Classic Songs, My Way (Deluxe Edition)

Anka, Paul

Genre: music4me > Jazz & Blues > Jazz

Format: 2 CD

Released: Tue 16 Oct 2007

Catalogue Number: 1239997

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Description:
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. 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.) 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 Bublé 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).

Details:

Distributor: Universal Music
Discs: 2
Release Year: 2007

Track Listing:

Disk 1
1.	Streetlight
2.	Get Here
3.	Mr. Brightside
4.	Waiting for a Girl Like You
5.	Ordinary World
6.	Heaven
7.	Bad Day
8.	I Go to Extremes
9.	Both Sides Now
10.	You Are My Destiny (With Michael Buble)
11.	Walking in Memphis
12.	Against the Wind
13.	My Way (With Jon Bon Jovi)
Disk 2
1.	Diana
2.	Don’T Gamble with Love
3.	I Love You Baby
4.	You Are My Destiny
5.	Crazy Love
6.	My Heart Sings
7.	Lonely Boy
8.	Put Your Head On My Shoulder
9.	My Home Town
10.	Puppy Love
11.	Adam & Eve
12.	Tonight My Love, Tonight
13.	Cinderella
14.	Dance On Little Girl
15.	A Steel Guitar & a Glass of Wine
16.	It Doesn’T Matter Anymore
17.	Ogni Volta
18.	Les Filles de Paris
19.	I’M Not Anyone
20.	You Are My Destiny (Instrumental Reprise)