Clay Aiken - Only You

This is my wish for you: smiles when sadness intrudes,comfort on difficult days,rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, friendships to brighten your being, beauty for your eyes to see, faith so that you can believe.


Only You - Clay Aiken





Only Clay can get me running to sign up for a fan club membership!

I'm now a proud member of the OFC for the 4th season.





How can anyone not love "THE MAN"







Clay's my "MR. COOL"







I don't know anyone else who can look so SEXY with a HAT on!




NEW Bsrefong Puzzle - TBAF
thank you Sally








More Tour Magic:

Clay Aiken JBT AC The Sixties Medley
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Clay - You're Still the One - montage
Gerwhisp





March has been officially designated as "Music In Our Schools Month" by the The National Association for Music Education.

quote from Clay Aiken: "Learning music opens up the mind like nothing else."
News Release "Why Music"

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Clay Aiken Concert Tour Magic!

Clay Aiken tour treasures--WOW!

UPDATE:to add another treasure..new CD!


The Very Best of Clay Aiken



Track Listings

1. Ashes
2. A Thousand Days
3. The Way
4. Bridge Over Troubled Water
5. On My Way Here
6. This Is The Night
7. Solitaire
8. Here You Come Again
9. Measure Of A Man
10. The Real Me
11. Something About Us
12. Invisible
13. On The Wings of Love
14. Mary, Did You Know

"Best of" albums were something I looked forward to in days gone by.
This was how I could afford best songs by favourite singers heard on the radio. To me it's an excellent way of introducing great music to new listeners today.

In this case that would be for Clay Aiken, there are so many people that have no idea what Clay has accomplished since the American Idol 2 days. The chances of hearing him on the radio have been pretty slim!

Now is a great opportunity to introduce Clay's fantastic voice all over again!

Amazon.com

The Very Best of Clay Aiken at Amazon.com pre-order here--for release March 31/09.

OR:
Amazon Canada

The Very Best of Clay Aiken at Amazon.ca pre-order here--for release March 31/09.




Somehow I ended up at YouTube last night and found these super videos from 2004 NAT.
This tour received NAT (for Not a Tour) for a title because there wasn't any official name for it! Always resourceful Clay fans called it that, and it stuck. Later it was also known as the Solo tour.

Enjoy these, I sure did !!!



We'll start with Fields of Gold--a short audio clip..love this one! The video follows.















Clay Aiken w/ Angela Fisher - I Knew You Were Waiting
2004 montage by tsunamimommy




Clay Aiken I Knew You Were Waiting 2004 montage by tsunamimommy







Portland 2004 MOAM NAT




Portland 2004 MOAM NAT


Fields of Gold 2004





Fields of Gold 2004


Sweet Baby James NAT 2004
SecretlyLovesClay




Sweet Baby James NAT 2004






Chain of Fools NAT 2004




Chain of Fools NAT 2004




"worrying is like praying for something you don't want"

Clay Aiken-The Winner

"As you glide in your stride
With the wind as you fly away
Give a smile from your lips and say
Are you free yes I'm free
Now I'm on my way."

This weekend calls for "Fantasy".
Clay sang this Earth, Wind & Fire song on a guest appearance to American Idol in 2004.

The lyrics are so appropriate!
Clay Aiken's contract with RCA has ended and he's free!

Clay Aiken is setting the record straight: the former American Idol has parted ways with RCA Records, Aiken's rep has confirmed exclusively to PEOPLE.

"We were unable to come to terms in a recent contract negotiation, and decided that it was best to move on," the rep, Cindi Berger, said Friday.

It's Celebration time--Change is a good thing!




or click start for--
Lover All Alone - full version from album On My Way Here
Clay Aiken - lyrics by Clay Aiken






My blogs on Clay The Man are a diary of sorts. They represent some of the things I enjoy, trivial chat most of the time! Do I ever think of anything other than Clay? Of course I do, you don't want to hear about them though!!

This week has been rather exciting with the highlight being President Obama's visit to Canada with Prime Minister Harper. I was glued to the TV set all of yesterday.

Looking at YouTube this morning I found tons of videos on the event.
Here is a five part series of the whole broadcast. Awesome!!

CTV videos of the President Obama/Prime Minister Harper meeting in Ottawa, Feb. 19, 2009

Part One
Obama-Harper visit Part 1

Part two
Obama-Harper visit Part 2

Part three
Obama-Harper visit Part 3

Part Four
Obama-Harper visit Part 4

Part Five
Obama-Harper visit Part 5



This weekend the stars are out and hopeful they'll take Oscar home with them.



Academy Award nominations for 2008

'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
'Frost/Nixon'
'Milk'
'The Reader'
'Slumdog Millionaire'

I admit, I know nothing about the current movies other than recognition of a few of the titles from advertising. I copied these titles from CNN.com/SPECIALS/2009/academy awards.

My time to watch is when they come to TV.
My popcorn is better and costs less too.

That said, I do often watch the show..to watch the Red Carpet for the fashion parade.





Now--when one of these movie songs is being sung by Clay Aiken, fashion watching will take second place.

Until that time comes, I pass the time with pictures and videos of Clay.


















For a change of pace, here's another side of Clay--having fun!

Clay Aiken Classics Medley Sterling Heights



Clay Aiken Classics Medley


Clay Aiken is my award winner!





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Clay Aiken Diamond Impressions

Welcome!



Some Days are Diamond Some Days are Stone
John Denver




So what has a blog for Clay Aiken got to do with John Denver and diamonds?
To me they all represent lasting love.
Besides that, the song came up on my playlist the other day,

and it stuck in my head!



















Photos thanks to KSChristian4Clay and BigAppleforClay.



When did the association between diamonds and love begin?

It was in the 15th century. The Archduke Maximilian of Austria presented the first diamond engagement ring to Mary of Burgundy and that marked the historic connection between love and diamonds. After that, in the late 17th century, the Russian Czar, Peter the Great, gave Catherine I a crown of 2,500 hundred diamonds. Then, in the 18th century, Louis XIV of France showered diamonds on his very young wife, Marie Antoinette.

The tradition of offering a diamond engagement ring with a proposal is common around the world.

It is love and deep commitment that a diamond represents.

A diamond is a very romantic stone, very pure in its beauty, very reflective of the light around it, and it sparkles with a life that is not necessarily seen in other precious gems. The connotations transcend love to the deepest, brightest and most eternal of connections between two people.

Why do they say that a diamond is forever?

It makes sense if you consider the strength of a diamond. The diamond is a perfect 10 -- the most durable precious gem you can find. It proves that there is a reason to equate a love meant to endure forever with a magnificent precious stone that also has enduring qualities superior to all other gems.



“I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond!” Mae West quotation




Clay drought? Maybe so, but as you can see he's never far away from me. He's always here on my computer to sing to me, and smile as only he can smile :) There's lots of Clay friends to visit around the web, just recently I started tweeting at Twitter!

It's fun, an easy learning curve (important to me, LOL) and a new way to spread Clay news and anything/anyone else you are interested in. It's the newest kind of social media--that's what a program about it on TV said.

Twitter.com

If you are interested in Twitter and wonder how to get started, visit Carolina On My Mind. Everything you need is in her new blog to get you going.



"Among Life's precious jewels,
Genuine and rare,
The one that we call friendship
Has worth beyond compare."
Author Unknown


So, there you are..the connection!!

May your day be all diamonds and no stones!

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