With his 1957 number one hit record, "Diana," about a teenage boy's unrequited crush on an older girl, 16-year-old singer-songwriter Paul Anka tapped into a collective angst. Catapulted into the ranks of the 1950s post-Elvis...

Paul Albert Anka, OC (born 30 July 1941, in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actor of Lebanese origin.[1] He became a naturalised US citizen in 1990.[1] Anka first became famous as a teen idol in the late 1950s and 1960s with hits...

Believe it or not, some folks didn't get their fill of Frank Sinatra's recording of "My Way," either before or after the singer's death last May. Really. It must be true. Why else would Paul Anka, who wrote the English lyrics to Sinatra's theme...

Paul Anka on "The Sopranos"? You can almost picture the one-time teenybopper idol in a pinstriped suit saying: "Yeah, Tony, over here; I've got your Lonely Boy." "Lonely Boy," of course, is one of Anka's own, self-penned hits, which include "Puppy Love,"...

Paul Anka has written an inordinate amount of pop music classics, cranking out hit songs like "My Way" for Frank Sinatra, "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" for Buddy Holly, saving "Lonely Boy," "Put Your Head on My Shoulder," "Puppy Love" and others for himself — not...

Just after 8:00 on the evening of October 1st, with a large group of dapperly dressed guests gathered in Grand Army Plaza below, a 12-foot cake shining in the spotlight amidst them, and a small cast of hosts counting down from ten on stage,...