Paul Anka

Paul ANKA - (30.07.1941, Ottawa, Ontario, Kanada) - voc, kompozytor, autor tekstów, producent nagrań; aktor. Syn właściciela restauracji, syryjskiego imigranta. W 1956 nagrywał bez powodzenia dla firmy Modern (m.in. I Confess). Rok później, po podpisaniu kontraktu z ABC Paramount, zdobył sympatię słuchaczy na całym świecie własna piosenką Diana - rozpaczliwym wyznaniem miłości do dziewczyny starszej o kilka lat.
Popularność zyskały tez następne nagrania, m.in. I Love You Baby, You Are My Destiny, Crazy Love, All Of A Sudden My Heart Sings, Lonely Boy, Put Your Head On My Shoulder, It's Time To Cry, Puppy Love, My Home Town, Summer's Gone, Story Of My Love, Tonight My Love Tonight, Dance On Little Girl, Love Me Warm And Tender, Steel Guitar Glass Of Wine And You i Eso Beso. W swojej twórczości umiejętnie połączył elementy rock'n'rolla i muzyki rozrywkowej w tradycyjnym stylu; zyskał uznanie zarówno zwolenników Elvisa PRESLEYA, jak i Pata BOONE'A.
Wystąpił w takich filmach, jak Keep It Cool (1958, reż. Harry Foster), Girls Town (1959, reż. Charles Hass), Look In Any Window (1960, reż. William Alland) oraz Najdłuższy dzień (1961, rez. Ken Annakin, Andrew Mar-ton, Bernard Wieki, Yert Oswald i Elmo Williams), do którego skomponował słynny marszowy temat. W 1963 śpiewał w Warszawie.
W okresie późniejszym utracił wielbicieli, ale nadal komponował przeboje dla innych wykonawców, m.in. dla Franka Sinatry (My Way, oparty na melodii francuskiej ballady Come d'habitude, a także Let Me Try Again, Anytime i inne), Toma JONESA (She's A Lady) oraz Barbry STREISAND (Jubilation). W połowie lat siedemdziesiątych odzyskał popularność jako piosenkarz utworami o tematyce miłosnej i erotycznej, np. I Don't Like To Sleep Alone, Times Of Your Life oraz nagranymi w duecie z Odią Coates You're Having My Baby, One Man Woman - One Woman Man i I Believe There's Nothing Stronger Than Our Love.

Single
Tytuł	Wykonawca	Data wydania	UK	US	Wytwórnia [UK/US]	Komentarz
[You' re]Having my baby/Papa	Paul Anka	07.1974	6[8]	1[3][15]	UA UP 35 713/UA 454	[gold-US][written by Paul Anka][produced by Rick Hall]
A steel guitar and glass of vine/I never knew your name	Paul Anka	05.1962	41[4]	13[10]	RCA 1292/RCA Victor 8030	[Written by: Paul Anka ]
[All of a sudden] My heart sings/That's love	Paul Anka	01.1959	10[13]	90[2]	Columbia DB 4241/ABC-Paramount 9987	[written by Henry Herpin/Jamblan/Harold Rome][#7 hit for Johnnie Johnston in 1945]
Anytime [I' ll be there]/Something about you	Paul Anka	04.1976	-	33[9]	-/UA XW 789	[Written by: Paul Anka]
Crazy love/Let the bells keep ringing	Paul Anka	04.1958	26[1]	15[14] side B:16[13]	Columbia DB 4110/ABC-Paramount 9907	[written by Paul Anka]
Dance on little girl/Talk to you [On the telephone]	Paul Anka	05.1961	-	10[10]	-/ABC Paramount 10 220	[Written by: Paul Anka]
Diana/Don't gamble with love	Paul Anka	07.1957	1[9][25]	1[1][29]	Columbia DB 3980/ABC-Paramount 9831	[written by Paul Anka, Joe Sherman][produced by Jack White][gold][1[2].R&B; Chart]
Did you have a happy birthday/For no good reason at all	Paul Anka	12.1963	-	89[3]	-/RCA Victor 8272	[Written by: Paul Anka/Howard Greenfield]
Do i love you/So long city	Paul Anka	10.1971	-	53[11]	-/Buddah 252	[Written by: Paul Anka/Alain LeGovic/Michel Pelay/Maxime Piolot]
Eso beso [That kiss!]/Give me back my heart	Paul Anka	11.1962	-	19[8]	-/RCA Victor 8097	[Written by: Joe Sherman/Noel Sherman]
Every night [Without you]/There you go	Paul Anka	08.1962	-	46[6]	-/RCA Victor 8068	[Written by: Paul Anka ]
Everybody ought to be in love/Tonight	Paul Anka	07.1977	-	75[4]	-/United Artists 1018	[Written by: Paul Anka]
Goodnight my love/This crazy world	Paul Anka	01.1969	-	27[10]	-/RCA Victor 9648	[#7 R&B; hit for Jesse Belvin in 1956r][Written by: John Marascalco/George Motola ]
Happier/Closing doors	Paul Anka	12.1976	-	60[7]	-/UA XW 896	[Written by: Paul Anka]
Happy/Can't get you out of my mind	Paul Anka	11.1969	-	70[3]	-/RCA Victor 9767	[Written by: Tony Romeo ]
Hello Jim/You've got the nerve to call this love	Paul Anka	06.1963	-	97[1]	-/RCA Victor 8195	[Written by: Paul Anka]
Hello young lovers/I love you in the same old way	Paul Anka	08.1960	44[1]	23[12] side B:40[11]	Columbia DB 4504/ABC-Paramount 10 132	[Written by: Paul Anka][produced by Sid Feller]
Hold me ' til the mornin' comes/This is the first time	Paul Anka	06.1983	-	40[16]	-/Columbia 03897	[Written by: Paul Anka/David Foster]
I believe there' s nothing stronger than our love/Today i became a fool	Paul Anka & Odia Oates	07.1975	-	15[13]	-/UA 685	[Written by: Paul Anka]
I don' t like sleep alone/How can anythong be beautiful-After you	Paul Anka & Odia Oates	03.1975	-	8[15]	-/UA 615	[Written by: Paul Anka]
I love you baby/Tell me that you love me	Paul Anka	12.1957	3[18]	97[1]	Columbia DB 4022 /ABC-Paramount 9855	[written by Paul Anka]
I'd never find another you/Uh huh	Paul Anka	04.1962	-	106[1]	-/ABC-Paramount 10 311	-
I' m comin' home/Cry	Paul Anka	08.1962	-	94[1]	-/ABC-Paramount 10 338	[Written by: Paul Anka ]
I miss you so/Late last night	Paul Anka	03.1959	-	33[9]	Columbia DB 4286/ABC-Paramount 10 011	[#20 hit for The Cats and The Fiddle in 1940r][Written by: Jimmie Henderson/Sid Robin/Bertha Scott][produced by Don Costa]
I' ve been waiting for you all of my life/Think i'm in love again	Paul Anka	04.1981	-	48[9]	-/RCA RCA 12 225	[Written by: Linda Kimball/Mark Sherrill ]
In the still of the night/Pickin' up the pieces	Paul Anka	03.1969	-	64[6]	-/RCA Victor 0126	[Written by: Fred Parris]
It' s time to cry/ Something Has Changed Me	Paul Anka	11.1959	28[1]	4[15]	Columbia DB 4390/ABC-Paramount 10 064	[Writer : Paul Anka ][13.R&B; Chart]
Jubilation/Everything's been changed	Paul Anka	03.1972	-	65[9]	-/Buddah 294	[Written by: Paul Anka/Johnny Harris ]
Just young/So it's goodbye	Paul Anka	10.1958	-	80[5]	Columbia DB 4199/ABC-Paramount 9956	[Written by: Lya Roberts]
Kissing on the phone/Cinderella	Paul Anka	08.1961	-	35[7] side B:70[4]	-/ABC-Paramount 10 239	[Written by: Leonard Whitcup/Earl Wilson]
Let me get to know you/Flashback	Paul Anka	01.1974	-	80[8]	-/Fame 345	[Written by: Paul Anka ]
Lonely boy/Your love	Paul Anka	06.1959	3[17]	1[4][15]	Columbia DB 4324/ABC-Paramount 10 022	[written by Paul Anka][produced by Don Costa][piosenka z filmu "Girls town"][6.R&B; Chart]
Love me warm and tender / I’d Like To Know	Paul Anka	02.1962	19[10]	12[12]	RCA 1276/RCA Victor 7977	[Writer : Paul Anka ]
Love[Makes the world go round]/Crying in the wind	Paul Anka	01.1963	-	26[8]	-/RCA Victor 8115	[Written by: Paul Anka]
Midnight/Verboten! [Forbidden]	Paul Anka	07.1958	26[1]	69[5]	Columbia DB 4172/ABC-Paramount 9937	[written by Paul Anka]
My baby's comin' home/No,no	Paul Anka	05.1964	-	113[2]	-/RCA Victor 8349	-
My best friend' s wife/Never gonna fall in love again [Like i feel in love with you]	Paul Anka	04.1977	-	80[2]	-/UA XW 972	[Written by: Paul Anka]
My home town/Something happened	Paul Anka	05.1960	-	8[13]side B:41[9]	Columbia DB 4472/ABC-Paramount 10 106	[Written by: Paul Anka,Joe Sherman]
One man woman-One woman man/Let me get to know you	Paul Anka & Odia Oates	11.1974	-	7[16]	-/UA 569	[Written by: Paul Anka]
Puppy love/Adam and Eve	Paul Anka	02.1960	33[2]	2[14] side B:90[2]	Columbia DB 4434/ABC-Paramount 10 082	[piosenka z filmu "The private lives of Adam & Eve"][Written by: Paul Anka,Joe Sherman ]
Put your hold in my shoulder/ Don’t Ever Leave Me	Paul Anka	08.1959	7[11]	2[18]	Columbia DB 4355/ABC-Paramount 10 040	[silver-UK][written by Paul Anka,Joe Sherman][Producer : Don Costa ][12.R&B; Chart]
Remember Diana/At night	Paul Anka	04.1963	-	39[8]	-/RCA Victor 8170	[Written by: Paul Anka]
Rudolph,The red-nosed reindeer/It's Christmas everywhere	Paul Anka	12.1960	-	104[2]	-/ABC-Paramount 10 169	-
Sincerely/Next year	Paul Anka	05.1969	-	80[4]	-/RCA Victor 0147	[Written by: Alan Freed/Harvey Fuqua]
Summer' s gone/I'd have to share	Paul Anka	09.1960	-	11[11]	Columbia DB 4524/ABC-Paramount 10 147	[Written by: Paul Anka][29.R&B; Chart]
Teen commandments/If you learn to pray	Paul Anka,Johnny Nash & George Hamilton IV	12.1958	-	29[8]	-/ABC-Paramount 9974	[Written by: Nancy Becker]
Tell me that you love me	Paul Anka	11.1957	25[2]	-	Columbia DB 4022/-	[written by Paul Anka]
The bells at my wedding/Loveland	Paul Anka	01.1962	-	103[4]	-/ABC-Paramount 10 282	-
The fools hall of fame/Far from the lights of town	Paul Anka	121.1961	-	104[3] side B:110[1]	-/ABC-Paramount 10 279	-
The story of my love/Don't say you're sony	Paul Anka	01.1961	-	16[8] side B:108[3]	-/ABC-Paramount 10 168	[Written by: Paul Anka][produced by Sid Feller]
This is love/I'm by myself again	Paul Anka	10.1978	-	35[11]	-/RCA RCA 11 395	[Written by: Madeline Sunshine/Robert Tepper ]
Times of your life/Water turns deep	Paul Anka	11.1975	-	7[15]	-/UA XW 737	[1[1].Adult Contemporary Chart][Written by: William Lane/Roger Nichols]
Tonight my love tonight/I'm just a fool anyway	Paul Anka	03.1961	-	13[11]	-/ABC Paramount 10 194	[adaptacja melodii z opery Verdiego "Rigoletto"][Written by: Paul Anka]
You are my destiny/When i stop loving you [That'll be the day]	Paul Anka	01.1958	6[13]	7[17]	Columbia DB 4063/ABC-Paramount 9880	[written by Paul Anka, Joe Sherman][produced by Jack White][14.R&B; Chart]

Albumy
Tytuł	Wykonawca	Data wydania	UK	US	Wytwórnia [US]	Komentarz
Paul Anka sings his Big 15	Paul Anka	07.1960	-	4[140]	ABC Paramount 323
Anka at The Copa	Paul Anka	12.1960	-	23[27]	ABC Paramount 353
Paul Anka sings his Big 15,Vol.2	Paul Anka	09.1961	-	72[12]	ABC Paramount 390
Young ,alive and in love!	Paul Anka	04.1962	-	61[12]	RCA Victor 2502
Let' s sit this one out	Paul Anka	09.1962	-	137[2]	RCA Victor 2575
Paul Anka' s 21 Golden Hits	Paul Anka	07.1963	-	65[33]	RCA Victor 2691
Goodnight my love	Paul Anka	03.1969	-	101[11]	RCA Victor 4142
Life goes on	Paul Anka	12.1969	-	194[2]	RCA Victor 4250
Paul Anka	Paul Anka	01.1972	-	188[4]	Buddah 5093
Jubilation	Paul Anka	06.1972	-	192[4]	Buddah 5114
Anka	Paul Anka	08.1974	-	9[28]	United Artist 314	[gold]
Paul Anka Gold	Paul Anka	12.1974	-	125[9]	Sire 3704
Feelings	Paul Anka	04.1975	-	36[29]	United Artist 367
Times of your life	Paul Anka	12.1975	-	22[25]	United Artist 569	[gold]
The painter	Paul Anka	10.1976	-	85[15]	United Artist 653
The music man	Paul Anka	06.1977	-	195[3]	United Artist 746
Listen to your heart	Paul Anka	11.1978	-	179[7]	RCA Victor 2892
Both sides of love	Paul Anka	05.1981	-	171[6]	RCA Victor 3926
Walk a fine line	Paul Anka	08.1983	-	156[8]	Columbia 38 442
Rock Swings	Paul Anka	06.2005	9[14]	120[2]	Globe 9885933 [UK]
Classic Songs - My Way	Paul Anka	10.2007	13[1]	-	Universal TV 1747398 [UK]