At a venue that I occasionally host, some of the punters bring their own CD's. One lady has has some songs segued together. Now I've never seen this before, and got caught out the first time I played one of her CD's. As I thought the track was about to end I was just about to say the usual, woooooo give it up......etc, when it segued into the next song, then the next and the next. Ten minutes later the thing finished. Now the thing is it was a quiet evening so it didn't matter, but I'm dreading her asking for one of her segued tracks when it's busy.

Back then "old days" when cassettes were still around (remember them?), I had a guy that would show up late, ask to do the "last song of the night" and he would ask politely, but brought his own cassette.....

He got away with this only once:
At 5 mins to closing, I put his cassette in and it was some compilation crap that lasted almost 12 minutes.

I wanted to kill him.

There are quite a few medleys out there on Zoom discs and on SBI downloadable tracks. These tracks, however, are usually snippets of multiple songs and not entire songs strung together so someone can beat the rotation system. Karaoke version also sells medlies of various artists and genres. I bought their Elvis medley and actually cut out one of the songs to shorten it up a bit from 7 minutes down to 6 minutes. If people can sing American Pie and Stairway to Heaven and the dreaded Paradise by the Dashboard Light; then I see no problem with singing a legitimate medley.

I agree... As long as it is a legitimate Medley, and not just 1 song followed by another, and another, etc... Now, I've got one song that I made from 2 SC songs. It is from their "Hair" disc. The songs are "Black Boys" and "White Boys." The run time for the 2 songs is still under 5 minutes, and I merged them together as 1 (managed to remove the SC Logo from the 2nd song) because in the Movie version, they were back to back. I've only performed this song twice (with another participant) as a goof.

The worst part about running cassettes was the many people that did NOT have the song cued up and expected me to fast forward/rewind their tape to find the correct song. I did finally create a rule, if it isn't cued up by your turn, you lose your spot in that round so you have time to find the correct spot.

Dincha just love using those lyric sheets?

Interesting...and this is for ANYONE's reply: Doesn't this fit under the claim that removal of logos is an infringement of some sort, as eluded to by counsel for SC on this forum? I cannot recall the exact term (I am sure someone can easily fill us in on that), and I do not wish to take the time to research it. Just thought an admission of such an act, on a site that is monitored and, yea, even participated in, by SC counsel, was quite a surprise.....

I did the same thing, but one of my regulars got smart enough to mark the cue spot on his cassettes, just in case.

Dincha just love using those lyric sheets?

Oh yeah! They were the best. I had die hard cassette users until around 99 or so, they would print their sheets big enough & tape them to the tv monitor on stage. Even though I had the same 'music' version on cdg that they were using on tape. I finally broke them of it, but it took a while.