Great Collaboration! | We've Only Just Begun - cover - featuring Tori Holub | Reaction
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- Опубліковано 9 кві 2024
- This is a wonderful collaboration cover of "We've Only Just Begun", with James Wilkas ft. Tori Holub. Musicians on this track are Gary Badger, Ynping Mak, Clayton Whisenant and Yoann Palacio.
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Fil at youtube Wings Of Pegasus did an electronic analysis of this song - "Is THIS Karen Carpenter's voice reincarnated?! This is REAL music ladies and gentlemen!"
Thank you SO MUCH for your wonderful review of our video! It was an absolute joy to do this with Tori, as well as my long-time friends from the old music collaboration website 'Bandhub'. We do this simply for the love of the music. We are all very proud of the projects we play on, and I am very proud to present this one to everyone out there! I am so glad that you enjoyed our efforts. By the way, in answer to a couple of your questions, YES, there are trumpets on the original version, just as presented here. Also, there are THREE violin parts, recorded TWICE each for a more 'ensemble' sound - hence the six violin videos. Can't wait until you hear our next one! ❤ - Cheers! - Jimmy
Aww, thanks so much Jimmy! You put so much work into it and it shows! Thank you for sharing it with all of us! 😁
@@MrsRealistic ❤
@@MrsRealisticI will make sure when Jim drops the next one, I’ll have it for you! ❤ He won’t tell me when, something about having to kill me. 🤷🏻♂️ We’ll learn together.
I am in shock bud. Tori's voice is so good, of course like Karen. I shared this with a friend who plays violin. I play trumpet and guitar, and my brother is a professional musician. The richness of tori's voice comes through, and I love your instrumentals,I wanted to humm. Just so good. Thank you all`
@@hubrisnaut Thank you so much for your kind words! -Jim
I go to see so many cover bands. I would go to see her in a second. Tori, go on tour so i can hear your beautiful voice like and in person. You're absolutely amazing!!!
From the trumpet player in this collaboration, thanks you @Mrs.Realistic for your wonderful review. 😊
You did a great job but no one ever mentions that great drummer and what a job he did... LOL
Thanks for taking the time to comment!
I'm already a fan! It's just wild that Tori has kinda come out of nowhere and is really just getting started, but a lot of people are talking about her. And for good reason! And such a delightful young lady!
So glad Tori is being discovered by so many others. I've followed her since I first stumbled across her doing little videos from her bedroom singing into her headphone microphone. She'll be singing at a Carpenters convention this weekend performing inside the same methodist church where Karen's funeral took place in Downey, CA.
Wow...angelic voice and great harmonies! Love the multiplicity of instruments.
Yes, indeed when I first watched this video I had to do a double take to make sure I wasn't listen to Karen. Tori does a wonderful cover of Merry Christmas, Darling (audio only) my favorite Christmas song when I first heard it back in 1970. Her medley of Burt Bacharach & Hal David is mind blowing!!
This is truly a wonderful collaboration! I 'found' Tori by accident, and have listened to many of her 'shorts', covering other songs - she has an amazing, warm voice that just melts you - FYI, she is actually an audio engineer herself, so she is well versed in multi-tracking herself! 🥰
WOW
If I'd heard this with no video, I'd have thought it was her. ❤
❤from North East England ❤️
BEAUTIFUL.
🎩🎩🎩 Happy Wednesday Mrs. Realistic. This song will always get covered , it just is an eternal song. Karen had a voice that made it clear every single time , that she was blessed with talent. She didn't just sing well , she made very relatable songs that were special. This is a wonderful cover .. nice .. nice .. nice .. 🎩🎩🎩
Yes, so sad she was taken so young!
Tori is actually quite conversant with the overdubbing the Carpenters did on their recordings. She has a video at her site showing how she took apart a Carpenters song and recorded herself singing the individual parts on an electronic multitrack mixing board/recorder. She's got an incredible ear. Before this video, she'd populated her site with numerous videos of herself covering not only Carpenters songs, but Olivia Newton-John and other artists. By the way, nice that you noticed her vibrato, which is extended and at a lovely pace, just like Karen's was. Can't tell you how many singers out there can't do that; they either trail off or have a frenetic wobble that isn't quite as nice as Tori's gorgeous vibrato.
Thanks Joe for being prepared to stump up your hard won funds to bring this very talented singer to the forefront as Tori deserves as much positive reaction as she can, and Mrs Realistic has done this very well. Of all the female singers who have done Carpenters covers, Tori is by far the closest to Karen by a long way and should do well in her future with a bit of support from a "Big Brother".
Thank you 🙏
She's 95% there. I think if she used same recording mic in whatever "room" type..hall, small room etc. that Karen sang in, she would mimic a few % closer. Thank you for reaction.
Yes! That would help. Her Blue microphone retails for $200. The Neumann U87 that Karen used is about $3500. (Today’s dollars) So many would love to hear her recorded on one of those.
Beautiful reaction/review Mrs. Realistic. I’m so glad you liked it. It’s quite a production and James did so much to make it look and sound authentic and perfect. Add Tori’s vocals and you have the magic. Tori on her channel has loads of short videos with many Carpenters covers.(which she self-engineers including the harmonies) As well as Olivia, Heart, Joni, The Beatles (she sounds nothing like John, Paul, George or even Ringo!) and so many more. Her “time” is the 60-80’s and I’m here for it. She’s a Carpenters super-fan! Not bad for 20. Every time she drops a new cover I have to go back and rediscover or discover the original. She has some originals too including a Christmas song where the writers heard her and reached out for her to sing their song. One of that team wrote All You Get From Love Is A Love Song for Carpenters. So he’s familiar with a great voice! More is coming from the Jim and Tori team.
Joe
Thanks Joe! She sounds like she's an "old soul" 😁
@@MrsRealistic yup, all of my time so very grateful to her.
@@MrsRealisticit was mentioned in the comments and I was thinking about it. While we wait for Jim to drop the new one, there is the genesis of the collaboration. Last October Tori was challenged after uploading just a Short segment of the Bacharach/David Medley. She was challenged to recreate the entire medley! Well “Challenge accepted.” So she did it playing both vocal parts and creating all the harmonies. All she didn’t do was the music, she used a Karaoke track that Richard created for the a Japanese market. It was tempo and note for note correct. It is his “caffeinated” version. I’ll let you decide how Tori did but! Jim saw it (and maybe he can tell the full story?) early this year and felt it was great but needed “more Richard.” So he added his harmony vocals and made a split screen video. He replicated the triple tracking Tori did (as Carpenters did) and then showed it to Tori. She loved it and he then released it. Here’s a key point to look for. In Walk on By, that’s a duet! She is looking right at the camera and doing, Richard/harmony/Karen (repeat). It took me awhile to realize what she was doing, I want to make note of it. Tori has played “Richard” in all of her covers. Now she’s got Jim for a deeper more correct tone, but damn she’s good. So I’m going to go make another donation to your channel and keep the magic going.
Joe
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@@jbs256 Cool! Thank you! 😁
@@MrsRealistic did you receive the PayPAL? I did it April 14th for The Medley with Tori and Jim from the message above. Is it in your queue? Or is it missed?
Thank you for your sincere and insightful reaction. I heard Tori for the first time a couple of months ago and was floored. I was a teenager at the time this song came out and it was played on the radio constantly. The same goes for all the carpenter songs. Karen had what many consider to be The finest female vocals of all time. Her voice was so smooth and crystal clear, very distinctive. Tori has captured that in a way that no other female singer has in my lifetime. Karen cannot be replaced but certainly this is the next best thing and there are many more where that came from.
She did such an amazing job. I think Karen would approve! 🤗
Yep, horns in the origional. Karen incarnate🎉
That's not an easy production yo pull off either. Nice reaction as always!😊
😊 thank you! That's what I thought!!
Thanks!
Used to love this song I'm (36)
I'm almost 49... brings back a lot of memories!
Please........ My late grandfather said that they don't make great music anymore and he was talking about the 1910s. He didn't like the Big Band music and anything after that. As soon as someone talks about not making good music anymore, they have lost me. I'm 75 and I still find music that I love.
I'm blessed to be able to still find good music, all because of this channel! 😊
I still like new music as well but they don't make music like this anymore just fact but nice younger ppl can still like this music keep alive sorta speek
Hi Mrs. Realistic!
If I can successfully post this link, I’ll go to the tip jar again. Before We’ve Only… last October (about when I was algorithm’d Tori), she was challenged and released her full cover of the Bacharach/David Medley. It was originally performed by Carpenters in November 1970 on The Ed Sullivan Show. I’m not sure if you are familiar with it. The medley is also on the 3rd album “Carpenters” the tan album. Tori made a video just covering one of the songs as a Short. A subscriber said, do the whole thing. Well, she did. She used a backing music track that was made (apparently by RC) for the Japanese, Karaoke market. The rest she did. All the voices, including RC! #Notice, in Walk On By, she looks right at the camera and does Richard, Harmonies, Karen (repeat). She edited, layered, mixed and all that stuff to make a full cover of it. Flash forward to 2024. Early in maybe January/February Jim saw that video and was essentially WOW! but he thought it needed more “Richard.” So he triple tracked his voice in harmony to her video and split screen created this video. He showed it to Tori, she loved it and he released it. A collaboration was born.
This is perfectly true to the Carpenters 1970 version. Maybe view that in prep for this? Also being familiar with Burt Bacharach and Hal David songs helps but I’m going to assume you are as you were more than familiar with Carpenters.
Enjoy this one, it’s more bouncy and Tori got some range to show off, here.
Joe
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"...people had to have talent to make music." Why? what happened? I know this is a rhetorical question, but did it go this way because of the musicians, or, the consumers of music who have accepted and catered to a different vein
Good question...I don't know where things went wrong.
You got to turn it up I can't hear a thing
Sorry, my settings might be off.
I heard a record a few years ago. That I have been wondering if it is Karen or not. I've been looking but can't find much about the voice. If that's not Karen who is it?
Bob Rivers Flu Ride can you or anyone help? It’s a funny little holiday song. And I don't know if it's recorded before the China Flu or not.
It sounds a lot like her! Only a year ago... it might be making fun of the China flu... who knows 😉
No amount of talent can replace Karen Carpenter.
Once She's in your heart ❤️ 💙 💜
I don't think that anyone in this video has a single desire to do that. It's simply an outstanding homage to the contribution that Richard and Karen made utilizing the wonderful talents they've all been blessed with.
Even though The Carpenters will never be replaced or duplicated 100% either in actuality or in our minds, I do believe the recording and editing technology from then to today has advanced so much that the modern fidelity allows us to enjoy the music much more. Whatever small deficiency that today's cover artists (the great ones, that is) have compared to the original artists, it's largely compensated for by the improved recording technology. What do you think?
Frustrating that someone with Tori's talent has to pander and be polite to someone "reviewing" her production that doesn't even know the instruments in the original.
I'm not sure what you mean... but I'm not an expert on a song written before I was born.
@@MrsRealistic they come out of the woodwork to say nasty things. No one person is knowledgeable on every damn thing. We all learn as we go and nice people like Jim and Gary will come in and encourage. ❤️
@jbs256 Thanks... and I don't know how Tori is pandering and being polite to me...? 🤔 I don't understand the comment at all 😆 Oh! And I just filmed to two videos for you today, so I'll be editing tomorrow!
@@MrsRealistic she has “made the rounds” on reactions from time to time. Jim and Gary stopped by on this one. I think whenever any of them stop by to say thank you it’s a big ❤️ and thanks. I’d call it being a mensch. I don’t see that a lot from others. When Tori was just starting to get reactions (I wonder by whom?) she came by almost everyone. That really impressed me. I’m betting she’s a whole bunch busier now. So it becomes difficult. Still, I’ve seen her stop and say hi. Pandering? Hardly, grateful, yes.
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Oh and wonderful news! I look forward to them. I won’t ask if the tissues were used. I’ll watch. 🧐
@jbs256 yes I got comments from Jim and Gary! I was flattered 😊 So many people are miserable and need to drag others down. 🙄