Paul Anka
speaker
1,065 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 22 Jul
Paul Anka’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because when they looked at, unlike you and I, at a blank piece of paper...
they're looking at a score sheet like this, and they're going to put every note from every aspect of an orchestra.
You and I can't do that.
I would sit with him with his guitar and his piano, and I would just go,
I'm just a, ooh, and he'd take, I could never do what the Don Costas of the world, or the Nelson Riddles.
I introduced him to Sinatra, and he worked with me in Sinatra for years.
But here was one of the guys of the many.
who absolutely studied the art of arranging and knew what to do.
With somebody like a green kid like me that walked in, banging at a piano, pouring his heart out, and that was it.
He was responsible for making me who I am.
Nelson Riddle was responsible for putting Sinatra in the framework.
And I learned at an early age
that you've got to put the best around you, whether it's Panama Francis, Milt Hinton.
You know, back when I started, electric guitars were, huh?
There was no electric bass.
You know, when I started, it was a whole new thing.
It was stand-up.
But the Costas of the world...
Knew how to take those artists and frame them up with those arrangements.
They were the true geniuses.
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