FRANK SINATRA/MY WAY: 'Regrets, I've had a few ...'

[KiwiCoromandel]

A BALMY winter's afternoon and traffic is flowing easily on Hollywood's West Sunset Boulevard. It's Monday, December 30, 1968. Factories and stores are closed until the New Year or have a skeleton staff.

But inside Studio 1, in the United Western Recorders complex at 6000 Sunset, it's business as usual. A two-hour recording session devoted to one song – an obscure French number titled Comme d'Habitude furnished with new lyrics by the Canadian singer Paul Anka – is under way.

Engineer Lee Herschberg rolls the tape. Arranger and conductor Don Costa quietens the orchestra. Frank Sinatra leans slightly forward toward the microphone. This one starts real quiet.

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source: SMH.com.au/Entertainment/Elissa Blake

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[Redneck4sure]

interesting aritcle.

...don't let it happen again.