Shirley Bassey - My Way (1987 Live in Berlin) video free download


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1987 (Shirley performs in Berlin celebrating the city's' existence for 750 years)

ABOUT this song:

"My Way" is a song with lyrics written by Paul Anka and popularized by Frank Sinatra. The melody is based on a French song "Comme d'habitude" composed by Claude François and Jacques Revaux. Anka's English lyrics are unrelated to the original French by Claude François and Gilles Thibaut and Anka is credited as a co-composer of "My Way" because he largely re-wrote the song. "My Way" is often quoted as the most remade song in history.

Paul Anka heard the original 1967 French pop song, Comme d'habitude (as usual) performed by Claude Francois with music by Claude Francois and Jacques Revaux and lyrics by Claude Francois and Gilles Thibault, while on holiday in the south of France. He flew to Paris to negotiate the rights to the song.[1] In a 2007 interview, he said: "I thought it was a bad record, but there was something in it."[2] He acquired publishing rights at no cost[3] and, two years later, had a dinner in Florida with Frank Sinatra and "a couple of Mob guys" at which Sinatra said he was "quitting the business. I'm sick of it, I'm getting the hell out".

Back in New York, Anka re-wrote the original French song for Sinatra, subtly altering the melodic structure and changing the lyrics: "At one o'clock in the morning, I sat down at an old IBM electric typewriter and said, 'If Frank were writing this, what would he say?' And I started, metaphorically, 'And now the end is near.' I read a lot of periodicals, and I noticed everything was 'my this' and 'my that'. We were in the 'me generation' and Frank became the guy for me to use to say that. I used words I would never use: 'I ate it up and spit it out.' But that's the way he talked. I used to be around steam rooms with the Rat Pack guys - they liked to talk like Mob guys, even though they would have been scared of their own shadows." Anka finished the song at 5am. "I called Frank up in Nevada - he was at Caesar's Palace - and said, 'I've got something really special for you.'"[2] Anka claimed: "When my record company caught wind of it, they were very pissed that I didn't keep it for myself. I said, 'Hey, I can write it, but I'm not the guy to sing it.' It was for Frank, no one else."

Dame Shirley Bassey recorded the song for her 1970 album Something. She also performed in live on numerous occasions notably the 1976 Royal Variety Performance. In the weeks following Sinatra's death in 1998 , Bassey sang is as a tribute to him on her "Diamond" concert tour.

LYRICS:

And now, the end is near;

And so I face the final curtain.

My friend, I'll say it clear,

I'll state my case, of which I'm certain.

I've lived a life that's full.

I've traveled each and ev'ry highway;

But more, much more than this,

I did it my way.

Regrets, I've had a few;

But then again, too few to mention.

I did what I had to do

And saw it through without exemption.

I planned each charted course;

Each careful step along the byway,

But more, much more than this,

I did it my way.

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

When I bit off more than I could chew.

But through it all, when there was doubt,

I ate it up and spit it out.

I faced it all and I stood tall;

And did it my way.

I've loved, I've laughed and cried.

I've had my fill; my share of losing.

And now, as tears subside,

I find it all so amusing.

To think I did all that;

And may I say - not in a shy way,

"No, oh no not me,

I did it my way".

For what is a woman, what has she got?

If not herself, then she has naught.

To say the things she truly feels;

And not the words of one who kneels.

The record shows I took the blows -

And did it my way.

Comments

8 years ago

Rien Aertssen

Shirley Bassey kan zingen en heeft een fantastische stembeheersing. Een onvergetelijke song van haar.

8 years ago

salah eddine bouzekri

I did what I h'd to do ...

8 years ago

Tom Will Kev

Frank Sinatra.... go home.

8 years ago

Yanyong W.

She did it as good as Sinetra.

8 years ago

george mina

Frank Sinatra is the best

8 years ago

MultiBerthon

Hello Friends! If you enjoy Dame Shirley's renditions of My Way, please also check out her 1974 and 1976 versions. Just type in Shirley Bassey - My Way 1974 and you should see both come up. They all are slightly different, but in each case, Shirley demonstrates that she IS the ultimate performer, in addition to having THE VOICE!

8 years ago

Antonio Navarra

grande

8 years ago

Shirley Bassey Music and Vids

Hello Friends! If you enjoy Dame Shirley's renditions of My Way, please also check out her 1974 and 1976 versions. Just type in Shirley Bassey - My Way 1974 and you should see both come up. They all are slightly different, but in each case, Shirley demonstrates that she IS the ultimate performer, in addition to having THE VOICE!

8 years ago

Alessandra Bacchi

Meravigliosa canzone

8 years ago

Thord Nilsson

the best

8 years ago

Cyrus John Arnaiz Official

I really love this version!

8 years ago

youssef elfi

UNEGRANDE DAME

8 years ago

senior1110

That is the most expressive rendition I've ever seen. Very well done!!!

8 years ago

JOSE CARLOS DIOGO

Great song and even greater performance!

8 years ago

paul8kangas

This sounds like the theme song for President Hillary Clinton.

8 years ago

Antônio Gottardo

The best ...only

8 years ago

Nunzio Improta

Awesome Lady Bassey !!!!!

8 years ago

fredsalles salles

nice the best

8 years ago

theophilus omogbai

Shirley When Will You Come To Nigeria? #FatherLand

8 years ago

Jose Rey

Canta lindo, pero no es una cancion para que la cante una mujer. 

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