his version of "My Way" while filming the song's music video.[28]

Vicious's version of this song appears in Martin Scorsese's 1990 film GoodFellas, where it plays over the stop credits.[29]

Margaret Mackie and Jamie Lee Morley [edit]

In December 2019 footage of Margaret Mackie, a resident of Northcare Suites Care Home in Edinburgh who suffers from dementia, performing "My Style" with staff fellow member Jamie Lee Morley, went viral after beingness posted online by Mackie's daughter.[30]

Morley subsequently bundled to have the song professionally recorded and it was released in January 2020 as a clemency unmarried to enhance funds for The Alzheimer's Society and Dementia Britain. The single peaked at number 7 in the iTunes top xl Great britain Pop Songs live chart and number 5 in the Amazon best seller chart.[31] [32]

Public use [edit]

The vocal is popularly associated with nostalgia to an private'southward lifetime of events.[33] Surveys outset in 2005 have often reported that "My Manner" has been the song about frequently played at funeral services in the UK.[34] [35] "My Way" is likewise a popular karaoke song around the world. However, it has been reported to cause numerous incidents of violence and homicides among drunkards in bars in the Philippines, referred to in the media equally the "'My Way' killings".[36] [37]

References [edit]

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  2. ^ a b "Regrets I've had a few, says 'My Way' songwriter". France 24. November 13, 2019. Archived from the original on November 13, 2019. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
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  5. ^ "How Sinatra did it My Manner – via a French popular star and a Canadian lounge act". the Guardian. July 5, 2007. Archived from the original on Jan 22, 2008. Retrieved May 12, 2008.
  6. ^ a b c d eastward McCormick, Neil (November 8, 2007). "Paul Anka: One song the Sex Pistols won't be singing". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on July 24, 2019. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
  7. ^ Paul Anka, "With Paul Anka, 'Rock Swings', Part Ii" Archived July i, 2017, at the Wayback Auto, interviewed on Fresh Air, WHYY, August 10, 2005
  8. ^ The rights holders including Jacques Revaux and Claude François' heirs sold information technology to Xavier Niel in 2009
  9. ^ "Classic Songs, My Manner — Paul Anka". Last.fm. Archived from the original on April six, 2017. Retrieved Apr 22, 2021.
  10. ^ Forever_Gentlemen
  11. ^ "The Cowsills – Magazines". Bapresley.com. Archived from the original on February 10, 2021. Retrieved Apr 22, 2021.
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  13. ^ "Sinatra 'loathed' My Way". BBC. Oct 30, 2000. Archived from the original on January 20, 2021. Retrieved June twenty, 2016.
  14. ^ "Item Brandish – RPM – Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. July 17, 2013. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. Retrieved Jan 21, 2016.
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  16. ^ "The Irish gaelic Charts – Search Results – My Style". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved nineteen February 2019.
  17. ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  18. ^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 – ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  19. ^ "Greenbacks Box YE Pop Singles – 1969". tropicalglen.com. Archived from the original on January 25, 2019. Retrieved July 14, 2019.
  20. ^ "Archívum – Slágerlisták – MAHASZ" (in Hungarian). Unmarried (rail) Summit twoscore lista. Magyar Hanglemezkiadók Szövetsége. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  21. ^ "Italian single certifications – Frank Sinatra – My Way" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Retrieved June 25, 2013. Select "2013" in the "Anno" drop-down menu. Select "My Manner" in the "Filtra" field. Select "Singoli" nether "Sezione".
  22. ^ Copsey, Rob (September nineteen, 2017). "The UK'southward Official Chart 'millionaires' revealed". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on September nineteen, 2017. Retrieved October 19, 2017.
  23. ^ "British single certifications – Frank Sinatra – My Way". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved June 25, 2013. Select singles in the Format field.Select Gold in the Certification field.Type My Fashion in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
  24. ^ "Canadian single certifications – Elvis Presley – My Way". Music Canada.
  25. ^ "British unmarried certifications – Elvis Presley – My Way". British Phonographic Industry. Select singles in the Format field.Select Silver in the Certification field.Blazon My Mode in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
  26. ^ "American single certifications – Elvis Presley – My Fashion". Recording Industry Association of America.
  27. ^ ""My Way" Past Sid Vicious Is On Leonard Cohen's Jukebox". AllanShowalter.com. Archived from the original on July 14, 2021. Retrieved July 14, 2021.
  28. ^ Grierson, Tim; Adams, Sam; Fright, Dave; Garber-Paul, Elisabeth (Baronial ix, 2016). "25 best punk stone movies of all time". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on Nov 11, 2020. Retrieved January 22, 2020.
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  30. ^ McKenzie, Jamie (December 10, 2019). "Picket the heartwarming moment elderly woman with dementia at Edinburgh care abode sings Frank Sinatra vocal at Christmas party". The Scotsman. Archived from the original on December xi, 2019. Retrieved Jan 22, 2020.
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  33. ^ Melt, Richard (December 10, 2014). "Frank Sinatra: Songs for Immature Lovers and other Capitol reissues". Theguardian.com. Archived from the original on March 6, 2019. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  34. ^ My Way tops funeral charts Archived Feb 10, 2008, at the Wayback Automobile – An article in The Guardian
  35. ^ "Funeral Music Chart". coop.co.uk. Archived from the original on July 19, 2020. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
  36. ^ Utton, Dominic (March 28, 2009). "My Way: The story behind the song". Daily Express. London: Northern and Shell Media Publications. Archived from the original on October 17, 2009. Retrieved July 11, 2009. 'Meanwhile, in the Philippines My Way is and so pop at karaoke bars that it has been alleged responsible for a number of deaths later arguments over performances degenerated into violence – a social phenomenon referred to by the Philippine media equally "My Way killings".'
  37. ^ Onishi, Norimitsu (February six, 2010). "Sinatra Song Frequently Strikes Deadly Chord". The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 9, 2010. Retrieved February nine, 2009. 'Any the reason, many karaoke bars accept removed the song from their playbooks. And the country'southward many Sinatra lovers... are practicing self-censorship out of perceived cocky-preservation.'

External links [edit]

  • Song lyrics

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way

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