He wanted to be with it, but he couldn’t. He was from the real pure world, old standard American classic. I didn’t refer to the French record at all lyrically. I had a vision they were so-so about it in France, which wasn’t a big market. It was done in 30 minutes “Yeah, here, take it.” I mean, we weren’t buying the pyramids here. You got to remember, this was ’66 – and I called them up to see if I could get this song. So I heard it but I knew there was more in it, because it wasn’t a huge hit I knew the publishers up in Paris. I heard this song on the radio, a mediocre hit by a French singer which was called “Comme d’habitude.” *The title means “As Usual.” It’s about a couple in a very boring marriage, a relationship which is, “as usual.” They get up every day and “the smell of your breath, I love it…” Very graphic French song. I like the diversity and the balance of it. I was really into that scene, and I know everybody. Took my family over there, married my wife there. PAUL ANKA: I vacationed a lot in France and spent a lot of time over there. It led him, ultimately, to create this iconic song, as related in his own words: He told Anka that rock & roll made him feel irrelevant, and felt it was time to call it quits.Īnka loved Sinatra, and had deep reverence for all the great songwriters who wrote the songs Frank sang. It was the start of a new era, and Sinatra belonged very much to the previous one.

Written in the incendiary year of 1968, the song reflected the paradigm shift the world was undergoing, as signalled by the evolution in pop music from the songs of Sinatra to rock & roll.

Public Service Announcement 2000 (skit) - 0:25Įdited for Formatting, let me know if I need to fix anything.Paul Anka also wrote the “Tonight Show” theme, used during the Johnny Carson reign, not to mention countless hits he recorded himself, from early rock & roll hits “Diana” and “Lonely Boy” in 1958 through “You’re Having My Baby” in 1974. But no song meant more to him than “My Way,” nor any singer as much as Sinatra. Public Service Announcement (skit) - 0:33 With that all out of the way here's the list. Also I included all interludes/skits/intros/outros because they are still technically 'songs' and are on the tracklist. This means no singles or anything from the 8 mile soundtrack, The Re-Up, or Shady XV. To preface this, I only included songs that appear on his solo studio albums with the exception of the 'new' songs on Curtain Call.

Shortest curtain call song