While gathering great equipment is vitally important to a successful karaoke venue, gathering the karaoke music is the fun part of the experience.Since you’ll have all types of singers at any karaoke event, either a party at your home or a major club event, you’ll want to have a wide variety of music.
First, start with the old standards. You’ll have beginning singers up to advanced singers at a karaoke event, and everyone will want to sound good. If you stick with the standards, you’ll have songs everyone is familiar with and can follow along, even if they aren’t as skilled a singer as others.
Good karaoke equipment can make adjustments for pitch and poor voice quality, but can’t help if the singer forgets the tune to a song or can’t make the words fit to the rhythm. Some of the standards are the classics from Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, tony Bennett and Rosemary Clooney. Look for songs like “Fly Me to the Moon,” “Isn’t It Romantic,” “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” and other classic tunes.
Classic pop songs also make the list; such things as “Yesterday,” “I Won’t Last a Day Without You,” and “Time in a Bottle,” are familiar tunes most audiences recognize, if only from the background music at the mall. Classic show tunes are also favorite standards. Songs like “Over the Rainbow,” “Bali Ha’i,” “Climb Every Mountain,” and “A Dream is a Wish Your heart Makes” are familiar to most members of any audience.
Then branch out to other genres. Have some technically demanding songs for the divas of the group; the accomplished singers who can belt it out and want to show off. Have a mix of classic rock from Led Zeppelin and Kiss and other groups who had popular songs in the seventies and eighties, because the younger and older rock enthusiasts will all be familiar with those songs.
You’ll also want to branch out into some newer music as well. Again stick to the most popular songs so the singing and listening will be enjoyable to the largest numbers of people. If you’re in a private home or holding private parties for, say, a group of people who really likes alternative rock, then you could expand your collection in that area, but for the greatest general appeal, stick to the most popular music in each genre.
Other tips for building a karaoke library are to make sure to catalogue all your music. List the songs by genre, artist and title and note what tape or cd the song is on. Keeping this information in a computer database or spreadsheet makes it easy to search, manipulate and expand. A catalogue also helps you see where you need to beef up your collection. You can take suggestions from friends or clients, then search for the best options.
To take advantage of the opportunities afforded by some great karaoke equipment, finding and gathering a music collection that offers a variety of well-known songs will give you the best opportunity to provide a great karaoke experience.
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