Paul Anka - Jump 2005

[JMarsh02639]

LOL @ "Knock yourself out!" I really like Van Halen's original version -- this version makes me appreciate it as a song that can be done in any style.

[leothelionator]

Great cover! The clever arrangement makes it sound as if it was always a jazz standard, narrowly missing the corny factor.

[BMFRaw]

How can anyone NOT LOVE THIS?! <3

[MegaKeith70]

David Lee who?

[elgonx]

Can totally see David on this! OK, maybe whit a little more whistle...

[jimtherat8]

Great cover.

[lob287]

Is this a fuckin joke?

[Chibihalo2]

You know at first I was thinking he was a bit nuts for making the album(s) this came off of. Now I see he was a genius because he's exposing more people to the great lyrics contained in these songs, people who would otherwise not listen to the original because it's a rock song and not their cup of tea but Paul Anka and big band jazz swing just might be. And when other artists go contemporary and cover guys like Paul he stays swing and covers them.

[okinawa69ROCK]

最高のJAZZ ROCK♪

カバーなのに、原曲を超えてるアレンジが光まくり♪

[steffanpiper]

wow ...



[skunkdad7]

great version !

[loretitos]

great music!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[joynthis]

Bleh, whatever. Due credit to the players and arranger for finding a way to pay the rent, but this campy, uber-Caucasian lounge lizard crap is what drove a lot of people to rock in the first place. It's exactly what I'd expect from the virtuoso that came up with "Havin' My Baby."

[cybersethxp]

@joynthis Uber-caucasian? Van Halen wasn't exactly playing the New Orlean Blues when he first wrote the song either!! :)

[MrAbruer18]

@joynthis Yeah, definitely overly Caucasian, especially being a musical form developed by black Americans...

[londonemski]

Love the original and love this too. Great fun.

[sistermicrowave]

What a phenomenal swing arrangement! He takes what is essentially a CRAP 80's fm rock track and makes it sound uber chic... Van Halen will never get it but too bad for them!

[lxexpress]

@sistermicrowave your taste in music is obviously very limited if you didnt enjoy the original version. the original sold over 10 million copies

[karashim12345]

Great song!

[Chimbo65]

A shame that the girl Sax player,walked into a door before the show

[lajtainemarika1]

Paul Anka örök kedvenc ! Őt nem lehet elfeledni !

Köszönöm, hogy láthattam, hallhattam !

[thebigdawg61]

Something tells me that Ego Dave would not share most of the opinions here.

[1jz4m3]

Where is this cat now?

[TNO73]

Seeing how I love both Van Halen & Paul Anka I think this is just FABULOUS!!!

[jakescottify]

love paul toooo much, loving his daughters new blog tooo right here and she's hot hehe.....

antheaanka. com v cool

[motley7885]

This is great. My band used to cover this tune back in the '80s in the original Van Halen style. Never thought I would hear it done any other way. This is a great arrangement, and Paul Anka is the ultimate pro. If I were not familiar with the song, I would never have realized that it was a cover of an old rock song.

[MrPacca22]

Mislim da kad je Edward Van Halen cuo ovu verziju ,da je razvukao kez od uha do uha:)))))

[LeChuck99]

I wish pretencious swing snobs would stop dissing the original, and Ignorant metal heads stop putting down this cover. Their both equally good versions of a great song.

(I think we can all agree there is far worse music out there folks.)

[beaumarais1958]

I´ve been thinking about several minutes , when i heared Paul Anka with this song: Where the hell, i know this song from ?

The only, what I can say : Its great !

Rarely better, then the original !! ( Sorry)

[75adventurer]

These ROCK SWINGS covers are uber chic. Anyone who can't understand the generational gap Anka bridges with these phenomenal arrangements isn't a true music lover. Plus, we know there was an endorsement from songs' owners (many of whom were original writers), as he had to get permissions before publishing.

[steamychud]

This is offensive in so, so many ways. I'd like to give this ignorant arshloch I bit of a swing of my own.

[karlospatriot]

this sounds like the song in Finding Nemo

[karlospatriot]

wow nice :D

[charmednpc]

I'm a rocker and a metalhead and I simply love this album. But there will always be naggers out there that will be offended when their favourite (rock) songs are covered in any other way.

[dmwdogg]

jump!

[HansHottest]

this offend rock and jazz at the same time

[Love0me0dearly]

Peter Kay did a good version of this =) xxx

[octofish]

The whole album "Rock Swings" was excellent as well as universally ignored.

He does Bon Jovi, Billy Idol, Michael Jackson, Eric Clapton, Pet Shop Boys, Van Halen, Soundgarden, The Cure and even Nirvana. "Rock Swings" is excellent.

Since rock fans take rock music so seriously, the record is not popular, .

[BruceinFalkirk]

@octofish Was the album ignored? Good! I like my rock music to rock and god knows why this mince is called 'Easy Listening' because it is anything but.

[2degucitas]

That man's face is pulled tighter than a melvin pulled on the class geek.

[sierria64]

yep ...looks like the doc feel asleep

[xebio6]

The tune lends itself quite well to a swingin' treatment like this. After all, DL Roth has always been a (hard rocking) lounge crooner of sorts

[mrpaulanka]

you will never get a better cover than this well done mr anka from your number 1 fan...lee

[elisebrav]

@mrpaulanka Agreed!!

[mrgbennet]

I prefer his 50s rock n roll style.

But as swing goes this is better than most.

[KAPTAINmORGANnWo4eva]

Paul Anka and Richard Cheese are both geniuses for doing this. They can take Bronze-Poop (1960's-now) era music and put it into Silver age context.

[marellison]

Apart from the fake playing and singing there is another annoying thing about German TV shows: People insist on clapping hands - but they don't swing at all. Most Germans cannot clap or snip on the backbeat, but think it is a must to support cool singers with terrible hand clap noise on the '1' of each bar.

Guys, you can't imagine how it is to be a German musician, trying to explain to his parents about cover shows or that German's most popular trumpet player (Stefan Mros) plays beginner level.

[mrpaulanka]

song is being sung live

[Jigaboo123456]

@marellison- -that may be true, but they sure can do sing marching songs to a miltary oompah band!

German military songs are great to listen to-- unless the Wehrmacht is "on tour" so to speak!

I think you are a little too hard on your countrymen. I partnered a German chick her for six months in a beginner's class in Latin and Ballroom dancing--she was terrible, clumsy and off-beat-- a month before she was to go home, the penny dropped. Very quickly, she got it"

[starless1969]

cool!

[avalemert]

As a horn player and singer I can appreciate the toightness of the horns and Mr. Anka has got it, age has no bearing on him. What an inspiration. I am snapping my fingers to this baby. I was skeptical when I saw what the song was, as I love Van Halen, too. Fantabulous

[AcidicLinguist]

Hahaha like Penguinharry said, amazing cover....just the Germans think it's some great American guy. Which he is, of course....they just don't get it. Hahahahaha. Yessss Paul Anka.

[waltandrus]

Anka is aGREAT talent and entertainer. He's Canadian and can be a REAL ASSHOLE at times. There's an infamous tape on You Tube of him balling out his band backstage,,, pretty funny!

[evh5150316]

Funny how the lyrics translate well to the swing genre of music or whatever genre this would be called.

[penguinharry]

brilliant cover...it's just that, I can't help wondering if THEY know it's a cover...

[fatograph]

I just shit on my hand....

[friguido]

i hate german television

[fcaceres7]

HEY FOR YOU ANDREA !! JA JA

[rudeger66]

THAT IS REALLY COOL!!!

[cancanturco]

If I were a composer and my music is covered by different singers or in different music styles I will be more than pleased, specially if it is made with style and quality like this man just did !!! If I were David or Gallaher or any of them I will be pleased that because of Anka, many of the old people would hear and like the music I composed. Maybe my mother doesn't like JUMP or OASIS's songs but guess what!!! she loves Wonderwall or Jump PAUL ANKA's STYLE. It just ROCKS

[OolTube02]

Are you kidding me? This is so uplifting! They even play it as waiting music at the suicide prevention hotline...

[animegirl12182]

...That would be epic...I'm sure it would cut down on the calls.

[LongWayShout]

again.. a good cover =)

[greg5150]

Actually Eddie would love this version - because Jan would! If you know who that is then ... thumbs up to you.

[greg5150]

Eddie would love this!

[jerryrigg]

My life has a new direction now, thanks to this.

[xiaonupengyou]

I'm sure David Lee Roth likes this version more than anybody else if Paul Anka could performe it. It think it is a very good version, the song perfectly suits the swing. The strenght of the music is also its flexibility and fortunately good musicians can see it.

[kunglek]

Paul Anka should be tied to a pole and exploded for this.

[defmanwalking]

omg das ist bei dieser komischen deutschen chart-show...lol

[mintersmafia]

I want David Lee Roth to kick him in the face!

[lunatico88a]

he has got a plastic face

[ableto99]

what a big headed cunt, they should call him paul wanka, not paul anka.

[Jigaboo123456]

Superb for dancing a slow foxtrot to. Thanks for posting. Compared to this, the Van Halen version sucks- bad!

[JivingJohnny]

Good health Paul. Best, John and Dawn

[blackjack4700]

he ruined an anthem

[contabilidad03]

VAN HALEN... greatest rock 'n' roll band. And, Eddie... OMG, guitar solo, keyboard solo in this original song. Virtuoso.

[lavverlylad]

Richard Cheese did this way beor Anka.

[johncare37]

oh, joy!!!

what a cover this is!!!

can't beat real singing swingers!!

[0000i000]

Paul Anka sang in Italy too in past ... I never would imagine a cover like this...

[sistercuervo]

Van Halen Big Band style--great combo!