Tidbits 8/20

• Northwest Indiana News:

  Clay Aiken, "A Thousand Different Ways," RCA (Sept. 19)
  
  Of all the "American Idol" winners and first runners-up, Aiken's fanbase -- aka "Claymates" -- have to be the most rabid, which makes it likely that they'll turn out in droves for "Thousand." The album contains a small handful of compositions alongside covers by everyone from Elton John to Dolly Parton to Mister Mister.
  
  Yep, you read that right. Mister Mister. How many "Claymates" were born when that band struck it big in the mid-'80's with "Broken Wings?" Even worse, how many "Claymates" who were around when that song struck big will waste their time and my e-mail space to let me know?

• MySpace blog - THE TOP 10 REASONS WE LOVE CLAY AIKEN... photos!
  
• Marhaven - ATDW - "Hopefully, this album will be embraced by the fans as well as the general public. I think it will, the heavy promotion at Walmart in their SoundScan series should be huge in first week sales. A few television promo's and appearances and we should be good to go. I get to see him in Hollywood at the Jimmy Kimmel show on 9/26!!!!"
• There Was A Man's blend shows Clay's post-Idol transformation - from boy to man.
  

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