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Classic Songs, My Way | 
 enlarge | Artist: Paul Anka
Label: Decca
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 50831
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 000870702
UPC: 602517266476
EAN: 0602517266476
ASIN: B000O1710W
Release Date: August 28, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | 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 |
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Amazon.com
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 Buble 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 More from Paul Anka 
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Album Description
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.)
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| Customer Reviews: Read 27 more reviews...
 Almost As Good....... November 15, 2008
The second of Anka's "swing cover" albums stands superbly it's own right and merits, especially for anyone that has not revelled in the delights of his first album under the same genre " Rock Swings". Whilst the quality and and the skill in conversion to this increasingly popular genre is not in doubt, the choice of song is not quite as sublime as in the earlier album with such tracks as "It's My Life" by Bon Jovi, "Eye Of The Tiger" by Survivior and the truely remarkable "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana. Certainly I would advise any fan or lover of this type of music to purchase this superb album and compliment it with it's more sofisticated elder brother " Rock Swings".
Once a Pro, Always a Pro April 19, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This production proves that Paul Anka isn't resting on his laurels. He's in top voice, the arrangements are outstanding, and the big band musicians play with perfection.
One huge disappointment is his gratuitous My Way duet with Bonjovi. Neither performer sounds committed, probably because they likely weren't in the same studio, and recording at the same time. So much for the benefits of technology.
 MY WAY February 27, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I guess I expected more I was very disapointed in the vocal aspect of Pauls music.I kept wondering when it would pick up BORING and not my way Give me the old Paul of the 60s.
A Groove with Less to Prove January 5, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Anka's "Classic Songs" is a different project & cannot fully be appreciated if we try to make it fit the mold of "Rock Swings Vol. 2." While the earlier CD was startlingly excellent, this one mellows into a groove with less to prove and more to explore. Bryan Adams' "Heaven" translates well with a swing arrangement that layers instruments, increasing with number and volume as it moves to the final chorus, "Love is all I need & I find it there in your heart." While the orchestral arrangement works less well for me on Joni Mitchell's classic "Both Sides Now," Anka's vocals are through the roof, expressive and nuanced. Cher sang "Walking in Memphis" on her 1996 It's a Man's World. Anka's version works well with the Marc Cohn's gorgeous melody & lyric, creating a real sense of place, "They've got catfish on the table, they've got gospel in the air, & Rev. Greene would be glad to see you when you haven't got a prayer." One of my favorites on the disc is Anka's version of Foreigner's "Waiting for a Girl Like You" that polishes the lovely melody with a Neil Hefti feel on the brass, "This heart of mine has been hurt before, This time I want to be sure." Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" energizes the lovely tune with great percussion. While not each track is equally riveting, the home runs on this disc are more than enough to win the game. This is very good work. Enjoy!
Great Album! Except..... December 16, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I love it! Except when Jon Bonjovi MURDERED My Way. I can not believe that, Paul Anka, consummate professional, Extraordinary enterainer, and absolute perfectionist would allow Bonjovi to wreck that song like that!
I am a long-term fan of Paul Anka, and I hate what Bonjovi did to Paul's song.
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