If I Had a Hammer...

I might hammer Claude Francois' tongue to a wall. Francois' gig was to take American songs, have someone else translate them to French, and then go on to perform them cheesier than the most pungent Roquefort.

On a side note, Francois did write the French classic Comme D'Habitude, which he failed to claim rights for. Shortly after the song was released someone took the music, gave it to Frank Sinatra, and most of us now know this song as My Way. At the same time, David Bowie wanted to adapt Comme D'Habitude. When he heard My Way, he was so disgusted with what Sinatra had done with the song that he wrote Life On Mars by stealing the music from Comme D'Habitude and vocally mocking Sinatra's performance of My Way.