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Eva Cassidy Returns To The Charts Thanks To The X Factor


09/21/2009
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(PR) Buoyed by the recent audition performance of Eva Cassidy's arrangement of "Songbird" by Shanna Goodhead on Britain's "The X Factor," the version of the song by the late Eva Cassidy has re-entered the U.K. Top 50 Singles Chart.

Additionally, the Songbird CD by Cassidy on Blix Street Records, originally released in 1998, has re-entered the Top 100 Albums chart. Cassidy's Songbird, Imagine and American Tune CDs reached Number One on the U.K. Chart in 2001, 2002 and 2003, respectively.

18-year-old Goodhead appeared on "The X Factor," deemed the British "American Idol," on Saturday, September 12. Her moving performance of the Christine McVie-penned "Songbird" won a unanimous decision from the show's judges, among them "American Idol's" Simon Cowell, for Goodhead to move on to the show's next round of judging. - Check out Goodhead's performance



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