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Subject: Karaoke
Which song would suit your singing ability? (and would you get up and belt it out?)
Mine would be Silence Is Golden, I have the worst singing voice known to man so no i've learnt my lesson and wouldn't get up again.
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I'm not sure whether I have a singing ability of sorts, Boris but I would love to sing 'Do you love me?' by The Contours.
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Would you get up and sing it though Bobby?
I use the karaoke at home, at Christmas...after a couple of wines. Makes me think I sound better anyway....until they replay the video on Boxing Day.
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Would you get up and sing it though Bobby?
I use the karaoke at home, at Christmas...after a couple of wines. Makes me think I sound better anyway....until they replay the video on Boxing Day.
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I think I would if I had a bit to drink. The trouble is, my voice sounds like a boy going through puberty when I'm drunk. :-/
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I think my favourite song for karaoke is "Blockbuster" by the Sweet, though I did enjoy doing Nickelback's "How You Remind Me"
Would I get up and belt it out? Not just would, but have :-)
Phil
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I think I would want to do "Come Sail Away" by Styx.
At our school we had this special "fun" day :P where we did things like play board games and basketball and do karaoke. I made a huge fool out of myself singing Sugar Ray's "Fly", Will Smith's "Miami", and the Barenaked Ladies' "One Week". How did I ever think I was gonna be able to sing that fast? So daring, aren't I...
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As someone with a small modicum of musical talent, I can actually play "Your Song" by Elton John while playing it on the piano. One of the few songs I can play that's in my vocal range, and that I can sing along with without screwing up the piano part.
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I'm always dead keen to have a go on the old karaoke, although I have a very limited vocal range. My finest hour was "I Shot The Sheriff" in a karaoke bar in Seoul, South Korea. Those who were there still talk about, although I fear not in a good way. I volunteered for the campsite karaoke on holiday in France a few years ago. My eldest daughter (then 5) said "Daddy, I want to come onstage with you" so proudly we walked up together and she held my hand as I launched into "It's Now Or Never". About half way through she realised she was not standing there with the competition winner, looked up at me, suffering badly, and said "Daddy, I'm going to sit down now..." and walked off.
She's now got her own karaoke machine which she plays with her friends. We got her a few CDs for Christmas and they've got a variety of recent hits on them. I manage to annoy her quite often by inflicting "How You Remind Me" (again, philbo!) and "Freak Like Me" (Sugarbabes) on her.
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My two "finest" hours...
1. South London pub, beer flowing nicely, inhibitions going out the window...after much deliberation I attack "Rhinestone Cowboy" which starts off nice and low, but rises alarmingly! Somehow I manage to pull it off...I impress my drinking group immensely...
2. Essex pub, 3 months after the first event, I announce to my drinking group that I'm not singing, beer flowing nicely, inhibitions window-bound again...decide that tonight I am the re-incarnation of Al Martino and "Spanish Eyes" was meant for my voice...once again, starts off easy but ends up difficult! Why do I do this? I pull it off again! Crowd insist on encore! By now, I've learned my lesson and make a mad dash for the toilet...I haven't sung in public since!
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My two "finest" hours...
1. South London pub, beer flowing nicely, inhibitions going out the window...after much deliberation I attack "Rhinestone Cowboy" which starts off nice and low, but rises alarmingly! Somehow I manage to pull it off...I impress my drinking group immensely...
2. Essex pub, 3 months after the first event, I announce to my drinking group that I'm not singing, beer flowing nicely, inhibitions window-bound again...decide that tonight I am the re-incarnation of Al Martino and "Spanish Eyes" was meant for my voice...once again, starts off easy but ends up difficult! Why do I do this? I pull it off again! Crowd insist on encore! By now, I've learned my lesson and make a mad dash for the toilet...I haven't sung in public since!
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Were your drinking group also drunk?
Don't be too flattered....you can get away with anything in an Essex pub :P
The worst choice of a song i've ever heard was a duet of Paradise By The Dashboard Light...they totally forgot about the commentary bit half way through and had to stand there looking complete idiots until the song resumed by which time we were all in complete hysterics and never heard the end.
I did sing Living Next Door To Alice once dressed as Alice In Wonderland (i know never to go blonde at least) hubby was dressed as White Rabbit and completed the Chubby Brown parts....
We were only having a quiet night in at the time...
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Very interesting stories, everybody! :D
I have been singing since I was a young girl. At that time we did not have a television, and my parents insisted on me and my brothers participating in jam sessions with them (my mother played piano, one brother played guitar, the other brother played the recorder and my dad played harminica...at that time all I could play was the kazoo :-[). I used to sing a lot of Beatles songs with my mom as well as Peter, Paul & Mary and Gordon Lightfoot. That was my beginning.
In college I signed up for Chorus and loved it! My instructor told me that I have a wide vocal range, which is cool. In my twenties I started hitting the karaoke clubs with my friends and was told that I sound a lot like Karen Carpenter. It is a fact that I love to sing her songs (especially "Top Of The World"). 8)
Unfortunately I don't go to karaoke clubs anymore. :(
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I think my favourite song for karaoke is "Blockbuster" by the Sweet, though I did enjoy doing Nickelback's "How You Remind Me"
Would I get up and belt it out? Not just would, but have :-)
Phil
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You'd better beware...
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The worst choice of a song i've ever heard was a duet of Paradise By The Dashboard Light...they totally forgot about the commentary bit half way through and had to stand there looking complete idiots until the song resumed by which time we were all in complete hysterics and never heard the end.
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There's the wind-up... and there it is, a line-shot up the middle... I did Deadringer for Love recently, though unfortunately my voice was starting to fail by the end of the evening (it had been a long day before I even got there); Paradise would be a good one to try...
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You'd better beware...
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I'd better take care... (especially as I have long, dark (if not quite black) hair)
Phil
PS Not quite karaoke: on Sunday, I did a rendition of Ruby Tuesday with words written specially for my parents' ruby wedding, accompanying myself on guitar. It was rather well received :-)
Subject: Re: Karaoke
Well unlike the rest of you above me, ^^^..... I'm really dignified in real life. It's true I am. Except for a couple of weeks ago in the mini bus on the way home from a Greek night when I did a great accompaniment to DJ Otzi 'Hey Baby' on the bus mic. I was pretty darn good too! hu! hah!
The other amazingly unholydooley thing I've done was, my best mate used to present a program on a community radio station of a weekend...... and one St Patricks day, she connivingly convinced me to play guitar for her while she sang a few Irish songs ..... live on air. Next thing I knew, I had a vodka and a mic stuck in my face and was singing Dirty Old Town.... live on air!!! It was such a fantastic laugh at the end of the day. But I will NEVER do it again. lol