David Cook Sings “Come Back to Me” – The Ellen Degeneres Show – VIDEO

Yay! thank you so much for the video MJ! I was worried I wouldn’t get to see the Ellen appearance.

OK, now I’ll go and actually watch… LOL

ETA: A great performance. Loved the slightly modified ending, LOVED the crowd’s reaction and prolonged cheers. Very very nice.

Can’t wait to hear Permanent tonight. Kleenex already prepared.

Wow, that’s a GREAT performance. I didn’t know what I expected but he sounds awesome. And looks good.

Cookie!!!! I still get so excited when I see him!!! Damn he looks good! DC FTMFW!!!!!! Sorry Adam- I love you too but DC has a special place in my heart.

And the EEB still look good! Dayum!

Can’t wait to hear Permanent..

That was great. See Idol, this is what happens when you mike the whole band! LOL.

You’re fast mj! Thanks for the video. It doesn’t come on here for 2 more hours.

He looks great. I like the shorter, lighter hair. Nice that they showed the whole band this time. I liked him in the more casual clothes. I didn’t think the suit last time on Idol really flattered him.

Awesome that Ellen likes him so much. His voice is still husky and I don’t know if he has chosen to sing it that way. I like it though. A little “dirtied up” and the last bit was very sultry.

Beautiful, really gorgeous performance.

Love Ellen. Love Cook. All’s good.

Great song! Good job, Cook!

I like the more growly version . . it’s all manly. The band is seriously tight. Loved the audience spazzing out. He’s ready for tonight!

Thanks MJ! That was so much better than the Idol performance. Cook sounded great, you could hear the band and I love the way they ended the song. Aww Ellen..you have good taste. I heard that there was a funny backstage clip in the beginning with Ben Stiller pretending to do Cook’s hair. Did anyone catch that?

That was absolutely beautiful. I love this version that’s a little rougher. The band can harmonize! AWESOME!

Liked it! Husky voice rules! That shirt looks great on him.

Everything about this is so, so pretty. David, the boys, the song, the crowd response, the Ellen love…so, so pretty. I can’t wait to see him again tonight!

Ellen has made it obvious with each appearance what a big fan of DC she really is. It’s really sweet.

See Idol, this is what happens when you mike the whole band!

A big yes to this. LOL

I’m looking forward to tonight’s performance.

Thanks for putting the vid up mj.

David and the band sounded amazing-love that he did the concert version of the song . Can’t wait for tonight-what a day! Personally, don’t care who wins tonight-just that he’s on Idol.

i’m digging the hair. love this song.

I heard that there was a funny backstage clip in the beginning with Ben Stiller pretending to do Cookà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s hair. Did anyone catch that?

If anybody has this… please upload it to YouTube! I want to see Ben Stiller do DC’s hair! LMAO at the thought.

OK, this performance makes me love CBTM more than the video did. It’s awesome. Andy and Kyle’s harmony FTW.

Wow, that was nice!! I loved it with a little gravel in his voice, and great reaction from the crowd. I love David Cook on his own, but I love this band too and they play like they’ve been doing this forever. Tight, tight group.

And to be perfectly shallow, he is looking very handsome (love the lighter hair)… and has Andy gotten lots cuter over the past several months? LOL. Glad to see the Ellen love, that was great.

I am going to be out of the house when it comes on here in a couple hours so MJ, THANK YOU for this!

Seeing David twice in one day, what a treat. I can’t wait for tonight. It will be the highlight for me.

Neil’s guitar sounded great on Ellen. Wow. So great to see them on tv. They’ll be on Fallon late show on the 25th also.

This performance was amazing! He looked and sounded so good! Much better than the idol performance which was still good. Andy and Kyle did great with the long high note. I love his new guitar! Oh and Ellen is just awesome.

That was a fantastic performance! Sound was great, too. The band was awesome.

Dave and the band looked amazing.

Thanks, MJ, for putting this up so quickly.

HA I found it! David Cook & Ben Stiller Funny Clip On Ellen Show

“I like you so much…I really do. I like you a lot.”

I love Ellen. And she sure loves her Idols but she has her favorites — Kelly, Daughtry and it seems Cookie is joining that list.

EEK, DC and the band look great, even in the blurry screencap above! Cannot wait to watch this tonight! OMG, and PERMANENT! Dying… Thanks MJ and elisad for providing the goodies.

David Cook & Ben Stiller Funny Clip On Ellen Show 05/20/2009

OMG that expression on DC’s face! Love it!

:lol_tb:

Great, great and great! Loved everything about this (that everyone has mentioned above).

Thanks so much for posting!

Dave looked particularly yummy in that video, with the lighter hair and the gray shirt. Great color for him. I love the live version of CBTM- so much better then what’s on the record. He and EEB sounded great. AI needs to send Bruce Gower for a remedial course in how to video a band, taught by Ellen’s director!

I how I love thee, David Cook. He will always be Numero Uno for me.

Great performance! Praying he is able to get through the Permanent tonight.

HA I found it! David Cook & Ben Stiller Funny Clip On Ellen Show

Bwah! The expression on David’s face. LMAO

Thanks elisad!

Great performance. I can’t wait until he outshines Adam and Kris tonight. I think it will be THE Idol performance of all 8 seasons. Get your tissues ready peeps, you know that there won’t be a dry eye in the audience.

Best Performance of the song yet! Love Andy and Kyle joining it. Everyone looks great. GAWD I wuv this man! Can’t wait for tonight.

Cook you will always be my Idol!

Seeing Cookie and the band like that makes me feel as though they weren’t just here and singing that song for us a couple of nights ago.

…I love this band too…

I love Joey, in particular. :B

* bonus crack for those who like the pretty (swiped from the Cookistas)…

Cookie shopping (for plaids?)

:clap_tb: I am in awe everytime I watch him. I sit here in front of the computer like a little girl almost drooling and with a smile ear to ear. My co-workers think I’m crazy.

I think I will be in tears tonight watching him perform “Permanent” I am really happy he chose that song since not only will he be representing Adam but he shows off some mad vocal in such a beautiful way!!!!

Forget Adam and Kris…I want DC!!!!!!!!!

I canà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t wait until he outshines Adam and Kris tonight. I think it will be THE Idol performance of all 8 seasons.

IMHO he doesn’t need to outshine anyone tonight, just get up there and do his thing. All I’m hoping for is that he gets through Permanent and that the audience gets to feel even a sliver of what his fans feel when he sings that song. That would be enough.

Kimberann, I know you’re a superfan, but I really don’t see him as competing with anyone on that stage at this point – that’s AI7, not AI8, and it’s much nicer when it’s no longer a competition.

New swanky guitar? Yes, no? I don’t think I’ve seen it before.

See Idol, this is what happens when you mike the whole band!

And the choir sang a-effing-MEN. Pretty sad that Ellen has better sound peeps than the big singing competition show with an audience of millions.

Also, that was like, Come Back To Me on steroids. :guns_tb: Like, grrrr, come back to me, you know you want to, I mean, look at these eyes and this awesome new ‘do artfully arranged by Ben Stiller for maximum hottness, bitch please…. It’s the frst time I thought that song was sexy. (Not the video, the actual song LOL.)

David and Ellen matched. Awww.

Thank you MJ!
David looked and sounded amazing (as always!)…

IMHO he doesnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t need to outshine anyone tonight, just get up there and do his thing.

Yeah, given this is a charity performance about something as serious as brain cancer, I feel very uncomfortable making tonight’s performance seem competitive in any way. Besides, no matter how he does I think it would be hard to take the focus off the winner. That’s what everyone is turning in to see! The new champion deserves their time in the spotlight too.

*sigh* Love him.

Kris and Adam are great, but I don’t think anyone will ever top Cookie for me.

See Idol, this is what happens when you mike the whole band! LOL.

LOL Yes, Idol, can you learn with Ellen’s crew? Thank you very much.
They better not screw tonight with Permanent.

I loved David’s voice in this one, it was like the song took some sort of pill that made it hotter.
Gotta give it to Andy and Kyle who are harmonizing a lot better these days.

New swanky guitar? Yes, no? I donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t think Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ve seen it before.

Yup. I think this one is new. If not, it’s the first time I see it.

ah ah Purplesmile, I was not ready for that first picture! LOL Still love Joey… but that one?!

Funny clip with Ben Stiller, I bet David was excited to meet him. David loves comedies and he likes Ben’s work… so that must have been a trip!

HA I found it! David Cook & Ben Stiller Funny Clip On Ellen Show

Thanks Elisad….I love Cook’s impatient look and Ben Stiller looks very “professional”. I wonder if he’s seen Cook’s Zoolander performance.

New swanky guitar? Yes, no? I donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t think Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ve seen it before.

Me neither. It seems “longer” than any of his other guitars. Sorry, I have no idea if there’s a professional word, I know next to nothing about guitars.

I love Joey, in particular. :B

LMAO, Purps. Is that from Manila? I love those guys.

This is so man-shopping: look, a shirt that looks just like my other shirt! Yays!

Except Adam: definitely the fashion industry gonna love that man.

There’s no competition tonight among Cook and the Kradam. Cook’s Permanent takes some minutes out to commemorate losing someone long before their time, because even shiny silly wonderful Idol takes place in a real world where that happens. And lets us throw our mites to some hardworking doctors to help folks figure out how to have less of that.

The night will still be full of duets, OMG I missed you since you were voted off two weeks ago, confetti, Coke, group dances, big steps, hugging parents, Fords, iTunes, silly signs, the 4 Hacks of the Apocolypse at the judges’ table, tiny Ryan at his happiest, and GASP YOU ARE TOTES TNAI!!!!! and that’s cool too.

Thank you, mj! It’s not on here until later this afternoon, and I couldn’t wait to watch, but it may never get deleted off my DVR. Dude is HOT and the harmonies were awesome!

[Joey in the towel was priceless! Thank for linking to that.]

New swanky guitar? Yes, no? I donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t think Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ve seen it before.

i heard the Filipino fans got him a custom made guitar, i wonder if that’s the one? Hmm. they will flip if it is.

Hahaha! Sorry to shock with the Joey pic.

Yes, Jolene. I understand that was shot at the hotel.

hardkandy, the guitar the Cookistas got was for Cookie (with AC inscribed). The pics and the story behind the guitar gift (among other gifts) are in that “Cookistas” link I posted above.

Thank you MJ! And thank you David for showing Adam and Chris how it’s done!

And kudos Andy Skib, the very best back up vocalist a lead singer can possibly have. Ever.

Best performance of that song evah. It was all manly and such. Excuse me while I watch it eleventy more times. Well, after I clean up the spewed coffee from the Joey pic.

hardkandy, the guitar the Cookistas got was for Cookie (with AC inscribed). The pics and the story behind the guitar gift (among other gifts) are in that à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Cookistasà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  link I posted above.

OMG, the Sneakers are EPIC WIN !!!
That artwork is seriously awesome. Whoever’s responsible for that gets major major kudos. I’m not a Cookista, but I’d totally put that artwork on my wall if there was a poster of it.
The guitar was awesome too. Go Cookistas!

Isn’t he signed up with a guitar brand which would mean he can’t use another guitar while he’s still on contract

hypertwink, that’s a great question and one that I’ve wondered. He’s signed to endorse gibson, but I think he’s probably allowed to use personal guitars from before the endorsement, at least on his tour. A TV appearance is another matter, and it’s possible for those appearances he must use a gibson. I know the AC guitar is his Les Paul. Anyone else have more info about this?

Oooh!! Cookie and Beautiful Band To Be Named Later! Thanks for posting this. Obviously I can’t get me enough DC.

Just wish he (they) would get a chance to do Barbasol on TV.

Scott, Les Paul is Gibson, right? No conflict there.
I only know about the endorsement because there was a fan during the Idol tour who wanted to give him a shirt with a certain guitar model as artwork, and he said he couldn’t wear it because it wasn’t a Gibson since he had the deal with them. Haven’t heard about it since (though I do believe all of the guitars he used since winning Idol were Gibson models, could be wrong).

Thanks for this MJ! I can’t get enough of DC (And am seeing him on Saturday, eep!)

I play guitar, so I know a little about them. The only time I’ve seen DC play anything that wasn’t a Gibson since Idol ended was when he was in the Middle East for the USO. He played a Fender Stratocaster over there. Maybe the contract doesn’t come into play outside the country? Not sure about that. Everything else I’ve seen him play has been a Gibson, mostly Les Pauls.

ETA: Andy and Neal have been playing Gibsons exclusively too.

That was a brilliant performance, Cook’s voice is beautiful and he looked really good on Ellen’s show. And I must say that the highlight for me for tonight’s finale is watching Cook perform his song “Permanent”.

Thank you for posting this MJ.

Cook’s new guitar appears to be a left-handed Gibson Firebird

David was just great on Ellen. I love the growl he put into it. I liked the band singing backup too. I would like for him to be on TV everyday, so he can growly-sing at me please.

I can’t help myself. I still love Cookie. As much as I enjoy Kris Allen this year, and I do, there will never be another idol for me like David Cook. Just love him to pieces. Can’t wait to see him tonight on the finale. They can say what they want about Adam and Kris and their star power and ability arrange music and making connections to the crowd. No one does any of that better than David Cook. It doesn’t seem possible that it has been a year since I was sitting right here with tears streaming down my face completely stunned and thrilled that David Cook won the competition.

Nice sleuthing, maturin! And thanks for the guitar info, FridayB. Interesting that Andy and Neal are in on it too. I almost never notice the guitars except for the AC one and the Hummingbird (I think that’s what it’s called) that both David and Neal own. I love their acoustic performances where they both play it, one left handed and one right handed.

*bites fingernails in anticipation for tonight’s performance*

Thanks Jolene, FridayB and maturin… I know very little about guitars LOL!

I love Joey, in particular. :B

Bahahahah. Was that from the Phillipines? LOLOLOL… I really want to know the story behind that pic if anyone has info. Aww, I love Jazzercise.

Canà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t wait for tonight-what a day! Personally, donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t care who wins tonight-just that heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s on Idol

Agree with that! This video shows perfectly why this year’s Idol hasn’t been that interesting for me. I think I’m gonna love the winner of last year’s Idol for a long, long time.

That artwork is seriously awesome. Whoeverà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s responsible for that gets major major kudos.

Those sneakers are awesome. OMG, is that Dublin on the back of the Barbasol sneakers???? LOL. He looks like he is barking. Too cute.

Ekk. David Cook is hot. Who knew. Ok cool new Firebird. Neal has a discontinued Gibson model that he bought off the internet. They only ever made like a dozen or so. Andy has a Firebird in a dark stain and now Dave has a very light colored version. Oh wait. That is so weird. They did not really reverse the body on that Firebird. You can still see the pic guard at the top of the guitar. The nobs are reversed though. So weird.

That was amazing

Is there an mp3 of this performance floating around yet?? :biggrin_wp:

Here is a link to a photo of DC’s firebird….

it was customized by a great guitar tech and guitarist Marc Frieden.

Sorry,

Here you go….

http://thumbsnap.com/v/9kaBbmrQ