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10 unusual facts about My Way


Ahmet Koç

In the spring of 2005, he released his instrumental album "Paradoks" (Paradox), in which he played international pop and rock classics with his bağlama. Some of the songs included in his album were: “Hasta Siempre”, "Fragile", “My Way”, “Surf Rider”, ”Hotel California” “The Godfather theme”, “Shape of My Heart”, “My Heart Will Go On”.

Eastern Bloc emigration and defection

By 1989, the Soviet Union had repealed the Brezhnev Doctrine in favor of non-intervention in the internal affairs of its Warsaw Pact allies, termed the Sinatra Doctrine in a joking reference to the song "My Way".

Edward Mena

Edward sang a Spanish rendition of the famous song "My Way", bringing the audience to its feet receiving his first standing ovation.

From the Entrails to the Dirt

Track number 5 ("My Way") is a cover version of the 1967 pop song popularized by Frank Sinatra and later covered by Sid Vicious, among others.

Goodbye, 20th Century!

The solemn mourning degenerates into violence while the sounds of the Sid Vicious punk rock rendition of My Way floods the proceedings.

Haris Džinović

While in Cannes, he got a proposal to make and sing the gipsy version of the famous song My Way, composed many years ago by Claude François, so unforgettably performed by Frank Sinatra.

Jacques Revaux

Jacques Revaux (born Jacques Abel Jules Revaud, 11 July 1940 in Azay-sur-Cher, Indre-et-Loire) is a French songwriter most famous for his 1968 collaboration with singer Claude François on the song "Comme d'habitude" that singer-songwriter Paul Anka reworked into the English language as "My Way".

María Martha Serra Lima

Known for her contralto vocal texture and her repertoire of love ballads and boleros, she collaborated extensively with singer-songwriters from elsewhere in Latin America, particularly Mexican standards such as Los Panchos and Armando Manzanero; among her best-known, non-Hispanic interpretations is that of Paul Anka's My Way.

Rocio Colette Acuña Calzada

She was the first to cause a standing ovation with her Spanish interpretation of Frank Sinatra's "My Way".

Sinatra Doctrine

The name alluded to the Frank Sinatra song "My Way"—the Soviet Union was allowing these nations to go their own way.


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Lovers Walk

He returns to the old burned down factory (despondently singing Sid Vicious's "My Way") and surveys the damage.

Walk Right In

But "Marche tout droit" was one important step for him on the path to success, so one can wonder that without this song, "Comme d'habitude", which was later world-famous as "My Way", might have never been written.