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. 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.
In fact, Anka co-wrote the song, as related in the following account, to a minor French pop hit for Claude François about a failed marriage, written by Jacques Revaux. to Syd Vicious, it was the signature song for the man many consider the greatest singer ever, Frank Sinatra. Not only is it one of the most recorded and sung songs of all time, recorded by everyone from Sammy Davis, Jr. The man wrote “My Way.” For that and that alone, Paul Anka deserves an entire floor in the Tower of Song. The legendary songwriter relates the unusual origins of one of the most performed songs of all time.
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