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This topic was inspired by the Someone else is singing "my" song[i] topic and guy totally 'effed up David Bowie's[i]Modern Love last week at my regular Thursday hangout.

While I agree that no singer "owns" a particular song in a songbook, regardless to how well or often one my sing it at a particular establishment, I'm that we all have songs that we love and just hate to see FUBARed by singers who are, dare I say, less accomplished. Songs that if you could, you'd want to protect in someway!

To that end I've come up with the idea of "The Preemptive Song Request Slip" for karaoke "regulars". You'd give your KJ a list of 4-5 of "your" songs. If some "poacher" put your song in, the KJ or replace whatever song you had in rotation with your preemptive and would then inform them that it's already in and that they need to pick a different song. You would of course then be obligated to sing your "preemptive" song.

Anybody feeling me on this?

Songs I'd list as Preemptives if I could.

Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me Elton John
Ballroom Blitz The Sweet
Modern Love David Bowie
Black Pearl Jam
Rosalita Springsteen

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I went home with the waitress
The way I always do.
How was I to know
She was with the Russians too!
Warren Zevon

Feeling ya, BUT feeling you're wrong.

First come first serve at my show. NOBODY owns anything. If it's up already, you pick another song. I don't care if it is "YOUR" song, sing it another night! If you happen to be first putting it up, then you sing it & the other person will pick another song.
Nice premise, but wouldn't incorporate it as policy!

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That's why I put "Tongue In Cheek" in the title.

A guy can dream can't he?

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I went home with the waitress
The way I always do.
How was I to know
She was with the Russians too!
Warren Zevon

I find its a very fine line to walk between being COMPLETELY FAIR and taking care of your regulars who support you every week !
I admit on occasion I will protect a "regulars" song that I know he/she ALWAYS sings. ... I believe I run a fair show but I understand the singers who want to sing THIER song. Most of the regulars have a stack of songs they sing so it is not usually a problem if
someone else sings "their" song . But like I mentioned ON OCCASION I have protected a song. NOW between regulars its always first come first serve.....

"FUBARed" ...

Nothing wrong with dreaming. I take it like this... If someone sings one of my songs, I just lean back in my chair with my hands folded behind my head and bask in the glory of everyone knowing that I can do that song WAY better than what they're hearing now. But then again, if the guy wanting to sing my song can sing better than me, and the KJ knows it, then by all means PLEASE Mr. KJ, step in and take appropreate action. Of course I know "appropriate action" would be to take no action at all and let him sing it better than me. Then again, maybe the KJ could accidentally "bump" into the EQ, causing the guy to sound like Kermit the Frog. I know what you're thinking, and you're right. But like Emorej said, "A guy CAN dream, can't he?"

I'm with Lonnie on this one. You wanna sing it, get there early!

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if their song ain't in my songbook, nobody owns NUTHIN'!

Most Regulars have more that 1 to 2 songs that they do.... heck i think friday and saturday night others did a good # of the songs i do; Oh well i tried some new ones