Hi Tom and everyone,

That's been used a few times now on Idol. The first time I heard it I had
forgotten it was Freiheit and I was thinking it was the best ELO song I had
never heard. It's amazing that with melody even something like that can
cross over to Idol viewers.

Mike V.



> From: WARFELT@Nationwide.com
> Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:14:08 -0500
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Freiheit on Idol Last Night
> 
> 
> The opening sequence on American Idol last night featured Freiheit 's
> "Keeping the Dream Alive".  I was working on my PC in another room and I
> heard this, as my spousal type unit is a huge idolatrist and was watching
> Stevie Wonder Night, and I could not believe  they were using this.  I
> always thought this would be a cool song to cover if I ever made to the
> finals! (kidding!)
> 
> I only heard this song one time on the radio.   It was WHFS in the DC
> Metroplex.  I went to the store and found it on a soundtrack to a movie.
> I later found the groups first American release and it became a "never
> leave the changer" deal for a long time.    Then the internet happened and
> discovered that there were like a handful of other releases in English and
> Deutsche.   I have them all.   Pop Perfection.
> 
> Tom "The hopes we had, were much too high" Warfel
> 
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