Do spoliers with brackets, like this:
Romeo committed suicide but Juliet wasn’t dead.
I’m not sure why we’re spoiling the themes. They’ve been reported on news programs, but anyway…
Top 40 hits from the past year, and songs written by Leiber and Stoller. L&S are among the most prolific rock writers ever.
Well, at least they’ll have some decent songs to work with (L&S’s, I mean, not the Top 40 from the past year, which I predict shall stink up the stage)(which, when combined with Scott’s personal stink - both figuratively and due to B.O. - should be enough to snap Paula out of her “illness”). Man, I’m glad they’re not scraping the bottom of the songwriters’ barrel like they did last year with Barry Manilow.
And he was on ELLEN yesterday. He sang “My Funny Valentine” and was pretty Meh! Oh, and Mommy Dearest was in the audience.
In addition to such Elvis stuff as “Hound Dog” and “Jailhouse Rock” Lieber and Stoller wrote the following: “Love Potion #9” (The Clovers), “Kansas City” (Wilbert Harrison), “On Broadway” (The Drifters), “Stand by Me” (Ben E. King). And then the all-time jackpot, a string of hits recorded by the hippest, funniest group of the ‘fifties, The Coasters: "Searchin’," “Young Blood,” “Along Came Jones,” “Charlie Brown,” “Yakety Yak (Don’t Talk Back),” “Poison Ivy.”
Let’s see, I can see Scott doing “Stand by Me,” Bo doing one of the Elvis things, Carrie doing “On Broadway,” Vonzell doing “Poison Ivy” and AFed doing “Kansas City.”
But I’m sure there are many more L&S titles to choose from.
Lieber and Stoller are the composers of one of my favorite songs, “Is That All There Is?” (Best known version sung by Peggy Lee, for whom they wrote several songs). I don’t know who of this lot should sing it, but if they do, and get kicked off, it would be best send-off EVAH. I’ll see if my honey tapes it even though we said we’d boycott after The Unspeakable Outrage of last week.
Top 40 of last year is different from last week’s theme HOW? Sheesh.
The link I provided gives them all, plus the artists who recorded them.
~bounces in~ Whoo hoo, I’m excited to be back after missing last week’s Idol. I’ll be on tonight Good Egg!
I was on vacation last week. Looks like Scott took a vacation from his general theme of sucky desperate please-come-back-girlfriend songs, and switched instead to a whiny pathetic why-don’t-you-love-me-daddy song. Wish I could say it was a nice change of pace. Which is worse? And what variety of disgusting sweaty begging will we be subjected to tonight?
The kind that gets him voted off? ~crosses fingers~
Well, they do say that hope springs eternal … 
I also wonder if the rumors are true that everyone will sing two songs tonight. Seems like we’ll be a bit tight on time in that case, no? When there were still ten actual contestants, wasn’t each song only about 10 seconds long or something (because of the required 45 minutes of Seacrest banter and commercials)?
There are two songs on that L&S list that are complete earworms for me: “Kansas City” and “Poison Ivy.”
Pity me if someone sings either.
I loved Poison Ivy, I was hoping someone would sing it!
rockle, too bad they can’t live without the 45 minutes of advertising per show…I imagine the songs will be shortened, as usual. :rolleyes: I don’t know if they’ve done this in other years before - they haven’t as far as I remember. Anyone else know?
IIRC, each person gets two songs when we are down to only three contestants left, and they get three each for the final two. I don’t remember them doing two songs each when there were still so many people left – but I also don’t remember how they filled all that airtime, either, so …
It’ll be interesting to see how many lyrics Carrie forgets tonight.
And I cannot wait for Scott to go back to Cleveland. And stay there. Sorry, Cleveland, but the rest of us don’t want him; he’s all yours.
But who cares? Because we’ll get to maybe see Bo sing two songs? O frabjous day!
Now, don’t get me wrong, because I lurves me some Bo (aka Reality TV Boyfriend #6), but how will we know the difference between BoSong #1 and BoSong #2? Seriously. Except for “Time In A Bottle,” every single one of his songs sounds identical. Awesomely identical, mind you, but identical nonetheless.
So, Bo, darlin’? If you’re reading this, and you have time to make any necessary adjustments to your Set List, could you please pick songs that sound a weensy bit different tonight? Or at least sing one version in English and another in, say, Swahili or Mandarin Chinese or something, so we mere mortals at home can tell the difference?
But whatever you do: please please PLEASE keep wearing those leather pants. Tomorrow is my birthday, and I would like to have nice dreams tonight. Thankyouverymuch.
I guess for me, it comes down to: Who cares? Yeah, Bo has turned me into a squealing hormonal preteen again. Damn, I remember when I was doing this over the Beatles like it was just yesterda…
That song would have been great for Constantine.
Would have been even better if we could have seen Constantine sing 2 songs and Scott :wally sing none!
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WORD UP.
That wasn’t bad… that was good…