Re: What the Heck: Your Most Potent Song Lyric Phrase

Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 20:21:40 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.sports
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Jonathan Diehl wrote:
> "Bushwhacker" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
> news:email-address-deleted...
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>>Jonathan Diehl wrote:
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>>>I did it my way.
>>>
>>>-Sinatra
>>>
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>>Actually, Paul Anka.
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>
> Actually, if we're getting technical, Claude Francois' wrote the song (in
> French). Anka translated it and re-wrote it for Sinatra.
>
> Anyway, Sinatra (and then Elvis) made the song, and lyric, famous. Who
> cares who wrote it?
>
>
Well, without a writer (translator), there is no lyric. Interesting that
you're affected by words but don't care who wrote them. As Elvis (and
Anka himself) proved, the lyric doesn't need to be sung by Sinatra to be
potent.