David performed “We Can Work It Out” during the Top 12 round of American Idol. The song was released by the Beatles on October, 20 1965 and then covered by Stevie Wonder in 1970; the rendition David Archuleta chose to perform. Not being his strongest performance during and forgetting the lyrics a few times, he still managed to keep his nerves in tact and sound amazing. Re-watch his performance below:
American Idol one-to-watch David Archuleta will do a Beatles song on this week’s show but he won’t be using their arrangement. Instead, Archuleta will cover the McCartney classic the way his hero Stevie Wonder recorded it.
David will perform ‘We Can World It Out’.
Although the song was first written and recorded by The Beatles, Stevie Wonder had a major hit with a rhythm ‘n’ blues version of song when in the 70s.
Archuleta is the one they expect will win this year’s show. His talent is well above the other finalists.
David cites Wonder as one of his influences, along with Natalie Cole, Kirk Franklin and Bryan Adams.
‘We Can Work It Out’ by Archuleta will come complete with a string section.
Archuleta is from Murray, Utah but auditioned for the show in San Diego.
THE top 12 ” American Idol” contestants arrived as a group at the post-show party in West Hollywood on Thursday night, but the scrum of paparazzi left little doubt who was the object of their obsession.
“David!” the photographers shouted. “David, over here!”
Their desired subject was, of course, David Archuleta, anointed by no less an authority than Simon Cowell last month as the front-runner in the singing contest, now in its seventh season and still far and away America’s No. 1 TV series. Archuleta was doing his best to oblige as the strobes kept popping. His chipmunk cheeks were illuminated with a perfect smile. He meandered alone toward one beckoning photographer until a handler ushered him away to rejoin the other “Idol” finalists.
Every “Idol” season has had its early favorites (Chris Daughtry, Melinda Doolittle), but the focus has fixed notably fast and hard on young David. His enormous, obvious-even-to-the-tone-deaf vocal gifts have at times made him look like nothing so much as that beloved show-biz trope, the competition-crushing prodigy: Think Tom Hulce as Mozart in “Amadeus.”
The gossip site TMZ.com offered an unsourced report last week claiming that out of this year’s “Idol” crop, music-industry execs are interested only in Archuleta and David Hernandez (whose own back story is filling in thanks to a recently revealed past as a stripper). An amateurish home video of Archuleta soaring through “O Holy Night” last year has become an unlikely favorite on YouTube. Archuleta’s rabid fans — akin to Taylor Hicks’ Soul Patrol — call themselves, amusingly, the Archies.
What is David Archuleta doing? Is he taking pictures of the paparazzi or is he shooting the scenery in front of him. Either way, it’s a nice kodak moment for both David and the paparazzi. Watch the short clip here!
Fox 13’s Kerri Cronk traveled to L.A. and she spoke live after Thursday night’s show with contestants David Archuleta and Brooke White.
He may be the one to beat on “American Idol,” but David Archuleta still has a lot to learn!
The 17-year-old gets on-set tutoring for three hours a day while on “Idol,” but TMZ has obtained the required reading list of lil’ David’s 11th grade class at Murray High School.
While David has been belting out John Lennon and Phil Collins classics, students at his Utah high school have been trudging through the classics like “Catcher in the Rye,” “The Crucible,” “The Great Gatsby,” “Macbeth,” “Much Ado About Nothing,” and “Hamlet.” Will he win or not win — that is the question!
Watch and listen to David Archuleta singing “Another Day In Paradise” during The Top 16 Performances (1980’s week).
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