Tori Holub - Jim Wilkas "Carpenters Medley Cover" | Reaction Video

[@ronraskind]

Bob, thank you for getting this done and I'm glad you enjoyed it and appreciated it. Tori certainly is one of the generational talents. I was going to provide more information but I see that Joe down below filled you in on everything you need to know for now. There are a couple of original songs and there was some recent covers that were not Carpenter songs. Those would make great reactions. I will be back with more in the near future and glad you're back and healthy. Peace out

[@jbs256]

Hi Bob, I’m Ron’s friend Joe. I wrote before on the triple play. But I haven’t yet commented on QUAKE! My hero. Now on to Tori and Jim. Tori made her Medley in October of last year. Jim was introduced to Tori by KZbin last February. He felt this song needed more “Richard.” So he did what you saw and added that. He showed it to Tori. She loved it, he released it. He asked her to help him complete his WOJB project which was stalled because his lead singer had suddenly passed away. 💔 She did and that’s what you saw earlier. BTW if you listen carefully in Walk On By, while looking right at the camera, she does Richard/harmony/Karen (repeat). She also did Richard in the harmonies also, the deeper voice. Jim just did his magic and added a DEEPER voice. Perfecting the result. Oh, the tempo was created by Richard, the insert that Tori added was from The Ed Sullivan Show in Nov. 1970. The first performance of The Medley and it was live to tape w/Karen on drums! Yes she has TWO original songs out. Both offered to her after the writers saw her videos. Last year Christmas Again (audio) was released in the holidays. This year the day after WOJB released she dropped Something To Believe In, (audio and video). Both are on her channel. Now she recently collaborated with Dan Wesley on two songs. Dan had made two mini-docs on Tori. He wondered after seeing a Perry Como TV Special w/Carpenters where Karen sang one verse of It’s Impossible, what she would have sounded like singing the entire song. So he asked Tori. She said it’s one of her favorite songs but couldn’t find music in her key. Dan sent her a piano track in Karen’s key and here we have their first video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYWuonlmp8x-a8ksi=J2Zjau9ScX0wNdw7 Then he secretly did another song with Tori which released on Monday (7/29). Suddenly from Xanadu by Olivia Newton-John and Cliff Richard. So, Bob, she sounds like Karen? Olivia? Hehehe. Oh and along with Dan and Tori singing leads, check out the band his brothers Dan & Dan & Dan & Dan & Dan & cousin Mabel on the Ovation guitar. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jqOummyml9V3d6ssi=BSvHSaaMEHmtKs4z Oh Dan is in the UK so a very long distance collaboration. There’s so much more. Also 3 more things are going to drop in due time. Including the first song that Tori wrote, Years Gone By. She’s a rabbit hole in the making. There’s more but I’ve said enough. You have only just begun discovering Tori and her friends. Oh yes, in April she was one of 8 invited singers at the Carpenters 55th Anniversary. That’s another deal we need to address. Later. Great reaction, Bob. There’s so much more fun ahead. Joe

[@ModernLifeForThe70sMind]

Did you notice that I now have a Quake box? :)

[@jbs256]

@@ModernLifeForThe70sMind is it the actual box, they’re selling it again! 🤡

[@jbs256]

@@ModernLifeForThe70sMind Bob, in all the linking I realized I don’t think I linked this. Eduard is also enamored of Tori. He saw the medley and created this mashup. (There are also two on WOJB! On his channel) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fF6ln4t9dpd4itEsi=RICAnf-q9MoGPaaO Any news on the Suddenly reaction. I want to see if you have to wear a helmet after your head exploded 😊 Joe

[@janettetippetts7942]

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[@bic050753]

There are only two things in the "cover band" music world that have freaked me over the last years. 1. Leonid and friends, which ironically, their last posting was a carpenters song, and 2. Tori et. al. How could this be!!

[@SAnnun-hs1io]

Are we related? I couldn't agree more.

[@SAnnun-hs1io]

Tori's voice just glistens. Like Karen's, its so clean and resonant. And I totally agree with the distinctions you make about their comparisons. No one will ever replace Karen, but Tori has no problem whatsoever standing on her own.

[@ericzeichert511]

LOVE the Midnight Special shirt...It is remakable how close this i,s to the original, which is also spectacular, but as you heard with the intro this is not a Carpenter's medly, but a Bacharach/David medley, made more poignant by Burt's passing last year. Next, I recommend Something to Believe in -- a Carpertersesque song written for and interpreted by Tori, again channeling her inner Karen

[@ericzeichert511]

Tori released this first on her site, and Jim came in later and added his garnish to the original.

[@rosskelly8268]

Surprising when you learn that Tori hasn't been singing for long. I think she only performed in public for the first time about a year ago. She is a rare 'natural', with not only depth and resonance so missing from a lot of female vocals, but a weightless agility that allows her to decorate the song with ease and accuracy. She has emerged a fully-formed artist who could (and may well) stroll into a career as a session/backing vocalist par excellence.

[@jbs256]

Hi, it’s even less further back. Her live appearances were in April 2024. On the 12th at Crooners in Minneapolis and the 25th at The Carpenters 55th in Downey. I was at the 55th. Can you say goosebumps?

[@rosskelly8268]

@@jbs256 Goosebumps!

[@jbs256]

@@rosskelly8268 I knew ya could!🩷

[@rlew49ers]

You may enjoy Tori with Dan Wesley performing "It's Impossible" - Perry Como - kzbin.info?search_query=it%27s+impossible+tori+holub Another song audio only is "Georgia on My Mind" kzbin.info/www/bejne/eoTSe2Cjp9Fko6M - I totally agree Tori sounds very close to Karen and those who held "The Carpenters 55th Anniversary Celebration" must also agree otherwise Tori would not have been invited to sing at the celebration where she performed "Something in Your Eyes" a song written by Richard for Karen; sadly she died before she was able to sing the song. Richard released the song on his solo album with Dusty Springfield singing "Something in Your Eyes". Here's Tori - kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXuzanaEqJ6MjJY

[@jbs256]

Have you seen Suddenly, yet? I linked both.

[@rlew49ers]

@@jbs256 Caught a short clip on Facebook. Tori does many short clips of Carpenters song (short being around a minute). Her page has all her shorts.

[@rlew49ers]

Just heard the full version of "Suddenly" she can do no wrong to my ears! I've been following Tori since I found a reactor react to We've Only.... about a month ago and I've been sold on Tori's voice/sound. I check every day for new reactions to Tori; I am dismayed that she hasn't caught fire or gone viral.

[@ModernLifeForThe70sMind]

I have not. Tori?

[@jbs256]

@@ModernLifeForThe70sMind yup, She and Dan have two out now. Suddenly just dropped on all the Streamers and iTunes. I bought it. Contributing to Dan’s early retirement program… 🤣 Oh and wait ‘till you meet Cousin Mabel.

[@pedromancenithe3rd]

Bob, I agree, Tori sounds a lot like Karen. True test, just listen to the audio without watching the video and it's uncanny. The people who said she sounds nothing like Karen, are either tone deaf or manic Karen Carpenter fans who find it inconceivable that someone has a voice like Tori's that is arguably as good as Karen's.

[@jodale1972]

Anyone that listens to Tori's cover of "We've Only Just Begun" and thinks she doesn't sound like Karen Carpenter just has a bias that clouds their judgement. Not only does she sound almost exactly like Karen to me, I watched another video of someone who did a pitch analysis comparing the two of them and it was eerily similar with some minor differences in vibrato and the natural voice breaks from Karen that Tori did not replicate, which I did not even pick up on.

[@ModernLifeForThe70sMind]

Was that Wings of Pegasus? I watched that one. Pretty cool.

[@jodale1972]

@@ModernLifeForThe70sMind yes

[@jbs256]

@@jodale1972I requested that analysis by Fil 😊 Joe