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Clay Aiken – His Performance Was Spectacular!

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This past week-end, American Idol removed the YouTube of Clay Aiken singing on this season of American Idol.  Clay was asked by the producers to sing Bridge Over Troubled Water and his performance was spectacular that night.

Fortunately, on Monday, the performance was put back on YouTube.  The video is of much higher quality so that is good…Unfortunately, all the play numbers are gone and all the positive comments are gone too.  So…I hope that each of you will:

  1. Watch the video at least once today
  2. Click a “thumbs up” on the YouTube site
  3. Leave a comment at YouTube

LINK TO YOUTUBE

When you’re weary

Feeling small

When tears are in your eyes

I will dry them all

~ 

I’m on your side

When times get rough

And friends just can’t be found

Like a bridge over troubled water

I will lay me down

Like a bridge over troubled water

I will lay me down

  • Paul Simon wrote this beautiful song about providing comfort to a person in need. It started as a modest Gospel hymn but became more dramatic as he put it together.
  • BOTW was one of the few songs to top the US and UK charts at the same time. It was #1 in the US for 6 weeks, #1 in the UK for 3.
  • In 1971, this won 5 Grammys: Song Of The Year, Record Of The Year, Best Contemporary Song, Best Engineered Record, and Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists. The album also won Album Of The Year.
  • Bridge Over Troubled Water was the last album Simon & Garfunkel released before they split up. It is the biggest selling ever for Columbia Records.

 Then there was American Idol and Clay Aiken

  • Clay Aiken released This Is The Night/Bridge Over Troubled Water as a CD single on June 10, 2003.
  • According to USA Today, US sales of the single sold 1,012,000 units –as of June, 2009.
  • The single was RIAA certified Gold and Platinum on July 13, 2003.
  • The single was at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles for 11 non-consecutive weeks.  It left the chart after 45 weeks.
  • This Is The Night/Bridge Over Troubled Water had the biggest first-week sales of any single since Elton John’s “Candle in the Wind (1997). It was also easily the best-selling single of 2003.

 

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