There are certain songs I find myself obsessed with—a lifelong fixation that will cause me to attempt tracking down EVERY recorded version of the song.

Well, this month I've been obsessing over Claude François French language, Ye-Ye version of the Four Seasons' slightly-underneath-the-radar track, "Beggin'!" Welp, TODAY I finally got my copy of the "Reste" EP! For those of y'all NOT in the know, Mr. François' was a massive pop star in France up till his untimely death in 1978 (he died after accidentally electrocuting himself while taking shower). Oh, he also wrote "Comme D'habitude," a song we all know best as "My Way."

The last time I was hung up on a version of this song was sometime in the '90s. I spent a month playing and replaying Timebox's take on "Beggin'." Um, I played the single till its glossy black, styrene grooves were turned a dull, ashy white. There's another version of the song I'm itching to own—the Shocking Blue's groovy version, but it was an LP only track, I think, from their 1974 album, Good Times. The last time I chased the LP it was selling for about $200, which is currently slightly over my "Beggin'" budget! Oh, also, I know there was a recent, radio-hit version, but it never really moved me.