Neil Sedaka Song Finds New Life Thanks To Clay Aiken

Billboard reports that the B-side to ‘American Idol’ runner-up Clay Aiken’s current single ‘The Way,’ but has given songwriter Neil Sedaka a new lease on creative life. The song, ‘Solitaire’, best-known as the Carpenters’ No. 17 hit from 1975, is the title track of Sedaka’s 1972 album. “It got such a fantastic reaction that he recorded it for ‘Measure of a Man,’ but it didn’t get on,” Sedaka said. “So he did a marvelous version for the new single. It shows that a good song is a good song, no matter how many years ago it was written — and that you never know when a young artist will pick up your song.”


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| Posted on April 19, 2004 at 12:12 am in Uncategorized

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