The American Idol 9 Top 5 Sing Sinatra – Harry Connick Jr. Mentors

By On 04/28/2010 · 127 Comments · In American Idol

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Harry Connick Jr. will mentor the American Idol 9 Top 5 next week as they tackle the songs of Frank Sinatra.

Crystal Bowersox, Mike Lynche, Casey James, Aaron Kelly and Lee DeWyze will choose from a list of 50 songs (found on iTunes) Check out the list after the Jump.

  • Check out the list HERE at iTunes. (And download this week’s iTunes performances!)

Harry Connick Jr. will be the first Idol mentor to arrange the songs and write the orchestrations for the contestants.  He’ll also be performing on Wednesday’s results show. Lady Gaga will also appear to perform “Bad Romance/Alejandro”

Let the speculation begin!

Song list after the JUMP…

  • All or Nothing At All
  • All the Way
  • Anything Goes
  • As Time Goes By
  • Blue Moon
  • Blue Skies
  • Come Dance with Me
  • Come Fly With Me
  • Come Rain or Come Shine
  • Fly Me to The Moon (In Other Words)
  • I Get A Kick Out of You
  • I Love Paris
  • I Only Have Eyes For You
  • I’ve Got a Crush On You
  • I’ve Got the World on a String
  • I’ve Got You Under My Skin
  • In The Still of the Night
  • In The Wee Small Hours of the Morning
  • It Had to Be You
  • It Was a Very Good Year
  • Just One of Those Things
  • Love and Marriage
  • Love is Here to Stay
  • Love Walked In
  • My Funny Valentine
  • My Kind of Town
  • My Way
  • New York, New York (From “On the Town”)
  • Night and Day
  • One For My Baby
  • Pennies From Heaven
  • Put Your Dreams Away
  • Someone to Watch Over Me
  • Somethin’ Stupid
  • Strangers in the Night
  • Street of Dreams
  • Summer Wind
  • That’s All
  • That’s Life
  • The Best is Yet to Come
  • The Good Life
  • The Lady is a Tramp
  • The Way You Look Tonight
  • They Can’t Take that Away From Me
  • What Is This Thing Called Love
  • Witchcraft
  • You Do Something To Me
  • You Make Me Feel So Young
  • You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me
  • Young at Heart

 
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  • Lulu2

    I know this music like the back of my hand. Anyone who loves music sooner or later discovers it. But it has nothing to do with Sinatra; he just sang the standards. The potential list is much larger than the itunes list. I do NOT like Sinatra; any standard he sang has been and/or was sung better by someone else. And I just HATE songs associated with him (My Way, When I Was Seventeen, etc., and yuck). Sinatra may have thought he swang, but he didn’t; Ella Fitzgerald (and others) did. I agree with you on one song selection, mj. Aaron should sing I’ve Got a Crush on You. Sung correctly, though, it requires quite a bit of vocal control; don’t know if he has that yet. Blue Skies would have been great for Siobhan, but if she was going to do My Way, well, I mourn her less, and…next. The best songs on the itunes list that 1. Have not been done to death on Idol, 2. are not Cole Porter (too suggestive or outright objectionable for the Idol audience) or 3. otherwise too suggestive are: I Only Have Eyes for You, Street of Dreams, That’s All, They Can’t Take That Away from Me, As Time Goes BY, Our Love is Here to Stay, In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning, and the aforementioned I’ve Got a Crush on You. Listening to the Sinatra versions, you may not guess that these are great songs…There are so many better singers to celebrate…..

  • sallysimmons

    Lulu2′s opinion notwithstanding, Frank Sinatra was the bomb. I’m too young to have been a fan in his day, but I love him now. Great characterful voice, amazing charisma, but most of all, impeccable phrasing.

    I’ll try to keep him out of my head when I listen to this bunch try to do these songs justice. The comparison just isn’t fair.

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