Paul Anka

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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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And that was the title.

Harvey Levin, who's on top of everything, I love those guys.

He called up and said, there's a song coming out called This Is It, Michael Jackson.

And somehow someone said, you wrote it.

I said, I wrote some songs, but

This is it doesn't ring a bell.

Yeah.

How can I hear it?

And he sent it to me.

What they did was whoever were around him at the time, his music group, they took the very first word.

This is it.

And they changed the song and changed the title.

There they were a week before release, a week before the tour, and they were in a bind.

I went, aha, so we're on the phone with lawyers.

I said, look, ain't going to hold you up.

I just want half of everything.

Same I did with Johnny Carson, with the Johnny Carson thing.

And that was it, the Michael Jackson story.

But to work with him, you know,

When you listen to a lot of the tracks on some of those albums, they're not amazing tracks.

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