Music from the Swingtown Episode “Surprise” shown on August 29, 2008
Jennifer Warnes sang the song Right Time of the Night

Orleans sang the song Dance With Me

Boz Scaggs sang the song We’re All Alone

Ozark Mountain Daredevils sang the song Jackie Blue

Music from the Swingtown Episode “Take it to the Limit” shown on September 5, 2008
I Just Wanna Be Your Friend sung by LightHouse

The Things We Do for Love sung by 10cc

Take It to the Limit sung by the Eagles

It Keeps You Runnin’ sung by The Doobie Brothers

The Boys Are Back in Town sung by Thin Lizzy

Someone Saved My Life Tonight sung by Elton John

Show Me the Way sung by Peter Frampton

I’d Love to Change the World sung by Ten Years After

TV theme songs was the theme for this show’s performance and the following are the theme songs they used:

Mary Tyler Moore theme song

Greatest American Hero theme song

Cheers theme song

One Day at a Time theme song

A quick thought about the show. I’m really sad to see TJ get sent to the chorus. I can see why they did it, but I also think he wasn’t really given a chance to shine. I’m sure that James Wolpert is going to be going to the chorus soon too, because he just is too awkward to win this competition.

I also love the absolutely typical high school girls Bailey Purvis and Shayna Goldstein. It makes me glad I’m not in high school anymore, but they take me back to the high school drama that I had long forgotten.

Finally, Christina Brown’s voice is just absolutely wonderful to hear and Tierney Chamberlain really does need to open up. Well, she doesn’t have to if she doesn’t want to, but she needs to if she wants to win. That’s up to her.

Using a video given to the crews as reference, the final two crews created a 2 minute routine that included different forms of world dance ranging from Latin Music, to the Caribbean, to Bollywood, to African Music.
Mas Que Nada by Sergio Mendes ft Black Eyed Peas

- Original Music Video
We Be Burnin’ by Sean Paul

The Anthem by Pitbull ft Lil Jon

Mundian To Bach Ke by Panjabi MC ft Twista

Challenge #2: Dance Craze Challenge 2.0

Instead of dancing to a dance craze, crews will create their own dance craze, both in the form of the actual music and the dance steps. All of this combined to create a dance routine.
Super Cr3w - “S To The Chest”
SoReal Cru - “Smash It Up”

Final Challenge: Your Last Word Challenge

Crews will created a routine that showed why they should be crowned “America’s Best Dance Crew”
Super Cr3w danced to the song Give It Up or Turn It Loose by James Brown

SoReal Cru danced to the song A Milli by Lil Wayne

Check out the list of all the America’s Best Dance Crew music.

Here’s the music that was used on episode 8 of High School Musical: Get in the Picture:

Welcome to My Life by Simple Plan

- Original Music Video

It’s All Been Done by the Barenaked Ladies

- Original Music Video

Check out all the music from HSM: Get in the Picture.

Isn’t it amazing that we can now watch performances like this that were recorded almost fifty years ago?

Wed. Oct. 29 Toronto, ON - The Mod Club - Buy Tickets
Thurs. Oct. 30 Montreal QC - Le Savoy
Sun. Nov. 1 Allston, MA - Great Scott - Buy Tickets
Tues. Nov. 4 Vienna, VA (D.C.) - Barns of Wolf Trap
Wed. Nov. 5 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom - Buy Tickets
Frid. Nov. 7 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s - Buy Tickets
Tues. Nov. 11 Chicago, Il - Martyrs’
Wed. Nov 12 St. Louis, MO - Off Broadway - Buy Tickets
Sat. Nov. 15 Salt Lake City, UT - Venue TBD
Wed. Nov. 19 Los Angeles, CA - The Roxy - Buy Tickets
Thurs. Nov. 20 San Francisco, CA - Café Du Nord - Buy Tickets
Sat. Nov. 22 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
Mon. Nov. 24 Seattle, WA - Triple Door

Here’s a quick biography of Elisa Toffoli:
Italian-born singer-songwriter Elisa, a multi-platinum, award-winning star in her native country, will launch her first tour of the United States and Canada on October 29. As acclaimed internationally for her powerful live performances as for her inspired, emotionally direct pop-rock recordings, Elisa has appeared on various world stages with music legends including Andrea Bocelli, Luciano Pavarotti and Tina Turner. To date, though, her only North American engagements have been singing the Italian national anthem at the closing ceremony of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics and two sold-out shows at NYC’s Joe’s Pub in April 2008. Elisa’s highly anticipated upcoming tour is in support of her North American debut album Dancing, released July 15 on Sugar/Universal.

The itinerary kicks off with a show in Toronto on the 29th followed by one in Montreal the next night. The remainder of the tour encompasses coast-to-coast dates in the U.S., beginning with a Boston-area show at Great Scott in Allston on November 1. Highlights also include bookings at the Bowery Ballroom in NYC (11/5), Martyr’s in Chicago (11/11), the Roxy in Los Angeles, CA (11/19) and San Francisco’s Café Du Nord (11/20).

Stateside fans first became familiar with Elisa when Dancing’s title track was featured in a breathtaking routine on So You Think You Can Dance in June 2007. Organic fan reaction from that airing has since accumulated over 1 million views of the clip on YouTube, and propelled the song to the Top 20 on iTunes, where it reached close to 100,000 paid downloads prior to the album’s release. Another stand-out track from Dancing, “Rock Your Soul,” has also been featured on the hit program.

Other album highlights include the ethereal, hypnotic ballad “Rainbow,” which has a new video spotlighting Lacey Schwimmer, who originally danced to “Dancing” when it captivated music lovers on SYTYCD. Also featured are the passionate album opener “The Waves,” the heartbreaking “Broken,” the rock-flavored “Stranger” and an elegiac take on Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” Another cover, Elisa’s dreamlike rendition of the Rolling Stones’ “Wild Horses,” is available exclusively on the iTunes version of the album.

To date, Elisa’s artistry has been honored with major awards including five from Italy’s prestigious Festival di Sanremo, an MTV European Music Awards Best Italian Artist win and a Tenco Award for Best Debut Album for Pipes And Flowers (’97). With her North American album and touring debut, Elisa is poised to win honors and hearts in the new world as well. “Having the opportunity to play here, especially, is very important because for me, it really comes down to the face to face with an audience,” says Elisa. “I’m very curious about what that will be like on the tour. I believe that we are all the same, that the world is one place. I want to see if that is true.”

Here’s one of Elisa’s Song “Dancing” that was said to be created one really hot evening when they had nothing to do. Pretty cool video I think.

Elisa performing “Stay” at Festivalbar 2007 in Verona, Italy, on August 07, 2007. I love how Italian television covers these events. A little too much camera movement for me, but it’s different and interesting. Attending the concert would have been even cooler. Just look at the venue in Verona. Amo l’Italia!

Elisa live at the wind music awards. Song: Eppure sentire

Watching this stuff just makes me long to go back to Italy. There are so many things I miss about Italy and their own style of music is one of those things. I’m glad that Elisa is touring the US and I hope she does some of her Italian music. I also hope So You Think You Can Dance uses more of her music and even her Italian music. Great stuff!

So far, Elisa Toffoli’s music has been on SYTYCD at least 3 times that I know of:
Lacey Schwimmer and Kameron dancing to Elisa’s song “Dancing” to Mia Michaels choreography. Here’s a video of Lacey Schwimmer and Kameron dancing to “Dancing”:

Some people have called this dance their favorite SYTYCD dance of all time. My favorite part is when Lacey leaps into Kameron’s arms at about the 1:15 mark.

The song Dancing sung by Elisa was also performed by Kelli Baker during the Salt Lake City/Dallas audition show:

Finally, Courtney Galiano danced a Top 6 solo to the song “Rock Your Soul” by Elisa

Well, it turns out that Lacey Schwimmer made an unofficial video for Elisa Toffoli’s song “Rainbow.” Honestly, I would have loved to see Lacey do a Rhumba to this song, but Lacey actually did a pretty credible job as an actor in this video. Enjoy:

Also, watch this blog over the next couple weeks, because I plan on giving away some free Elisa Toffoli CDs. My only hint is that if you want some free Elisa Toffoli CDs and music, then it would be a good idea to start adding thoughtful comments to my blog.

You be the judge.

Super Cr3w:
Song: S to the Chest

SoReal Cru:
Song: Smash It Up

Watch the people in the audience trying to do the moves.

NOTE: This will open a new window, taking you to MTV’s official site. The videos for Super Cr3w and SoReal Cru will begin after a few commercials.

I Don’t Wanna Be - Gavin DeGraw

Austin - Blake Shelton

- Original Music Video
Boston - Augustana

- Original Music Video
Bleeding Love - Leona Lewis

- Original Music Video
One Year Six Months - Yellowcard