“My Way” by Frank Sinatra

"My Way" is Frank Sinatra's 1969 recording of a song that had already lived one life in another language. The tune started out in France as "Comme d'habitude", written by Jacques Revaux, Gilles Thibaut and Claude François and first recorded by François in 1967; Paul Anka wrote the English words and made it something else entirely.

Sinatra sings it like a man settling accounts. America and Canada only gave it a modest welcome, with peaks of 27 and 26, but Britain couldn't let go: it climbed to number 5 and hung around the British top 40 for 75 weeks, the fifth-longest stay that chart has ever seen.

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