AIKEN NEWS NETWORK JULY 2

[Marilyn]

From the CH:


QUOTE ("kimiye")
Clay has a mention in the latest Rolling Stone (July 9-23 with the Jonas Brothers on the cover). The last page feaures a sidebar with Sounds of 40 Summers, number 1 hits on July 4 since 1969. Clay holds down 2003 with This Is the Night.

[Marilyn]

From CV

from the Memphis City Magazine...

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For some musicians, the road to pop stardom is a long and haphazard odyssey of smoky bars, crackly demos, band flare-ups, stinky tour buses, sophomore slumps, oppressive record contracts, and incredible persistence.

And for others, there's American Idol.

That's not saying that the singers who do well in the enormously popular Fox vocal competition are undeserving of instant fame. But it does tell you that more Americans are at home watching their TVs on Tuesday and Wednesday nights than are hanging out in clubs. They are watching and, in a way that always infuriates those with gilded musical tastes, democratically electing the voices that will be heard on the radio, the songs that get stuck in your head at night, and the faces that will appear on the cover of Rolling Stone.

Without American Idol, we might never have heard of Jennifer Hudson, Clay Aiken, Kelly Clarkson, or Carrie Underwood, talented as they are.

[Marilyn]

"That is a hard question.  We have had some good shows in Dorton the past seven years and it’s hard to pick just one.  I will give you my top five."




Clay Aiken - It was a hard show to work because for the first time we had two shows that day.  The first show sold out in 9 minutes and the second show sold out in 11 minutes.  There was such a buzz in the arena before the show that you could just feel the excitement.  People came from all over the U.S. to see this show.  There were as many people from out of state as there were from N.C.  We had big screens set up on both sides of the stage and people taped the show from all angles.  It took the crew 7 hours to build the set for the stage.  They put in an elevator to raise him up through a clam shell with fog and he walked down a set of stairs to the stage.  I will never forget how loud the crowd got when they saw him come up out of the fog.  The stage was beautiful and the light show was unbelievable.


NORTH CAROLINA STATE FAIR BLOG

[Marilyn]

HAPPY CANADA DAY TO ALL OUR NEIGHBORS ACROSS THE BORDER.

IN HONOR OF THAT, HERE IS A SPECIAL TREAT BY CLAY!!

O CANADA

[Carolina Clay]

Hello, ANN!   

The new Carolina blog celebrates the birthdays of Canada and the USA with graphics, a video, and recollections of the Frisco Freedom Fest of July 4, 2007.

Thnx for your hits and comments, which help keep the Clay blogs in a higher position for Google searches. Hope you enjoy. Have a wonderful holiday weekend!   

Caro 

CAROLINA ON MY MIND       

[ClayHeart]

HAPPY CANADA DAY to all of our friends up north.  Do you have festivities similar to what we have for our Fourth of July?

Debbie