Five Decades of Hits

Paul Anka | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 18, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Curb Records
• ASIN: B000000D0U
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #74,494 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Diana

2. You Are My Destiny

3. (All of a Sudden) My Heart Sings

4. Lonely Boy

5. Put Your Head on My Shoulder

6. It's Time to Cry

7. Puppy Love

8. (You're) Having My Baby

9. Times of Your Life

10. I Don't Wanna Run Your Life

11. Hold Me 'Til the Morning Comes

12. Freedom for the World

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Curb--as always, the Worst Reissue Label In The Universe, October 7, 2002

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Jeff Pearlman (Lakeland, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Five Decades of Hits (Audio CD)

In which the record company implies that the artist has only turned out 12 songs worth compiling in five decades. Does this disc even run longer than 30 minutes? The dumbness within the dumbness is that these songs actually span about 30 years. Which according to most number systems is kinda not five decades.

If you're this interested, go for Rhino's 30th Anniversary Collection. For five bucks more, you get 24 hits instead of the 12 Curb parcels out. All but the last three tracks here are there as well. Frustratingly, Curb manages to include one key hit (to these ears, anyway) not on the Rhino set--"Hold Me Til The Morning Comes" is a great ballad (to these ears, anyway) featuring Peter Cetera on backing vocals. It nicked the Top 40 (peaking at #40) in 1983, making Anka one of the few artists to hit in the 50's, 60's, 70's, and 80's. Its presence here justifies, unfortunately, the existence of this skimpy thing.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Paul Anka Gold, April 26, 2003

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wayne balzer (portland, oregon United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Five Decades of Hits (Audio CD)

What I want to know is does anyone know of a CD collection that contains Paul's original ABC hits from 1957-61? There used to be a label called Sire which had such a collection but unless one can find it as vinyl in some used record store, its unavailable. Its a shame, because the CD thats on my left, the "21 golden hits" version on RCA are all remakes, which sound terrible. Even Paul, I've read, regretted making it.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic, March 6, 2001

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Edward W. Sulesky (Mounds View, Minnesota USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Five Decades of Hits (Audio CD)

Some of the best of Paul's songs. Really nice for a quiet evening by the fireplace. My personal favorate is "Hold Me 'Till The Morning Comes". Beautiful song, with Peter Cetera singing background.