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America’s Got Talent 5: Las Vegas Auditions Music

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 Waking

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

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

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

Dance Acts
Hot Shot Tap Dancers Audition – The Ting Tings: Shut Up and Let Me Go Shut
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 Rockin
Wreckless – Kesha: Blah Blah Blah Blah

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

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

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

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

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

Las Vegas Callbacks DAY TWO

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

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

Dance Groups
RNG Audition – Black Eyed Peas: Imma Be Imma

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

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

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

Novelty Acts – Quincy Jones: Soul Bossa Nova Soul

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

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

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

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

Male Singers
Auditions
– Righteous Brothers: Unchained Melody Unchained

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

Close – Coldplay: Fix You Coldplay

Las Vegas Results – Leona Lewis: Footprints in the Sand Footprints

July 17, 2010 I Written By

Possible America’s Got Talent Popularity Meter

Let’s be real and say it like it is. America’s Got Talent is really a popularity contest. At least once you get to Hollywood. It’s all about getting America to vote for you. So, the question is which people in the America’s Got Talent top 48 are the most popular acts and will command the most votes once we see the performances in Hollywood?

As I was watching some of the videos on NBC.com, I found a link to the “Most Viewed” videos on NBC.com. Sure, some of the videos have been up longer. Not to mention, some of the acts don’t really have videos. No doubt it’s an imperfect method to evaluate their popularity, but it’s still pretty interesting to consider. Here’s the list of acts from the Most Viewed videos from NBC.com:
Fighting Gravity
Future Funk
Michael Grimm
Alice Tan Ridley (Precious’ Mom)
Christina and Ali (Cystic Fibrosis)
Maricar (Painter)
ArcAttack
Carlos Aponte (too bad he’s already gone)

Very interesting list if I do say so myself.

July 13, 2010 I Written By

America’s Got Talent 5: Chicago Auditions

Yay Chicago Auditions! It’s ABOUT TIME!

So even though lately I’ve been doing just the acts that made it to Vegas… I figured a little commentary would be nice for you guys to see the changes in editing that has happened.

I will provide commentary on those acts that I have already seen… as well as a link to the original post that would then lead to other links that you may be interested in for that act. If this is a new act that I have yet to see I will provide links here and no commentary.

Zach Carty – No to Vegas
PureAGT Post
OMG they are starting with THIS guy. He was the very last guy I saw on the second night of tapings as notated by the link, though I never provided a name. He never got a chance to really try out his “talent” not like I would have liked to have seen it.

Strikers All Stars – Yes to Vegas
PureAGT Post
There is already a post of these guys on the site. =) Click on the link to find out more. They did a little ditty about one of the guys being Haitian, I suppose since they already had a huge Haitian group audition having him talk would be overkill? Seeing them perform via television is definitely different than seeing it live… I prefer live. They cut out a lot of the commentary though, Piers didn’t like the mix of tumbling and dancing, they made it sound like he enjoyed it more than he did when I was there.

Gentlemen of N.U.C.O. – Yes to Vegas
PureAGT Post
This was a group that I enjoyed listening to, though the judges weren’t so quick to send them through… ah well.

NU Covenant – Yes to Vegas
Facebook Page

Naishon Jones – Yes to Vegas
MySpace Page

The Spellbinder – No to Vegas
PureAGT Post
Ah yes, the Spellbinder, this was another guy I got to see… They cut down his routine very short… because Howie’s “spell bound” comment was in reference to the fact that the Spellbinder quickly changed the handkerchief into one dove and then created a second dove from that… which was oddly cut from clip.

Tom Zemke – No to Vegas
PureAGT Post
NOOOOOO, it’s engineers like him that give engineers like me a bad name 🙁

Laura Ernst – No to Vegas
Facebook Page
MySpace Page
YouTube Channel

Buddy Howie Cheesehead – No to Vegas

Carlos Aponte – Yes to Vegas
PureAGT Post
Carlos! I loved this guy… I gave him a standing ovation… =) Look at the link, he’s the first one in the list. They didn’t do the “Howie translation” that was funny.

Polina Volchek – Yes to Vegas
PureAGT Post
She is the second in the post linked. This was pretty impressive. But if you watch rhythmic gymnastics like I do then you’ve seen them all.

John Beatty – Yes to Vegas

Debra Romer – Yes to Vegas
PureAGT Post
Facebook Page
MySpace Page
She’s the second one of the link posted. To me she has a bit of an angelic voice that I really liked… and still liked with the broadcast.

June 29, 2010 I Written By