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Okay... My concern is that SHS has not credited songs correctly in a very specific situation, namely when a) music and lyrics are credited separately for a song and b) that song is adapted with completely different and independent lyrics. This issue first came to my attention when I filed the error report below:
https://secondhandsongs.com/case/66693
Examples would be:
Io che non vivo (Senza te) / You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
Romance / Can't Help Falling in Love
As I just got thru hacking thru the SHS list for "My Way" and my resulting observations resulted in this post, let's use this one to review. First, per Wiki Paul Anka completely rewrote new lyrics and per SHS the original song credits the music and lyrics separately:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way
Except for instrumentals, in my view this means subsequent adaptions are either translating the original song or "My Way", but not both.
Second, I would assume that the vast majority of adaptions are translations of "My Way", yet I believe every adaption on site currently credits Gilles Thibault (the original's lyricist) but not Anka. Some random examples (tho some may actually be translations of the original):
What's specifically interesting about "A mi manera" is that it's coded as an adaption of an adaption, where Roberto Livi (the first translator) gets a credit yet Anka remains missing.
On one hand, I hope I have analyzed the current situation correctly so as to not have wasted the editors' time. On the other, I hope that everything is just peachy keen so as to not trigger a major clean-up project.
If there is a problem, perhaps in these situations each song (i.e. "Comme" and "My Way") should get its own page, with a comment as to its previous history. This would make every subsequent adaption easily identified with the correct "original", though how instrumentals get handled I don't know.