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03/15/2007 9:14 AM	Alert
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?

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03/15/2007 10:43 AM	Alert
"You're gonna love me like nobody's loved me". And how. http://youtube.com/watch?v=BTZwRHPj594

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03/15/2007 10:59 AM	Alert
Hey... i haven't finished raving about how great last weeks performance was.... and now there is a new one. When she came on-stage last week it was like a mega-watt star walked on. This week just built on that. I think Kat was still in the moment and didn't have expectations; the performance was brilliant. Further along her nerves started to show more and it was reflected in some of the performances. This was compounded by the "judges" who seemed to hold Kat to a different standard than the rest of the performers... probably because of these first few phenomenal performances.

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03/15/2007 11:55 AM	Alert
I loved this performance and at the end when she was taking to Ryan....who can ever forget "feeling free" ... classic McPhee moment.

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03/15/2007 3:53 PM	Alert
I remember turning to a friend and saying, "If ever a girl was meant to sing a torch song this is that girl." Gosh, it was a great performance. And it's the night I learned how to vote for an American Idol. I remember being tickled when I heard: "Thanks for voting for me- Kat..."

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03/15/2007 6:08 PM	Alert
Kat had fabulous vocals with CROCS; she owned the stage;strutting around and stopping in various beguiling poses as she flirted shamelessly with the camera throughout!The excitement Kat generated in the audience was palpable!!This was a mature and professional performance!Then,we discover, with Ryan's interview,that Kat is "taped"!( not in the recording sense of the word;essentially for alleviation of the "jiggling"factor)This revelation only adds to the intrigue!Ever since, I've wondered about the logistics of how this is actually accomplished!More importantly,how does one go about applying for such a position??

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03/15/2007 7:14 PM	Alert
i loooved this performance of hers, not the best vocal overall, but she was phenomenal!!! and yea, i really really really made up my mind that she's just sang her way to the finale with CROCS. there was no doubt about it, she's born to be a star, and after this performance, the other contestants looked amateurish to me! awesome performance! even non-fans said so themselves!

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03/15/2007 7:44 PM	Alert
If Katharine McPhee were to sing "I've Got The World On A String", it would be incredible. The way Frank Sinatra did it in his 1973 special, "Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back". But, it would be done the same way, like "Come Rain Or Come Shine". Kat's back turned, play introduction, Kat turns around and sings: "I've got the world on a string, Sitting on that rainbow, Got that string my finggggg-er. (orchestral sting). I might also add that "Come Rain Or Come Shine" was the first arrangment with Frank & Don Costa, who was music director on 4 of Frank's specials: Francis Albert Sinatra does his thing (1968) Sinatra (1969) Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back (with Gordon Jenkins) (1973) and Sinatra: The Man And His Music (1981)

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03/15/2007 8:45 PM	Alert
Hey, don't really post a lot. But this was the very first time I watched AI. I remember there was nothing on tv, and i stoped on AI and she was talking about singing this song to someone and that "america will never know" (of course we eventually did), and i was like "oh! she's the one who kissed paula abdul on the lips, lets see if she can sing". And that moment in which she turned to the camera... I totally fell for her, i watched the whole performance with my jaw on the floor lol. Everything about her was fantastic!, her voice, her looks, the "feeling free" moment. I loved her! I remember thinking "oh great, now i'll have to watch american idol every week". And I became the person "who would never watch a show like that" to the person who'd actually avoid going out with my friends so i could stay home to watch her. And I don´t regret it!!!

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03/15/2007 8:51 PM	Alert
Posted By Fionnula on 03/15/2007 8:45 PM Hey, don't really post a lot. But this was the very first time I watched AI. I remember there was nothing on tv, and i stoped on AI and she was talking about singing this song to someone and that "america will never know" (of course we eventually did), and i was like "oh! she's the one who kissed paula abdul on the lips, lets see if she can sing". And that moment in which she turned to the camera... I totally fell for her, i watched the whole performance with my jaw on the floor lol. Everything about her was fantastic!, her voice, her looks, the "feeling free" moment. I loved her! I remember thinking "oh great, now i'll have to watch american idol every week". And I became the person "who would never watch a show like that" to the person who'd actually avoid going out with my friends so i could stay home to watch her. And I don´t regret it!!! Fantastic post Fionnula. I enjoyed reading every word of it. Thanks for posting.

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03/15/2007 10:05 PM	Alert
one of my favorite performances, she looked absolutely amazing in that dress. And the big hair!!!! Simon was spot on when he said "tonight, you turned into a star."

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03/15/2007 10:13 PM	Alert
I remember thinking "now how will such a silly, (but adorable) girly-girl be able to peform such a "torch" number? When she was talking with Barry Manilow she appeared to be in the "right church, wrong pew" in her reaction to his advice on picking one person in the audience that night to sing to....or maybe I was in the wrong pew!!! Anyway, she was amazingly more mature in her performance than one would have thought she would be after the mentoring with Barry. She really out- shined everyone that night and as Simon said, "Katharine, something wonderful happened tonight. Tonight, you became a star!" From that performance on, I was hooked into my first year of watching AI and supporting Katharine McPhee. She brought such excitement and joy into my life each Tuesday night. There will never be a season to compare with Season 5 of American Idol and our Kat!

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03/15/2007 10:21 PM	Alert
This was a song Katharine had performed many times in the past, before audiences, and in competition. And it showed. One thing Kat had a problem with was learning new songs in the alotted time. Oh, she could learn the lyrics and melodies just fine, but she was always a bit tentative on the new ones.A rather big exception being OTR, but she had probably sang that enough as a child to feel comfortable.

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03/15/2007 10:25 PM	Alert
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.....

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03/16/2007 1:17 AM	Alert
"Tonight you turned into a star!" ... I totally agree with Simon!!! I love her performance ... WOW!!! I can't help it but to think "Man, this girl is great!" Rising McPheever

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03/16/2007 2:33 AM	Alert
It seems this show was the true epiphany in people realizing what a major force Kat was going to be on 'AI.' This was the first show of Season Five that I watched all the way through and took notice that Kat was like no one else out there in both vocal tonality and personality. Though I didn't start voting regularly until joining the 'AI' board in early April. Everything evolves...even in the fan community. At least I caught up fast (thanks to that Rickey.org site) around this time to get up to speed on what I missed in the prior four weeks. This show may have been the first time that Kat was branded as a "standards singer" too. While she may have found that a detriment later, she understands that she can do these songs well and sang them hundreds of times prior. At the time, I thought she chose the song because she actually connected to it rather than just picking it because it was overly familiar for her and something she could do well. That just shows how things took time in learning who she was and what went on behind the scenes on the show. At least THIS arrangement of 'CROCS' was infinitely better than the one she did on that Ed McMahon 'Star Search' knock-off that she appeared on about five years prior. Seeing the clip of that last year on Youtube--she obviously connected with the arrangers on 'AI' to come up with something better. That doesn't always happen on there...but that arrangement (and stage choreography...that I assume Kat created herself) was starmaking perfect. At the time, I wasn't sure if Kat really took Barry Manilow's advice to heart when they met in Vegas (especially those dance moves he was trying to teach her). 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. If she didn't, then Barry obviously gave her some of the most valuable performing advice of any legendary singer who appeared on there. Starting the next week, I started having viewing parties with family and friends to watch this amazing Katharine McPhee girl progress. Once I started voting and getting involved on the 'AI' board, I had to excuse myself while I spent about two hours on the phone.

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03/16/2007 3:29 AM	Alert
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. Hey william, I always enjoyed seeing Frank Sinatra performing in a hot purple dress. ;) 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. Me neither. That's about the first thing an instructor tells you when you're preparing for a presentation or some sort of public speaking or performance. I've seen Barry Manilow in an interview say that he didn't know how to act as a performer for 10-20 years, until he started taking acting classes. He's still pretty embarassing on stage, for me. Kat could probably teach Barry more than he could help her, in terms of stage presence. I actually thought that the initial back-to-the-audience and the slow turn were too cliche', but the rest of the performance more than made up for it. I LOVED the way Kat worked the side of the stage, especially when she raises her arm while singing, "I'm gonna love you like NOOO-body's loved you!". I also loved how she shouted along with the band at the end of the song. CRoCS is easily my favorite Kat performance that I didn't get to see "as it happened." (I didn't start watching until Top 7 week.) Also - on the TelevisionWithoutPity forums, some small-town theater reviewer compared Kat unfavorably to musical actresses he'd seen on the rural theater circuit, let alone big Broadway stars like Vanessa Williams. Well, Vanessa Williams performed CRoCS on national television on Rosie O'Donnell's old talk show (the clip used to be on YouTube), and Kat totally blows away VW's rendition.

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03/16/2007 6:38 AM	Alert
Wait until we do the week she sang "I Have Nothing." We should get a lot of responses to that.

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03/17/2007 12:34 PM

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Gregoriancant….your post captures many of the sentiments I was feeling about Kat at this point in the AI competition last year…..for me, the CROCS performance was definitely my ‘epiphany’ in terms of realizing Kat’s potential…in this performance she had changed (in my eyes), from simply an interesting, pleasant, sweet, young, attractive, competent performer, into a head-turning; smooth; sexy; seasoned; confident; show-stopping; ‘genuine threat to challenge for the AI title’ contestant . There was a distinct elevation in the depth of her stage presence and ability to command the stage/audience/viewers….a new appreciation for what she was capable of delivering in her performances…at this point in the competition I think I was also impressed with the vocal styles of Taylor, Lisa, Chris, Mandisa, Elliot, and Paris and was enamored by the personalities of contestants like Bucky, Kellie, Ace and even Kevin.

When I look back, it is amazing how much better and interesting (to me) the pool of talent was last year compared to this year…..I haven’t watched AI much this year, but it seems to be basically a ‘three-girl race’ (Melinda, Lakisha, and Jordan) with not nearly the same potential for intrigue and excitement as existed last year.

But getting back to nostalgia….Kat’s CROCS performance got me hooked on the AI show too….accessing Rickie.org and Google-ing for info on Kat in particular…. joining discussions on the AI Boards (and counter-attacking the Kat bashers there!) and finally finding my way to KMF as a visitor…until I joined in early April….

Without preempting what william (great thread BTW william!) will add here in ensuing weeks….it will be fun to relive the wide gamut of emotions that escalated for Kat fans with each passing week….. from a casual interest in the overall show…to keen interest….to fanatical devotion…from melancholy appreciation of the performance of each contestant….to a more narrow focus on Kat’s impressive evolution…to gut-wrenching angst while we collectively hung on the impact of Kat’s every note/facial expression/movement/rumor or ‘I know I do…’ …. from absolute pride and euphoria when she performed well……to abject despair when she wasn’t well received by the (unfair !!) judges, or had ended up (unfairly !!) in the dreaded ‘Bottom 3’…from a blasé detachment from the inner-workings of the AI show…to enraged disdain for the ‘obvious’ subterfuge at play by the evil consortium of judges, producers, Kat-bashers, Soul-Patrollers, Daughtry-gripers etc who were in deep collusion to rob our precious Kat from a crown she rightfully deserved!! (…forgive us…passion vanquished reason – along with the ability to distinguish the ‘unreal’ from the ‘realty’ of the show….help me….I’m caught in an emotional whirlpool !!)….from feeling proud and content at being a credible participant in the AI outcome by casting 10 votes for Kat….to frantically ignoring all less meaningful pursuits (work; family, household chores, pets, ‘life as we previously knew it’…) for an intense commitment to a sustained and stressful voting frenzy – utilizing multiples of any and all imaginable manual and automated means of registering votes (usually the brainchild of our resident NASA expert!!) that would shame the organizational strategists of any Presidential election campaign….from a curious interest in tuning in to learn the AI voting results (if you could even remember what time the show was on)….to agonizing over the potential fate of our dear Kat based on preliminary assessments of DialIdol; Zabasearch; Vegas Oddsmakers; VFTW; reconnaissance f