5/09/06 Elivs Week

Before the performance, Taylor’s brother, Sean, posts a message to the Soul Patrol on the internet. He says he has a fun way to help ‘motivate’ voters. He says if we vote Taylor to the top spot on Dialidol that night, he will post a cute picture of Taylor he has from Christmas.

The Soul Patrol thinks it is cute that Sean thinks we need some extra motivation to vote for Taylor! How sweet! He doesn’t understand that we are OBSESSED and already are ready to vote until our fingers bleed! But we do really want that pic and so we play along…

• 5/09/06 AI performance: "JAILHOUSE ROCK" and "IN THE GHETTO" ("Elvis" theme week)On this night, America was ON FIRE for Taylor Hicks!


Again, we heard new voices in the Soul Patrol, voices that had tried hard to fight the Taylor, but just couldn’t stop smiling about "Jailhouse Rock." They couldn’t put their finger on it…Taylor had something…something they had to admit, they liked.



Then, Taylor took "In the Ghetto" and, I hate to use the expression, made it his own. The Soul Patrol loved the falsetto!! I loved the song and it quickly became one of my 'most played' on my iPod.

Oh, and Taylor was in the top spot on Dialidol that night and Sean kept his part of the deal...