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frank sinatra,s in the house

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Mon, Jul 25 2016 2:35 PM (13 replies)

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adaputter

1,954 Posts

Mon, Jul 18 2016 4:37 PM

And now, the drive is here

And so I face the my driving nightmare

My friend, I'll say it clear

I'll hit my drive, just on the fairway

I've hit a drive that's full

and missed the fairway

But more, much more than this

wgt did it their way

Regrets, I've had a few

But then again, too few to mention

I did what I had to do

And and flop it out into the fescue

I play each charted course

Each careful shot on the fairway

And more, much more than this

I tried it my way

Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew

When wgt said go screw you

But through it all, when there was doubt

I ate it up and spit it out

I faced it all and I fell short

And did it my way

I've chipped, I've lflopped and cried

I've had my fill my share of losing

And now,…

ct690911

7,195 Posts

Mon, Jul 18 2016 4:48 PM

"My Way" was actually written for Sinatra by a Canuck...Paul Anka. Anka also wrote songs for Sammy Davis Jr and many of the other stars of that era...

I just wanted to point out that we don't just produce Justin Biebers...

nanstar

4,914 Posts

Tue, Jul 19 2016 3:59 AM

Thanks for sharing ct!

And Anka was no slouch, as seen and heard here :^)

bery111

3,859 Posts

Tue, Jul 19 2016 4:41 AM

Which was set to the music "Comme d'habitude" by Claude Francois. Things might have been very different - I was reading a David Bowie biography recently, and he also wrote lyrics to the same music which might have been used by Frank Sinatra! Here we go:

"David Bowie has said that in 1968 – the year before Paul Anka acquired the French song – his manager, Kenneth Pitt, asked him to write English lyrics for "Comme d'habitude" but that his version, titled "Even a Fool Learns to Love", was rejected. The unfinished work would later inspire his 1971 song "Life on Mars?", which uses the same chord progession.

Thanks Ada, you allowed me to get a Bowie post in! :)

PaulTon

10,731 Posts

Tue, Jul 19 2016 4:54 AM

Bery beat me to it!

Here's St. David Bowie's lyrics for it -

bery111

3,859 Posts

Tue, Jul 19 2016 5:50 AM

lol Cheers for posting the lyrics up Paul. Not sure if Bowie ever recorded this - can't find a version with him singing, that's for sure. However, if it wasn't for the above, we would probably never have had Life On Mars?. Just love some of the lyrics on there:

It's on America's tortured brow

That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow.

Now the workers have struck for fame

'Cause Lennon's on sale again

from which we probably wouldn't have had Fame! Hell, I'm putting the video for that up too....love the Carlos Alomar guitar riff and how David chopped it up on the master tape: