American Idol - Jesse Langseth

We are big fans of American Idol here at The Dutch Scandies. If you don't know, Season 8 is just hitting stride with the main competition. A couple of weeks ago they got down to a Top 36 and for several weeks will be working to get to a Top 12. Last week 12 of the 36 contestants competed with the viewers voting in the three top spots. It will be the same for this week and next week to get 9 of the Top 12. It sounds like there will be 3 wild card spots to round out the Top 12. Tonight is the competition show and tomorrow night is the results show.

This year there is North Dakota connection with one of the contestants. Jesse Langseth is the little sister of Jonny Lang. They lived in Fargo before moving to the Minneapolis area when Jonny was in his early teens. Jesse will be competing tonight.

Here is the American Idol introduction video for Jesse Langseth:

American Idol - David Cook & ZZ Top

I don't how many of our visitors watch the show, but Nancy posted earlier about David Cook taking the American Idol competition. I was happy about that. On the show last night, David Cook took the lead vocals for "Sharp Dressed Man." The neat part was that ZZ Top was actually there. It was a good performance. Here is the video.



The guys in ZZ Top all turn 60 next year!

As far as David Cook, here a couple of other song performances that I liked. One is "Billy Jean," the Michael Jackson song; and the other is "Always Be My Baby," a Mariah Carey song.