Artist: Paul Anka
Genre(s):
Pop
Vocal
Easy Listening
Rock
Discography:
Classic Songs, My Way (Bonus CD)
Year: 2007
Tracks: 20
Rock Swings
Year: 2005
Tracks: 14
The Best of Paul Anka
Year: 2003
Tracks: 21
A Body of Work
Year: 1998
Tracks: 1
The Collection
Year: 1991
Tracks: 20
Mis canciones preferidas - Jokin - Euskal Herria
Year: 1989
Tracks: 21
Remember Diana
Year:
Tracks: 18
One of the biggest stripling idols of the late '50s, Paul Anka affected to the adult sphere respective years later and became a successful performer, songster, music man of affairs, and recording creative person, leftover so well into the new millennium. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1941 to parents of Lebanese Christian bloodline wHO owned a local eating house, Anka proven a child prognostic, beginning his depict business concern life at the age of 12 as an impressionist. By the eld of 14, he was stealing the sept car to drive to amateur vocalizing contests in nearby Hull, Quebec, and writing his own songs. His first single, "I Confess," appeared on the Riviera subsidiary of Jules and Joe Bihari's RPM label. While on a trip to New York with a mathematical group of friends wHO american ginseng as the Rover Boys, Anka gained an tryout with ABC producer Don Costa, and sang his own composition, "Diana," an ode to a former baby-sitter. Costa liked what he heard, recorded the teen, and watched as the single hit figure one on both sides of the Atlantic afterwards in 1957, eventually marketing a reported 10 one thousand thousand copies worldwide.
Anka placed iV songs in the Top 20 a yr later on, including "You Are My Destiny" and "Dotty Love," annealing the full-scale rebellion of tilt & undulate with songs that questioned parental bureau rather of outright disobedience. He wrote one of Buddy Holly's last hits, "It Doesn't Matter Anymore," and stirred into movies with Let's Rock and Girls Town. The latter photographic film spawned his biggest American hit, "Lonesome Boy," only the first in a string of 1959 chart successes including "Redact Your Head on My Shoulder," "It's Time to Cry," and "Puppy Love" (written for old flame Annette Funicello, and afterwards a rack up for Donny Osmond as substantially).
By 1961, when the teen matinee idol craze began to cool off, Anka (a millionaire patch noneffervescent a nonaged) could tout of the over one hundred twenty-five compositions under his knock, his possess criminal record label (Spanka), and the recognition of existence behind the second best-selling individual of all time (simply "Theodore Harold White Christmas" had sold more copies than "Princess Diana"). Instead of resting on his honour, Anka took on the adult market. First, he groomed a solo represent and got bookings into that oasis for sophisticates, the Copacabana. Anka following touched to RCA and, in yet some other shrewd business sector run, bought the rights to his old edgar Lee Masters and made a luck on reissues unequalled. He diversified his life history by coming into court in several more than picture roles (including the 1962 dramatic event The Longest Day, for which he provided the title song). One of the first pop singers to do shows in Las Vegas, he likewise hosted video sort shows like Excitement, The Midnight Special, and Spotlite, and stirred on to strange audiences in Asia and Europe (where he found his married woman, Parisian model Anne de Zogheb). He wrote the base to The Tonight Show (aired every weeknight for well-nigh 30 years), rewrote the French lyrics to the song "Comme d'Habitude" for one of Frank Sinatra's most famous later songs, "My Way," and likewise wrote Tom Jones' biggest hit, "She's a Lady." Anka likewise branched out in the recording studio, recording subject albums such as Excitation on Park Avenue and Strictly Nashville.
Although he had hit the Top 40 only in one case since 1963, Anka stormed the number one slot in 1974 with "(You're) Having My Baby," a pas de deux recorded in Muscle Shoals, AL, with his singing protégée, Odia Coates. The duo's following two singles, "Unrivaled Man Woman/One Woman Man" and "I Don't Like to Sleep Alone," both rack up the Top Ten (his 1974 LP Anka reached gold), and his 1975 solo single "Times of Your Life" reached number seven. Anka charted into the early '80s, continuing his many gambling casino and international appearances spell recording slenderly merely continually. As such, concert recordings and compilations constituted the bulk of his '80s and '90s discography, although he entered the studio also, most notably on the 2005 Verve date Rock music Swings, a accumulation of modern-day standards. Its prominent success prompted a followup (of sorts), Definitive Songs: My Way, from 2007, which included more present-day standards as advantageously as duets with Michael Bublé and Jon Bon Jovi.
