[SirLinksalot]

CLASSIC LOVE SONGS... MY SONG CHOICES FOR THE CONTESTANTS ( Note, I am trying to choose WELL KNOWN SONGS FROM THE PAST that have been known to be classics ( i.e., undying). Otherwise I don't know how Andrea Bocelli can even thinkof coaching these kids ).

Taylor .. anyone of these :

1) WITHOUT YOU ( Harry Nilson ) -- The chorus -- "Can't Live if Living is without you" is your style.

2) Smoke Gets In Your Eyes --- Can you sustain the ending for at least 8 seconds ?

3) I Can't Stop Loving You -- Ray Charles ( who else )

4) You've Lost That Loving Feeling - Righteous Brothers

5) We’re All Alone - Boz Skaggs

6) ME AND MRS. JONES (Billy Paul )

7) MY LOVE ( Paul McCartney )

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Chris

1) CRYING ( Roy Orbison) If you want to scream/yell, now's your chance. But the falsetto near the end will challenge you. This is an outstandingly haunting song but is a challenge to sing.

Yes, it’s true that no male singer has ever tried this because it is hard. It requires a transition to falsetto and the ending will tax your range and ability to sustain the high note for at least 6 seconds without cracking.

I’d like to see Taylor *OR* Chris try it. If you can do justice to it, it will be a super WOW moment and you have the crown in the bag.

2) Have I Told You Lately (That I Love You ) -- ROD STEWART

3) LAYLA -- Eric Clapton

4) ALWAYS -- Bon Jovi

It's hard to pick a song that Andrea Bocelli can coach for Chris Daughtry. The two of them go together like Oil and Water. It's also hard to find a hard edged love song because there's practically none out there.

Rock is about not conforming and that makes this genre a problem for Chris (again). So he's got to compromise and I don't know if his diehard fans can take it.

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Paris (I'm trying to find one that fits her age)

1) THE MAN I LOVE -- Billie Holiday

2) HOW HIGH THE MOON -- Ella Fitzerald

3) ONE LESS BELL TO ANSWER -- Fifth Dimension

4) NEITHER ONE OF US ( WANTS TO BE THE FIRST TO SAY GOODBYE) -- Gladys Knight

5) THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE -- Roberta Flack

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Kellie Pickler ( again, How is Bocelli going to coach her ?)

I'll Just choose love songs that are REAL CLASSIC hoping Bocelli had heard of them. Faith Hill, Martina Mcbride, Shania or any of those new cross over country singers.

1) Tennesee Waltz ( Patti Page ) -- REAL HEART BREAKER, TRY EVA CASSIDY's VERSION.

2) Stand By Your Man ( Tammy Wynnette ) -- NEVER PERFORMED ON THE SHOW.

3) CRAZY (Patsy Cline)

4) I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU ( Whitney Houston ) -- But listen to Dolly Parton's version

5) COLD DAY IN JULY ( Dixie Chicks )

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Katharine -- Easiest for Bocelli to coach. Her broadway style is closest to his.

1) SOMEWHERE -- West Side Story

2) EVERGREEN -- Barbra Streisand

3) THE WAY WE WERE -- Barbra Streisand

4) SAVING ALL MY LOVE FOR YOU -- Whitney Houston

5) Almost Like Being In Love -- Jazz it up for a change.

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ELLIOTT

1) ALL THE WAY -- Frank Sinatra

2) WHO CAN I TURN I TURN TO -- Sammy Davis Jr

3) HERE AND NOW -- Luther Vandros

4) TURN OFF THE LIGHTS -- Teddy Pendergrass

5) WITH THESE HANDS -- Tom Jones ( Bocelli knows this song and has performed it ). It'll require some vocal stretching but the ending is a bomb if Elliott can reach it.

6) IT's NOT UNUSUAL -- Tom Jones ( if Elliott wants to go upbeat).

7) CHANCES ARE -- Johnny Mathis

COMMENTS, DISAGREEMENTS, ADDITIONS, WELCOME

[over3Owithabrain]

Good suggestions, Links. I would mildly correct you by saying "Have I Told You Lately" is a classic Van Morrison song, redone by Stewart. That makes it perfect for Taylor, he covers Van a lot in his club performances. Also, "Baby I'm Amazed" would be good for Taylor, seeing that Paul McCartney spazzes out for the last minute and a half of the song!

I really like your idea of "It's Not Unusual" for Elliot. He needs to show a fun, sexy side to continue his ascent.

[Netizen]

I like your picks and add these. I tried to stay away from anything too new, since I'm not sure how old a song would need to be to be considered a 'classic' or a 'greatest' love song. I too, had picked Stand By Your Man for, Kellie.

Paris - Saving All My Love For You

Taylor - When A Man Loves A Woman

Chris - Nights In White Satin

Elliot - Since I Fell For You

Katharine - At Last

Kellie - Stand By Your Man

[Senator Goldwater]

Have I Told You Lately is a Van Morrison song, adapted by Rod Stewart.

[Senator Goldwater]

"Stand By Your Man ( Tammy Wynnette ) -- NEVER PERFORMED ON THE SHOW"

Kellie did this number on "Charlotte is Listening", a local singing competition in which she placed second.

As you may know, since I watched the newsreel footage from one of your links.

[Senator Goldwater]

"MY LOVE ( Paul McCartney )"

Might work better with Elliot's plaintive delivery more so than for Taylor.

But a great number either way.

[FreedomForce]

My suggestions--some classics, some just songs that should be better known than they are.

Paris is more difficult than I would have thought. I keep returning to Dinah Washington for her. Paris could do "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" in a similar manner to Dinah. Or "All of Me", again reminiscent of Dinah.

Katharine should sing Sting's "Fields of Gold" the way Eva Cassidy sang it. Think she'd kill with that if she didn't oversing it.

Easy, hooky, obscure, country song with some bounce for Kellie: "Somewhere, Some Night" by Laura Cantrell(written by Carl Montgomery).

Another obscure song for Chris: "Green Eyes" by Kate Wolf. Think he could make that one smoke.

I'd like to see Elliott do something bold and unexpected like sing "Lark in the Clear Air" acapella. If he plays it safe he should sing something melodic rather than funky; he'd do well with just about any of the standards.

The wryness of Graham Parker's "Long Stem Rose" would work well for Taylor, another fairly obscure song but a pretty one. Parker doesn't strike me as someone who would allow his music to be performed on AI though.