USA Today tells me this morning that tonight is Queen night on American Idol.
I am distressed by three pieces of information which I will now share:
1) Taylor Hicks will be singing “Crazy Little Thing Called Love,” my least favorite Queen song. Why does he keep picking these boring melodies? I think “Somebody to Love” would be so much better for him. I bet McPhee does that one.
2) Ace Young (who I still want to call “Ace Cannon,” for some reason) will be singing “We Will Rock You.” Just picture that in your mind’s eye for a second. You’re just a little bit horrified, aren’t you?
3) Kellie Dawn Pickler will be singing “Bohemian Rhapsody,” my favorite Queen song, and I think we can all see that this particular performance has “TRAIN WRECK” written all over it.
How in the world will Bucky fit into the picture this week? By singing “Another One Bites the Dust”?
I have a feeling that we’re in for another “yo, it was just ‘aight’ for me, dog” week.
Update: I just got a little deeper into the newspaper, and I discovered the other song choices:
Bucky – “Fat Bottomed Girls” – um, okay
Chris – “Innuendo”
Elliott – “Somebody to Love” – EXCELLENT choice for him
McPhee – “Who Wants to Live Forever”
Paris – “The Show Must Go On”
Daddy and Richard both had Ace Cannon (Godfather of Sax) LP’s in their collections.
THAT’S where I got it. I have wondered for this entire season why I wanted to call him that. And didn’t Ace Cannon play “Chantilly Lace” or something like that? And some other song that I could hum right now but can’t name to save my life…. There used to be K-Tel commercials for Ace Cannon LP’s and 8-tracks when I would stay up late at night watching “Columbo” and “Barnaby Jones.” :-)
Ace started out in Memphis playing on Sun sessions with Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, etc. He later moved to Nashville, but Boots Randolph (remember his club in Printers Alley?) sort of had the corner on the sax market here. But, you are right on the mark with the tv thing. He was right up there with Box Car Willie in tv record sales. I suppose these days he could be compared to Bill Gaither’s Homecoming cd/dvd series. :)