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07 Feb 10 - 01:44 PM (#2832245) Subject: Singing 'My Way' can get you killed..... From: bobad ...in the Philippines. Story HERE. |
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07 Feb 10 - 01:56 PM (#2832259) Subject: RE: Singing 'My Way' can get you killed..... From: VirginiaTam Good grief! I always thought karoke was criminal. Now there's proof. |
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07 Feb 10 - 02:56 PM (#2832314) Subject: RE: Singing 'My Way' can get you killed..... From: Little Hawk It doesn't surprise me a bit that public singings of "My Way" have resulted in people getting killed. ;-) It's one of the most arrogant, pretentious, annoying songs in history...unless you just do it for laughs like Syd Vicious did. The Phillipines sounds like the PERFECT society for Chongo Chimp. He would be in his element there, surrounded by the possibility of fatal violence at all times while enjoyably attending the watering hole of his choice. Chongo always packs deadly firepower, specially when he goes to Karaoke bars. Furthermore, people are always looking at him "the wrong way" for some reason. Chongo doesn't put up with much of that. |
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07 Feb 10 - 03:17 PM (#2832336) Subject: RE: Singing 'My Way' can get you killed..... From: open mike i promise not to sing it! on a hill near here there is a cross with "my way" on it...commemorating a teenage suicide victim.. so it does remind me of death... |
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07 Feb 10 - 03:55 PM (#2832378) Subject: RE: Singing 'My Way' can get you killed..... From: Midchuck Well, you could always sing a more appropriate song. Peter |
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07 Feb 10 - 04:39 PM (#2832427) Subject: RE: Singing 'My Way' can get you killed..... From: GUEST i much prefer David Bowie's version: "Life on Mars" |
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07 Feb 10 - 04:53 PM (#2832450) Subject: RE: Singing 'My Way' can get you killed..... From: Lizzie Cornish 1 My friend's mother was very controlling, so...at her funeral, her daughter played that song. Everyone was chuckling, even the vicar. |
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07 Feb 10 - 05:23 PM (#2832479) Subject: RE: Singing 'My Way' can get you killed..... From: Cool Beans Singing my way can get you booed off the stage, but not killed. |
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07 Feb 10 - 05:50 PM (#2832497) Subject: RE: Singing 'My Way' can get you killed..... From: Will Fly At a recent funeral near me, the exit song from the crem chapel was Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust"... |
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07 Feb 10 - 05:51 PM (#2832498) Subject: RE: Singing 'My Way' can get you killed..... From: Joe Offer People used to like to have the Ol' Blue Eyes recording of "My Way" played at the end of funerals, but most Catholic churches I know of have banned the song. Just doesn't quite fit with a church service, even if it IS the funeral of a Sinatra fan. -Joe- |
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07 Feb 10 - 07:30 PM (#2832581) Subject: RE: Singing 'My Way' can get you killed..... From: Artful Codger Just proves: doing it your way can provoke them to do it their way. |
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07 Feb 10 - 07:38 PM (#2832586) Subject: RE: Singing 'My Way' can get you killed..... From: Artful Codger Makes me wonder: does Burger King get drive-by karaoke singings in the Philippines? "I had it MY-Y-Y WAY-Y-Y!" |
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07 Feb 10 - 08:34 PM (#2832617) Subject: RE: Singing 'My Way' can get you killed..... From: kendall My friend, Gordon said when he lived in Philly he went out the back door and in the alley were two winoes. They were braced up against the wall singing "I did it my way". |
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07 Feb 10 - 08:55 PM (#2832634) Subject: RE: Singing 'My Way' can get you killed..... From: Little Hawk Yeah, it's like an anthem for the fatuous! ;-) Shane has always done it "his way", and just look where it's gotten him. Winners of the Darwin Awards are much the same. Then there was Hitler. And Idi Amin. The examples are endless. |
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07 Feb 10 - 10:01 PM (#2832667) Subject: RE: Singing 'My Way' can get you killed..... From: bankley how about 'I Did it Sideways' ? thank you Mr. Anka, see what you started.. |
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08 Feb 10 - 08:16 AM (#2832752) Subject: RE: Singing 'My Way' can get you killed..... From: Charley Noble Then there's the other parody of the song, tracing the successful career of a university professor, titled "I Did It Their Way." Midchuck- I'm surprised you didn't offer as an alternative your own parody of "Fox on the Run." Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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08 Feb 10 - 08:28 AM (#2832765) Subject: RE: Singing 'My Way' can get you killed..... From: GUEST,LTS on the sofa Depends if you sing it from the book...... LTS |
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08 Feb 10 - 10:33 AM (#2832872) Subject: RE: Singing 'My Way' can get you killed..... From: GUEST,leeneia Here's a quote from the article Bobad linked: "Are the killings 1) the natural byproduct of the country's culture of violence, drinking and machismo? Or is there 2) something inherently sinister in the song?" ======== That is a question that only a journalist could ask. Cause I'm pretty sure the answer is 1). Even though 'My Way' is tedious, whiny and self-centered, I don't believe it inspires homicide. So many pop songs are tedious, whiny and self-centered that the streets of Manila would be carpeted in corpses. |
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08 Feb 10 - 01:50 PM (#2833104) Subject: RE: Singing 'My Way' can get you killed..... From: Goose Gander We need to appoint a UN committee to study this phenomenon, and - if necessary - ban ALL violence-inducing music. Imagine, a world without karoake . . . future generations will thank us. |
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08 Feb 10 - 10:16 PM (#2833586) Subject: RE: Singing 'My Way' can get you killed..... From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp I can understand this situation perfectly. I love Sinatra, but there are limits to how many really BAD renditions of that particular song by untalented losers even I can take. I once put fifteen .44 cal. rounds into a guy for singin' "My Way" at a place in Atlantic City called The Rhesus Club. He'd been stickin' his big nose into my business and monkeyin' around where he had no right to be. He'd been pickin' fruit off other people's trees. This was the kinda guy who leaves a trail of fresh banana peels everywhere he goes...just so someone else will slip on one and throw his back out or bust his head. He was a few coconuts short of a full deck and he was skatin' on thin ice. When he walked out on stage and did that song it was the last straw. I saw red. I went ape. I opened up my violin case, took out my trusty tommy gun, "Sal", and ventilated the lousy mango-picker. LH is right. I would LOVE the Phillipines. |
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08 Feb 10 - 10:19 PM (#2833588) Subject: RE: Singing 'My Way' can get you killed..... From: frogprince Gotta admire that Chongo; he's got real two-fisted guts on his shoulders!. |
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08 Feb 10 - 11:06 PM (#2833606) Subject: RE: Singing 'My Way' can get you killed..... From: Artful Codger Must be a new style of tommy gun. The old style would only fit in a hurdy-gurdy case. |
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08 Feb 10 - 11:10 PM (#2833608) Subject: RE: Singing 'My Way' can get you killed..... From: olddude don't be silly it should get ya killed!! |
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08 Feb 10 - 11:12 PM (#2833610) Subject: RE: Singing 'My Way' can get you killed..... From: Artful Codger For the record, I prefer grenades. More compact, flashier, and not only do you take out the singer but anyone who would actually sit close to a karaoke stage. Call it natural selection. |
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09 Feb 10 - 07:38 AM (#2833858) Subject: RE: Singing 'My Way' can get you killed..... From: Jim McLean In Glasgow they sing 'I done it my way'. |
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15 Feb 10 - 11:21 AM (#2839953) Subject: RE: Singing 'My Way' can get you killed..... From: Goose Gander Little Orphan Annie sung, "I did it my whey." |
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15 Feb 10 - 11:51 AM (#2839977) Subject: RE: Singing 'My Way' can get you killed..... From: GUEST,pattyClink Listen to this as a pure musical version and perhaps you can forgive people for liking the song. A Mi Manera -- Gipsy Kings |
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15 Feb 10 - 01:46 PM (#2840098) Subject: RE: Singing 'My Way' can get you killed..... From: John Hardly Wow. That Stephen Bishop song "On And On" sure was prescient when it said "...puts on Sinatra and starts to die..." |
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15 Feb 10 - 02:30 PM (#2840135) Subject: RE: Singing 'My Way' can get you killed..... From: Dave the Gnome When they named a road after Sinatra in Las Vegas I always thought they shoild have called it 'My Way' :D |
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15 Jun 20 - 12:12 PM (#4059333) Subject: ADDPOP: My Way (Paul Anka) From: Joe Offer Wikipedia says: "My Way" is a song popularized in 1969 by Frank Sinatra set to the music of the French song "Comme d'habitude" composed by Jacques Revaux with lyrics by Gilles Thibaut and Claude François and first performed in 1967 by Claude François. Its English lyrics were written by Paul Anka and are unrelated to the original French song. I'm a Catholic church musician, and sing a lot at funerals. Church rules frown on recorded music, but lots of families want Sinatra's "My Way" played at the funeral Mass when the crotchety family patriarch finally kicks the bucket. Some priests will allow it, some won't. I hate it, but it's the priest who gets to decide. So, for the sake of completeness, here are the Paul Anka lyrics. MY WAY (from the Anka-Sinatra Duet) (Paul Anka) And now, the end is near And so I face the final curtain. My friends, I’ll say it clear, And state my case, of which I’m certain. I’ve lived a life that’s full, I traveled each and every highway. And more, much more than this, I did it my, 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. And I planned each charted course, each careful step along life’s by way And 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 loved, I laughed, I cried I had my fill, my share of losing. And now, as tears subside, I find it all so amusing. Just to think I did all that And may I say, not in a shy way, Oh, no, oh, no, not me, I did it my way. For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has not To say the things he truly feels and not the words of one who kneels The record shows I took the blows and did it my way. To say the things he truly feels and not the words of one who kneels The record shows I took the blows and did it my, my way. Paul Anka duet with Frank Sinatra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZzYDKR-KTA Paul Anka Solo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nejyRDtFOm8 |