July 30 - Paul Anka (The Musical Birthday Series, 3rd Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for July 30th are here: Gerald Moore (2019) and Nannerl Mozart (2020)

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Paul Anka (b. 30 July 1941) is a Canadian-American singer, songwriter, and actor. 

Forward and Back

Early success; 1970s chart comeback; 1990s comeback - Sections heads from Wikipedia bio

Paul Anka has one of those careers

Which ebbs and revives with the years;

He’ll seem efflorescence,

For a while luminescence,

And then once again disappears.

 

 

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A Little Tonight Music

 

He wrote the theme for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson’’.. Wikipedia

 

When, before you went to bed,

You tried to ease your tired head

With funny things that Carson said,

You’d hear, with Sevrinson on hand,

The music from the Carson band,

Cool and swinging and on brand.

They use a theme, which seemed just right

To frame a talk show called “Tonight” --

Jazzy, bouncy, fun, and tight.

Query

Then, while sipping decaf Sanka,

Did you know that you could thank a

Hip composer named Paul Anka?