Happy Go Lucky Me!: An Autobiography

As a songwriter, Paul has written hits for himself as well as for Bobby Vinton - the 1962 classic, Roses Are Red, My Love, the Kalin Twins When in 1957, and Elvis Presley The Next Step Is Love, I Gotta Know and more. A list of other recording artists who have recorded his songs is too long to write down here. His songs have been featured in movies (Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas and John Waters’ Pecker), television shows (Scrubs, the Hulu series, 11.22.63) and TV ads (the 1965 CLEO winning Kent commercial, Happiness Is, England’s Sainsbury and France’s Intermarché grocery chains. He also wrote an off-off Broadway show, Cloverleaf Crisis, and the theme for the original network television show, CBS This Morning.

Paul has spent a great deal of his life as a recording artist. From his 1959 and 60’s Guaranteed Records hits: Seven Little Girls Sitting In The Back Seat, Midnight Special and Happy-Go-Lucky Me to his 1979 Spring Records hit: Hello, This Is Joannie (# 6 on the English pop charts, Top 40 on Billboard’s Country charts.) Paul has produced music tracks for recordings, industrials, jingles and television. He has also soloed and sung in groups on many commercial jingles, and has been seen and heard on the David Letterman Show, The Conan O’Brien Show, and more. His voice can be heard in the Woody Allen films, Mighty Aphrodite and Everyone Says I Love You. He was also a part of the world-traveling jazz quintet, Group 5ive. Paul still lives in New York in his City apartment with his wife Susan.