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Hello all! Here it is the long awaited music from the Las Vegas call backs!

If you do not see a song here that you’re looking for, please let us know and I will do all I can to find it, but no promises, but I promise I will try…

Las Vegas Callbacks DAY ONE

Straight to Hollywood – Katy Perry: Waking Up in Vegas

Magicians
Michael Grasso – Telepopmusik: Breathe
Murray Sawchuck – Pussycat Dolls: When I Grow Up
Chipps Cooney Intro – Bach: Air on G String

Acrobats/Movement Acts
AscenDance Audition – Master of Confusion: Dinner
Rudi Macaggi – Bond: Señorita

Classical Singers
Prince Poppycock – Giuseppe Verdi: La donna è mobile (from the opera Rigolleto)
Hannibal Means – Luciano Pavarotti: Caruso
Carlos Aponte – Man of La Mancha: Impossible Dream

Dance Acts
Hot Shot Tap Dancers Audition – The Ting Tings: Shut Up and Let Me Go
Studio One Young Beast Society – Group 1 Crew: Transcend
Lindsey Sterling – Black Eyed Peas: Pump It
Style Pros Crew – Black Eyed Peas: Rockin to the Beat
Wreckless – Kesha: Blah Blah Blah

Female Singers
Mama T – Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels: Devil with the Blue Dress
Alice Tan Ripley – Tina Turner: Proud Mary
April Lane – Whitney Houston: I Have Nothing
Debra Romer – Jewel: Foolish Games

Youth Acts
Common ft. Pharrell – Universal Mind Control
Lil Chris – The Temptations: Stand By Me
Connor Doran – Alexandra Burke: Hallelujah (?)

Novelty Acts
Intro – Entrance of the Gladiators
Sally Cohn – Judy Garland: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Close – Frank Sinatra: Young at Heart

Male Singers
Paul Safy Jr – Ray Charles: Georgia
Keith Urban: Stupid Boy
Taylor Matthews – Smokey Robinson: The Tracks of My Tears
Michael Grimm – Otis Redding: Try A Little Tenderness

Results
Rob Dougan: Clubbed to Death (Matrix OST)
Leona Lewis: Run

Las Vegas Callbacks DAY TWO

Danger Acts
Nick Pike Audition Flashback
- Black Eyed Peas: I Gotta Feeling

Jeremy Vanschoonhoven
- Audition Flashback – Kevin Rudolf: Let It Rock
- Audition – Taio Cruz: Break Your Heart

Dance Groups
RNG Audition – Black Eyed Peas: Imma Be

Musical Groups
Auditions
- The Temptations: Ain’t Too Proud To Beg
- Rascal Flatts: What Hurts the Most
- Muse: Feeling Good

New Directions Audition – The Temptations: The Way You Do the Things You Do

Cristina & Ali
Audition Flashback – Miley Cyrus: The Climb
Audition – Carrie Underwood: Temporary Home

Novelty Acts – Quincy Jones: Soul Bossa Nova

Bands
Strange Familiar
Audition Flashback – Pretenders: I’ll Stand By You
Audition – Joe Cocker: Have a Little Faith

Harmonik
Audition Flashback – Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah
Audition – Josh Groban: You Raise Me Up

Auditions
Johnny Cash: You’re My Baby
Katrina & The Waves: Walking On Sunshine

Airpocalypse Audition
- Carmina Burana: O Fortuna
- Ram Jam: Black Betty from 1977

Male Singers
Auditions
- Righteous Brothers: Unchained Melody

Justin Hopkins – Peter Gabriel: In Your Eyes
Cody Joe Tillman – Dirty Vegas: Days Go By (Acoustic)
Luigi Seno – Amos Lee: Sweet Pea
Nathaniel Kenyon – Rob Thomas: Someday

Close – Coldplay: Fix You

Las Vegas Results – Leona Lewis: Footprints in the Sand

Well eleven spots are left the Group B “Stand bys” have a tough job to try to prove that they have what it takes to be part of the top 48.

Like in the Part Two post, I will have only the acts that made it through to Hollywood, with links so you could find more information about them. The acts will also be broken down into the groups as notated by the show…

Danger
- Kung Fu Heroes: Martial Artists (Los Angeles)
- Jeremy Vanschoonhoven: Bicyclist (Portland)

Dance Group
- Rated Next Generation aka RNG (Portland)

Male Singer
- Luigi Seno (Final Auditions)
- Nathaniel Kenyon (Orlando)
- Paul Safy Jr (Portland)

Comedian
- Ronith (Los Angeles)
- Airpocalypse (Portland)

Music Bands/Groups/Duo
- Iron Horse (Portland/Chicago)
- Strange Familiar (Portland)
- NU Covenant (Chicago)
- Cristina and Ali (Portland)

So there you have it:
- 10 acts that were guaranteed a spot in Hollywood and as thus didn’t need to audition in Vegas
- 27 acts that were guaranteed an audition in Las Vegas to prove their muttle and made it through.. also known as the Judges Favorites
- 11 acts that were “stand bys” and eventually were given a chance to shine and earn their spot for Hollywood

That leaves just ONE act left… which came from the YouTube Auditions. If you had forgotten, the producers of AGT chose forty acts for you to sift through and vote on. The YouTube act with the most votes is guaranteed a spot in the top 48 in Hollywood.

The voting phase has ended but the vids are still up, so head over to YouTube.com/AGT and look through the acts and see if you can guess you made it to the show.

The YouTube act will be revealed on the August 10th!

So here it… who knows how many acts were in the ever so important Group A category as mentioned in the previous Las Vegas post. These acts were ones that the judges believed stand the best chance of moving on to Hollywood… every one of these acts were given the chance to audition once again for the judges.

In the primary lobby there were sheets set up in various categories breaking the acts down so they could practice together, and size up the competition. From here each group would be called up together where they would see each other perform from the wings. Talk about tension and competition.

I’ve managed to get a good list of categories and acts. So below is going to be all the acts that have gone on to Hollywood as broken down by category. I will try to list the audition city that we met various acts throughout the season thus far if applicable and link previous posts to them so you could learn more informtion about the acts that have made it thus far.

And now, without further ado… Group A!

Novelty
- Maricar: Painting (Los Angeles)
- Sally Cohn: Hand Whistler (Portland)

Magicians
- Murray Sawchuck (Orlando)
- Chipps Cooney: Comedic Magician (New York)

Danger
- John Beatty: Strongman (Chicago)
- Twisted Trystan & Krystan: Side Show Performers (Orlando)
- Antonio Restivo: Fire Magician (New York)

Aerial/Movement/Acrobatic
- AscenDance Project: Rock Climbing Dance (Portland)
- Rudi Macaggi (New York)

Hip Hop Dance
- Wreckless Dance Crew (Orlando)
- Lindsey Stirling: Violinist/Dancer (Final Auditions)
- Studio One Young Beast Society (Orlando)

Bollywood Dance
- Mona Sampath Dance Company (Los Angeles)

Tap Dance
- The Hot Shot Tap Dancers (Portland)

Ballroom Dance
- Anna & Patryk (New York)

Youth Performers
- CJ Dippa (Dallas)
- Lil Chris (Orlando)

Harmonica
- Harmonica Pierre Herbineaux (Portland)

Comedian
- Doogie Horner (New York)

Classical Singers
- Hannibal Means (Los Angeles)
- Prince Poppycock (New York)

Female Singers
- Mary Ellen: Yodeler (New York)
- Alice Tan Ridley (New York)
- Debra Romer (Chicago)

Male Singers
- Taylor Matthews (Dallas)
- Michael Grimm (Los Angeles)

So here it is! The first day of Las Vegas week.

In prior seasons of America’s Got Talent, there were acts that were eliminated right away. What that did however (in my humble opinion) was put the judges into a corner where of the remaining acts there might not be those that shined while in Vegas when they did in the individual cities while those that were eliminated early didn’t get a chance to show any kind of growth.

So what the show changed up is the following. There are three groups of acts and only 48 spots open. The groups are:
Group A: These are acts that the judges believed have the best chance of making it through to Hollywood… so they were guaranteed a chance to audition for the judges again in Vegas. AKA the Judges favorites

Group B: These acts were not as good as Group A, so once Group A has gone through, if there are still spots remaining, these acts would get their chance to audition… If and only If.

Group C: Everyone loved these acts so much that they were going to go straight to Hollywood without ever having to audition.

Since Group C consisted of ten acts, of the 48 spots there are only 38 remaining…

So below are the the acts that have a free pass to Hollywood aka Group C (the links included are previous posts where you could find information about them):

Chicago Auditions:
- Belly Dancing Duo
- Polina Volchek
- Strikers All Stars

Los Angeles Auditions:
- Cheer San Francisco
- Haspop
- Future Funk

Dallas Auditions:
- Arc Attack
- Da Maniacs

New York Auditions:
- Fighting Gravity
- South Philly Vikings

So there you have it… the ten acts with a free pass to Hollywood. What are your opinions? What do you think? Stay tuned for tomorrow where I will list the acts from Group B that were chosen to go to Hollywood after they impressed the judges in Las Vegas.

Below you’ll find the best I could do at creating a list of music from those contestants eliminated during the Las Vegas Callbacks of America’s Got Talent. This list also includes music from the previous weeks from those eliminated in Las Vegas.

Here’s a link to see all the songs and music of America’s Got Talent.

A total of 113 acts made it to the Las Vegas callbacks. From those, a total of 19 of these acts where eliminated without even being given a chance to perform. The remaining 94 acts were trimmed down to a short list of 60 acts in the first of the two callback episodes, and the remaining acts were further trimmed to a Top 40 group in the second episode.

Acts that were eliminated without being given a second performance:

* Chellena Black-Harris
o Preliminaries, Week 2: singer, sang “A Change Is Gonna Come” by Sam Cooke.

Acts that were eliminated after the first cut, but did not make it to the top 60:

* Cafidia Stuart
o Preliminaries, Week 1: 15 year old sang Whitney Houston’s “I Have Nothing”
o Las Vegas Callbacks (Part 1): Performance was not shown, but was shown being eliminated.

* Holly Hardin
o Preliminaries, Week 3: sang “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” by Jessica Simpson
o Las Vegas Callbacks (Part 1): Sang “When God-Fearing Women Get the Blues” by Martina McBride.

* Shakes
o Preliminaries, Week 6: 10 year old dancer
o Las Vegas Callbacks (Part 1): Danced to “U Can’t Touch This” by MC Hammer.

* Mia Boostrom
o Preliminaries, Shown in clip form: Sang “Let’s Stay Together” by Al Green
o Las Vegas Callbacks (Part 1): Sang “If I Ain’t Got You” by Alicia Keys while playing the piano.

* Cat Williams
o Preliminaries, Not Shown: Passed Through
o Las Vegas Callbacks (Part 1): Sang “Let The Good Times Roll” by Ray Charles.

* Randy Hanson
o Preliminaries, Week 7: Ozzy Osbourne impersonator. Sharon commented that the only way she could tell him from her husband was if he “dropped his trousers so she could take a look at the goods.” Sang “Paranoid”.
o Las Vegas Callbacks (Part 1): Only shown briefly in a montage.

Acts that made it to the top 60, but not the top 40:

* David Militello
o Preliminaries, Week 3: 9 year old sang “Ben” by Michael Jackson
o Las Vegas Callbacks (Part 1): sang “If We Hold On Together” by Diana Ross Passed through.
o Las Vegas Callbacks (Part 2): Eliminated

* Holly Stone
o Preliminaries, Week 7: sang “A Broken Wing” by Martina McBride.
o Las Vegas Callbacks (Part 1): Performance was not shown. Passed through.
o Las Vegas Callbacks (Part 2): Eliminated

Acts that were eliminated at an unknown stage of the Las Vegas Callbacks:

* Next II None (N2N)
o Preliminaries, Week 2: family boy band performed “Bye Bye Bye” by ‘N Sync
o Las Vegas Callbacks (Part 1): Performance was not shown.
o Las Vegas Callbacks (Part 2): Not shown, but did not make the Top 40, so presumed eliminated by the judges.

* XL
o Preliminaries, Week 6: 25 year old Xavier Lewis sang “Ordinary People” by John Legend
o Las Vegas Callbacks (Part 1): Performance was not shown.
o Las Vegas Callbacks (Part 2): Not shown, but did not make the Top 40, so presumed eliminated by the judges.