Danny Gokey ended his "American Idol" stay with a sweet ballad, but the subject soon turns to other sounds.

There was the scream, raw and primal, that startled judges last week. "Maybe that was the start of the downfall," Gokey said by phone Thursday.
And there are ... well, sounds he makes when he's in dignified places. "I make this fart sound with my mouth," Gokey confessed. "It gets laughs in the funniest places."
This is the Gokey that other "Idol" contestants talk about — a guy who looks first for fun. It's not always what viewers saw.
During auditions, producers latched onto Gokey's story. He was a church worship leader whose wife Sophia had died recently, during surgery for a lifelong heart problem.
For a time, Gokey backed away from that, afraid people would say he was using it to get votes. Now that he's ousted, however, he talks about it quickly. "Sophia's Heart Foundation — that is everything to me," he said.
Gokey often flashes the group's heart symbol onstage. Now he talks about starting with a center in his home town of Milwaukee. "I'd like to have a hip-hop area, a theater, a gym," he said. "I want to get kids into music, because it's being taken from the schools."
There would be a multi-cultural tone, he said. Sophia was Puerto Rican; one friend has been quoted as calling Gokey "a black man in a white man's body."
Gokey said he would like to help finance it by starting a line of eyeglasses. When the season started, he had about 15 pairs of glasses; now he has about 50. "It's been raining glasses on me."
Early on, Gokey was bathed in praise for his singing and his character. One judge, Simon Cowell, predicted he would beat Adam Lambert in the finals.
Then what went wrong? Why is it Kris Allen, not Gokey, who faces Lambert next week?
"Perhaps he (Gokey) and Adam shared the same voting bloc," said Justin Guarini, the runner-up in the first "Idol" season. "Kris appeals to the younger voters."
Kimberly Caldwell, who hosts the TV Guide Network's "Idol Tonight" with Guarini, feels Allen had the advantage of coming from nowhere, growing constantly. "Danny didn't really grow that much from his first audition."
Or maybe it was just that scream, at the end of a May 5 song. "I rehearsed it so much that I hurt my vocal chords," Gokey said.
He survived that week, with Allison Iraheta going home, but was ousted a week later. The next day, his sounded subdued, but his words were enthusiastic. "I was a nobody," Gokey said, "and now I'm a somebody."