Dave's Top Eight

1. Jerry Reed...Revisited by Darrell Toney (reviewed 6/07) (5 Stars)
2. Sounds Like Sunday by Janet Paschal (reviewed 5/07) (5 Stars)
3. True To The Call by Kingdom Heirs (reviewed 3/07) (4 1/2 Stars)
4. Revival by Gold City (reviewed 10/06) (4 1/2 Stars)
5. Get Away Jordan by Ernie Haase & Signature Sound (reviewed 2/07) (4 1/2 Stars)
6. Breakin' Chains by Three Bridges (reviewed 5/07) (4 1/2 Stars)
7. Big Sky by The Isaacs (reviewed 4/07)
8. Skywriting by Mercy's Well (reviewed 7/07)

Click title to purchase at CBD.com...click artist name to read Dave's Review. A CD will automatically fall out of the Top Eight after twelve months if no CD surpasses it before then.

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June 8, 2007

45 Seconds Of Denny As Kenny

At this moment, ABC.com has the episode of The Next Best Thing with Dennis Murphy's audition available online. You can load ABC's video player at this LINK.

The pace of the show is rapid...only 45 seconds or so of Murphy's audition is shown in this episode, plus a few seconds of an interview just before he goes in front of the judges.

To skip directly to Murphy, go to the 20:45 minute mark.

He's right after the horrible Bette Midler impersonator.

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March 2, 2007

Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?

Click HERE to watch the pilot and future episodes of a new game show structured similar to Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? There's a tiered structure of ten questions with a chance at an eleventh, million dollar question if a contestant makes it that far. Lifelines are called "cheats" with real fifth graders as your only helpers. There's no multiple choice, though. You have to know the answer. That being said, most questions are relatively easy, since everything is limited to the fifth grade level.

Rather than weeding out the contestant pool for really smart people like WWTBAM, they appear to screen the candidates to find those with lower than average common sense. The first guy up on the very first show, Seth Finn, a UCLA graduate with a major in history, misses EVERY question. He uses his cheats on the first three questions. To add insult to injury, he didn't know the fourth question, a history question, so he dropped out of the game. He won $5000 for knowing absolutely nothing!

If you like watching people miss questions they should have learned in grade school, and can picture Jeff Foxworthy as a game show host, you might enjoy this show. I think it will flop, though. I mean, when the answer is orange, and the question is "What do you get when you combine equal amounts of red and yellow?," and Foxworthy tries to milk the moment like Regis...did she get it right or not?...a "pregnant pause"...

Well, there's only so much of that a person can take.

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