From his birth in Queens to writing songs for The King…
From DJing a tiny folk music radio show at Columbia University to hearing his music played on radios across the country…
From Tin Pan Alley hit songs to hearing his songs in movies by Martin Scorsese and John Waters…
From writing and singing jingles to being a part of the jazz quintet, Group 5ive…
HAPPY GO LUCKY ME tells the tale of a truly fabulous, happy go lucky musical life — in the words of the man who lived it.
From his birth in Queens to writing songs for The King…
From DJing a tiny folk music radio show at Columbia University to hearing his music played on radios across the country…
From Tin Pan Alley hit songs to hearing his songs in movies by Martin Scorsese and John Waters…
From writing and singing jingles to being a part of the jazz quintet, Group 5ive…
HAPPY GO LUCKY ME tells the tale of a truly fabulous, happy go lucky musical life — in the words of the man who lived it.
Paul Evans can look back at a very satisfying lifetime in music, and has now topped it off with a book about that musical life. A New Yorker, he was asked by the respected English publisher, McNidder and Grace, to write a book about his life in the music business.
Paul begins his journey with a subway ride to the Brill Building, the heart of Tin Pan Alley, and then continues on, taking us with him through his hit songs, his various careers as a studio singer and jingle writer/producer, his experiences as an off-Broadway music writer, member of a world-traveling jazz group, and other areas that he explored during his years of following new opportunities in the music field. He writes about how each of these various areas brought him successes and disappointments and how they led him from one career to another. In Happy Go Lucky Me, Paul also shares his personal memories of some of his musical heroes and the villains that he crossed paths with during his long and exciting tour of the possibilities that the music world offered.
Paul’s successful songwriting career began in 1958 with the Kalin Twins recording of “When”, followed closely by his own hit, “Happy Go Lucky Me,” in 1960, Then in 1962, Bobby Vinton’s recording of Paul’s song, “Roses Are Red, My Love,” topped Billboard Magazine’s charts for 4 straight weeks. Many, many other artists have recorded Paul’s songs, including an early hero of his, Elvis Presley, who recorded four of them.
Paul Evans can look back at a very satisfying lifetime in music, and has now topped it off with a book about that musical life. A New Yorker, he was asked by the respected English publisher, McNidder and Grace, to write a book about his life in the music business.
Paul begins his journey with a subway ride to the Brill Building, the heart of Tin Pan Alley, and then continues on, taking us with him through his hit songs, his various careers as a studio singer and jingle writer/producer, his experiences as an off-Broadway music writer, member of a world-traveling jazz group, and other areas that he explored during his years of following new opportunities in the music field. He writes about how each of these various areas brought him successes and disappointments and how they led him from one career to another. In Happy Go Lucky Me, Paul also shares his personal memories of some of his musical heroes and the villains that he crossed paths with during his long and exciting tour of the possibilities that the music world offered.
Paul’s successful songwriting career began in 1958 with the Kalin Twins recording of “When”, followed closely by his own hit, “Happy Go Lucky Me,” in 1960, Then in 1962, Bobby Vinton’s recording of Paul’s song, “Roses Are Red, My Love,” topped Billboard Magazine’s charts for 4 straight weeks. Many, many other artists have recorded Paul’s songs, including an early hero of his, Elvis Presley, who recorded four of them.
ABOUT PAUL EVANS
Paul Evans began his musical career as a singer and songwriter in the late 50s when his records of “Seven Little Girls (Sitting in the Back Seat)” and his own song, “Happy Go Lucky Me” hit America’s Billboard Magazine’s Top 10. Twenty years later, in 1978, he returned to the charts when his record, “Hello, This is Joannie”, climbed onto Billboard’s Country charts and went Top 10 on the Pop charts in England and Australia.
He had a long career in the New York City studios; writing and singing on advertising jingles and spending his time as a ship singer on the SS France when he needed a break from the city. He was a member of the world-traveling jazz quintet, Group 5ive, and has been seen and heard on the Late Show with David Letterman and Late Night with Conan O’Brien.
Paul’s successful songwriting career began in 1958 with the Kalin Twins recording of “When”, followed closely by his own hit, “Happy Go Lucky Me,” in 1960, Then in 1962, Bobby Vinton’s recording of Paul’s song, “Roses Are Red, My Love,” topped Billboard Magazine’s charts for 4 straight weeks. Many, many other artists have recorded Paul’s songs, including an early hero of his, Elvis Presley, who recorded four of them.
His songs have been featured in films, among them Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas (“Roses Are Red”) and the theme for John Waters’ movie, Pecker (“Happy Go Lucky Me”). Many important TV shows, like the smash American series, Scrubs, and the Hulu series, 11.22.63, based on Stephen King’s book, have also featured his songs.
Besides his career of writing and producing jingles for radio and TV, many of Paul’s popular songs have been used in commercials around the world. His song, “Happiness Is,” inspired the four year long Kent Cigarette campaign that won a Clio for “excellence in advertising.” In 1987, Paul wrote the theme for the original American network television show, CBS This Morning, and in 1992, he wrote the music for the off-off Broadway show, Cloverleaf Crisis.
Now Paul tells his personal story in his book, Happy Go Lucky Me: A Lifetime of Music.
PHOTO GALLERY
