Showing posts with label Stephen Harper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stephen Harper. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Taylor Hicks ~~ good things will come...and they DO!

UPDATE: Good things will come....and they DO!

"Seven Mile Breakdown" is once again NO. 1 on AOL's "Most Viewed" video list!!
(July 30, 2009)

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I love it when things come together.

It just seemed like things came together last week for Taylor Hicks. The first hint was a twitter from Taylor that the Prime Minister wanted to see him “pimping ice cream.” i.e. The Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, was coming to see “Grease” and Taylor would meet him afterwards. The prestigious Canadian newspaper the Globe and Mail carried the story with pictures. It even made the political page.

Opening Night sold out in Ottawa! We know how all entertainers love the words “Sold out.” Taylor has even told us that. All the shows were packed. The Teen Angel was flying high north of the border. The rains didn’t dampen anything.

Then “Seven Mile Breakdown” video hit No. 1 on AOL Music Videos. It had been hanging out in the Top 11 for five weeks. And now, it was trumping some very impressive competition. For an artist who cannot seem to get radio play for the song, here was the same song on video topping the chart! He even talked about it himself saying it was “BIG.” It’s sits at No. 2 at this writing.

There are over 21,000 videos currently on AOL accounting for hundreds of thousands of “views.”

Taylor Hicks was the “most viewed.”

Seven Mile Breakdown” had already been in the Top Ten on MuVids.com for six weeks!

Perhaps not quite as significant, but nevertheless “interesting,” was that Taylor reached the Top Twenty in the monthly Mr. Twitter USA contest on Tweeterwall.com. If he stays there this week, he will be permanently enshrined on the wall. Finishing No. 1 would bring even more accolades!



Taylor NOW sits in the TOP TEN in Mr. Twitter USA! Amazing, if you think about how many tweeters are out there!



All of this made me wonder how one young soul singer gets from the wrong side of Mississippi to greeting foreign Heads of State and making a music video that is the “most viewed” on the internet giant, AOL. What are the chances?

The answer that comes to mind is, “He never gave up.” Taylor Hicks never stopped doing what he loved.

Good things come to those who wait. No! Good things come to those who work their heads off to get what they want.

It’s coming together for Taylor Hicks. His years of hard work and dreaming are paying off.

Makes you want to get a dream and get to work!

Taylor came home this week and headed south to Ft. Lauderdale.

More work, and more good things to come.

Why don’t we do a little bit of the work? He deserves the help…

Keep “Seven Mile Breakdown” on top at AOL –MySpace it. FaceBook it! Twitter (or is it TWEET?) it! WATCH it! (Now, that ain’t work!)


Vote for Mr. Twitter USA. Hey, who knows what accolades and recognition it may bring?!



Go see “Grease” in Ft. Lauderdale this week or when it comes to your town. Now that, for sure, is NOT work!

Let’s keep the good things coming…

I’ve got some “work” to do...

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Taylor Hicks ~~ Thanks, Canada!


Canada welcomed Taylor Hicks and the cast of “Grease” to Ottawa on a grand scale. The opening night show was sold out and Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, was there.

When you are living the dream as Taylor is, what makes his list of lasting memories?

I think his stay in Canada will.

“Grease” is playing to packed houses at the National Arts Centre through Sunday. Canada’s Head of State escorted his young daughter and her friend to see “Grease” and met Taylor and the cast after the show.

The highly regarded and nationally distributed Canadian newspaper, the Globe and Mail, captured the event:

“Prime Minister Stephen Harper, his daughter Rachel and her friend Sheetza McGarry pose for a photo with Taylor Hicks after a performance of Grease at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa on July 23, 2009.

“Hot: Stephen Harper. The Prime Minister took his daughter, Rachel, and her pal, Sheetza McGarry, to the National Arts Centre's Thursday-night performance of Grease. Taylor Hicks, the 2006 American Idol winner, plays the Teen Angel role. During one of his songs he did a little shout-out to the PM, telling the audience to behave because the Prime Minister was among them. The crowd applauded.”
This is Taylor’s first trip to Canada since his appearance at the Niagara Wine Festival during his 2007 solo tour. He has had many fans north of the border since the beginning of this journey. I think he added a few more this week.

One Canadian fan told me that she was sorry they couldn’t give Taylor the usually beautiful Canadian summer weather. Still, he was out and about the city viewing the beautiful and impressive Parliament buildings. He has become quite the tourist and has said many times he likes being in a city for a week so he can get to “know” it. He is even shopping locally. He was wearing a new safari jacket in media appearances this week that he bought in Philly, his last stop.

Thank you, Canada, for welcoming Taylor Hicks and “Grease!”

Canada rocks!


And lest we forget...

Halifax Airport, a safe haven for U. S. planes, September 11, 2001.


Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Taylor Hicks photo courtesy of http://www.theglobeandmail.com/
Halifax Airport photo courtesy of www.alts.net