as Country Joe McDonald, performing "The "Fish" Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" Joss Stone, performing a folk arrangement of her 2005 hit "Right to Be Wrong" Alanis Morissette, as a folk singer performing her original composition "Offer" Bonnie McKee, as Janis Joplin, performing "Summertime" Hayley Westenra performed "Who Painted the Moon Black?" from her album Pure on episode 46. Blake Shelton, performing his song "Playboys of the Southwestern World" from his 2003 CD The Dreamer. Ben Taylor as Cal Cooper, performing his original song "Surround Me". Gavin DeGraw, performing "The Tracks of My Tears" Other guest star appearances Paris Hilton, as Barbara Eden of I Dream of Jeannie Tavis Smiley, as Thurgood Marshall Brian McKnight, as Stokely Carmichael Kevin McCorkle, as astronaut Gus Grissom Rich Vos, as Lenny Bruce Eric the Midget, as Travel Agency Customer Kristen Bell, as Amy Fielding Randy Jackson, as Band Manager Montel Williams, as Reverend Gilliam Accuracy Despite its popularity as a family drama, American Dreams was heavily criticized for its various levels of historical inaccuracy. Several historic events were restaged earlier or later in the show's timeline to fit a plotline, and some of the music and pop culture references do not match up with either historic fact or the show's current timeline. Several arguments between the show's loyal fanbase can be traced to whether the show should be viewed as a chronologically accurate representation of life in 1960s Philadelphia, or is instead an idealized combination of mnemonic images and pop culture references from points throughout the 1960s, much as the film The Wedding Singer was for the 1980s. Some examples of these disputes include: A running plotline is the appearance of Meg and Roxanne as dancers on American Bandstand, which still tapes a daily after-school show in Philadelphia; where in real life the show moved to Los Angeles in February 1964 and was only broadcast once a week, on Saturday afternoons (in real life, the studio used for Bandstand was later appropriated by the stations of public broadcasting operation WHYY after WFIL's donation of them shortly after moving to their new City Avenue studios). In the pilot episode, Jack makes a reference to Ara Parseghian and Notre Dame. The pilot was set in November 1963 while Parseghian was hired by Notre Dame in December. In the first year, JJ Pryor Jr supposedly attended Lehigh University on a football scholarship in 1963 but joined the Marines when