I have had David Cook's song going through my head all morning, and I for some reason started to think that maybe I have heard that arrangement before. So after going through my CD's and double checking on Youtube, I found it.



Chris Cornell (now solo, formerly of Audioslave and Soundgarden) did that version of Billie Jean on his 2007 album "Carry On". Check out a snippett of the song on Amazon HERE. Seacrest even announces the song as "Chris Cornell's version of Billie Jean" at the intro, which I missed while watching the first time. It's not a big deal. It was still a great performance, it's just that it was not quite as original as I first thought.