Paul Anka

Paul Anka wrote 'new' Michael Jackson track in '83 It seems the hotly anticipated new Michael Jackson material isn't so new after all. The track This Is It, which was unveiled on Monday, was actually written in 1983 by the king of pop and...

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...it will not be available to download as an individual track. This Is It was written in 1983 by Jackson and Paul Anka and features Jackson's brothers on backing vocals. It had been described as "a single" in publicity material but fans...

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...that fashion. "I wanted to be the string, not the yo-yo." In 1983, Jackson visited Anka's Carmel, Calif., home and worked on several songs Anka was planning for a duets album. In the interim, Jackson created his record-setting "Thriller"...

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...tried to do the wrong thing - it was an honest mistake Paul Anka Jackson and Anka wrote the track for possible inclusion on the latter's 1983 album Walk A Fine Line. Anka told celebrity website TMZ that Jackson then "stole the tapes"...

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Oops! 'this is' Anka's song, too, team Jacko admits Last Updated: 5:37 AM, October 13, 2009 Posted: 3:06 AM, October 13, 2009 Reps for Michael Jackson's estate last night admitted they forgot to credit Paul Anka as co-writer of Jacko's...

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...within just a few hours to give him 50 percent of the song's profits. Then Anka and one of Jackson's executors realized Jackson recorded another Anka song, too. "It's an incredible back story. You know, obviously, a mistake was made.

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...quickly found that "This Is It" is not exactly new. It bears a strong resemblance to "I Never Heard," a 1991 track by the R&B singer Sa-Fire that was written by Jackson and Paul Anka. Stringer said that until this was pointed out by...

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...passed off as a Jackson hit when it was leaked online over the weekend. John Branca tells TMZ.com, 'We acknowledge that Michael and Paul wrote this song together.' And his fellow administrator, John McClain, has told Anka they'll do...

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...quickly found that "This Is It" is not exactly new. It bears a strong resemblance to "I Never Heard," a 1991 track by the R&B singer Sa-Fire that was written by Jackson and Paul Anka. "I really have no idea what the origins of the song...

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