They couldn’t come from more different worlds, but dock worker Lloyd Thomas still managed to impress Simon Cowell on tonight’s American Idol.

Lloyd certainly makes good TV, with his big personality and his constant talking and mugging for the camera and he left the judges, well overjoyed, by his performance of Stevie Wonder’s “Overjoyed.”

“It was my favorite audition of the day,” Simon said. “I really really like you. I think you’re a great singer.”

“This guy’s working the docks with that voice,” Kara marveled. “I love that this show lets you come here and do that.”

Guest judge Neil Patrick Harris liked his voice as well, but said, “I need to see you really be as flashy as you are … as a person.”