Paul Anka is happy to confirm the longstanding rumors about Frank Sinatra’s crown jewels.
“Yeah, it was huge,” he tells Page Six in a recent exclusive interview, before laughingly adding, “I don’t know what that does for you!”
The singer, 84, hung out with Sinatra and The Rat Pack in Vegas and would often take saunas with them.
“I had trouble with eye contact,” Anka cheekily says before noting that Sinatra had nothing on Milton Berle.
“Crazy, of all people,” Anka muses, “Milton Berle!”
Still, Sinatra’s second wife, Ava Gardner, previously described her husband as having a 19-pound penis.
The singer-songwriter is forever linked to Sinatra because he wrote the English lyrics to one of Ol’ Blue Eyes’ signature hits, “My Way.”
Anka was holidaying in France when he heard a French song called “Comme d’habitude.” He loved the tune and quickly bought the rights to the song.
Back in New York, Anka sat down at a typewriter and pecked out the now legendary lyrics.
He was only 24.
The “Puppy Love” singer says it was “one of the few times where I sat there saying, ‘I think I’ve really got something’ because you don’t know when you have a hit…and I sat there, and I said, ‘Jesus, where (did) this come from?’”
He immediately sent the song over to Sinatra, who recorded it two months later and called Anka from the recording studio.
“He says, ‘Listen to this kid,’” Anka recalls. “Puts the phone next to the speaker. First time I heard this song [and] I cannot tell you [how] I wrote it at 24.”
The song was later covered by many artists, including Elvis Presley and Sid Vicious, and played over the closing credits of “Goodfellas.”
Anka is still going strong all these years later.
He is the subject of an HBO Max documentary, “Paul Anka: My Way“, which premieres on Dec. 1, and has a new album coming out early next year.
