Some time later, Anka had a dinner in Florida with Frank Sinatra and "a couple of Mob guys" during which Sinatra said: "Im quitting the business. Im sick of it; Im getting the hell out." Back in New York, Anka re-wrote the original French song for Sinatra, subtly altering the melodic structure and changing the lyrics: At one oclock 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 thats 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 5 in the morning: "I called Frank up in Nevada—he was at Caesars Palace – and said, Ive got something really special for you." Anka asserted: "When my record company caught wind of it, they were very pissed that I didnt keep it for myself. I said, Hey, I can write it, but Im not the guy to sing it. It was for Frank, no one else.
I can’t go round in a raincoat and fedora looking over my life saying I did it my way — well, for 10 minutes in some American bar over a gin and tonic you might be able to get away with it. But Sid Vicious’s rendition takes in everybody; everybody is messed up like that, everybody is the mad hero of his own drama. It explodes the whole culture this self-presentation can take place in, so it completes the song for me. The 1986 film Sid and Nancy features a scene where Gary Oldman, portraying Vicious, performs his version of "My Way" while filming the songs music video.Viciouss version of this song appears in Martin Scorseses 1990 film GoodFellas, where it plays over the end credits. Margaret Mackie and Jamie Lee Morley
In December 2019 footage of Margaret Mackie, a resident of Northcare Suites Care Home in Edinburgh who suffers from dementia, performing "My Way" with staff member Jamie Lee Morley, went viral after being posted online by Mackies daughter.Morley later arranged to have the song professionally recorded and it was released in January 2020 as a charity single to raise funds for The Alzheimers Society and Dementia UK. The single peaked at number seven in the iTunes top 40 UK Pop Songs live chart and number five in the Amazon best seller chart. Yuzo Kayama
In Japan, Yuzo Kayama who is usually called the Japanese Frank Sinatra, performed My Way in 2008 in English.