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According to Radar Online, 75-year-old crooner Paul Anka will perform his most famous song, My Way, at Donald Trumps inauguration, with the lyrics re-written for his long-time friend and incoming president. Paul was asked by the members of the Trump inauguration committee and he was only too happy to do it for his longtime friend, one insider told the tabloid outlet. The source indicated that Ankas special version of the Frank Sinatra classic would be performed during the inaugural dance between Trump and his wife Melania Trump.
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Loge23
(3,922 posts)Update: Anka will not appear at the inauguration.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)in this situation. i"m certainly enjoying it.
And brace up--those people who actually are old enough to remember 'I did it my way' are hearing Frank Sinatra in their minds. ("Who's Paul Anka?" and "He's still alive?" In other words, consider the all-but-forgotten elderly white trumpster relegated. And enjoy.
Maru Kitteh
(28,341 posts)Nailed it. That was my first thought.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Father in law. I am pretty sure Jason is a democratic supporters from previous interviews.
tblue37
(65,409 posts)http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/paul-anka-bows-out-of-trump-inauguration-to-spend-the-day-with-his-son/
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)tinrobot
(10,903 posts)Oh that's right, he'll probably get stiffed, just like every other contractor.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)putitinD
(1,551 posts)crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)frogmarch
(12,154 posts)from half a century ago.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)...not the swearing in of a "President of the people" but a royal Ego Wank by the Draft-dodging & Tax-dodging Wanker-in-Chief for the Russian-Republican Cabal.
How small. How pathetically small of Comrade Casino and the Republicans to debase our national ceremony with a Deformed Ego Wank Off.
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)How does one boycott Paul Anka? Is there a truck stop in Branson to avoid?
Cha
(297,323 posts)malaise
(269,062 posts)Uponthegears
(1,499 posts)Perfect
JHan
(10,173 posts)mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)Do it your way
Grammy23
(5,810 posts)to have sung at his coronation....er....inaugural ball??
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)Different Drummer
(7,621 posts)2naSalit
(86,650 posts)LeftInTX
(25,383 posts)Bye-bye Star Spangled Banner
malaise
(269,062 posts)the end?
We hear this more at funerals these days
Note Sinatra 'we will now do the national anthem'
LeftInTX
(25,383 posts)"And so I face the final curtain"
malaise
(269,062 posts)his arrest and frogmarch
tblue37
(65,409 posts)nolabear
(41,987 posts)They're going to have to change those lyrics a whole lot though. I prefer the original. "And now, the end has come..."
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,584 posts)malaise
(269,062 posts)It's actually not Sinatra's song - Paul Anka wrote it
tonedevil
(3,022 posts)wrote words the tune is by a french pop star of the 60s and 70s, Claude François.
malaise
(269,062 posts)Welcome to DU
3catwoman3
(24,007 posts)...any time.
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)Frankly, some no name has been should sing Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is?" for the loser Trumpster.
Tanuki
(14,919 posts)will comment?
https://mobile.twitter.com/NancySinatra/status/796233114506772482
"Unfortunately Hillary is the victim of a well-orchestrated smear campaign It's a shame. She is the best candidate ever to run for president.
"...(from Nancy Sinatra's twitter, Nov.8)
Cha
(297,323 posts)performing for trumpee. He wouldn't support his bigotry.
Tanuki
(14,919 posts)He has to hate the idea.
nolabear
(41,987 posts)I suddenly really am a huge fan of Nancy Sinatra.
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)Abq_Sarah
(2,883 posts)If he'd actually written the song.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,841 posts)MaeScott
(878 posts)To suggest a few verses!
hamsterjill
(15,222 posts)With "She's Having MY Baby" instead of "Our" baby.
LeftInTX
(25,383 posts)instead.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)Anka's is "Lonely Boy"..
malaise
(269,062 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)encourage admiration of Anka, but it is an accomplishment that will live on after him. I assume there were others.
Anyway, some people are going to perform at the inauguration, just glad that so far no favorites have turned out to be trumpsters. I avoid a lot of entertainment news just to keep entertainers strangers.
malaise
(269,062 posts)I could not believe it
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)tblue37
(65,409 posts)"Diana"
I'm so young and you're so old
This, my darling I've been told
I don't care just what they say
'Cause forever I will pray
You and I will be as free
As the birds up in the trees
Oh, please, stay by me, Diana
Thrills I get when you hold me close
Oh, my darling, you're the most
I love you but do you love me
Oh Diana, can't you see
I love you with all my heart
And I hope we will never part
Oh, please, stay with me, Diana
Oh my darlin', oh my lover
Tell me that there is no other
I love you with my heart
Oh-oh, oh-oh
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh
Only you can take my heart
Only you can tear it apart
When you hold me in your loving arms
I can feel you giving all your charms
Hold me darling, ho-ho-hold me tight
Squeeze me baby with a-all your might
Oh, please, stay by me Diana
Oh, please, Diana
Oh, please, Diana
Oh, please, Diana
Considering the May-December aspects of the song, maybe it suits Trump.
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LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)Going to be singing it in russian?
Secondly, I thought Maria Osmond was going to be singing at tRumputin's Inaugural?
ALL the pisser-in-chief can get for his funeral procession is 30-50 years ago A listers.
I won't be watching anyway, so
rug
(82,333 posts)And you all face the final curtain
My friend, I'll say it clear
I'll state my case, of which I'm certain
I've lived a life that's full of shit
I flew above each and every highway
And more, much more than this, they pissed it my way
Regrets, you have a few
But then again, too many to count up
I did what I wanted to do and saw it through without taxation
I winged th' uncharted course, each fumbling step along the byway
And more, much more than this, they pissed it my way
Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew
When I bit off more than I could chew
But through it all, when there was doubt
They drank it up and pissed it out
I faced it all and I stood tall, they pissed it my way
I've groped, but never laughed nor ever cried
Not had my fill, my share of losing
And now, as tears subside, I find it all so amusing
To think I did all that
And may I say, not in a shy way
Oh, no, oh, no, not me, they pissed it my way
For what is my hair, what has science wraught?
If not my own, then Chinese silicone
To hide the things my scalp truly feels and wait for Puty, the one who kneels
The record shows I took the blows and they pissed it my way
Yes, it was my way
LeftInTX
(25,383 posts)This should be an original thread!!
Thrill
(19,178 posts)they're looking every where
Vinca
(50,279 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)kind of routine. Who knew?
Bettie
(16,110 posts)dead.
no_hypocrisy
(46,130 posts)LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)Anka should sing "I did it . . . . sideways."
SO true too!
lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)Just to kick Paul Anka's ass.
jaxind
(1,074 posts)I honestly feel like I could barf right now!
Seedersandleechers
(3,044 posts)MrPurple
(985 posts)with Joe Pesci shooting people
lillypaddle
(9,581 posts)applegrove
(118,696 posts)leader in Canada. Does Trump know that?
Lotusflower70
(3,077 posts)He is pretty desperate to try to get anyone to perform.
applegrove
(118,696 posts)JI7
(89,252 posts)or would even care.
he wishes he could get the big names that performed for obama.
still_one
(92,225 posts)Response to still_one (Reply #43)
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Freethinker65
(10,024 posts)Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)sdfernando
(4,935 posts)I seriously doubt Anka or the orange one even know what auto-tune is!
nolabear
(41,987 posts)Saw his birthday tribute the other night and it was a little thinner than in his youth but still really good.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)Please let that be a good omen.
Stellar
(5,644 posts)and I'm 72. Perhaps senility has set in.
Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)Or they'll get stiffed. Count on it. Even in loss Trump seems to win in court by dragging the appeals out.
Grammy23
(5,810 posts)Why pay when they should be soooo grateful to him?? They OWE him.
Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)Maybe he'll make Anka's record sales rise so much they'll look like they're falling just like Jackie Evancho's.
spanone
(135,844 posts)old vegas entertainers go where the money is.
FarPoint
(12,409 posts)He shames his ancestors.
LeftInTX
(25,383 posts)FarPoint
(12,409 posts)Another shamer...
LeftInTX
(25,383 posts)But they're Christians and Trump is anti-Muslim. Many aren't pleased with how Christians have been treated in the ME in the last 35 years, so it isn't too surprising.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)It would be less embarrassing to hire a good DJ.
musette_sf
(10,202 posts)"I dont care if youre a light man, a production manager, an agent or a theater owner like last night you understand? I have a new philosophy. I dont care if its Jesus Christ. Im the only important one on that stage."
Transcript of Anka Band Meeting Rant:
https://michaelscomments.wordpress.com/2014/06/09/the-paul-anka-transcript/
Rorey
(8,445 posts)I hope this gets circulated before the inauguration so people will have it in the back of their minds.
musette_sf
(10,202 posts)but I think most who are already familiar with it are working musicians.
(One of my FB musician friends, commenting on Anka's Bigly Gig, posted just one line, without link or attribution: "THE GUYS GET SHIRTS".)
Charles Bukowski
(1,132 posts)or attended one of his concerts, I can proudly say I've been boycotting him since birth.
JenniferJuniper
(4,512 posts)vitriolic!
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,855 posts)I might actually watch if he got a creepy Russian like this guy!
JHan
(10,173 posts)Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)Sorry, Frank Sinatra.
Blue Owl
(50,427 posts)n/t
liberalhistorian
(20,818 posts)who he is, and most of those who do know won't give a shit or will have thought he was already dead. LOL.
herding cats
(19,565 posts)I said in another thread, I had to look him up. His popularity predates my birth, and any residual fame he may have had was long gone before I was of age.
I'm sure I've heard bits of the song "I Did It My Way" before, but I've never heard all of it, at least not at one time, and I never knew who sang it.
This is a pathetic choice for an entertainer at a presidential inauguration in 2017, even if it's all you can get. Recorded music and slideshows would be better than disgruntled Rockettes, a has been more than half of the country hasn't even heard of and Lee Greenwood.
I'm going to take back Lee Greenwood, he's actually appropriate for the event, even if he's a trite choice. He'd be a decent opening act to help get the crowd in the mood while people were still being seated.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,036 posts)Fuck the rest of us.