American Idol

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Something about Jason sitting down and strumming a ukulele is just right: he's like an irony-free Tiny Tim, an earnest folk-pop '60s throwback. He's covering the Brudda Iz cover of the Judy Garland song, but if David Cook can do it, so can he. This is the kind of Jason song—sweet, spare, not theatrical but showing off his falsetto—that gets our inner hippie hearts thumping.

— by James Poniewozik