My Way is Frank Sinatra's signature tune - an English-language adaptation by Paul Anka of Claude François's French song Comme d'habitude. The original composition, written by Jacques Revaux, Gilles Thibaut and Claude François, was first recorded by François in 1967. Anka heard the French hit in the south of France, negotiated the rights for a nominal dollar, and wrote new English lyrics tailored to Sinatra's voice. Sinatra recorded the song in one take on December 30, 1968 - it appeared on the 1969 album My Way with the B-side Blue Lace. The track is traditional pop, produced by Sonny Burke with a Don Costa arrangement, and runs four minutes and thirty five seconds. In the United States it peaked at No 27 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No 2 on the Easy Listening chart; in the United Kingdom it spent 75 weeks in the top 40, a record at the time. My Way was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000 - and Sinatra’s daughter Tina later said he grew to dislike the song.
