Paul Anka: Classic Songs My Way

Status of copy at Case Memorial Library
Contents: Time after time (Cyndi Lauper) — Get here (Brenda Russell) — Mr. Brightside (The Killers) — Waiting for a girl like you (Foreigner) — Ordinary world (Taylor/ Rhodes/ Le Bon/ Cuccurullo) — Heaven (Bryan Adams) — Bad day (Daniel Powter) — I go to extremes (Billy Joel) — Both sides now (Joni Mitchell) — You are my destiny (Anka) (with M. Bublé) — Walking in Memphis (Marc Cohn) — Against the wind (Bob Seger) — My way (Anka) (with J. Bon Jovi).
Chris Arnott wrote in the New Haven Advocate: "Sure, he covers The Killers' 'Mr. Brightside' and that ubiquitous 'Bad Day' song, and he jumps Cyndi Lauper's 'Time After Time' like it was an Ellington riff. But put this in perspective: Anka's last album, Rock Swings, was even weirder. On that prior crazed rearrangement of modern rock, the onetime teen idol adapted Bon Jovi's 'It's My Life;' on this one, he and Bon Jovi merely duet on Anka's own composition 'My Way.' The strident big-band sound and Anka's seemingly out-of-it vocals confound at first, but before long you think they're brilliant" ("CDs: Chris Arnott on the Comeback Trail," 9/13/07, p. 32).