Singer Paul Anka, already a huge success at age 20 with such songs as "Diana," "Lonely Boy" and "Put Your Head on my Shoulder" to his credit, holds up one of his albums as he's surrounded by fans at the Frankfurt post exchange.

Anka and fan in PX

From a Stars and Stripes article, "A crowd wherever he goes: Paul Anka invades Europe", 15 March 1962, about six months after Pam and I left Frankfurt:

Paul Anka is 20 years old and already a millionaire. And the reason why was pretty apparent when fans mobbed the record department of the Frankfurt Post Exchange. The Military Police assigned there for the occasion had their hands full holding off youngsters (and some not so young) who are great admirers of Paul's singing and composing talents. Anka sported a smile through it all while autographing records, photographs and slips of paper at Frankfurt, then drove off to the Hainerberg Shopping Center in Wiesbaden to do the same for fans there. On his first trip to Germany, the young record idol obviously was scoring another hit. In Frankfurt, kids missed their lunch hour to see the boy wonder - who himself skipped school altogether after making his first million while still Sweet 16. But students weren't the only fans. Explained a soldier, Sp5 John Fogarty, 26, of Hq, 3rd QM Bn: "I'm getting an autograph for my German fiancée. She's not allowed in the PX but she loves Anka."

Sp5 Fogarty is probably the GI just behind Anka; I hope he didn't get in trouble when his CO read that he had a German fiancée. The Frankfurt PX had enormous selections of popular, rock, R&B, jazz, country, classical, German, and other kinds of music. This was a frequent after-school destination for Frankfurt High School students, where you could pick out a 45rpm record or an LP, bring it to a counter, and listen to it on a high-quality headset. The counter had many turntables, so a whole bunch of us could do this at the same time before later moving on to the Teen Club and its juke box. At the PX a 45 cost 75¢ and an LP cost $2.50 and the Teen Club juke box was a nickel.