We are celebrating 50 years of the English adaptation of As usual: My Way . As a reminder, in 1967, Jacques Revaux composes the title For Me which will become As usual after his working sessions with Claude François. A song that the star will perform three times on French television. In 1969, Paul Anka adapted it in English, then it was Frank Sinatra's turn to make it his own. She is the star song of the eponymous album of the American crooner.
"She has taken precedence over all others"
Since 1969, this song has been the subject of hundreds of different versions and has had more than 1,000 performers. For Europe 1, Louise Bernard met the composer of Comme d'habitude , Jacques Revaux. He still does not realize the success of this song. "With My way , we're in front of B and this is the last song on Sinatra's album, but she has taken precedence over all the others," says the composer. "The exceptional words of Paul Anka have exactly stuck with the end of career of Sinatra.This would have been a vulgar translation of As usual , he probably would not have recorded," said Jacques Revaux.
Indeed, My Way does not tell the same story as As usual , which is a song about the routine in love. My way evokes the story of a crooner in decline.