(12-03-2015, 06:32 PM)john Wrote: I'm digging all this love Haley and Caley are getting in Billboard lately. 
Quote:Abrams said neither he nor Reinhart had any idea that the Extra gum commercial would take off the way it did, and on the last day of recording the song, there were "so many people there with cameras and producers and mixers, I realized, 'Whoa, this is a serious commercial.'"
"It was really cool to play for all those people. I just saw the commercial the other day on TV in the hotel room, and thought, yeah, this is awesome!" he said. "That’s my friend singing!"
But Casey should never compare his voice to Haley's like that. LOL.
John, your joke the other day made me smile, but it also later make me think. In my enthusiasm for "all-things-Haley", I have a tendency to take Casey for granted. We know Haley's esteem for Casey. We can't know, however, how Haley's career path might have differed had the two of them not crossed paths.
Speaking for myself, I only tuned in to Idol Season 10 after hearing a bit about Casey, and that was after he had already been eliminated. When I started searching back for
Grapevine, and
Georgia, and
Harder to Breathe, and
Nature Boy, and
Do Right, I was hooked. And, because I'm (proudly) sexist, I really noticed Pia and Haley, both sexy gals with terrific voices. I never got past that stage with Pia, but three things about Haley captured me: her spunk,
God Bless the Child, and especially
Moanin'. I suspect that when Season 10 ended, individually, I would have lost track of Casey and Haley. However, it has been their special chemistry that has kept me a fan for five years.
We all know the part Casey has played in so many of Haley's career steps since Idol: StageIt, NOJO at Carnegie Hall, Room 5 et al, SMYM,
Baby Its Cold Outside, PMJ and the subsequent CHFIL. Can't say how much Casey has been responsible, but HELL, HE WAS
THERE (with all due respect to
The Greatest Book Ever).
If I were preaching, I'd be preaching to the choir right now. Sometimes I just have to give myself a little reminder.
All of the above pales with how great a performer I think Casey is in his own right. My reminder today is
Just One More Time off the new EP. Again I needed some lyrics, cause I just gotta sing along.
Since I could not find a YouTube performance of this number, I used the unreleased mp3 from the EP download. As such, I put up the lyric video as Private. (Also slipped in some backgrould footage from
Stuck in London to try to fit the mood.)
