I have about 140 songs on my karaoke song list..... Black Magic Woman by Santana and Long Way to the Top by ACDC are two of them. Other "go to" songs that I sing.... "go to" meaning that if the room is full with a lot of singers and I am only going to get maybe a couple of shots to impress the audience I sing songs that I know I can nail including: Piano Man - Billy Joel New York State of Mind - Billy Joel Heart of Gold - Neil Young Old Man - Neil Young Born to be Wild - Steppenwolf I Feel Fine - Beatles My Life - Beatles Blackbird- Beatles With a Little Help From my Friends - Beatles Purple Rain - Prince Just What I Needed - The Cars Tennessee Whiskey- Chris Stapleton Shine - Candlebox December- Candlebox Blurry - Puddle of Mudd Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots Outside - Staind Wanted Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd Love Her Madly - Doors Back Door Man - Doors Jumpin Jack Flash - Rolling Stones Angie - Rolling Stones Behind Blue Eyes - The Who Fire and Rain - James Taylor I even do a mean Stairway To Heaven.... but the ending high pitch lines by Robert Plant are really difficult to duplicate. There's a few more that I can't remember until I peruse my list kept by the DJs that I can do well and many more that I do once in a while. It's fun.... allows me to hang out in the bar but it keeps me from drinking and it get's me out of the house. The damn thing is I never realized I could actually sing until I quit drinking and started singing..... and I'm not bad.... sometimes getting great compliments which is always cool to hear.
Dave, I gotta go on record saying that I'd rather lick all the furniture clean in a New York City Nursing home, than hear you decimate an absolute classic as Stairway to Heaven.
Lol AJ.... but really I do pretty well on the song.... even though I do kind of wing that " and as we wind on down the road" part....
Awesome stuff Jo'Co..... thanks. And LZ's Stairway to Heaven was the karaoke version..... prompted a little sing along from me. I went to sing karaoke last night for the first time in three months.... Heart of Gold by Neil Young and Piano Man by Billy Joel.
So this is a clip from JO'Co's youth, the Town Hall Party! Pasadena Ca! No doubt a couple of his favorites!! The Collins Kids, the sister Lorrie ended up dating Ricky Nelson and appeared on a couple of Ozzie and Harriet shows.
Maybe the biggest fraud in pop music early '60's was ever so cute Shelly Faberes! Johnny Angel. She admitted later that she never did tours or live performances because she couldn't really sing, it was all smoke and mirrors and backup singers and lots of manipulation by the producer. Still she was such a cutie, who cares...and get a load of Donna Reid not bad!
Good stuff guys..... didn't Linda Rondstadt do "That'll be the Day"? House of the Rising Sun.... I do that one also. Awesome song....great keyboards.
Linda Rondatdt covered it in 1976 and it reached #11. Of course the original was Buddy Holly and the Crickets in 1957. The original version is #39 of Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Just sang Rocketman by EJ for the first time.... wasn’t bad... it’s a keeper. Forgot also that I do Turn the Page by Seger... lived in Detroit 31 years.... gotta do some Seger.