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Semaine du 31 aout 1974, PAUL ANKA est en tête du classement américain BILLBOARD HOT100 avec son HAVING A BABY.

ONJ se hisse gentiment sur la 26ème place ... 

 

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CHALLENGE

 

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"Put Your Head On My Shoulder" 64th Anniversary Cover Challenge (woobox.com)

LE DUO DU JOUR

I WILL LIFT UP MY EYES : Olivia a réinterprété cette superbe chanson en duo avec AMY SKY ! version extraite de l'album GRACE & GRATITUDE RENEWED ! Album passé à la trappe ! On ne le trouve nul part alors qu'Olivia et Amy avaient retravaillé quelques titres sur la version de 2010 ! 

 

AMAZON.COM 

 L'album de duos volume 2 est dispo chez Amazon .. a $32.98 !! ça c'est du bon deal ! Bon j'imagine que le taro va changer parce que sinon ça sera un échec commercial garanti !! Quand au 33t ... wait & see  ! 

 

SAD FACE 

On peut donc dire adieu au second duo avec Paul Anka ! Do I Love You !! Fallait pas nous faire entendre ces quelques notes !! 

 

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L'HOMMAGE DE RICHARD WILKINS

C'est vraiment l'un des plus beaux et vibrant hommage rendu à Olivia Newton-John et ce par l'animateur, l'ami ... merci beaucoup !

 

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LES VERSIONS EXTENDED 

Les dernières de Ventjes ... un régal pour les oreilles ...

L'un des derniers duo d'ONJ avec Paul Anka !

 

D'ailleurs .. ces Messieurs, Dames de chez Primary Wave Rec .. quand n'est-il de l'album de duos ? 

C'est maintenant qu'il faudrait penser à le sortir ... à temps pour les fêtes de fin d'année !! Pas l'année prochaine !! 

IF NOT FOR YOU est un joli cadeau fait aux fans .. mais ça ne va pas intéresser le grand public .. alors qu'un album de duos avec un joli parterre de stars ferait un carton et serait un joli hommage à Olivia Newton-John ! 

J'imagine qu'Olivia Newton-John tenait à ce projet .. elle qui adorait plus que tout faire des duos ..

J'imagine que IF NOT FOR YOU ne sera pas distribué à l'extérieur des USA ! Son label indépendant n'existe pas en dehors des frontières et je pense que ça va être encore un merdier pour se procurer cet albums ! Je m'en souviens pour avoir galéré avec le CD de PHYSICAL en magasin ! 

En tant que fan .. je peux dire merci à Amazon .. quoique l'antenne française .. c'est pas ça non plus pour un article importé ! Il faut attendre que l''article soit sorti aux USA ! Je peux aussi dire merci aux plateformes de streaming .. mais tu n'as que la musique et pas le livret .. donc pas les photos .. mais ça permet d'attendre ... 

Alors Papa Noel .. si tu me lis ... s'il te plait  ... apporte nous ce cd de duos !!! Je crois qu'on a tous été gentils ... 

 

INEDIT

C'est un joli duo inédit entre OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN et PAUL ANKA qui vient d'être lâché sur Instagram !!  

Est-ce que ce duo va figurer sur l'album de duos tant attendu .. mais qui n'est pas prêt de sortir cette année ? ... voir jamais !!???

En tout cas .. quelle émotion de voir ONJ, rire et l'entendre chanter ! 

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Voici une version de Paul et Anthea ANKA

    

 

RETRO CLICHE

Une bien jeune Olivia dans son jardin australien !! Un grand merci à Pierz Newton-John, d'avoir partagé ce souvenir !! 

Livvie in my grandmother's backyard, aged around 15

SO .... WHEN ??

Son duo avec sa fille est sortie depuis une bonne année ... l'autre duo avec Paul Anka est sortie il y a 7 mois .. la sortie de PHYSICAL 40 et quelques problèmes juridiques ont fait que l'album de duos a été repoussé ... mais jusqu'a quand ? 

C'est aussi un peu "short" pour une sortie en plein St Valentin ??! 

On s'impatiente Dame Olivia !! 💖

COUPURES DE WEB

The 25 most famous Australian celebrities REVEALED The best of Aussie talent. 

- by Nikki Black

 

 De loin .. la première artiste australienne connue ... dans les années 70 ... même si elle est née en Angleterre !! 

C'est son rôle dans GREASE qui a fait d'elle la meilleure ambassadrice pour son pays d'adoption. 

 

PAUL ANKA

 

RETRO ARTICLE

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Paul Anka On Teaming Up With Olivia Newton-John, Michael Bublé

 

 

LES ANECDOTES DE FLEUR 

 Ou comment recycler une robe ...

 

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MAKING MEMORIES

 C'est aujourd'hui que sort ... aux USA ... le nouvel album du célèbre crooner américain Paul Anka !

 Album qui contient le duo avec Olivia "Put Your head On My Shoulder" ... et quelques autres très bons morceaux ! 

PAUL ANKA

HIT MACHINE: Paul sings a 1970 duet with Tom Jones, who had huge success with his song She’s A Lady

 

I DON’T MIND GETTING OLDER... BUT I DON’T WANT TO GET OLD!

As music legend Paul Anka turns 80, he tells the Express about his new album, his old friends and why he’ll keep on doing it his way until he drops

• Daily Express
• 2 Aug 2021
• By Peter Sheridan

WHAT DO they do with all the caffeine they remove to make decaffeinated coffee? I’m pretty sure they pump it all into Paul Anka, the perennially-young singing legend who has just celebrated his 80th birthday and launches his latest album in two weeks. “When I woke up on my 80th birthday, the first thing I thought about was my 81st birthday with another new album,” he says.

“Since I left home as a kid I’ve had my nose to the grindstone, and don’t want to lose that energy and dedication. I don’t have a rear-view mirror. I keep forging ahead. If you stand still they’ll bury you.

“I don’t think about being 80, that’s just a number. I don’t mind getting older, I just don’t want to get old.

“I refuse to retire. I’m scared to death of it. People who retire get old overnight, their bodies fail and they die. I won’t retire unless I have to. It’s nothing to do with money. Money buys you some freedom, but it kills everything. I need to write music every day because it’s my passion.”

Anka’s new album, Making Memories, featuring duets with friends including Olivia Newton-John, Andrea Bocelli and Michael Bublé, is released on August 13.

“I’m already working on my next album,” he says. “I’m really excited about it.”

He still has the bright-eyed, smoothskinned, fresh-faced enthusiasm of the 16-year-old who had his first hit with the romantic song Diana in 1957 – a tune so loved by Princess Diana’s mother Frances that she named her daughter after it.

Amazingly, Anka has hit the charts in every decade since – an unprecedented feat – with pop classics including Lonely Boy, Put Your Head On My Shoulder, and Puppy Love. He has written more than 500 songs, recorded 126 albums, had 33 hits in the Top 40, and sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the most successful singers ever.

His songs have been recorded by stars from Elvis Presley to Michael Jackson, from Buddy Holly to Drake. Anka wrote Frank Sinatra’s signature song My Way, and Tom Jones’s biggest hit, She’s A Lady.

He’s maintained an exhausting pace through seven decades, and shows no sign of slowing down, launching a four-month US tour in October. “I exercise, and listen to my body,” he says, speaking from his California mansion just north of Los Angeles.

“I’ve never smoked, never had hard alcohol. And no, I’ve never had a face-lift. 

I drink a little bowl of olive oil every day, and eat blueberries daily to stay healthy.”

HE’S COME a long way from the 14-year-old fan who sneaked into guitar legend Chuck Berry’s dressing room and played him an early demo recording of Diana. “Worst goddamn song I’ve ever heard,” said Berry. “Go back to school.”

Anka laughs: “That motivated me to leave home in Canada and move to New York, where I got lucky and signed a record deal. Chuck Berry and I joked about it later because once Diana was a hit we toured together.” Bobbysoxers screamed as Anka became a teen idol alongside his friends Elvis Presley, Eddie Cochran and the Everly Brothers. But that all ended when the British invasion changed the face of pop music in the early 1960s.

“I loved the Beatles,” he says. “I met them in Paris and saw them perform in London. Many of my friends didn’t survive the change but I had already become a successful songwriter and wasn’t hurt by the British invasion.

“When my friends were looking for songs written by people twice their age, I was writing my own songs.”

Then Anka reinvented himself as a lounge singer.

“I’d become the youngest singer ever to play Las Vegas, and hung out with the Rat Pack, in this world run by the Mafia. I loved Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Junior. They were so good to me and taught me how to perform. They made me feel part of the Rat Pack, called me ‘Kid’ – they had it embroidered on my bathrobe for the steam room – and I still got the girls. I really got an education in living.

“But they were big drinkers and smokers, and I watched them slowly destroying their bodies.”

Canadian-born to Lebanese parents, Anka’s songwriting career soared when he bought the rights to a little-known French song, and wrote new lyrics to it for his Rat Pack pal Sinatra.

“Frank had told me: ‘I’m doing one more album, then I’m retiring.’ I understood why: the FBI were bugging his rooms, the Rat Pack was ending, and he was tired.

“He’d asked me to write him a song, but I was scared to death because he’d throw me out of the room if I gave him something like Puppy Love. I sat down at midnight, and mentally put myself in his shoes. In five hours I’d written My Way – it just flowed. I sent him the demo, and a few months later he phoned me from a Los Angeles recording studio, and down the phone I heard My Way for the first time. I started crying.

“On my new album I sing it with Bublé and Bocelli, and it still gives me the chills.”

AS SINATRA might have said, regrets, Anka’s had a few: three broken marriages, and five daughters by his first wife to whom he was often an absent parent. “I did my best, but I was travelling 200 days a year,” he says. “My first wife,Anne de Zogheb, was a top model and the love of my life, and we had 40 good years together.”

When the marriage collapsed in divorce, he admits: “It was all me.” His second marriage, to his personal trainer Anna Aberg, was an accident, he says. It was just a casual encounter – “and I was informed a few months later I was having a child.

“I rose to the occasion and married her, but we divorced after 18 months. In the custody battle that followed I won full custody of our son, Ethan, who’s now almost 16.”

Anka divorced Wife No 3, Lisa Pemberton, in 2020 after four rocky years, claiming he was miserable.

“One day I pulled out my birth certificate and said, ‘See this? How much longer do I have? I can’t live like this any more!’”

He’s now in a loving relationship, he says, but will he marry again?

“No! No, no, no, no, no. You can add two more if you want,” he laughs, adding: “Subject to change.”

Yet he’s no museum piece: Anka is working on a documentary about his career, and developing a Broadway musical about his life. He appeared on America’s version of TV show The Masked Singer last year, and Put Your Head On My Shoulder became a recent TikTok viral sensation, bringing him a new generation of music lovers.

“Suddenly I’m 80 years old and I’ve got 16-year-olds screaming, stopping me in the street, clamouring for my autograph,” he says.

“When I started out at 16 I could never have imagined I’d still be performing at 80. I started at the bottom of this mountain with nothing, crawling along the road to success, praying every second just to stay where I was.

“It’s said that if you find a job you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.

“I keep going because I love what

I do, and I’ll keep on as long as people will have me.”

Making Memories is out on August 13

 

LES INSTAS DU NEW IDEA

Danke Kay

 

DES HISTOIRES A LIRE

HAPPY PAUL ANKA'S BIRTHDAY

Paul Anka célèbre ses 80 ans .. et le tout Hollywood ou presque n'a pas manqué de le lui souhaiter ! ONJ fait partie des stars .. 

 

ORIGINAL SLIDES 

Sur EBAY de très jolies diapositives d'ONJ ...

 

COUPURE DE PRESSE 

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31 Jul 2021

MARION MCMULLEN BACK AT THOSE WHO HAVE ENJOYED THE SUMMER FESTIVAL SEASON

PARENTHESE

CHERRY RED/RT INUSTRIES font la promo de la nouvelle compilation de SHEENA EASTON qui sort le 17 septembre ...

A votre avis ... quand sortira le nouveau projet d'ONJ ...  sans doute après la sortie du nouvel album de sa fille .. 

 

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PAUL ANKA sort son  nouvel album le 13 aout aux USA ! 9.99 chez Amazon ... 

LANDSLIDE

Pour sa 3ème semaine dans le classement BILLBOARD HOT100, le 3ème single extrait de PHYSICAL, LANDSLIDE se hisse à la 58ème place ! 

L'album PHYSICAL est un peu dans les choux à la 107ème marche du BILLBOARD 200 .. 

 

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PUT YOUR HEAD ... 

Dans une interview pour un magazine de seniors Paul Anka en dit un peu plus sur le pourquoi de la vidéo PUT YOUR HEAD ON MY SHOULDER .. 

L'idée du dessin animé est donc venue des créatifs de PRIMARY WAVE MUSIC !! 

C'est sur on aurait tellement préféré y voir ONJ en chair et en os ... Paul Anka aussi d'ailleurs .. mais en période de Covid ... ça n'était pas évident ! 

et puis ONJ chante tellement bien dans ce duo .. j'adore la sensualité de sa voix ... 

PAUL ANKA

Paul Anka à mis à disposition de ses fans son nouveau single ... Olivia Newton-John .. toujours pas !

Devra t-on acheter d'abord en premier l'album de Paul Anka disponible le 23 juillet pour avoir son duo avec ONJ ... on ne sait toujours pas quand celui d'Olivia sortira ! 

 

.@paulanka's new single "Making Memories" is available now! Listen here: https://t.co/nWpj8B899W and pre-save his album, available on July 23, here: https://t.co/CNxIowREau #NewMusicFriday pic.twitter.com/jKzheby4cv

— Green Hill (@greenhillmusic) June 18, 2021

ARTICLE DU PASSÉ

 Danke Kay ! 

 

NEWS

L'album de PAUL ANKA - MAKING MEMORIES est prévu le 30 juillet aux USA ! 

Il contient pour ceux qui ne le sauraient pas .. le duo avec Olivia ... 

Legendary singer-songwriter and pop music icon, Paul Anka presents all-new recordings of some of his signature songs as well as newly-minted classics. Includes such Anka staples as My Way, You Are My Destiny, and Put Your Head on My Shoulder, and features guest performances by Olivia Newton-John, Il Divo, Andrea Bocelli, and Frank Sinatra. For over sixty years the Academy Award nominee has been writing, performing, and acting his way into the hearts of fans the world over. 

L'auteur-compositeur-interprète légendaire et icône de la musique pop, Paul Anka présente de tout nouveaux enregistrements de certaines de ses chansons emblématiques ainsi que de nouveaux classiques. Son nouvel album comprend des reprises telles que My Way, You Are My Destiny et Put Your Head on My Shoulder, en solo ou en duo avec des invités comme Olivia Newton-John, Il Divo, Andrea Bocelli et Frank Sinatra. Depuis plus de soixante ans, l'artiste mondialement connu grave son chemin dans le cœur de ses nombreux fans.