Haley Reinhart & Casey Abrams – Magnificent Mile – Chicago

By On 11/20/2011 · 115 Comments · In American Idol, Casey Abrams, Haley Reinhart

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Haley Reinhart and Casey Abrams performed at the Magnificent Mile in Chicago Saturday afternoon as part of the shopping area’s 20th annual Lights Festival.

It was the live debut of their new Christmas single “Baby It’s Cold Outside”, set to be released on Tuesday. Speaking of which…where the heck are their coats? I’m cold just looking at them.

The duo also sang their Idol duet “Moanin” and a cover of the Beatles’ “All My Loving”.

Later, Casey and Haley performed “Baby It’s Cold Outside” from a top a parade float!

VIDEO: cashhmoneyy18, JamesonSkyy, Himmm2

Watch the performances below.

Casey and Haley – Moanin

http://www.youtube.com/user/Himmm2#p/u/9/L8gj0EByvJM

Casey and Haley – Baby it’s Cold Outside

Casey and Haley – The Beatle’s “All My Loving”

http://www.youtube.com/user/Himmm2#p/u/8/xErjmyCIo1o

“Baby It’s Cold Outside” sung from a parade float

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  • Anonymous

    Montavilla, I think I’m just going to zip it and let you speak for me lol. Loved that post :)

  • randomjoe

    The telecast will be rebroadcast in many major markets between  Thanksgiving and Christmas.
    Schedule

  • Anonymous

    Montavilla said:
    “I got curious with this whole “Casey is a clown who will never be taken seriously” meme and did a Google search to see if there’s any critiques from jazz people.  I found this nice article, which seems to give a jazz snob’s reaction to him.”
    What a great find.  Thanks for posting it.

  • http://twitter.com/CanadianLady2 CanadianLady

    Thank you for the great post, Montanaville.

  • Chris

             ”But, it’s so difficult these days to make it as a solo artist–no matter how talented. If their solo careers don’t take off–and they formed some kind of duo or group ( a jazzy Sugarland type of thing)-that may not be a bad idea.”

    Good point about Sugarland, and that’s been a trend for a while.

    I see a lot of “oh no, not Casey with Haley” posts, but creating a duo or forming a group may be a route to try vs. always trying to go solo.  When they launched Jordan Sparks, she did a duet with Chris Brown “No Air” along with her single Tattoo.  A bit of a one, two punch that worked. 

    Simon on X Factor even creates groups so its not the kiss of death.  Its just packaging.  And it doesn’t have to be Casey, I did like Haley when she was with Casey or on the tour with all the girls in the Tightrope number.  As long as she finds a niche to sell records, gain fans, that’s what matters.

  • http://twitter.com/galaga6846 Leah Hoffman

    Why does everyone here seem to have the need to disparage Casey all of the time?  They have to say “Casey was okay, but not as good as Haley.”  They’re a team, and a great one at that. They compliment each other.  

  • http://twitter.com/galaga6846 Leah Hoffman

    Have you ever thought that maybe it was their choice, as friends?  Maybe they WANT to perform together.  

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for posting that article. I remember reading it back in April. I also am very confused by the Casey meme on here. Don’t get it. I think Casey opened a lot of young minds to a genre they had never been exposed to before. I have read tweets from teens talking about it.  They still are. Casey is a very good jazz musician and singer. I am not saying he sings jazz as well as say Mel Torme did-or that Haley sings as well as Ella or Dinah Washington–but that doesn’t take away from their talent. I think folks wanted him to do some serious jazz in the finale and he sang with Jack Black. So, what? It was silly and Casey likes to have fun. Big deal. For a 20 yr old kid to play bass and all those other instruments–he is serious about music. That doesn’t mean you have to be serious 24/7.

    And for those who doubt Casey’s real talent–watch him at his homecoming
    Go to the 10 minute mark on this video and start watching. Lots of  jazz and what a cool homecoming.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsPxYt6Gh_k

  • Anonymous

    I love Haley, love Haley and Casey, love jazz, LOVE their recording, love the video, love these performances… and sad-but-true, my favorite version before this was Zooey Deschanel and Will Farrell in “Elf” (which unfortunately wasn’t on the CD but instead she recorded it with Leon Redbone…). She is at the very start of what I think will be a very, very successful career – the “it” factor. Or dare I say… the “x factor”…

  • Anonymous

    The phone’s for you…it’s one of Simon’s lawyers… :)

  • Anonymous

    ;>

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Larry-Judge/100003069541032 Larry Judge

    It’s always nice to come here to see what goes on people’s heads whenever something happens in the Idol world. That said, this duet was made just to as Haley said, she is working on her album and just want to grab the fanbase and give them something to hold on while waiting for her single or any solo release. So it was right into the holiday spirit and could be Christmas present as well. So far any video I’ve seen and all the reactions are claiming Haley and more Haley. The cover of the video on itunes is Haley and on youtube it is under HaleyReinhartVEVO. So mostly people are just fine that Casey is with her in these few latest performances because they still perform Moanin and keep improvising it everytime, so it’s fun. But definitely when it is time for Haley single the reaction would be bigger and the promotion would be better. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/mjavens Melanie Javens

    Because Casey is very nice, they are good friends and they have similar interrests in music.  Wouldn’t you help out your friend?

  • Anonymous

    Fuzzywuzzy … love your commetns but, you aint so fuzzywuzzy …  I too am frustrated by her continually being tied to him … I wanted to give it a chance, but lets be honest, the Chicago BICO was awful … he was awful, and frankly they looked awkward on stage … I dont undertand people need to hook these two up, or at least Haley fans need for that … Is Casey the only person in the entire singing universe she can duet it with? ….  I would say that her duets with Casey, Tony Bennett, Lauren Alina, and Mayfields trumpet indicate otherwise …. my advice to Haley is this …”Spread your wings there is a whole world out there beyond Caley” ….

  • Anonymous

    Fuzzywuzzy … love your commetns but, you aint so fuzzywuzzy …  I too am frustrated by her continually being tied to him … I wanted to give it a chance, but lets be honest, the Chicago BICO was awful … he was awful, and frankly they looked awkward on stage … I dont undertand people need to hook these two up, or at least Haley fans need for that … Is Casey the only person in the entire singing universe she can duet it with? ….  I would say that her duets with Casey, Tony Bennett, Lauren Alina, and Mayfields trumpet indicate otherwise …. my advice to Haley is this …”Spread your wings there is a whole world out there beyond Caley” ….

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