Prairie Dog
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What impressed me about the first season of AI was Big Band Night. The song selection and interpretations were excellent. Justin Guarini's "Route 66" was spot on and so was Kelly Clarkson's version of a rare Betty Hutton tune, "Stuff Like That There".
I'm no longer a fan of this charade of a show. Sir Simon Cowell constantly criticizes anyone that choses Tin Pan Alley standards as being OLD. A good song is a good song no matter how OLD it is. If you have the pipes to sing such gems, then you deserve to be the last cat standing.
With that said, I thought for sure AI's abode to the classics would be a thing of the past. So to my amazement when I went channel surfing this past Tuesday, I heard Aaron Kelly sing, "Fly Me To The Moon". Sad to say this youngster of 17 was good, but not good enough to stay. The only other songster to make sense of the Sinatra catalogue was Big Michael Lynche, who's rendition of "The Way You Look Tonight" was amazing. Since this show is more about popularity than talent, Mike and Aaron were both at the bottom. Fan fav Crystal Bowersox murded "The Summer Wind". And that's not easy to do, since it was originally a Wayne Newton hit before Sintra got a hold of it.
Enough said, at least Sinatra and his catalogue of music got some deserved exposure on prime time TV. On Wednesday night the Final 5 got to sing a Manhattan Transfer-like Sinatra medley, arranged by mentor of the week Harry Connick, Jr. Since they were recorded in advance and lip-synced everyone sounded harmonious. I was very impressed. Very cool indeed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XscXVkVKj30
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