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Egads!  In my post above, I spelled chorus as "course".  How coarse of me!

I think some karaoke cdg's take the song to literally.  Even if the singer isn't supposed to technically sing certain parts of the song, in reality the many singers want to sing these parts.

That's ok.  Eye new wot yew r righting.  




You're darn right about that!!!!!  Sometimes the backup parts are the most fun.  I've sometimes thought that if some guy wanted to do Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side", I'd volunteer to be one of the "colored girls" (Mr. Reed's words, NOT mine), even though I'm white.  Let's face it--"doo doo-doo, doo-doo..." is the best part of the song IMHO.  (I've yet to hear anyone sing that for karaoke, though.)

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One of my favorite songs to sing is "Last Resort" by The Eagles.  Not only does it have a long outro, it has an instrumental in the middle of the song that is almost 2 minutes long.  I can literally put my mic down and go refresh my drink.

I just saw some posts about CDGs that have background vocals pre-recorded.  Well I was in a rather embarrasing situation a few years back.  I arrempted to sing "Hair" by the Cowsills.  The main part I actually did fairly well on, but when it go to the high-pitched part, it was all on me to do it.  I assumed it would be dubbed in. Needless to say, I only attempted it once.

 You are killing me here.  I have voices too.  You just have to make sure that you don't listen to them when there is not any music playing...

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I know I said this in another thread a long time ago:  You know what my little nickname is for prerecorded background vocals?  I call them the Mysterious Voices from the Great Beyond!  

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I did "Dreams" by the Cranberries once--I don't remember what manu it was from.  But if you know that song, you know it's almost all in 2-part harmony.  Well, I was trying to sing the lower part (which is a LOT more interesting melodically IMHO), and wouldn't you know, THAT was the part that was prerecorded, so I had to sing the higher part!  I wish it had been the other way around!  Plus all the weird chanting stuff was prerecorded (between verses and at the end--if you know the song, you'll know what I mean).  I sang those parts anyway.

I love singing Rosemary Clooney's stuff, but her version of "Hey There" does NOT translate well to karaoke at all!  It's supposed to be someone having a dialogue w/herself, and when the voice on the CD is singing "Hey there, you with the stars in your eyes," and the karaoke person does the spoken parts ("Are you talking to me?"), it loses the whole effect!  They should have just recorded a standard karaoke version of that song and left all the singing up to the karaoke person!

Oops, we were talking about long outros, weren't we?  Sorry to get us off-topic...

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