PARIS: He wrote the music for “My Way”, one of the world’s most popular songs, but Jacques Revaux would like to mention a few of his regrets. The legendary American crooner may have made the song a global hit, but not many people know it was actually a French song first. Fewer still — not even in France, where the credit often goes to the singer Claude Francois — are aware that Revaux wrote the original. He took it first to the “French Bob Dylan”, Hugues Aufray, who said, “Bloody hell, it’s good, but it’s not for me,” Revaux told AFP. “For me it is the most beautiful recreation of the song,” Revaux said.

Source: Manila Times November 14, 2019 16:32 UTC