What does Paul Anka and Campbells soup have in common?
In his bio Anka says it was a contest by a food store chain involving the i
conic American soup that would eventuall lead to his success. Anka won a trip to New York by winning a Campbell’s soup contest for IGA Food Stores that required him to spend three months collecting soup can labels. It was thereWhat does Paul Anka and Campbells soup have in common? In his bio Anka says it was a contest by a food store chain involving the iconic American soup that would eventually lead to his success. Anka won a trip to New York by winning a Campbell’s soup contest for IGA Food Stores that required him to spend three months collecting soup can labels. It was there his dream was solidified; he was going to make it as a singer composer; there was not a doubt in his young tenacious This weekend Anka will be on Galveston island with his tribute to Frank Sinatra.
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l very autobiographical,” says Anka of his early hits. “I was alone, traveling, girls screaming, and I never got near them. I’m a teenager and feeling isolated and all that. That becomes ‘Lonely Boy.’ At record hops, I’m up on stage and all these kids are holding each other with heads on each other’s shoulders. Then I must go have dinner in my room because there are thousands of kids outside the hotel — ‘Put Your Head on My Shoulder’ was totally that experience.