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Snee

Thursday, May 01, 2003 - 09:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP
i thought the sedaka songs were fairly challenging stylistically, if not range-wise...except for clay because 'solitaire' was a natural. the others had to work to sing that style. (no offense to clay who blew that song out of the water!)

any guesses on who will sing which beegees' songs?

Rabbit

Thursday, May 01, 2003 - 09:34 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Snee, not sure what all the choices will be but how about.

Josh: I Started A Joke, That Started The Whole World Crying

Snee

Thursday, May 01, 2003 - 12:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
hehe!

ruben: 'how deep is your love?'

he's gotta be wondering.

Conejo

Thursday, May 01, 2003 - 12:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Josh could do a country version of 'stayin alive'! I can just picture his facial contortions on that number!

Hobbs

Thursday, May 01, 2003 - 01:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I heard the week after next is the "No song week". They are going to stand and look at the camera for an hour. Why should they sing? Nobody votes on talent anyway!!!

<<toweling up the sarcasm with my paws>>

Watching2

Thursday, May 01, 2003 - 01:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Actually the Bee Gees did a lot more than just disco. I think their career took a dive after their music got so popular from that movie and people forgot the rest of their career. Now I'll just have to scrape the cobwebs out of my brain to try and remember what songs they did other than those from Saturday Night Fever. I DO at least remember liking them as a kid long before SNF! LOL

Maris

Thursday, May 01, 2003 - 01:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This Bee Gees song is just screaming to be sung at the next American Idol show

I've Gotta Get a Message to You(aka Josh's farewell song)

The preacher talked to me and he smiled,
Said, "Come and walk with me, come and walk one more mile. Now for once in your life you're alone, but you ain't got a dime, there's no time for the phone."

I've just got to get a message to you, hold on, hold on. One more hour and my life will be through, hold on, hold on.

Maris

Thursday, May 01, 2003 - 01:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
But then again Josh could also sing:

Tragedy

Here I lie in a lost and lonely part of town
Held in time
In a world of tears I slowly drown
Goin'home
I just can't make it all alone
I really should be holding you
Holding you
Loving you loving you

Tragedy
When the feeling's gone and you can't go on
It's tragedy
When the morning cries and you don't know why
It's hard to bear
With no-one to love you you're
goin' nowhere
Tragedy
When you lose control and you got no soul
It's tragedy
When the morning cries and you don't know why
It's hard to bear
With no-one beside you you're
goin' nowhere
When the feeling's gone and you can't go on

Brenda1966

Thursday, May 01, 2003 - 03:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Josh could also sing "Blaming it all, on the nights on Broadway." That's a good screaming song. :)

Actually, I really enjoyed Neil Sedaka week and I am looking forward to the Bee Gees. I was so disappointed when no one sang a Bee Gee song during Disco week. Maybe this is why.

I hope the second song they sing is the judges pick. Isn't it time for that?

Djgirl5235

Friday, May 02, 2003 - 07:22 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Judges pick was done for the final 3, that should be in two weeks...

Seamonkey

Saturday, May 03, 2003 - 06:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
So now this is turning into a fourth (at least) Josh-bashing thread?

I can only seem to remember the disco BeeGees, which doesn't seem to fit anyone all that well, of those left. Oddly, I think Ruben may be the best suited; I've heard him hit some really high notes and some really LOW notes..

Sadiesmom

Saturday, May 03, 2003 - 09:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Personally, I would like to hear Clay sing 'a quiet room' I think it is from the 70's, but I could be wrong. It is such a soft understated almost whispered song of great introspection. Hint - the quiet room is in one's head.

What I would love to hear is songs from the 30's. I love the music from then. Probably all the old movies I used to watch as a child. I think I know all Fred Astaire movies by heart.

Seamonkey

Saturday, May 03, 2003 - 10:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yeah, that would be nice.. with appropriate clothing and instrumentation..

Donut

Sunday, May 04, 2003 - 10:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
i have a zillion things i have to do, and yet i find myself developing a new illness/pastime called Bee Gee OCD... I can not stop looking up Bee Gee songs and figuring out which they will do..
btw, i think they have probably written between 500 and 1000 songs and one site had over 1200 sung by other performers, like Grease, Islands in the Stream, etc. and their early pre disco stuff was really lyrical..

Well, my guesses are:

Josh:How can you Mend a Broken Heart? (this can be really twanged up country style) Although if he chooses to not sing the line "How can a loser ever win?", then he would do How Deep is Your Love? instead. It also has country potential

Kim: Words It has great emotion, loud spots and whisper spots and is one of their most moving songs

Clay: To Love Somebody Its just a Clay song, although suddenly all i can remember is the refrain

Ruben: I Just Want to Be Your Everything (Unless he feels it is too Barry White and wants to do something really different, then maybe How Deep, if Josh doesnt)

btw, does anyone know how it is determined who gets to sing what, if more than one wants the same song? My hubby swears he Clay say "you picked it!" insinuating that they dont choose their own songs at all

Luvmom

Sunday, May 04, 2003 - 11:08 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Hi Donut,

He didn't say you picked it.He said it's british when Simon made fun of the song...I thought that was really funny.

I'm not sure how they decide if they both pick the same song.

Seamonkey

Sunday, May 04, 2003 - 11:12 am EditMoveDeleteIP
If they arm-wrestle, I'd predict that Ruben gets to sing whatever he wants :)

Essence

Sunday, May 04, 2003 - 01:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
During the Motown week, didn't both Josh and Ruben sing Baby I Need Your Lovin'? Maybe it doesn't matter if they choose the same song.

Maris

Sunday, May 04, 2003 - 02:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Josh - Islands in the Stream
Clay - New York Mining Disaster
Ruben - More than a Woman
Kim - If I can't have you

Magikearth

Sunday, May 04, 2003 - 06:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Donut,I had no idea the Bee Gees wrote so many songs.Now I'm gonna look up some sites to see what other great songs they've penned.
Oh,I can see this becoming my latest obsession,too..
Help! I have enough already!

I really love How Do You Mend A Broken Heart?
I also have the version by Al Green. I hope one of the contestants will sing this gorgeous song!
Also,I love the song To Love Somebody.
Clay honey,you would own it!

Maris

Sunday, May 04, 2003 - 06:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
BeeGees songs

Magikearth

Sunday, May 04, 2003 - 08:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow!!
Thank you,Maris!
This is a great site and includes the lyrics,too!
I'll never get to sleep!

Magikearth

Sunday, May 04, 2003 - 09:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Okay,I'll admit..I'm a ditz! LOL
How can you mend a broken heart? is the correct title! And I was singing it wrong the whole time! <sigh>

Donut

Monday, May 05, 2003 - 05:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
thanks Maris, thats the site that i went crazy at! plus some norwegian site where the person is really crazy and obsessed and has over 1200 listings of every version sung by everyone..
poor magikearth... her life is not her own...
dont worry you will get it back after tommorrow nite... at least until next weeek!

Magikearth

Monday, May 05, 2003 - 07:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Donut!
By the way,do you have the link for that Norwegian site? I am serious!
Here I go again with another sleepless night!

Kellirippa

Tuesday, May 06, 2003 - 11:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Too bad Ricky is gone, his voice would have been perfect for all that high note hittin' the BeeGees used to do.

Meli456

Tuesday, May 06, 2003 - 12:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I just have to say, this is going to be my favorite American Idol ever!!! I'm such a HUGE BeeGee's fan (strange, I know, seeing as I am not even 30 yet). I'm just shaking with glee just thinking about it! I feel like I should say "Muuw-ahaha" cause I am getting somewhat maniacal about it. At any rate, here are my guesses on what they will sing!!!

Clay - Emotion
And The Sun Will Shine

Kim - I Started a Joke
Massachusetts

Josh- Heart Breaker
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart

Ruben - How Deep Is Your Love
To Love Somebody

Ginger1218

Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 07:08 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Does anybody have any idea what next week's theme will be????

Meli456

Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 04:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I was pretty disappointed in the song selection, considering all of the great songs the BeeGees made. Kim sang the wrong Andy Gibb song, she should have sang "Don't Throw It All Away (Our Love)". Clay would have done well with that song also, I really could have done without "Grease". I think Robin Gibb could have done without it too. I hope there will be another BeeGees night next season, with Barry Gibb as guest judge!!! The entertainment reporters out here said last night was the best AI episode of the season. Or.... maybe.... the next weeks theme is still BeeGees and Barry Gibb will be the guest judge!! One can wish... <sigh>

Keepers

Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 05:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I heard on E Live that next week there is no celebrity judge, the 3 left will each sing 3 songs, one they pick, one the judges pick for them & the 3rd is luck of the draw.

Kellirippa

Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 07:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
what exactly does that mean..."the luck of the draw"...?

Seamonkey

Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 07:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
heh.. probably that means "someone's gonna get screwed".

Sherbabe

Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 07:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Heard that Oprah is doing an entire show on the Idol's. Her crew is following them around now. The idol hair dresser spoke about this in an interview i heard him on this morning. He has a web site www.hollywoodhairguy.com
He also said that Kim L and Clay are close to each other. I put this in the gossip link, too.

Crazydog

Thursday, May 08, 2003 - 10:17 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Luck of the Draw - I think that means there will be the names of 12 songs written on cards and they randomly pick a card. Kind of like on that Karaoke show on MTV where they spin a wheel and have to sing that song.

Brenda1966

Thursday, May 08, 2003 - 10:52 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Yeah, I did a Karaoke Luck of the Draw once and had to sing Barry Manilow's Can't Smile W/out You.

Help us all....

Actually, I'd rather just hear them sing two songs, and sing the whole song rather than just a portion of it.