2026年2月15日 / 美国东部时间上午10:07 / CBS新闻
当粉丝们抵达加利福尼亚州棕榈沙漠市的麦克尔姆剧院时，空气中弥漫着怀旧的气息，他们期待着与保罗·安卡一同“时光倒流”。他曾是那个年代的青春之声，那时汽车影院和后座是青少年浪漫的“货币”。他深知青少年的喜好，因为他自己也曾是其中一员。
“我大约10岁就进入演艺圈了，”他说。
如今，84岁的安卡依然显得异常年轻。当灯光暗下，整个房间却因他而亮堂起来。
《我如此年轻，你却如此苍老》
亲爱的，他们是这样告诉我
我不在乎他们说什么
因为我会永远祈祷
你我终将自由
如同树上的鸟儿
哦，请留在我身边，
黛安娜
“当你像我小时候那样，用稚嫩的嗓音开始演艺生涯，你不知道自己的声音会如何变化，也无法想象自己能在这个行当里坚持这么多年，对吧？”他说。
怀旧之情真切可感，但他的持久影响力同样真实。安卡连续七十年都留在了《公告牌》百强单曲榜上。他不断重塑自我、重新想象和重新创作。他是少数几位能从50年代的青少年流行歌手平稳过渡到经典抒情歌手的艺人之一，20世纪60年代，他与弗兰克·辛纳屈、迪恩·马丁和萨米·戴维斯同台演出。
我问他：“你当时感觉自己像个孩子吗？我的意思是，因为太年轻，你是否曾难以让人认真对待？”
“所有这些都有过，”安卡回答，“从一个小镇的普通背景，一下子被众人簇拥，成为名人，这非常困难。坦白说，我一直提醒自己：‘我怎样才能不变成一个讨厌鬼呢？’抱歉，我是说……”
他确实过着丰富多彩的生活，同时也在生活中学习。“和‘鼠帮’（Rat Pack）以及拉斯维加斯的那群人混在一起，”他说，“他们喝酒、抽烟，我很着迷，但我注意到他们经常咳嗽、吐痰，然后被带去看医生。所以我从不吸烟，也不嗜酒。”
他后来成了医学文献的忠实读者。只要是健康有益的事物，他很可能都会尝试，比如每天喝加柠檬的橄榄油。无论他做什么，似乎都很有效。他的嗓音依然强劲，在舞台上昂首阔步，幽默感依旧令人卸下心防。“各位，我们会在这里待一会儿，”他告诉观众，“如果你们需要吃药或去洗手间，随时都可以去。”
就在上周，安卡发行了他的最新专辑，这是他录制的第130多张专辑之一。他说，这张专辑收录了关于爱与生活的音乐——两者都是他的“拿手好戏”。在洛杉矶郊外家中的墙上，挂满了数不清的金唱片——不仅是他自己的歌曲，也包括他为他人创作的作品。巴迪·霍利的《It Doesn’t Matter Anymore》（《不再重要》）就是安卡写的。汤姆·琼斯的《She’s a Lady》（《她是位淑女》）也归功于安卡。他甚至还和迈克尔·杰克逊合作过，那是一首被遗忘的demo，他们早在20世纪80年代就一起录制了，在杰克逊2009年去世后才被发现。“他们在一个抽屉里找到了这些歌，”安卡说。
《Love Never Felt So Good》（《爱从未如此美好》）成为了“流行音乐之王”最后的热门歌曲之一。
2020年，格莱美获奖说唱歌手兼歌手多佳·卡（Doja Cat）在她的歌曲《Freak》（《怪咖》）中采样了安卡的《Put Your Head On My Shoulder》（《把头靠在我肩上》），这首歌随后成为TikTok上的流行趋势。
但在他所有知名的歌曲中，最能打动人心的是他为“老蓝眼”（弗兰克·辛纳屈）创作的那首。故事是这样的：弗兰克·辛纳屈告诉安卡他正考虑退休，当时只有25岁的安卡说，《My Way》（《我的方式》）的歌词自然而然地涌现出来。“它像是自己写的一样，”他说。
《我度过了充实的一生，
我走遍了每一条高速公路，
并且，远比这更多，
我以自己的方式做到了。
这首歌花了大约五个小时写成。“它大获成功，所以他又多唱了十年！”安卡谈起辛纳屈时说，“之后我又写了《Let Me Try Again》（《让我再试一次》）。”
没错，那首歌也是他写的。
如今，对他来说，家庭比粉丝更重要。他有九个孙辈，包括女儿阿曼达和女婿演员杰森·贝特曼的两个孩子。
保罗·安卡知道自己总有一天要放慢脚步，但就像那首歌里唱的，他已经走遍了每一条高速公路，当他离开时，也会以自己的方式。
“当我的身体说‘够了’的时候，我会知道的，”他说，“我现在是在用‘房子的钱’（指积蓄）享受生活，我真是个幸运的人！”
网络独家：保罗·安卡为“CBS周日早晨”创作的歌曲
你可以通过点击下方嵌入的链接收听保罗·安卡的专辑《生命与爱的灵感》（需免费注册Spotify才能完整收听曲目）：
更多信息：
- 保罗·安卡的《生命与爱的灵感》（Green Hill Prod.），CD、黑胶唱片及数字版均有发售
- paulanka.com（官方网站）
- 纪录片《保罗·安卡：他的方式》正在HBO Max流媒体平台播出
报道制作：艾瑞亚·沙夫尔森（Aria Shavelson）
编辑：史蒂文·泰勒（Steven Tyler）
Paul Anka: Still doing it his way
February 15, 2026 / 10:07 AM EST / CBS News
It was a feeling of fall in the air when fans arrived at the McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert, Calif., for an opportunity to fall back in time with Paul Anka. He was the soundtrack of an age when drive-ins and back seats were the currency of teen romance. He knew what teens liked, because he was one.
“I’ve been in show business since I was about 10 years old,” he said.
Today, Anka is a remarkably young 84. And when the lights go down, the room lights up.
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
“When you started as I did as a kid with a squeaky little voice, not knowing what’s gonna happen when it changes, I couldn’t envision me being around for all these decades, you know?” he said.
The nostalgia is real, but so is his staying power. Anka has remained on Billboard’s Hot 100 Chart for seven straight decades. He’s re-invented, re-imagined and re-written himself over and over again. He was one of the few who made the lyrical leap from ’50s teeny bopper to classic crooner, steadily performing with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. in the 1960s.
I asked, “Did you feel like a kid? I mean, did you struggle to be taken seriously because you were so young?”
“All of that,” Anka replied. “It was very difficult to go from a modest background in a small town, to everybody’s all over you and you’re famous and you’re a celebrity. Frankly, I kept saying, ‘How do I not become an a,’ excuse me?”
He was living the life, but also learning about life. “Hanging around with the Rat Pack and the mob and Las Vegas,” he said. “They drank and smoked, and I was fascinated, but I noticed they’d be coming off and coughing and spitting, and I’d be introduced to their doctors. So I never became a smoker. I never became a big drinker.”
What he did become is a veracious reader of medical literature. If it’s healthy, he’s likely given it a shot, like his daily shot of olive oil with lemon. Whatever he’s done, it’s worked. His voice is strong, he struts the stage, and he still has a disarming sense of humor. “We’re here for a while, folks,” he told the crowd. “If you need to take pills or go to the bathroom, just go whenever you want.”
Just this past week, Anka released his latest album, one of more than 130 he’s recorded. It’s a collection of music about love and life, he says; both are his stock in trade. On the wall of his home outside Los Angeles there are more gold records than you can count – not just for his own songs, but the ones he wrote for others. Buddy Holly’s “It Doesn’t Matter Anymore” – that was Anka. “She’s a Lady” – Tom Jones owes Anka that one, too. He even wrote with Michael Jackson, a long-forgotten demo they recorded together back in the 1980s, that surfaced after Jackson died in 2009. “They found these songs in a drawer,” Anka said.
“Love Never Felt So Good” became one of the last hits of the King of Pop.
In 2020 Anka surfaced again, when Grammy-winning rapper and singer Doja Cat sampled his “Put Your Head On My Shoulder” in her song “Freak.” Imitating that video went on to become a TikTok trend.
But of all the songs he’s known for, it’s the one he wrote for Ol’ Blue Eyes that still gets people a little misty. As the story goes, Frank Sinatra told Anka he was thinking about retiring, and Anka – only 25 at the time – says the lyrics of “My Way” just came to him. “It started to write itself,” he said.
_I’ve lived a life that’s full,
I travelled each and every highway,
And more, much more than this,
I did it my way._
It took about five hours to write. “It was such a hit, he stayed ten more years!” Anka said of Sinatra. “And then after that came ‘Let Me Try Again.’”
Yep, he wrote that one, too.
These days it’s more about family than fans. He’s got nine grandkids, including two from his daughter Amanda, and her husband actor Jason Bateman.
Paul Anka knows he’ll have to tap the brakes at some point, but just like the song goes, he’s travelled each and every highway, and when he does leave he’ll do it his way.
“When it’s time for my body to say enough, I’ll know,” he said. “I’m playing with the house’s money now. I’m one lucky guy!”
Web exclusive: Paul Anka’s song for “CBS Sunday Morning”
You can stream the Paul Anka album “Inspirations of Life and Love” by clicking on the embed below (Free Spotify registration required to hear the tracks in full):
For more info:
- “Inspirations of Life and Love”by Paul Anka (Green Hill Prod.), on CD, Vinyl and Digital
- paulanka.com (Official site)
- The documentary”Paul Anka: His Way”is streaming on HBO Max
Story produced by Aria Shavelson. Editor: Steven Tyler.