American Idol 10 Top 4 – Leiber & Stoller, Lady Gaga Mentors, Jordin Sparks Sings, Steven Tyler Music Video + S11 Audition Cities!

Next week’s Idol theme is the songbook of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Guest mentor: Lady Gaga! (One of these things…is not like the other!)

And a newly-svelte Jordin Sparks will perform on results night! Plus, Steven Tyler will World Premiere his new “It Feels So Good” music video.

Also, according to the press release, American Idol 11 auditions are set for St. Louis, Portland and Charleston, with more cities to be announced soon

Leiber and Stoller even pre-date Carole King! (Wiki) The duos heyday was the 50s-60s. They wrote many of Elvis Presley’s big hits like “Hound Dog”, “Jailhouse Rock” and “King Creole”.

They also penned (song list) “Stand By Me”, “On Broadway”, “Chapel of Love”, novelty tunes like “Love Potion No. 9 and “Yakety Yak”.

“Stuck in the Middle With You” by Stealers Wheel was their last major hit in 1972.  The jukebox musical, “Smokey Joe’s Cafe” features many of their best-loved songs.

The Season 4 Top 5 featured a dual theme of Leiber and Stoller/Billboard Top 40 songs. The songs covered were: Anthony Fedorov – “Poison Ivy”, Scott Savol “On Broadway” Vonzell Solomon “Treat Me Nice”, Bo Bice “Stand By Me and Carrie Underwood “Trouble”  (a lot of Elvis. I guess Scotty will be in heaven).

No dual theme this week? The kids are going to have to pick two oldie-mouldies from Lieber and Stoller?  A contrasting theme would make for a more interesting show.

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