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DeWyze pulls off one great 'Conversation'

The King was good to Lee DeWyze.

On Elvis night, and with his friends in the audience, DeWyze went out and delivered his strongest performance since "Treat Her Like a Lady."

DeWyze "flat-out nailed" his cover of Presley's "A Little Less Conversation" according to judge Randy Jackson.

Indeed, DeWyze suffered few of the pitch problems that bedeviled him during last week's performance of "Hey Jude," owning the song and the stage.

"That was so current," judge Ellen DeGeneres said. "It sounded like a brand-new song to me."

Judge Kara DioGuardi was the only one who had a bone to pick.

"The vocal was fire, but I wanted you to be more playful," she said.

But judge Simon Cowell quickly called DioGuardi out.

"Playful like a kitten?" he wondered. "Listen Lee, it was on the money, full stop, " Cowell said.

Surprising almost everyone, Tim Urban turned in one of the night's top vocals with a stunningly beautiful cover of "Can't Help Falling in Love."

"You have managed to go from zero to hero in two weeks. Congratulations." Cowell said.

With two contestants going home tonight, Andrew Garcia, Aaron Kelly and Siobhan Magnus could all be in trouble. Those three descended into the bad karaoke Cowell warned them about at the show's start.

"That was definitely not good karaoke," Jackson told Garcia when he'd finished mauling "Hound Dog."

The results show airs at 8 on Fox tonight.

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