Music Album Review: 'Paul Anka 30th Anniversary Collection: His All-Time Greatest Hits'
© 1989 Rhino Records Inc. On October 26, 1989, Los Angeles-based Rhino Records published Paul Anka - 30th Anniversary Collection: His All-Time Greatest Hits, a one-CD compilation album featuring 24 of Canadian singer-songwriter-actor Paul Anka's best-known and best-loved hits. Known throughout the world for songs such as Diana, Lonely Boy, Put Your Head On My Shoulder, and (You're) Having My Baby, Anka is also the musician who took a French-language song by Claude François and Jacques Revaux and transformed it into Frank Sinatra's signature song My Way. Paul Albert Anka was born on July 30, 1941 into an Antiochian Orthodox Christian of Syrian and Lebanese ancestry in Ottawa, the capital of Canada. His talent for music emerged early during his childhood, and when he was a grade school student, Paul sang in the choir of Ottawa's St. Elias Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral, where he also studied music theory with Frederic Karam, the choir's director. When Paul ...