Paul was only 17 when he released this song. He's written more than 900 songs. He wrote Frank Sinatra's hit “My Way” and Tom Jones's “She's a Lady” He wrote Johnny Carson's theme song for the Tonight show & "Teddy," for Connie Francis. His portfolio is amazing.
For "My Way" only the words...the original song was a 1968 french song, sung by Claude Francois (french with italian mother).....title: "Comme D'Habitude".
It was always such a great song…a timeless classic…and heck, if a lady can’t get into a song like that…she’s got no heart or soul! Perfect slow-dance tune! And Paul Anka is still around 🙂
I saw him a few years ago in concert. He went into the audience and took a grandma by the hand onto the stage and danced with her as he sang this song to her. He's a wonderful man. The whole audience sang it with him. He took selfies with the fans too.
He's a well known songwriter too. He wrote. The lyrics for Frank Sinatra's "My Way". Another early hit He sang is "Puppy Love" which the Osmond Brother's coveted in the 1970's. Later I think in the 70's he had another song "The Times of Your Life". Or "Do You Remember The Times Of Your Life"
Went to see him in concert when I was in my early 20s. He came out into the audience. As he was returning to the stage I was in his path. I stepped to side to get out of his way & he gave me a kiss on the cheek. He wrote the song She’s A Lady, sung by Tom Jones.
Paul had 53 hits during his career. This song was released in 1959. His last Top 40 song was in 1983 which was a duet Peter Cetera, formerly from Chicago. Please react to Hold till the Morning Comes.
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One of the all-time great songs to slow dance to. I couldn't take my eyes off Asia! She has a gorgeous smile and a toothpaste company should hire her to do commercials for them. 😁
Too funny! Important love lessons from Paul and BJ in one segment; outstanding. And how could anyone not love this late fifties romantic classic and sing along with it, "Baa...bbby". Paul is Canadian, of Lebanese ancestry, and performed live for decades. Try "Diana " next. He wrote it as a teen about his pretty babysitter.
And for anyone that grew up in the 60s/70s/80s, Paul also wrote the theme to the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson - that's forever ingrained in all our heads...lol
Yeah, Asia and BJ, Paul had all the ladies swooning back then❤ He had quite a few hits. Hey BJ, here's a song you can dedicate to your lady by Larry Graham...One in a Million You. Larry performed with Sly and the Family Stone and was founder of the group Grand Central Station. I think Asia will love his baritone voice🎵🎶 He's also the uncle of rapper Drake.
If you remember ACDC's "Let There Be Rock" lyrics: White man had the schmalz, Black man had the blues" ... that's schmalz. Sweet and romantic crooning.
Exactly ! You gotta fall in love .. that Embrace of ALL embraces that last a life time together ..my Husband of 45 yrs would grab me to dance …lol how I miss that Embrace !
A sweet romantic song from way back. Another from the way back machine that is a number one romantic tune is 'Beautiful' by another Canadian poet, Gordon Lightfoot. Thats two from Canadians and a third from a sweet Canadian Goddess is Shaniah Twain doing 'From This Moment On'. Us Canuks are romantics at the core. Thats why we are so slow to anger, but we are passionate and so when we do get mad look the fuck out.
Lmbo I love you two!! Paul Anka is known for lots of hits he wrote for other artist straight up to the 1980's I believe. This was in the 50's that song came out!
Great one here guys. This was 1959 and he was only 18 here. Definitely a young crooner and he wrote this song. He was the youngest cat in the house here and pretty much could've had any young lady in the audience he wanted. If you pause this video a just the right moment when he's holding the girls hand and singing to the audience, check out the looks on the guys faces in the audience, it's very funny stuff. ☮️✌️💕👌
Me and the wife dance to this every time we hear it even thought it was recorded 8 years before I was born we had the DJ play this at our Daughters wedding we were the only ones slow dancing to this classic song (I was 44 and she was 40 at the time)
As he grew older, Paul Anka wrote what would become the signature song for Frank Sinatra: "My Way". But as a teenager in the 1950s, Anka was one of the first teen idols of Rock 'n Roll, when it was new and White folk were just starting to steal it from its Black creators. Paul Anka was born and raised in Ottawa, the capital city of Canada. In the mid to late 1980s, I performed in a few plays at the Ottawa Little Theatre, whose back side was on Paul Anka street - more of an alley, really.
Paul Anka not only saying this song and he wrote it he wrote many hits many many hits and on top of everything he's Canadian well LOL he wrote she's a lady I didn't my way they called it puppy love etc etc etc keep up the good work guys
This came out in 1959 when I was 12 years old. People before me have mentioned other songs that made him popular back then, but he continued on through the years and wrote a lot of songs for other artists. It ALWAYS cracks me up when young people say "you can tell it's old cos it's in black and white" Well, we didn't have color TV back then. As far as MOVIES go, there were movies made in COLOR as far back as the 1930s, so there! LOL!
Hello, relatively new subscriber. Enjoy your channel! Paul Anka always makes me think of Neil Sedaka - don't know why - "Laughter in the Rain" was huge. He's a goofy looking 70s singer (around since the 60s or late 50s), beautiful voice, lyrics, plays piano, too. Great songs! Sounds like a woman at times...high notes. "Solitaire," "Calendar Girl," "Breaking Up is Hard to Do," "Bad Blood" with Elton John (ok), "You Mean Everything To Me," "Oh Carol," "Happy Birthday, Sweet 16," "The Hungry Years," "Our Last Song Together," "The Miracle Song," "King of Clowns," "New York City Blues," "(I'm A Song) Sing Me," "Should've Never Let You Go," with Dara Sedaka (good one). Ronnie Milsap was a blind country singer & piano player. A 70s/80s legend you never hear about. Great songs & style, "It Was Almost Like a Song," "Smokey Mountain Rain," "I Wouldn't Have Missed it For the World," "Stranger in my House," "Lost in the 50s Tonight," "What a Difference You've Made in My Life" and "Any Day Now." Also, Samantha Sang's "Emotion" sounds like The Bee Gees. Barry - at least - sings on the track - and wrote it, I believe. I always thought it was a BeeGees song. If you ever listen, you'll see what I mean. Sounds like Barry! Then there's Frankie Valli (?) and the Four Seasons..."Can't Take My Eyes Off You," "My Eyes Adored You" (solo Frankie), "Who Loves You Baby," "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)," "Walk Like a Man," "Sherry," "Rag Doll," " Sorry I didn't check to see if you'd done these. Started typing...
Asia watching your face during this was classic. You were in dreamland over this mans voice and a lesser man than BJ would be very jealous. Can you imagine how uncomfrtable the guys in the audience were with this man openly seducing their wives and girlfriends. Paul Anka's voice could melt the hardest of hearts.
Paul is appearing at a casino near my town soon. He wrote 'My Way' which is normally associated with Frank Sinatra, and he wrote the theme song for Johnny Carson's Tonight Show.
Paul was only 17 when he released this song. He's written more than 900 songs. He wrote Frank Sinatra's hit “My Way” and Tom Jones's “She's a Lady” He wrote Johnny Carson's theme song for the Tonight show & "Teddy," for Connie Francis. His portfolio is amazing.
And I danced with my Mom at my wedding to "Times Of Your Life". Couldn't help but breakdown in the middle of it.
For "My Way" only the words...the original song was a 1968 french song, sung by Claude Francois (french with italian mother).....title: "Comme D'Habitude".
I love how much I learn here! Thank you for sharing ❤️
I believe he wrote this song for his then girlfriend, Annette Funicello (the most famous Mouseketeer)
@@giuliogrifi7739 Correct ... he wasn't the composer of My Way ...
Paul has written and sung so many great songs. ❤❤❤❤❤
The list is amazing. He was one of Canada's first huge musical exports. Up here is often referred to as a national treasure.
Paul Anka’s great hits “Lonely Boy” “ Diana” “Having My Baby” and “ Times of your Life” besides the many hits he wrote for other artists
@@Hobodeluxe960 😂 truly almost the entire 1970’s is cringe
@@Hobodeluxe960 Why? Very sweet to me. He realized she could have killed it and aborted it and thanks her for not doing it.
Brings me back to special times gone by. But the music lives on
Paul was a musical genius.
Huge star in the fifties.
My wife and I danced to many of his songs.
Paul is from Canada.
From my hometown Ottawa ❤
It was always such a great song…a timeless classic…and heck, if a lady can’t get into a song like that…she’s got no heart or soul! Perfect slow-dance tune! And Paul Anka is still around 🙂
Jr.Highschool dances, this was the song.Great memories.Thank you for this.
He grew up in Ottawa Canada . He is a great Canadian singer entertainer and big time song writer.
Love the music back then it was so simple but good
I love how sweet Bj is....That shoulder story im sure made all the viewers go Awwwwwww too Asia...You're a lucky Woman and keep that Man💘💘💘💘💘
Sappy sappy u....
I don't have anything else planned
Paul Anka is a Canadian legend!,🇨🇦💖🇺🇸
I was 12 y/o, 7th grade, when this Masterpiece came out. It was THE slow-dance of my generation.
Thank you, love paul Ankda and his songs.
I saw him a few years ago in concert. He went into the audience and took a grandma by the hand onto the stage and danced with her as he sang this song to her. He's a wonderful man. The whole audience sang it with him. He took selfies with the fans too.
Legendary Paul Anka will be 81 in July of this year, and is still performing! Beginning in 1955, his career is one of amazing longevity!
Awww reminds me of my Mom & Pop 🙏♥️ THX’s love y’all
He's a well known songwriter too. He wrote. The lyrics for Frank Sinatra's "My Way". Another early hit He sang is "Puppy Love" which the Osmond Brother's coveted in the 1970's. Later I think in the 70's he had another song "The Times of Your Life". Or "Do You Remember The Times Of Your Life"
"Good morning yesterday...you wake up, and time has slipped away....."
Don't forget, "(You're) Having My Baby"...
@@vincentsablan732 My Destiny and Dianna.
@@autumnamber6849 I'll second those motions...
Went to see him in concert when I was in my early 20s. He came out into the audience. As he was returning to the stage I was in his path. I stepped to side to get out of his way & he gave me a kiss on the cheek. He wrote the song She’s A Lady, sung by Tom Jones.
What year was it
Paul had 53 hits during his career. This song was released in 1959. His last Top 40 song was in 1983 which was a duet Peter Cetera, formerly from Chicago. Please react to Hold till the Morning Comes.
My generation's slow dance favorite ! --------------Spring of '59, I was 12 y/o, 7th grade.
He's what my gramma called a swooner..😌.lol.... one of my fav Paul Anka songs!
Asia, BJ was right. Years ago dancing with your favorite gal…this song was the bomb. Very romantic in the long lost days of my life.
Paul is still touring. Crazy talent
Class and Romance back to the wonderful year of 1959
This just makes me smile😀
Another great Canadian artist. Great song writer as well.
Awesome reaction. You make me smile. And I'm going through some shit, so to smile, is appreciated. Love you both.
Rod.... of course you're going thru shit if yr living in that crazy US with crazy Biden! I'm now in paradise Puerto Vallarta! No problems here!!
@@michaelasay8587 While I agree completely about Biden, he has absolutely nothing to do with shit I'm going through. lol
Such a dreamy sound 🥰
Oh yes, so glad my mom played this type of music when I was growing up. I love this song. ❤ Great reaction you 2 ❤❤
His "Diana" and "You Are My Destiny" are next for you!!
Asia, that smile is so beautiful. Worth watching the reaction to see you respond :) Thanks!
Paul Anka is a legend
Shoot-I need to find a poodle skirt and saddle shoes asap! Love these oldies!
Ok guys ...you took it there I'm an oldies man and love this music thank you BJ
This takes me back to my mum and dad's day ,their music ,miss them both so much.
This is why YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST AND MY FAVORITE REACTORS on TH-cam! Honest,sincere,passionate and the best cross section of artists to highlight. I 🙏
I agree with the others, you guys are very cute! You made me smile too! Nice to see how you both get along! I think BJ is a true romantic!❤️
REAL TALENT ---------GREAT PRODUCTION, & ARRANGEMENT. CLASSIC 50'S.
This man was 17 y/o when he wrote & recorded this ! Oldies but goodies !
One of the all-time great songs to slow dance to. I couldn't take my eyes off Asia! She has a gorgeous smile and a toothpaste company should hire her to do commercials for them. 😁
Too funny! Important love lessons from Paul and BJ in one segment; outstanding. And how could anyone not love this late fifties romantic classic and sing along with it, "Baa...bbby". Paul is Canadian, of Lebanese ancestry, and performed live for decades. Try "Diana " next. He wrote it as a teen about his pretty babysitter.
Bro, your girl never stopped smiling even for a second after you hit her with that smooth talk about dancing with her.
Luv these old dreamy songs from the 50s. 👍👍👍
Legit candidate for most romantic song of all-time.
This is THE SLOW DANCE perfection!
You both are always on point...This is a big song of my Dad's generation...Nice song..You two are adorable...As Always
My sister was so woo'ded ... Paul Anka, and Elvis... I'll never forget it... R.I.P
Favourite song of my daughter ( 18 yrs old! ) Some songs are forever 💜🎶🎤
Very talented singer songwriter.
This is sooo old school, that the Beatles seemed like 'revolutionaries' with "I want to hold your hand, wooooo".
My mom’s era..So I grew up listening to this wonderful music.
Paul. Was the man back then.👍👍. He was gorgeous. 🥰🥰
A crooner from back in the day. Great song and vocalist.
Anka was just under 18 there. What a baby!
Wow! Paul Anka in 1959 with his original nose!
As well as those mentioned, also wrote It Doesn't Matter Anymore for Buddy Holly (and gave the royalties to Buddy's widow).
Keep doing oldies!!!!!! 💚🎸
This has to be one of his oldest songs. I know I've heard it in many tv shows and movies over the years. Oldie, but goodie!
Another great Canadian
Love you guys your reaction to music & I mean real music is awesome keep up the good work
That's perfect ❣️❣️❣️
Giving them the tingles all these years later, from before color TV. Boss.
Paul Anka wrote these top hits before his 18th birthday. From Ottawa, CANADA + years LATER, he wrote "MY WAY" for Sinatra
And for anyone that grew up in the 60s/70s/80s, Paul also wrote the theme to the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson - that's forever ingrained in all our heads...lol
You both look like for a few moments, you felt what slow dance music was like waaaay back when the simplest of lyrics were magic 😉😀♥️
PAUL ANKA I THINK CANADIAN BORN HAD A TON OF HITS. HE WROTE A BUNCH OF HITS FOR OTHER ARTISTS
You got to that right, he is Canadian 🇨🇦💖
❤🥰Awww you're awesome brother BJ❤ I haven't even listened to the song yet and I'm going OHHHHHH how sweet!!!!💯💖😍 You guys really are the cutest💖
😂😂😂 love when both start like playing to each other on these kind of songs. 😂😂😂
Yeah, Asia and BJ, Paul had all the ladies swooning back then❤
He had quite a few hits. Hey BJ, here's a song you can dedicate to your lady by Larry Graham...One in a Million You. Larry performed with Sly and the Family Stone and was founder of the group Grand Central Station. I think Asia will love his baritone voice🎵🎶 He's also the uncle of rapper Drake.
You guys are adorable, so much in love! Beautiful! ❤️
If you remember ACDC's "Let There Be Rock" lyrics: White man had the schmalz, Black man had the blues" ... that's schmalz. Sweet and romantic crooning.
This song as a last 45 dropped at a Friday night dance.. Both of us missed curfew
Y'all are just perfect for each other!!!!
BJ IS THE JELLY TO YOUR PEANUT BUTTER SANDWICH.
I LOVE Y'ALL.
Exactly ! You gotta fall in love .. that Embrace of ALL embraces that last a life time together ..my Husband of 45 yrs would grab me to dance …lol how I miss that Embrace !
A sweet romantic song from way back. Another from the way back machine that is a number one romantic tune is 'Beautiful' by another Canadian poet, Gordon Lightfoot. Thats two from Canadians and a third from a sweet Canadian Goddess is Shaniah Twain doing 'From This Moment On'. Us Canuks are romantics at the core. Thats why we are so slow to anger, but we are passionate and so when we do get mad look the fuck out.
Lmbo I love you two!! Paul Anka is known for lots of hits he wrote for other artist straight up to the 1980's I believe. This was in the 50's that song came out!
smooth!!!!!!
My moms favorite song. She passed away January 29 2002. I miss her so much. She loved Paul
Great one here guys. This was 1959 and he was only 18 here. Definitely a young crooner and he wrote this song. He was the youngest cat in the house here and pretty much could've had any young lady in the audience he wanted. If you pause this video a just the right moment when he's holding the girls hand and singing to the audience, check out the looks on the guys faces in the audience, it's very funny stuff. ☮️✌️💕👌
Me and the wife dance to this every time we hear it even thought it was recorded 8 years before I was born we had the DJ play this at our Daughters wedding we were the only ones slow dancing to this classic song (I was 44 and she was 40 at the time)
As he grew older, Paul Anka wrote what would become the signature song for Frank Sinatra: "My Way". But as a teenager in the 1950s, Anka was one of the first teen idols of Rock 'n Roll, when it was new and White folk were just starting to steal it from its Black creators.
Paul Anka was born and raised in Ottawa, the capital city of Canada. In the mid to late 1980s, I performed in a few plays at the Ottawa Little Theatre, whose back side was on Paul Anka street - more of an alley, really.
Paul Anka not only saying this song and he wrote it he wrote many hits many many hits and on top of everything he's Canadian well LOL he wrote she's a lady I didn't my way they called it puppy love etc etc etc keep up the good work guys
This came out in 1959 when I was 12 years old. People before me have mentioned other songs that made him popular back then, but he continued on through the years and wrote a lot of songs for other artists. It ALWAYS cracks me up when young people say "you can tell it's old cos it's in black and white" Well, we didn't have color TV back then. As far as MOVIES go, there were movies made in COLOR as far back as the 1930s, so there! LOL!
BJ, you are freakin' hilarious! Of course we all know about the slow dancing head on the shoulder thing.
Asia, hold on to that young man, they don't come along too often, Your head on his shoulder story, was priceless !!
One of my all time favourite songs
Good Man :) her head on his shoulder is of great significance
Paul should be appreciated like all the fathers of rock.
There's a stage play coming soon about this music
Your the Man BJ..you always 'get it'....
Hello, relatively new subscriber. Enjoy your channel! Paul Anka always makes me think of Neil Sedaka - don't know why - "Laughter in the Rain" was huge. He's a goofy looking 70s singer (around since the 60s or late 50s), beautiful voice, lyrics, plays piano, too. Great songs! Sounds like a woman at times...high notes. "Solitaire," "Calendar Girl," "Breaking Up is Hard to Do," "Bad Blood" with Elton John (ok), "You Mean Everything To Me," "Oh Carol," "Happy Birthday, Sweet 16," "The Hungry Years," "Our Last Song Together," "The Miracle Song," "King of Clowns," "New York City Blues," "(I'm A Song) Sing Me," "Should've Never Let You Go," with Dara Sedaka (good one). Ronnie Milsap was a blind country singer & piano player. A 70s/80s legend you never hear about. Great songs & style, "It Was Almost Like a Song," "Smokey Mountain Rain," "I Wouldn't Have Missed it For the World," "Stranger in my House," "Lost in the 50s Tonight," "What a Difference You've Made in My Life" and "Any Day Now."
Also, Samantha Sang's "Emotion" sounds like The Bee Gees. Barry - at least - sings on the track - and wrote it, I believe. I always thought it was a BeeGees song. If you ever listen, you'll see what I mean. Sounds like Barry! Then there's Frankie Valli (?) and the Four Seasons..."Can't Take My Eyes Off You," "My Eyes Adored You" (solo Frankie), "Who Loves You Baby," "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)," "Walk Like a Man," "Sherry," "Rag Doll," " Sorry I didn't check to see if you'd done these. Started typing...
Music back then was about love
He's written so many famous songs.
Asia watching your face during this was classic. You were in dreamland over this mans voice and a lesser man than BJ would be very jealous. Can you imagine how uncomfrtable the guys in the audience were with this man openly seducing their wives and girlfriends. Paul Anka's voice could melt the hardest of hearts.
That's a song you have to dance with you most special lady. I remember this tv performance.
Paul is appearing at a casino near my town soon.
He wrote 'My Way' which is normally associated with Frank Sinatra, and he wrote the theme song for Johnny Carson's Tonight Show.
My generation had the greatest school dances because of songs like this.
Paul was a teenager in this video...he was a great singer
I believe Paul was 18 in this video.
@@michaeldeblasio8201 :)
From my hometown of ottawa Canada 🇨🇦 such an amazing song writer and voice
Others have said it...great songwriter and singer, influential in pop history!