American Idol Gives Back

[Esther]

Originally Posted by CC1

Wow! I had mediocre seats but I had some binoculars with me and I also got up and walked way down front and stood and watched him perform close up for a little while. Security was not anything like it is these days at a concert.

They played that piece of classical music that is in 2001 A Space Odyssey as the build up to Elvis coming on stage and by the time the music peaked and he stepped out in the spotlight that place was going wild!!!! I have never seen so many lightbulbs popping off at one time in my life as every woman there got their souvineer snapshots proving they saw Elvis in person.

I finally got to see him in Huntsville, Al, the year before he died. It was the only non christian concert I have ever attended.

I was in the nose bleed section. I wanted to reach over and hit my sweet hubby for making me sell my ringside seats.

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by CC1

Wow! I had mediocre seats but I had some binoculars with me and I also got up and walked way down front and stood and watched him perform close up for a little while. Security was not anything like it is these days at a concert.

They played that piece of classical music that is in 2001 A Space Odyssey as the build up to Elvis coming on stage and by the time the music peaked and he stepped out in the spotlight that place was going wild!!!! I have never seen so many lightbulbs popping off at one time in my life as every woman there got their souvineer snapshots proving they saw Elvis in person.

And they were probably lightbulbs back then too - not flashes. LOL!

[Esther]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

And they were probably lightbulbs back then too - not flashes. LOL!

Hey watch it!

[Sherri]

So who went home this week? I missed it because it was over by the time I got home from church.
(AWESOME church, by the way!)

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by Sherri

So who went home this week? I missed it because it was over by the time I got home from church.
(AWESOME church, by the way!)

No one because it was a special show to raise money! BUT...two go home next week.

[Sherri]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

No one because it was a special show to raise money! BUT...two go home next week.

Oh, sorry, I misunderstood. I was glad that Melinda sang a gospel song and Simon actually loved it. I thought Jordan was absolutely amazing!!

[CC1]

Idol Gives Back raised Sixty Million Dollars last night between corporate sponsers and the public calling in donations.

Steve Munsey can only dream of coercing little old ladies and poor people into giving that amount of money!!!

[Sherri]

I loved seeing Ryan Seacrest in the feeding station in Kissumu. We are getting ready to plant a church in that town in Kenya! Seeing all those kids made me homesick to go back.

They need to raise a lot more money than that to make up for introducing the world to Clay Aiken.

Originally Posted by CC1

Idol Gives Back raised Sixty Million Dollars last night between corporate sponsers and the public calling in donations.

Steve Munsey can only dream of coercing little old ladies and poor people into giving that amount of money!!!

[CC1]

Originally Posted by jshorts

They need to raise a lot more money than that to make up for introducing the world to Clay Aiken.

I liked Clay. I thought he had a great voice. He was the poster child for us nerds everywhere until we found out he was really the poster child for GAY nerds everywhere!!

You don't hear much about him anymore. So far Carrie Underwood is he most successful Idol winner with a little over five million copies of her debut CD having been sold. That is especially amazing considering it is a Country album and Country Music has been in decline over the last decade plus.

In the last few years you could have the number one country hit on radio and still have only sold less than a million CD's.

Carrie Underwood and Kellie Pickler along with a couple of the guys are all here in Nashville so sooner or later I will probably run into one of them.