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Ebay became my best friend in this effort. I bought all six of the Charbuster Essential 450 series for less than $50 including shipping. Another $20 got me the three Nutech Party Pack DVDs with 1,234 songs on each. And I paid $25 for the entire SGB set on DVDs. Add a few other miscellaneous discs from SC and a few others and I've got a fairly good book at minimal cost. For the record, my singers don't seem to have a problem with SGB. Those songs get just about as much use as everything else. I haven't had any complaints thus far.

Finally a word about mics. On ebay you'll find a selection of "pro" mics running anywhere from $15 - $30. Many of the karaoke shops sell them as well and advertise them as pro mics. They aren't. They are prone to feedback and the "pop" filters are virtually useless. And some of them distort very easily. A singer with a strong voice can easily over power them. Please consider investing in high quality mics.

There are plenty to choose from. I use Shure SM58s. They run about $100 and have always been considered the workhorses of the industry. Shure runs ads claiming that the SM58 is so rugged that it's even been used as a hammer to nail a stage together and then used for the performance that night. I have some doubts about the accuracy of that but I can say that my SM58s have never let me down.