Yet Another Obsession...

American Idol. I watch faithfully every week, hope for the best and pray that my favorite gets through to the next week. My pick this year to at least get to the final was Danny Gokey. He was the guy who auditioned four weeks after burying his wife and 10 months later, look at how much he accomplished.

Spoiler Alert!!!! (if you don't want to know what happened, stop reading right now!!)

Sadly, Danny didn't make it. Kris Allen, the dark horse throughout the competition and Adam Lambert, fan and judge favorite from day one, will be competing for that coveted Idol crown next Tuesday. Aside from the scream from hell at the end of Dream On last week, Danny was consistent from week to week. He was never in the bottom three, but, still, he got voted off last night. I hope that, like Chris Daughtry, he goes on to bigger and much better things and we get an album from him in the next year.

I found a video from Rat Pack week when he did Come Rain, Come Shine. It was one of my favorite performances. He had a lot of what Simon called "swagger" that week. I think that was the week he finally started to believe he might actually win this thing.




(this first part he was with Jamie Foxx who was mentoring the kids that week. He starts singing at about 1:11 or so)

I have a couple songs too, You Are So Beautiful (my other absolutely favorite performance) and Stand By Me.




This guy has a great voice (he's got that whole raspy thing going on) and, like I said, I hope to hear more from him in the future.