The Karaoke Forum

I thoiught I'd stick my 2 cents into this one, as I've just noticed this thread. Over here, Ireland introduced a smoking ban about 3 or 4 years ago and there was a drop in trade. However, this has since reversed, plus there is now significantly less medical time being dedicated to smoking issues, wh...

At the moment, I use either Excel and do a very simple spreadsheet type book, or I use Song List Generator by Latshaw Systems. However, if you really want to exercise your programming skills, try this on for size. I would really like a duplicate file finder that could "find" simply by sect...

Bigdog wrote:Do you know any successful KJs that don't sing?

No! But I know a few that SHOULDN@T sing!!!

Sandy

His party piece, apparently, is Nessun Dorma, so one has to assume he can sing a bit. Does he do this a cappella? There's really not a lot of call for opera arias in karaoke... thankfully. :) When the Rugby World Cup was on a few years back, Nessun Dorma was the theme music by big Lucie, so became ...

I guess I live in a dream world. After being there twice a week for five years they had to have built a friendship with the owner, and with the customers. Presuming there were no complaints, why would you throw away a friendship for $45 a night? AH! So sorry Sabrina but friendship and profit are no...

Just had the "profit is all" point rammed home, last night. Pub down the road runs Karaoke Friday Night and Saturday afternoons and have had the same KJ man and wife team for the last 5 years. They have built up a nice following and usually, the pub is very busy. However, last night I popp...

It's not that they don't want the quality, they just don't want to pay for it. Sadly, this is very true. But to be fair, don't we ALL wish that a "free lunch" was actually free? :roll: I'm in the same situation as most, with loads of mediocre competition using minimal hardware to do a job...

The main problem, as I see it, is new and or younger singers. New singers MIGHT ask for something non standard and if you don't have it, you might have lost a potential regular. Younsters ALMOST always want the newest stuff out, whether they shriek like Banshees, or not. Again, if you don't have it,...

I'll be damned if I'm going to run around the bar, looking outside and in restrooms for the next singer. I'm a KJ not a babysitter. If you want to sing you'll get your ass up there when I call your name. I don't hold this against "Dick" unless he acts like a "Dick" and makes a h...

I would try and get a new singer in reasonably quickly. As has been said earlier, withing 3, 4 or at worst 5 singers, in. Usually, the "regulars" understand and don't gripe too much. However, I have 2 caveats on this; 1) if it is pretty late on, then end of queue as he/she might knock a re...

For a simple house party, there isn't any need for anything fancy. If you can hook up a couple of microphones through your TV amplifier, just look for some Karaoke DVD's. There are plenty about. In fact, if you're really lucky, your DVD player might have a couple of mike inputs on the front panel. A...

Buy from Ebay. There are shedloads of CDG discs on it and they're almost always rated as "New". Over here, I can easily get 10 CD's for £20, about $30 U.S. at present exchange rate, so worst scenarion is 150 tracks at about 13.5p or 20 cents each. At that rate, who cares about dupes? :D Sa...

Sadly, the future is here and it's in the form of hard drive juke boxes. They're in most Pubs over here and make a fair amount of money for the establishment. The one in the boozer, 'round the corner from my flat even has a karaoke function??? :shock: Some are web connected, so that if there is a so...

Strictly speaking, you can do anything that's out of copyright!

Unfortunately I believe that means 50 years after the death of the original writer/singer, so I imagine your selection will be a bit small.

Sandy

Actually I've never heard anyone do Alice, it's just the only song I could think of with an explitive in the title. :wink: I'm surprised to hear that! It's an extremely popular song, over here and if not "sung" every night, it's on at least every other gig. I wouldn't mind it so much if t...