Paul Anka - Classic Songs, My Way
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Artist: Paul AnkaEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-08-28
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
- Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
- Get Here - Oleta Adams
- Mr. Brightside - The Killers
- Waiting For A Girl Like You - Foreigner
- Ordinary World - Duran Duran
- Heaven - Bryan Adams
- Bad Day - Daniel Powter
- I Go To Extremes - Billy Joel
- Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell
- (You Are My) Destiny - Anka song - duet with Michael Buble
- Walking In Memphis - Marc Cohn
- Against The Wind - Bob Seger
- My Way - Anka duet
Music reviews of Classic Songs, My Way
Music Review: Anka's still got it.
Rating: 5 Stars
Paul Anka still has his great voice, and the wonderful ability to carry a tune in the classic sense of a polished stage performer. It is fun hearing these songs sung in a jazzy interpretation with a swinging big band. Thanks to Paul for taking chances (again), instead of doing the safe thing.
Additionally, a beautifully recorded album at Capitol Studios in L.A. with the finest musicians in the world.
Description of Classic Songs, My Way
Classic Songs, My Way: The new album features lush treatments of songs by Joni Mitchell, Billy Joel, and Bryan Adams, a swinging take on the Killers' "Mr. Brightside" and surprising new renditions of two classics from Paul's own formidable canon. The recipient of valuable support from Anka earlier in his career, Michael Buble returns the favour by joining his swing mentor on his 1958 Top 10 hit "You Are My Destiny" - the remarkable new version replaces the original's teenage ardour with a temperament that's older and wiser. For the album's grand finale, Mr Anka performs a soaring performance of "My Way," which Paul famously turned from a little-known French song into a perennial showstopper for his late friend Frank Sinatra.
Classic Songs, My Way encapsulates nearly every era of hit-making for Anka. Never one to rest on his laurels, he has had a song on Billboard's charts in every decade since 1957, when the Ottawa-born Anka was only 17. Since then, he's recorded over 120 albums in a wide variety of languages, selling close to 15 million albums worldwide and landing three No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 - "Diana," "Lonely Boy" and "(You're) Having My Baby." (The first of those hits reportedly sold 10 million copies worldwide - only "White Christmas" topped it.)
Paul Anka follows up 2005's Rock Swings, his popular collection of covers done classic Vegas ?style, with another collection of unlikely pop and rock songs--also done classic Vegas ?style. One of the most familiar tricks could be termed the reverse stunt: Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time," for instance, is speeded up into a fingersnapping brassy strut. (On Rock Swings, Anka had famously done the exact opposite with "Smells Like Teen Spirit," slowing it down to a loungy pace.) But hey, if it's not broken! After all, Anka is in fine vocal form and he sure knows how to sing against the big-band arrangements. Once again, the best songs are the most unexpected, like the strutting take on the Killers' "Mr. Brightside," the triumphant read of Foreigner's "Waiting for a Girl Like You," which gradually builds up, the super-lush cover of Duran Duran's "Ordinary World," and the strutting "Walking in Memphis." Note that Anka actually picked from his own oeuvre for the albums's two duets: Michael Bubl? joins his onetime mentor on 1958's "You Are My Destiny," while Bon Jovi helps out on "My Way" (a song Anka adapted from a French original)--which paradoxically is the least convincing track in the bunch. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
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