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WOW !!! That is an ambitious song for a 12 yr old.

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I usually drink my "liquid courage" AFTER I'm done singin'.... !~!

Well, I'd been a singer in bands for years, so it was no stretch to make the leap to karaoke, but my first ever song was one of three: Prince - When Doves Cry, Kansas - Dust in the Wind, or Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive. Those were the only three songs I did for a loooong time. I branched out after I started going on a regular basis, expanding my repertoire up to about 10-15 songs, and since starting my own biz, I've probably sung upwards of 500 different songs.

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hi-voxentertainment

Yeah, wasn't very good - but hey, nobody else was singing. And they had a choice of about 200 tracks!

My first song was

Like a virgin - Madonna

It was aweful and I haven't sang it since and will never sing it again. That was about 14 years ago in a little bar in Arizona...

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Will sing or fish for food!!I'm not quite right!!

On the road again, Willie..

"Six Days On The Road" - Dave Dudley (DK72-17)

Would have been sometime around September 1994.
The place was called O'Toole's. It was a karaoke bar
located just south of 82nd & Center Street in Omaha.

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Nobody by Sylvia I was hooked that night !

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Kelley
Star Sounds Karaoke & Mobile Recording Studio


[shadow=black][scroll]You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself....KD Lang[/scroll][/shadow]

fire and rain by james taylor it looked easy but as most first timers i was nervous as hell and when you hear yourself thru a monitor for the first time you think i thought i sounded better than that. well before long i got it down.....cal

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cal's quote:"the best things in life are free, yet those things are priceless"

My first time was in a hole in the wall bar in Jamestown, NY. I was there on business and didn't know a soul in the bar save the desk clerk at my hotel who had invited me to meet her for some drinks. Of course she pestered me to sing and I eventually relented figuring that even if I bombed it wasn't like I would ever see anybody there again.

So I put in a slip for "Good Hearted Woman" by Waylon Jennings and promptly got lost about halfway through when the tempo of the song went into triple time (I'd never heard the live version before). Sure, I got some polite golf claps from the crowd. Just the same, I wasn't happy. So, using the logic that if I was going to suck, I might just as well suck out LOUD, I put in a slip for Kashmir.

Well, needless to say, Kashmir went a whole lot better. In fact, it went over like nothing I've ever seen since. This club had dinner tables surrounding the stage where patrons could sit and watch the singers. Well, halfway through the song I noticed that a whole group of patrons were banging their heads a la "Wayne's World" off the tables they were sitting at. As the song closed, the bar erupted and people were giving me high fives as I walked back to my date.

Like I said, I've never quite seen that reaction since. In fact, I reckon I'm a bit like an adrenaline junkie chasing that original high oh those many years ago.

you never even called me by my name by david allen coe

Under the Bridge - The Red Hot Chili Peppers

Felix the KJ

"All My EXs Live In Texas" By George Straight in Atlanta GA 1991. Did OK much to the surprise of my younger neices, nephews and son. It was quite a rush and I was hooked.

Jim_n_TN

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You never even called me by my name by david allan coe not well i was hooked Dave

Mine was "you are my sunshine" ... at a restaurant. I wasn't game to go up by myself so I asked my brother in law if he would sing the melody if I sang the harmony with him. It went over quite well for a pair of beginners ... ! John

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My first song was "The End Of The World" by Skeeter Davis, November 1996. I was 43 years old and hadn't been in any bars since the late 70's. I was so nervous the mic was shaking. Got applause so I signed up again and became a regular.

Sorry for replying late. The "Goodbye Girl" track I sang to and still have a copy of, is actually a VCD version. It is surprisingly good, though

"Fire & Rain" does sound easy, but certainly not! I've sung it a lot, but I still am not sure I've mastered the timing!!