Eleven acts take the stage and a live show golden buzzer will send one act directly to the finals in episode one of the Quarterfinals of "America's Got Talent."

There are certainly some standouts in the first crop of performers, and I don't just mean Tom Sandoval and the Vanderpump Rules scandal that followed him to AGT. There are no fewer than three golden buzzers in the group: Mel B's Charity Lockhart, Howie Mandel 's Jourdan Blue, and Simon Cowell 's LightWire.

The single mother from Garfield Heights earned near-universal praise for her singing, but failed to earn enough votes from viewers to advance to the semifinals.