Perhaps it is just the years playing tricks with my memory, but the version in Post #8 doesn’t hold a candle to Anka’s performance that night on the Carson show.
Just a shame that he ended being such a dick with his tell-all WRT Annette Funicello
Wow, you’re right. He was a jerk.
Here he is singing the song to Soviet president Gorbachev. I didn’t even bother to listen to it.
Paul Anka - My Way - Mikhail Gorbachev’s 80th Birthday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN4tG_v43po