Hayley Orrantia

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Hayley Orrantia, who plays Erica on the Goldbergs, comes by to discuss Jenkintown and her music.

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00:01You may have heard her sing on the Goldbergs before, and fantastic voice, but I'm loving this.

00:08Please welcome to our studio, Haley Orantia.

00:12Yeah!

00:13Thank you so much.

00:14Morning, Haley.

00:15Hi.

00:16So, yeah, we've seen you do some singing on the Goldbergs, but this is you doing the real thing.

00:22And you write this music as well, don't you?

00:24I do.

00:25It's really funny, because now that I've been going on this tour, I've had a lot of people who are fans of the show come out,

00:29and they're like, I thought you were going to be doing a lot of 80s covers.

00:32You know, I can do other things.

00:34Well, I was surprised to read, because I thought, oh, this is kind of cool.

00:38I guess this, you know, when the show first came on, I guess this actress has some aspirations of singing,

00:43and then only to do research on you, and singing was it, music was your deal,

00:48and acting has seemed to have sort of been a conduit towards getting your music out,

00:52because you go back, what, you were singing since you were a little kid,

00:56I think composing songs when you were 12, 13, right?

01:00Yeah, kind of.

01:00I mean, I wouldn't necessarily say they were radio hits by any means.

01:03But still.

01:04Yeah.

01:04So, and then you've come up through, as I was doing research, you worked with the people,

01:10you were a backup singer for Demi Lovato.

01:12Well, in some ways.

01:13Yeah, in some ways.

01:14I did, I recorded a lot of, like, Disney Channel-type soundtrack, like, background vocals,

01:20so there was, like, a Camp Rock 2.

01:21Right.

01:22But that's, that's, there's a lot of.

01:23I'll count it.

01:24It all counts, damn it.

01:25Yeah.

01:26I love Camp Rock 2.

01:27That's resume worthy.

01:28You might get a kick out of this story, because I know you're going to be going around Jankintown today.

01:32You're going to hit some stops and see some of the sights of this, you know, this family,

01:36the member that you've been portraying that lives in that area.

01:39It's going to be kind of cool to see it, but we had Tim Meadows in the studio last year,

01:44and he's been by here before, and he's a great guy.

01:45He's a lot of fun, and we were talking to him about the Goldbergs, and he was, there was,

01:50the Phillies were playing, and we said something along the lines of,

01:53I can't believe they haven't asked you to throw out the first pitch.

01:56I mean, we were like, you know, the Goldbergs is in Jankintown.

01:58It's right here in Philadelphia.

01:59He didn't know that the show took place in this area.

02:04He had no.

02:04He had no idea.

02:06You know, Tim comes on when he needs to come on.

02:09He's not there all the time.

02:11But now that they're doing, I don't know if y'all know, they're doing a spinoff in the 90s.

02:14He better know now.

02:15Yeah, everyone is really, really sharp, and so that's got to be a great atmosphere

02:19to, you know, explore your comedic side.

02:23And then with Adam, and I assume everybody else, it's a very nurturing thing.

02:26Um, what I really love is that you, you, you're making references to pop culture that predates

02:33you, and yet you really, you really come out as very enthusiastic about it.

02:38And one episode in particular struck home here.

02:40Preston is a massive Rush fan.

02:42Uh, yes.

02:43Yeah.

02:43That was so cool when you guys did that episode.

02:46I loved doing that episode.

02:47Did you really?

02:48Because I, we, I had a family friend of ours who was obsessed with Rush, like kind of tattooed

02:52on his leg, obsessed, right?

02:53And I like was familiar with it, but I didn't, I couldn't name a single song until we were

02:58doing this episode.

02:59And me and AJ, who plays Lainey, um, and, uh, the girl who plays Carla, we all kind of

03:04got together and we did this song and I'm like, wait a minute, I think I like Rush.

03:10We had such a good time on that episode.

03:12That's cool.

03:12And it came off good.

03:14There's been a number of different things from a little, uh, a little shop of horrors and

03:17different musically, you've gotten to do a lot of different things.

03:19Have you picked up besides Rush and interest in some of, uh, uh, the other music that you've

03:25done, uh, that you weren't familiar with before?

03:27Yeah.

03:27I'm trying to think of specific ones.

03:29Well, the Hooters are from Philadelphia.

03:30And so you guys, there was the episode where there was the Hooters show and they were actually

03:35in that episode, which was phenomenal.

03:36And as Steve has pointed out, it wasn't exactly a tight closeup on those guys.

03:40Right.

03:40They had some wigs to remember them with their hair originally.

03:44But, um, I actually loved that band because they, they did get to play live in front of us

03:49for that scene, as well as, you know, doing a prerecorded, but when they were playing,

03:52I was like, Oh my God, this band is awesome.

03:54That's cool.

03:55I totally get why they had them here.

03:56They're awesome.

03:57He gave us a couple of CDs.

03:58And so now we're big Hooters fans.

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