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HEaring that Taylor did change songs but that it was not a last minute thing. Apparently he and another contestant chose the same song, and rather than going head to head he agreed to change his song. Word is he had chosen "Somebody to Love" -- and seeing as he and Eliot are roommates I am sure that they did not want that hanging over them. At least that is my take on it.

Crazy Little Thing Called Love can be Karaoke or it can be your own depending on how you perform it.

When David Radford did it over a month ago, he was channeling Michael Buble's version, which did come out as karaoke.

Taylor Hicks may be many things but karaoke is *NOT* one of them.

If you do it well, it has the potential to involve the audience (clap and snap) and bring the house down. The many possible variations to this song are just too tantalizing to ignore.

I can see a lot of performance possibilities with CLTCL that David Radford and Fantasia ( who did it before) didn’t do, which is to GET THE CROWDS GOING in the rhythm.

This one version comes to my mind for instance...(use your imagination) :

Taylor can start with upbeat music ( percussions prominent), then moves on to the “There Goes My Baby…” part of the song and then suddenly, the music stops and Taylor simply signals the crowd to clap or snap to the beat of :

”Be cool (clap-clap) relax (clap-clap) get hip (clap-clap) Get on my track’s, Take a back seat (snap-snap), hitch-hike (snap-snap), And take a long ride on my motor bike” ( go on for 10 to 12 seconds)

and then the music comes in again with

“Until I’m ready Crazy little thing called love ”

Imagine the audience interaction and how he’d cause the crowd to go crazy after the song with this ! I can totally see it in my mind. Randy wouldn’t even be able to get a word in after that !

TO SUMMARIZE — This song has many possibilities with the right singer. David Radford and Michael Buble aren’t it. Taylor is it !

Granted, it isn’t a vocal showcase song, but we have The Great American Songbook week for that. This week is the time to have fun again after 2 weeks of losing the fun side of Taylor Hicks.

Granted, it isn’t a vocal showcase song, but we have The Great American Songbook week for that. This week is the time to have fun again after 2 weeks of losing the fun side of Taylor Hicks.

Agree whole heartedly with your entire post Sir.

A lot of the buzz is that Taylor is going to do a more upbeat version based on Josh Kelley's arrangement on "Killer Queen - A Tribute to Queen". Kelley's version was fantastic, and Taylor will get the audience reaction with that version.

I think this song will, "Let Taylor be Taylor." Will it be the best vocal? Probably not. What it will likely do is get the crow into it like he did with Takin it to the Streets and "Living for the City." Randy will say the "Old Taylor is back". Paula will say, well, who cares. And Simon will call it karaoke and that he's heard it on 1,000 cruise ships before. But the main point will be that Taylor gets the microphone off the stand and does his thing.