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Well, Katharine survived Week 1 of "American Idol", and the Music Of Stevie Wonder.
This week's theme is the music of the 1950's. The remaining 11 including Katharine are headed to Las Vegas, and the showroom of the world famous Las Vegas Hilton Hotel, where special guest mentor Barry Manilow is waiting for them.
This week, Katharine is singing a great song written by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer, called "Come Rain Or Come Shine".
My favorite part is the introduction after Ryan introduces Katharine, it starts with Katharine's back turned to the audience, and, after the introduction, in the great tradition of Frank Sinatra, turns around and sings, "I'm going to love you, like nobody loved you, come rain or come shine", in a hot purple dress.
It reminds a bit, of Frank's "I've Got The World On A String", written by Arlen and Ted Kohler, and it was, by the way, the first arrangement of the remarkrable career of Frank and Nelson Riddle.
What do you remember of that performance?
"You're gonna love me like nobody's loved me". And how.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BTZwRHPj594
her CROS performance week 5 and her TYCBTM performance week 4 - is so, so , so much better than ANYTHING we are seeing this season - even the singing divas (melinda and lakisha) - while they have fantastic voices, simply don't have the presence that Kat displayed in both these performances. I'm amazed to remember that these were still so early in the show - yet so excellent.
I can't remember what taylor, chris, kellie, elliott. paris, etc performed those weeks....but, maybe i'm just too nostalgic or too attached to kat - i do not think the AI6 group is nearly as good or diverse as last season's group.....
But when he said to sing to someone "out there" (obviously, she had Nick in mind later)--I think she did connect to that advice and started using the camera more to use that to her best advantage. I can't believe, though, that Kat didn't already know how to do that.
Transcript? Did someone say transcript? I have all of these. I did them for Katpedia and that got shut down by the powers that be so....we'll use them here. Oh William...just e-mail me when you put a new one of these up each week and I'll post the transcript as soon as I can. I don't always make it here everyday but I know I like reading what was said in these again.
My thoughts on this before I post the transcript. This was the night (as Simon said) Katharine became a star. Perhaps she sang "Until You Come Back To Me" just as well as she sang CROCS, however, this combined her voice with the LOOK of a superstar. And that made all the difference.
And what added to it was the contrast of her singing with Manilow in sweats and a ponytail with no makeup to just looking dropdead gorgeous on stage for the first time. This was her "HELLO WORLD I'M READY TO WIN AMERICAN IDOL" performance.
Here's your transcript:
KATHARINE’S TOP 11 PERFORMANCE (1950’S WEEK)
Song: “Come Rain Or Come Shine”
Performed: March 21, 2006
Original Performer: Pearl Bailey (in the musical “St. Louis Woman”)
Written By: Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer
Year: 1946
PRE-PERFORMANCE
Ryan: Welcome back to the show, we’ve got some of the best songs from the 50’s by some of the best singers in the country. Katharine McPhee with me right now.
Katharine (waves to audience): Hi!
Ryan: OK, so. You were just telling me during that commercial break that she got up this morning, she was watching the news and she saw Simon’s girlfriend, Terri, on the news, interviewing an exclusive with her boyfriend, Simon! And what did you see in that interview?
Katharine: He didn’t even know my name. He was like, oh, Kath, Katharine? Is that right