American Idol Fantastic 4 take on California

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American Idol's remaining foursome take on Songs by California acts and Songs They Wish They'd Written on tonight's performance show. We've seen the California theme before. How cool would it have been to instead match Songs They Wish They'd Written with Songs They Have Written?

In any case, here are some of the songs you'll hear (SPOILER ALERT):

California songs are Have You Ever Seen the Rain (Creedence Clearwater Revival), Steal Away (Etta James, You Raise Me Up (Josh Groban) and Journey's Faithfully.

Songs They Wish They Wrote include:

And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going (recorded by Jennifer Holiday), I Can't Make You Love Me (recorded by Bonnie Raitt), Volcano (from Damien Rice) and It's a Man's Man's World (from James Brown).

Of course, most of these artists probably wish they had written these songs as Holiday and Raitt did not write those hit songs.

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