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Lonely Boy
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The story of popular singer Paul Anka. He rose from obscurity to become the idol of millions of adolescent fans around the world. This film takes a candid look at both sides of the footlights as well as the promotion industry behind this generation of pop singers. Interviews with Anka and his manager reveal what they think of it all.
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Main credits
Anka, Paul (interviewee)
Koenig, Wolf (film director)
Kroitor, Roman (film director)
Kroitor, Roman (film producer)
Other credits
Editing, John Spotton, Guy L. Coté.
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I\'m just a lonely boy
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Lonely and blue
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I\'m all alone
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I got nothing to do
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Well, I got everything
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You could think of
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But all I want
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Is someone to love
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Give me someone, yes, someone to love
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Someone to kiss
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Someone to hold
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At a moment like this
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I\'d like to hear
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Just somebody say
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\"I\'ll give you my love
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Each night and day\"
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[applause] [cheering]
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[music]
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We want Paul.
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We want Paul.
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We want Paul.
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We don\'t want no one hurting now.
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We want everyone to stay nice.
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We want Paul.
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Thank you.
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You\'re from Trenton?
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It\'s raining from your eyes, isn\'t it?
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Huh?
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[?]
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He\'s so modest.
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Oh, I love him. He\'s a god.
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He\'s got his own [?].
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He\'s just so wonderful.
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Oh, I can\'t describe him.
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He\'s got such a wonderful personality.
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He\'s so sweet.
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He\'s so cute and I like him.
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I think he\'s cute.
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I like all his records.
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I\'m in his fan club,
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I got 555 pictures of Paul Anka
all over my room,
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and I got a Paul Anka sweater.
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He\'s perfectly charming, he\'s delightful,
and he sings beautifully.
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I just love the boy because he\'s so young,
he\'s so full of enthusiasm and so grand.
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[?] can\'t park.
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Hi, Paul.
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Hi, how are you?
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Some vision,
very strong in that hand writing.
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He has a sympathetic personality
and a very keen mind.
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Concise thinking,
he thinks in one straight line.
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Practical person, very good judgement.
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He\'s very versatile,
there\'s a great many things he can do.
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He\'s optimistic, always optimistic.
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He can be very stubborn at times
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if he makes up his mind
he\'s not going to do something.
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In five short years,
Paul Anka, a young Canadian,
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has risen from obscurity in Ottawa
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to stardom
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in America\'s multi-million dollar
entertainment industry.
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Many have wondered about the significance
of this present day phenomenon.
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The astonishing transformation
of an entertainer into an idol.
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Worshipped
by millions of fans around the world.
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This is a candid look at Paul Anka
from both sides of the floodlights.
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[?] Paul Anka program
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before going in for [?] next performance.
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All the other [?]
program before going in,
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anymore before going in?
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Get a Paul Anka [?] program.
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Anymore before going in [?]
next performance?
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[?] I told him to do more.
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Oh, fellas, of all days to do this.
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Flashes or stockings?
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In here Bobby.
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If he went out five minutes ago,
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Five shows? Five shows.
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He doesn\'t do anything new, is he?
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Give me my makeup
and a bottle of liquid sponge, black.
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Okay.
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[?]
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Well, look at what a [?] it is.
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You mind wait?
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Just forget they\'re even there.
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Okay.
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Shoes.
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Gavel.
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Sponge.
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Sponge.
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Did they yell for him?
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We want Paul.
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Yes. [?]
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Sure.
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I do this too much.
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[?] from the [?]
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[?]
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Key on the board.
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[music]
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That\'s it.
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Now, ladies and gentlemen,
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[?] star of the show,
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the international [?] Paul Anka.
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[applause]
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I took a little trip to my home town
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I only stopped just to look around
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And as I walked along the thorough-fare
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There was music playing everywhere
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The music came from within my heart
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How did it happen, how did it start
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I only know that I fell in love
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I guess the answer lies up above
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Oh, what a feeling
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My heart was reeling
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The bells were ringing
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The birds were singing
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So everybody do the cha-cha
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And so the music keep goes on and on
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When I was 15 years old,
let\'s say when I was in school,
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I was a fat kid.
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That\'s to put it blunt, I was 170 lbs.
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I had a part here, had a part here.
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This went down, this went up,
this came down.
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It looked as crazy as it sounds.
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I was a heavy kid
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and I didn\'t look
like I was meant for showbusiness at all
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but I had that bubbling inside of me
and I wanted to sing,
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and I did.
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After I got in the business,
I made up my mind
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that one of the things
that you got to have
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or you\'re not going to go,
you\'re going to go this far
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and you\'re going to stop like that
and you can\'t get over
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is you got to have appeal,
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and you got to look
like you\'re in showbusiness.
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Because if you don\'t,
you\'re not going to make it.
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I had to lose 35 lbs,
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so I went to the coast
when I was out there.
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I went to a gym, I got a guy
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and I said,
\"Knock it off, I don\'t care how.\"
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I didn\'t eat,
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I worked out in the gym four hours a day.
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I steam, running, pulling, everything,
had to fix my hair.
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It looked crazy,
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I kept putting it back, letting it grow,
I had to brush it,
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and I had to put stuff on it.
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I had to keep doing it, it took me
a year and a half to get it like that.
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Just do it yourself, tight song man
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Only hopes that you liked his show
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I hope that I can sing for you
five years from today
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Then I\'ll be in my 20s
with my hair turning gray
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Though I\'ll be old and weary
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Still, I\'ll cheerfully say
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Thanks for helping my career get underway
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Yes, thanks to you
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Anka\'s away
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[cheering]
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On the subject of girls,
you asked me about their reaction?
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Well,
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I\'ll tell you, this business that I\'m in,
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I would say 60% of it
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is on emotion
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and a world which we all know.
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I\'m not in accord to using
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but it\'s the only word
which can sum up what I have to say
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which is sex.
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As far as the girls
who turn out and scream
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which is what you mean
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and stand there and cry
and things like that,
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it\'s something that I wouldn\'t knock.
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It\'s something that I am not against.
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It\'s something that I don\'t disapprove of.
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It\'s something I\'m very happy of.
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I think that they feel
if I\'m singing a Lonely Boy,
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they like to feel, well,
they\'re the girl that I\'m singing about.
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Oh, I can\'t believe.
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Oh, look at him.
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Hello.
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How are you, honey?
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Where\'d your parents go?
Did you come here with them?
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No. I came by myself.
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You alone?
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From New York?
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No. Pennsylvania.
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Pennsylvania?
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Yes.
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Look, I\'ll come out afterwards.
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Let me go in and see if I\'m late,
then we\'ll sign all your stuff after.
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Okay?
Wait right here.
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Oh, my god.
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You\'re going to see the show or what?
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We\'re going to see the show.
Are you kidding me?
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[?] make it in.
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[laughter]
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Oh, [?]
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Paul\'s features are excellent.
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His eyes are great.
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Has a great mouth.
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It is no secret, last year,
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we had a plastic surgery job on his nose.
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Irvin Feld, Paul Anka\'s personal manager.
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The picture\'s entirely different
than it was four years ago.
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If you were to look
at some of his pictures four years ago
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and then see Paul today,
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you wouldn\'t believe it\'s the same person.
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People even say this now,
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if they haven\'t seen
any of the new pictures
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and they then see him in person,
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this is the comment
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and I\'m sure
that you must have heard it around,
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\"Gee,
he doesn\'t look the same as his pictures,
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he\'s so handsome.\"
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Now, Paul will be 20 in July.
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It\'s very simple for me personally
to have kept him working
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and to keep all the other young stars
working on one-night tours
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but then when you\'re planning a career,
you say, well, where do they go from here.
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Of course, the way you\'re recognized most
in the United States
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is if you\'re accepted
in the big nightclubs.
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These are the plush clubs
throughout the country,
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the biggest places
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where it cost you a lot of money
to sit down
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and play to the sophisticated people
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and I felt
that if Paul could make it in this area,
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that I could capture every other area.
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This is the way I groomed him
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so that he was the youngest performer ever
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to appear
in the big clubs that he appeared in.
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[music]
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Now ladies and gentlemen,
the Copacabana proudly presents Paul Anka.
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[applause]
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What a feeling
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What a glow
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What a thrill
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For me to say hello
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It\'s a-
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You want the waiters
to move around a little bit?
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Let them go about their work.
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All right.
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Bruno,
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tell the waiters to move around,
got action, you know what I mean?
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I don\'t understand it.
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Jules Podell,
owner of the world-famous Copacabana.
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I heard about Paul Anka
about two years ago.
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How\'d you hear about him?
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I\'ve heard about him
through the trade papers.
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I happened to buy one of his records,
the first one he made.
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He has a terrific personality.
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The public just takes to him,
they like him.
260
00:13:45.091 --> 00:13:46.791
Soon as he steps out on the floor,
261
00:13:46.872 --> 00:13:49.872
he has no problem of entertaining them
in any shape or form.
262
00:13:51.125 --> 00:13:53.729
263
00:13:54.717 --> 00:13:55.717
No cover charge.
264
00:13:55.798 --> 00:13:57.812
[laughter]
265
00:14:06.274 --> 00:14:09.524
Everybody in their lifetime writes a song.
266
00:14:10.338 --> 00:14:12.075
I think 98% of the people
267
00:14:12.156 --> 00:14:15.106
at one time in their life
feel that they got an idea for a song.
268
00:14:15.187 --> 00:14:16.187
It\'s a bug.
269
00:14:17.137 --> 00:14:20.447
I feel that I have been given
a talent and a gift.
270
00:14:21.289 --> 00:14:23.285
I made it my point to find out myself.
271
00:14:23.540 --> 00:14:25.685
Take an inventory of myself, which I did.
272
00:14:26.428 --> 00:14:30.580
I\'ve been given a gift for writing,
for singing, and for entertaining.
273
00:14:31.962 --> 00:14:33.023
When I write a song,
274
00:14:33.104 --> 00:14:35.491
I can sit down and say,
\"Well, I need a new record
275
00:14:35.572 --> 00:14:37.326
and I\'m going to write a hit record.\"
276
00:14:37.407 --> 00:14:40.200
When I start that song, I know it\'s good.
277
00:14:40.590 --> 00:14:42.910
It\'s not egotistical, it\'s confidence.
278
00:14:42.991 --> 00:14:45.033
It\'s something
that I have to produce for the people
279
00:14:45.114 --> 00:14:46.582
and I have to know that it\'s good.
280
00:14:46.663 --> 00:14:47.888
I can\'t take a chance.
281
00:14:48.405 --> 00:14:49.852
I sit down and I play it.
282
00:14:49.933 --> 00:14:52.489
The words that come out
when I come to the final words,
283
00:14:52.570 --> 00:14:53.942
I know those are the words,
284
00:14:54.023 --> 00:14:55.723
I know that the violins are right,
285
00:14:55.898 --> 00:14:58.848
I know the melody is right,
and I know the tricks are right.
286
00:14:58.929 --> 00:15:03.929
[applause]
287
00:15:04.239 --> 00:15:05.239
Hey.
288
00:15:05.320 --> 00:15:06.959
Hello, Paul. How are you?
289
00:15:07.040 --> 00:15:09.478
290
00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:10.559
How are you?
291
00:15:10.649 --> 00:15:11.899
292
00:15:11.980 --> 00:15:13.130
This is our last night.
293
00:15:13.211 --> 00:15:14.993
294
00:15:15.074 --> 00:15:16.584
295
00:15:16.665 --> 00:15:19.015
296
00:15:19.394 --> 00:15:20.544
I\'m wrapping gifts now.
297
00:15:23.885 --> 00:15:25.384
Oh, that\'s beautiful, Paul.
298
00:15:25.655 --> 00:15:26.655
You see that?
299
00:15:26.736 --> 00:15:27.736
You see this, Irvin?
300
00:15:28.301 --> 00:15:29.301
Very, very, nice.
301
00:15:29.382 --> 00:15:31.282
302
00:15:31.363 --> 00:15:32.723
303
00:15:32.804 --> 00:15:33.882
304
00:15:33.963 --> 00:15:34.963
305
00:15:35.044 --> 00:15:36.757
[?]
306
00:15:36.845 --> 00:15:38.013
Yes, beautiful.
307
00:15:38.186 --> 00:15:40.323
I promised you something for your office.
308
00:15:42.132 --> 00:15:44.973
It\'s a picture of me,
so it\'s nothing exciting.
309
00:15:45.061 --> 00:15:47.363
[laughs]
310
00:15:49.202 --> 00:15:50.252
Oh, that\'s beautiful.
311
00:15:50.333 --> 00:15:51.333
Look at this, Irvin.
312
00:15:51.431 --> 00:15:52.431
Isn\'t that nice?
313
00:15:53.591 --> 00:15:54.591
See that there?
314
00:15:54.672 --> 00:15:56.448
315
00:15:56.529 --> 00:15:58.162
Now, we were going to frame it
316
00:15:58.243 --> 00:15:59.553
but we didn\'t know
what kind of frame you wanted
317
00:15:59.634 --> 00:16:01.380
or where you want to put it,
what do we go with.
318
00:16:01.461 --> 00:16:02.461
Yes.
319
00:16:02.592 --> 00:16:03.592
Well, I\'ll frame it.
320
00:16:03.709 --> 00:16:04.709
I\'ll frame it.
321
00:16:04.863 --> 00:16:07.179
That\'s beautiful.
322
00:16:07.393 --> 00:16:08.393
Thanks, buddy.
323
00:16:08.950 --> 00:16:09.950
Right here.
324
00:16:10.673 --> 00:16:11.773
I\'ll put it over here.
325
00:16:12.035 --> 00:16:13.385
Will you do the kiss again?
326
00:16:13.931 --> 00:16:15.319
[laughter]
327
00:16:15.400 --> 00:16:16.400
What is that?
328
00:16:18.955 --> 00:16:20.985
Will you do the kiss again, please?
329
00:16:21.643 --> 00:16:23.243
They want to get the kiss again.
330
00:16:23.340 --> 00:16:26.090
I\'ll tell you what happened,
the camera was just moving.
331
00:16:27.023 --> 00:16:28.359
332
00:16:28.447 --> 00:16:29.995
you just want us to retake that
333
00:16:30.084 --> 00:16:31.773
334
00:16:31.854 --> 00:16:32.979
so we got to do that again.
335
00:16:33.060 --> 00:16:34.060
It\'s something.
336
00:16:34.324 --> 00:16:35.474
Thank you, uncle Julie.
337
00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:39.130
Do you want it again?
338
00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:40.679
Keep talking.
339
00:16:40.881 --> 00:16:42.481
Whatever you were talking about.
340
00:16:42.585 --> 00:16:44.740
This was certainly a fast three weeks,
Mr. Podell.
341
00:16:44.821 --> 00:16:47.416
Oh my gosh. I don\'t know how fast it went.
342
00:16:47.497 --> 00:16:48.997
I don\'t know where it went to.
343
00:16:49.078 --> 00:16:51.256
344
00:16:51.687 --> 00:16:53.137
I have a reservation for you.
345
00:16:53.226 --> 00:16:55.527
I have your airplane tickets
on a six-something plane
346
00:16:55.608 --> 00:16:57.375
out of LaGuardia to Buffalo.
347
00:16:57.653 --> 00:16:59.903
I didn\'t know
if you made reservations or not.
348
00:16:59.984 --> 00:17:01.469
Have you made reservations? All right,
No reservations.
349
00:17:01.550 --> 00:17:02.884
I made reservations for both of you
350
00:17:02.965 --> 00:17:06.034
in single rooms
at the Sheraton Hotel in Buffalo
351
00:17:06.509 --> 00:17:08.175
at I think a $7.50 rate.
352
00:17:08.256 --> 00:17:09.652
353
00:17:09.835 --> 00:17:11.474
354
00:17:12.464 --> 00:17:13.464
Let\'s hear it.
355
00:17:14.039 --> 00:17:15.039
[?]
356
00:17:15.810 --> 00:17:16.810
I like this one.
357
00:17:24.787 --> 00:17:29.368
The wee small hours of the morning
358
00:17:32.927 --> 00:17:36.574
When all the world is still
359
00:17:37.800 --> 00:17:42.331
I have never had the admiration or respect
for any artist,
360
00:17:42.592 --> 00:17:44.953
you can take from the top-down,
361
00:17:45.211 --> 00:17:48.011
as I\'ve had for Paul
because Paul knows what he\'s doing.
362
00:17:49.608 --> 00:17:52.803
Great, creative person.
363
00:17:53.705 --> 00:17:55.362
Writes very, very well.
364
00:17:55.861 --> 00:17:59.739
Writes both the lyrics and the melody.
365
00:18:01.715 --> 00:18:04.634
I can see from the time he was 15
up to the present day
366
00:18:04.715 --> 00:18:06.449
how in each song that he writes,
367
00:18:06.592 --> 00:18:07.592
he matures.
368
00:18:08.036 --> 00:18:11.348
The lyrics get different,
the melodies have always been great.
369
00:18:12.596 --> 00:18:14.212
To love again
370
00:18:15.175 --> 00:18:16.675
And I\'ll cry
371
00:18:18.666 --> 00:18:20.827
Yes, I\'ll cry
372
00:18:22.852 --> 00:18:27.092
Over you
373
00:18:27.173 --> 00:18:28.323
Many nights we sat down
374
00:18:28.404 --> 00:18:31.504
and we\'ve discussed this thing
to the wee hours of the morning.
375
00:18:31.585 --> 00:18:34.563
I\'ve told him, I said, \"Paul,
you no longer belong to yourself.
376
00:18:34.644 --> 00:18:35.844
You belong to the world.
377
00:18:37.023 --> 00:18:38.123
God gave you something
378
00:18:38.204 --> 00:18:42.788
that I don\'t think he\'s given to anyone
in the past 500 years,
379
00:18:44.288 --> 00:18:45.538
but he\'s given it to you.
380
00:18:46.273 --> 00:18:47.392
He\'s given it to you
381
00:18:47.473 --> 00:18:50.229
to make other people throughout the world
happy.\"
382
00:18:50.793 --> 00:18:52.918
I truthfully believe
383
00:18:53.736 --> 00:18:55.986
and so far, I\'ve been lucky,
I\'ve been right.
384
00:18:56.963 --> 00:18:58.322
I truthfully believe
385
00:18:58.670 --> 00:19:01.275
that Paul will be the biggest star
386
00:19:02.553 --> 00:19:05.203
with an overall career
that this world has ever known.
387
00:19:14.699 --> 00:19:15.699
Freedomland,
388
00:19:16.078 --> 00:19:18.678
an amusement park
on the outskirts of New York City.
389
00:19:20.146 --> 00:19:23.671
This is the biggest mob we\'ve had here
since the park opened.
390
00:19:23.778 --> 00:19:25.870
Since opening day when we had 60,000.
391
00:19:26.109 --> 00:19:28.059
Were you afraid when they were pushing?
392
00:19:28.196 --> 00:19:29.348
No, not particularly.
393
00:19:29.518 --> 00:19:32.418
It\'s Paul Anka that has to be afraid.
They\'re not after me.
394
00:19:41.743 --> 00:19:42.793
Do a good job, girls.
395
00:19:42.874 --> 00:19:43.924
You know what I mean?
396
00:19:44.005 --> 00:19:46.297
397
00:19:46.401 --> 00:19:49.601
Take it easy now. You\'ll all see him.
Just take your time, relax.
398
00:19:51.182 --> 00:19:53.340
First time unit, no ground.
399
00:19:53.491 --> 00:19:55.878
Second time open, plenty of ground.
400
00:19:55.959 --> 00:19:56.959
Loud.
401
00:19:57.040 --> 00:20:00.690
You\'ll watch his back while you do it
because if he likes it we\'ll wiggle.
402
00:20:00.900 --> 00:20:03.549
If it gets a little bit
after I feel the audience,
403
00:20:03.630 --> 00:20:06.117
the first four times,
I might take something out,
404
00:20:06.467 --> 00:20:09.435
so be prepared to cut something
and go to the next song.
405
00:20:09.516 --> 00:20:10.811
It\'s a special material thing.
406
00:20:10.892 --> 00:20:13.342
If I see the girls won\'t keep quiet,
we\'ll cut it.
407
00:20:13.446 --> 00:20:18.446
[background noise]
408
00:20:21.320 --> 00:20:26.320
[music]
409
00:20:34.786 --> 00:20:36.603
Right now, ladies and gentlemen,
410
00:20:37.111 --> 00:20:42.111
[?] Paul Anka.
411
00:20:42.716 --> 00:20:47.716
[cheering]
412
00:21:46.314 --> 00:21:48.203
Diana
413
00:21:51.080 --> 00:21:53.976
I\'m so young and you\'re so old
414
00:21:54.640 --> 00:21:57.295
This, my darling, I\'ve been told
415
00:21:57.734 --> 00:22:00.593
I don\'t care just what they say
416
00:22:01.247 --> 00:22:03.974
\'Cause forever I will pray
417
00:22:04.336 --> 00:22:07.334
You and I, we will be as free
418
00:22:07.702 --> 00:22:10.897
As the birds up in the trees
419
00:22:11.117 --> 00:22:16.117
Oh, please stay by me
420
00:22:17.318 --> 00:22:19.444
Diana
421
00:22:20.538 --> 00:22:22.932
Love me, love me, love me so
422
00:22:24.067 --> 00:22:26.726
And never, never let me go
423
00:22:27.670 --> 00:22:29.853
Hold me, hold me, hold me right
424
00:22:31.211 --> 00:22:34.645
Tonight, tonight my love, tonight
425
00:22:35.081 --> 00:22:40.081
Forever, I will love you forever
426
00:22:42.205 --> 00:22:44.598
Dance, dance on little girl
427
00:22:46.028 --> 00:22:48.399
Tell me what I\'ve done wrong
428
00:22:49.529 --> 00:22:51.838
Why should he hold you tight
429
00:22:53.145 --> 00:22:55.979
While they\'re playing our song
430
00:22:56.417 --> 00:22:59.712
Oh, I am watching you
431
00:23:00.052 --> 00:23:04.126
Oh, oh, oh, it cannot be
432
00:23:04.926 --> 00:23:09.926
Put your head on my shoulder
433
00:23:13.432 --> 00:23:18.432
Hold me in your arms, baby
434
00:23:21.439 --> 00:23:26.439
Won\'t you squeeze me once, baby
435
00:23:29.548 --> 00:23:34.451
Tell me that you love me too
436
00:23:41.208 --> 00:23:46.208
People say love\'s a game
437
00:23:49.514 --> 00:23:54.514
A game you just can\'t win
438
00:23:56.359 --> 00:23:59.590
If there\'s a way
439
00:24:00.006 --> 00:24:03.597
I\'ll find it someday
440
00:24:04.080 --> 00:24:07.723
And then this fool will
441
00:24:08.065 --> 00:24:12.889
rush in
442
00:24:13.628 --> 00:24:15.165
Put your head
443
00:24:15.246 --> 00:24:20.246
on my shoulder
444
00:24:22.278 --> 00:24:25.471
Whisper in my ear,
445
00:24:25.575 --> 00:24:29.314
oh baby
446
00:24:30.362 --> 00:24:33.174
Words I want to hear,
447
00:24:34.450 --> 00:24:37.167
baby
448
00:24:38.477 --> 00:24:41.846
Put your head on
449
00:24:42.782 --> 00:24:47.782
my shoulder
450
00:24:55.975 --> 00:24:57.538
Paul- Any special names?
451
00:24:57.681 --> 00:24:59.805
452
00:24:59.886 --> 00:25:02.086
and I have to start working on it
right away.
453
00:25:02.167 --> 00:25:05.687
I want you to do a college concert tour
of the colleges only.
454
00:25:06.314 --> 00:25:08.264
That I have to put together pretty soon
455
00:25:08.345 --> 00:25:10.674
because they book [?] than a year
in front.
456
00:25:11.177 --> 00:25:12.317
[?]
457
00:25:12.562 --> 00:25:14.512
You know what I\'d like to do out there?
458
00:25:14.722 --> 00:25:16.572
I\'d like to take a big girl with him.
459
00:25:17.021 --> 00:25:18.021
A big girl?
460
00:25:18.433 --> 00:25:19.433
[laughs]
461
00:25:19.710 --> 00:25:24.710
Get a big band, Paul,
but use the band for various things.
462
00:25:24.905 --> 00:25:27.255
Pick out small units out of it,
everything else.
463
00:25:27.336 --> 00:25:29.954
A college concert for the fall of \'62.
464
00:25:31.503 --> 00:25:33.799
Paul Anka say,
\"Where\'s my wife and daughter?
465
00:25:33.974 --> 00:25:35.424
What am I doing down here?\"
466
00:25:36.723 --> 00:25:39.008
You know what you\'re doing here. I know.
467
00:25:40.070 --> 00:25:42.551
I\'m just a lonely boy
468
00:25:43.591 --> 00:25:45.135
Lonely and blue
469
00:25:46.540 --> 00:25:48.121
I\'m all alone
470
00:25:49.238 --> 00:25:51.447
I got nothing to do
471
00:25:52.422 --> 00:25:54.034
I got everything
472
00:25:55.747 --> 00:25:57.550
You could think of
473
00:25:58.860 --> 00:26:00.480
But all I want
474
00:26:01.678 --> 00:26:04.347
Is someone to love
475
00:26:04.592 --> 00:26:07.936
Give me someone, yes, someone to love
476
00:26:08.828 --> 00:26:10.914
Someone to kiss
477
00:26:12.096 --> 00:26:14.405
Someone to hold
478
00:26:14.992 --> 00:26:17.268
At a moment like this
479
00:26:18.464 --> 00:26:20.237
I\'d like to hear
480
00:26:21.117 --> 00:26:23.480
Just somebody say
481
00:26:24.496 --> 00:26:26.767
\"I\'ll give you my love
482
00:26:27.830 --> 00:26:31.908
Each night and day\"
483
00:26:31.989 --> 00:26:36.989
[cheering]
Distributor: National Film Board of Canada
Length: 26 minutes
Date: 1962
Genre: Expository
Language: English
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