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14 mai 1998 · Frank Sinatra originally did We'll Gather Lilacs in the Spring, Take Me, The Charm of You, Mighty Lak' a Rose and other songs. Frank Sinatra wrote I'm a Fool to Want You, This Love of Mine and Mistletoe and Holly.
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- May 14, 1998
- December 12, 1915
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- Claude François’ “As Usual”
- Anka’s “My Way”
- Sinatra’s “My Way”
- Elvis Presley and Sid Vicious
Born on July 30, 1941, in Ottawa, Ontario Canada, by the time Anka was 16, he had his first No. 1 single with “Diana,” a song about a girl he fancied from church, who barely knew he existed. Anka recorded his first song “I Confess” two years earlier and used the recording for an audition with ABC Records in New York City. A teen idol in the 1950s, ...
A turning point for Anka was his discovery of “My Way.” The very first iteration of “My Way” was based on the 1967 French song “Comme d’habitude” (“As Usual”), a story about a couple in a boring marriage, which was composed by Jacques Revaux with lyrics by Gilles Thibaut and Claude François, who also performed the song. At the time, Sinatra was get...
Sitting at his IBM electric typewriter at one in the morning, Anka began perusing some Sinatra interviews to get a better feel for how he spoke. “If Frank were writing this, what would he say?” said Anka. “And I started, metaphorically, ‘And now the end is near [and so I face the final curtain].’ I read a lot of periodicals, and I noticed everythin...
In 1969, Sinatra recorded and released “My Way” in one take and released it on his album of the same name. “My Way” initially spent 75 weeks in the UK Top 40, but only reached No. 27 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 2 on the Easy Listening chart. Though it didn’t have big chart success, it became Sinatra’s signature song and preceded his later clas...
By the 1970s, several iconic artists shared their own rendition of the signature Sinatra croon, including Sinatra cohort Sammy Davis Jr., along with Elvis Presleyand punk rocker Sid Vicious. Presley was performing the song live by the ’70s and featured his performance of “My Way” on his Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite in 1973. Presley also recorded...
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12 déc. 2016 · Learn how Paul Anka, Ervin Drake, Alan and Marilyn Bergman, and others wrote songs for Frank Sinatra, the greatest friend a song and songwriter would ever know. Read their personal accounts of creating classics like "My Way", "It Was a Very Good Year", and more.
The following is a sortable table of number of songs by Frank Sinatra: The column Song lists the song title. The column Year lists the year in which the song was recorded.
Song TitleYear (s) RecordedSongwriters1950 (television)Harold Arlen, Johnny MercerAccidents Will Happen1950Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen1946, 1957Ad-Lib Blues1954 (film)Yip Harburg, Burton Lane"My Way" is a song popularized in 1969 by Frank Sinatra set to the music of the French song "Comme d'habitude" composed by Jacques Revaux with lyrics by Gilles Thibaut and Claude François [1] [2] and first performed in 1967 by Claude François. The English lyrics of the song were written by Paul Anka and are adapted version from the ...
2 août 2021 · Not only is it one of the most recorded and sung songs of all time, recorded by everyone from Sammy Davis, Jr. to Syd Vicious, it was the signature song for the man many consider the greatest...
Learn how Frank Sinatra became the greatest entertainer of the 20th century, from his big band days to his solo career. Hear stories from Charles Pignone, who traveled with Sinatra and produced his collections.
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