Opera Singer Reacts -Take Me To Church || Postmodern Jukebox (ft. Morgan James)
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This is where Morgan belongs. Soulful bluesy powerful songs. She appears to trend this way on TH-cam and rightfully so.
Never to take anything away from Morgan, Hailey, and the other singers he works with, but Scott Bradlee is a genius, as is his “baby” Post Modern Jukebox! ❤️🎶
Got to hear this in my first PMJ concert in the UK in 2015 during their epic 2015 tour that featured a line up of Morgan, Haley Reinhart, Ariana Savalas, Casey Abrams and Scott Bradlee who performed every show of the tour that covered the US, Europe, Australia & a few Asian cities… Take Me to Church was definitely an iconic highlight ❤
(Scott doesn’t often tour that often nowadays unfortunately, he performed Creep differently at all five PMJ Shows I saw that year)
I really dig your "reaction tourettes" approach. It's very engaging!
Morgans passion is Soul and the Beatles, she did the entire White Album and sings “Dear Prudence” with Haley on a sofa just chilling.
4:03 "Ooooh, chills" Yup, frisson again. Like I commented in your Dream On reaction, it happens a lot when listening to Morgan.
On a side note, I prefer the reaction videos from professionals like yourself (singers, vocal coaches, etc) the best because you all teach me why I love her singing so much. It helps me to better understand how talented and how hard she has to work to perfect her art. And how she makes it look so easy. She's amazing!
Anyway, here's my standard promotional post below.
I've been a BIG fan of Morgan since 2014 and I absolutely LOVE her!!! As I said, I watched your reaction to PMJ/Morgan's cover of Dream On, liked it and commented on it. Since Morgan is an Indy, I do what I can to help promote Morgan so I almost always post a comment with a lot of links to her videos. But I didn't this time for your Dream On reaction. Then this review came up on my recommendations and I thought, "OK, here's a good opportunity to help more people find her.
Morgan studied opera at Julliard (her classical training is why she has those big pipes) and has performed on Broadway (Motown, The Musical, Godspell, The Addams Family and others). Under the wing of Berry Gordy Jr. (of Motown Records), she was signed under Epic Records and released two albums. She decided to break out on her own and started Hedonist Records LLC as an Indy. She has her own band and is married to the guitar player, Doug Wamble.
So if I may suggest, check these other covers from Morgan out as well.
All About That Bass, Meghan Trainor. This is where I first discovered Morgan James
th-cam.com/video/aLnZ1NQm2uk/w-d-xo.html
Call My Name, Prince - Prince rarely gives permission to record his songs but within minutes of hearing Morgan's cover, he said yes
th-cam.com/video/DhbS3BFtXDk/w-d-xo.html
Maps, Maroon 5 - I'll be honest here. I hadn't heard Maroon 5's Maps before so I went and listened to it. IMO, Morgan does it so much better!
th-cam.com/video/8gO_lxThc1M/w-d-xo.html
Can't Stand the Rain, Ann Peebles - LOVE this, one of my favorites.
th-cam.com/video/Nu9TbHbUWDA/w-d-xo.html
Ain't No Way, Aretha Franklin - Another top favorites of mine. Morgan holds a note for an amazing 24 seconds @ 1:42 into the video. I get frisson every time I hear it!
th-cam.com/video/3qw9SjAYHEg/w-d-xo.html
Who Wants to Live Forever, Queen - th-cam.com/video/7Ttx0gHKfY8/w-d-xo.html
Calling You, Jevetta Steele - Like a lot of her songs, frisson every time.
th-cam.com/video/wDBajWVAeFA/w-d-xo.html
Back Door Santa, Clarence Carter - I know, it's a Christmas song - sorta. But it's so fun!
th-cam.com/video/UN2AZ28mKes/w-d-xo.html
She does more than just covers, much more. Here's one of my favorite originals by her:
Reckless Abandon - Morgan performs all the vocals in this song so you may want to listen to it over and over to catch it all. In fact, she does all the vocals for the entire Reckless Abandon album.
th-cam.com/video/08e3z1ehZgU/w-d-xo.html
Just for the fun of it, here's one that I recorded the first time I saw her live in concert at The Dakota in Minneapolis, MN doing the same song, Reckless Abandon
th-cam.com/video/rAgYQj7bBes/w-d-xo.html
And here's some more originals.
You Thought Not (Spike Lee uses this song on his series She's Gotta Have It.)
th-cam.com/video/xCEarMTkG68/w-d-xo.html
Give You Up
th-cam.com/video/vQYvTBkWkW8/w-d-xo.html
Hunter
th-cam.com/video/-hl_Rtud67o/w-d-xo.html
Morgan is one of the hardest workers in the industry. For example, Morgan dreamed that she performed Jesus Christ Superstar as Jesus and Shoshana Bean was Judas. She decided to put on an entire female production of JCS and started hand selecting some of the best vocalists, performers, musicians, producers and engineers in the business - all females. She put on a live concert at the Highline Ballroom and also recorded and released the entire score. Check out Gethsemane, you WILL be impressed!
th-cam.com/video/nuqVjC0XrkE/w-d-xo.html
So yeah, I'm a Morgan fan. Big time. Check her out at www.morganjamesonline.com/
Great reaction! Morgan has a fantastic voice! I'm going to see her live in September.
Beautiful reaction/analysis. I appreciate your rambling; I find it adds to the entire experience. Thank you!
Morgan is Juliard trained. She has covered the entire Beatles White Album. She has sung the role of Jesus in an all female cast version of Jesus Christ Superstar, Her version of Dream On makes Steven Tyler jealous. I don't know why she is not an international superstar, but the fact that she isn't yet gives her a great deal of artistic freedom.
Great comment @ericzeichert511. And the last sentence is exactly why she isn't as well known as she could be. She wants to be true to herself and produce her music, not what some record exec thinks she should do. I for one am very thankful for that.
But if you don't mind, I'd like to expand on that JCS story for those others that don't know.
Morgan dreamed that she performed Jesus Christ Superstar as Jesus and Shoshana Bean was Judas. She decided to put on an entire female production of JSC and started hand selecting some of the best vocalists, performers, musicians, producers and engineers in the business - all females.
She put on a live concert at he the Highline Ballroom and later got Pledge Music involved to raise some money to produce the album. Unfortunately Pledge Music stole everyone's money (allegedly 🙄) and filed bankruptcy.
If spite of suddenly not having the finances to release the CD, Morgan promised her fans that she'd release it eventually. To paraphrase her, “It will get released, I just don't know when.”
Well, she kept her promise and delivered. She truly appreciates her fans and knows how dedicated they are. And she shows her appreciation by going that extra mile in return. Yet another reason to love her.
Check out Gethsemane, you WILL be impressed! th-cam.com/video/nuqVjC0XrkE/w-d-xo.html
So yeah, I'm a Morgan fan. Big time. Check her out at www.morganjamesonline.com/
Fun trivia: this was the _first time_ that Morgan and Scott did this piece together. Morgan revealed this in the chat when Elizabeth Zharoff (@The Charismatic Voice) premiered her reaction to this piece.
Great work and welcome to PMJ. If you like Haley and Morgan and pure vocals, you really need to watch their COVID session with Morgans husband on guitar. Dear Prudence by The Beatles (Morgan James & Haley Reinhart Cover)> I would love to hear your analysis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keep up the great work, glad I found you
oh you did it!! You reacted to this cover!! I'm soooo happy!!
THANK YOU.. she is absolutely stunning.. and she looks beautiful aswell 🙂
Thank you! Morgan James has an incredible instrument.
So much Good! I think great vocalists really shine with sparse accompaniment. Her and Scott's version of Sweet Child 'o Mine, and all of the "Quarantunes" series she did with just her husband Doug on guitar, are absolutely outstanding.
Take a look at her covering "Maps" on PMJ
Heres a list of other tracks on PMJ that will start you down the rabbit hole
PMJ Pop-Up: Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses (Cover) ft. Miche Braden
Blurred Lines - Vintage "Bluegrass Barn Dance" Robin Thicke Cover feat. Robyn Adele Anderson
Mr. Blue Sky (Electric Light Orchestra) - Postmodern Jukebox ft. Allison Young
Dancing With Myself - Billy Idol (Postmodern Jukebox Cover) ft. Chloe Feoranzo
Careless Whisper - Vintage 1930's Jazz Wham! Cover feat. Robyn Adele Anderson & Dave Koz
Last Nite - The Strokes (Vintage "Trad Jazz" Style Cover) ft. Sweet Megg
We Can't Stop - 1950's Doo Wop Miley Cyrus Cover ft. Robyn Adele Anderson, The Tee - Tones
Wannabe - Spice Girls (Vintage "Andrews Sisters" Style Cover) by Postmodern Jukebox
I Want You To Want Me - Vintage Blues Cheap Trick Cover ft. Sara Niemietz
Ok next in line a new release of a cover of Paul Simon's "50 Way to Leave Your Lover"
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please make a reaction to daneliya tuleshova, she also sings this cover, in my opinion even better
Check out Morgan and Haley Rhinehardt singing Blackbird.
“Dear Prudence”, Morgan & Haley have never performed “Blackbird” together, although Morgan recorded it in her White Album cover
@@HaleysTusk You're Right. Its been so long since I listened to it i forgot. I guess I should take my own advice and check it out again. I remember now their laid back mood and great harmonies. Weird how I could remember the mood and beauty and forget the actual song. Thanks
@@terrimoseley8650 I have reason to remember that video specifically, even if it’s almost 8 years old.
I was lucky to be smack dab in the middle of that incredible time both PMJ & Haley/Creep went viral. I lucked out going to their London show which happened to be the final of that European tour. I saw Haley sing creep before the video came out, weeks after they recorded it.
A month before, I randomly tweeted to Haley if I could buy her a beer in London after the show, incredibly she accepted! She was new to PMJ so I was basically the only fan who knew of her. The meet & greet was cut short, Scott welcomed us to see them after the show (back then the cast often came out after the show to meet fans). After the show, security pushed us out, I was adamant to take Scott up in his offer & waited. I told security Haley, one of the cast, was expecting me, he asked my name & went back to check. Minutes later, Haley came out to fetch me 🤯. She took me & a friend of hers to the back where they celebrated the final show. I met Morgan & Scott back there, Casey performed Amazing Grace on his melodica as we left.
Fast forward a month or so later, I talked to Haley during a break in her jazz set (obviously she was more approachable back then & by now I’d been to many meet & greets) we’re both Beatles fans, so she mentioned that she and Morgan recorded a video together 😳.
Fast forward weeks later, I went to see Morgan in Newport Beach, as I lined up for the meet & greet, I prepared to introduce myself but Morgan remembered me, told me to sit with her, that was when I told her Haley mentioned that she recorded a video with Morgan, surprised, Morgan confirmed it 😀. That video is “Dear Prudence”… it was such a crazy time to be a fan of Haley’s at that time, we knew the PMJ collab could be her big break, plus I got to meet and hang out with many of that line up, back when everything was exciting & new. Also Scott used to be great to talk to, he was also so accessible then :)
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