Paul Anka with David Dalton, My Way (New York:
St. Martin's Press, 2013), p. 220.
Things began to pick up for me
recordwise when in 1971 I wrote "She's a Lady" for Tom Jones. The
first meeting I had with Tom Jones, Engelbert Humperdinck, and Gordon Mills,
their manager, they came to my home in New
York and we tried to make a deal for my publishing
company. It's late at night, and we were watching a movie at my house and they
are all drinking champagne. The next day I woke up, looked in the living room,
and my wife, being a significant decorator, and I were shocked to find all our
bowls of potpourri empty. They had eaten all of it thinking it was potato
chips.