MY WAY ~ by Anastasia Lee (14 yr. old Soprano) ~ Elvis Presley & Frank Sinatra Style

I did this song My Way!

My name is Anastasia Lee, I am 14 years old & I sing Classical Crossover, Opera, Musicals & the Classics. This is my rendition of the classic ~ MY WAY ~ as done in the style of Elvis Presley.. I certainly hope that you enjoy my version..

Paul Anka heard the original 1967 French pop song, Comme d'habitude (as usual) performed by Claude François, 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: "I'm quitting the business. I'm sick of it, I'm getting the hell out."[2]

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.

Frank Sinatra recorded his version of the song on December 30, 1968, and it was rush-released in early 1969. It reached #27 in the U.S. In the UK, the single achieved a still unmatched record, becoming the recording with the most weeks inside the Top 40, spending 75 weeks from April 1969 to September 1971. It spent a further 49 weeks in the Top 75 but never bettered the #5 slot achieved upon its first chart run.

Elvis Presley began performing the song in concert during the mid-1970s, in spite of suggestions by Paul Anka, who told him it was not a song that would suit him. Nevertheless, on January 12 and 14 of 1973 Presley sang the song during his satellite show "Aloha from Hawaii", beamed live and on deferred basis (for European audiences, who also saw it in prime time), to 43 countries via Intelsat, the only time that a single entertainer faced such a worldwide audience. In the continental US, the show was carried by NBC, and shown in primetime on 14 April, thus achieving very high ratings and eventually helping the show reach a worldwide viewership of over 1 billion.

On October 3, 1977, several weeks after his death, his live recording of "My Way" (recorded for the "Elvis In Concert" CBS-TV special on June 21, 1977) was released as a single. In the U.S., it reached number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart (higher than Frank Sinatra's peak position), number 6 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, the single also went Gold for its successful sales of over half a million copies. The following year reached number 2 on the Billboard Country singles chart but went all the way to number 1 on the rival Cash Box Country Singles chart. In the UK, it reached number 9 on the UK Singles Chart.

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[JDJOPLIN1]

Brilliant! You never cease to amaze me.

[TheAnastasiaLee]

@JDJOPLIN1 Thank You Very, Very, Very, Very, Very Much!!!!! And your harmonica playing never ceases to amaze me!!!!!

~Anastasia Lee~

A. Johnson

[veronicapable]

amazing you did it your ways

[TheAnastasiaLee]

@veronicapable Thank You..... I hope I did. :)

~Anastasia Lee~

[TheAnastasiaLee]

The picture at 3:00 is me at the Hershey District Track Meet. I received 3rd place in the 400 meter dash. (But I did receive 1st in my heat.) Although, I was cheated, and everyone there knew that. (I was supposed to run in the heat with girls as fast as me, and then they mixed up everyone's times.) So I will forever know that that small strip of white ribbon was actually the biggest blue ribbon I have won, and will ever win.

[Bob02895]

Great song and a great voice

[StarBlues101]

Anastasia You Are Fantastic!

Magnificent Voice!

[kevmerc1]

Superb, I look forward to watching your career progress

[lovereactionsong]

Very nice video. Great job.

[TDAMGIRL]

very beautiful voice and wonderful job :)

[My7349]

My mind is blown. For a 14 year old such talent such a voice ! Can you imagine ten years twenty years from now what she will become and achieve ! All I can say we have promising star in the making. She will be going places. I wish her from my heart everything of the very best. Alec Subrayan email alecsubrayan@telkomsa.net

[Kurt007100]

Good job

[veronicapable]

@TheAnastasiaLee

most definitely my girl

God bless