Paul Anka: Best of Paul Anka
Gene Sculatti, Rhino Records, 1986
No 'bout a doubt it, Mr. A has shaken a lot of action. He cut his first hit, a nifty nine-million seller, at fifteen, wrote the theme for Carson's Tonight Show, and hung an albatross around Sinatra's neck when he put English lyrics to My Way.
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