Posted 12:20 PM by John A. Seafisk

Karaokemon

To follow up my previous blog entry, here's a few more karaoke performances I can remember offhand:

-"Revolution", by the Beatles
This is my karaoke standard, as I have sung this melody the greatest number of times. 3, I think. I enjoy it because of the loud, voracious scream at the beginning of the song...which never fails to wake up the audience, or frighten, for that matter.

-"Bungle In the Jungle", by Jethro Tull
This was my first-ever song at a karaoke bar. Needless to say, it was terrible. Not the song itself, but my performance of it. I was off-key by about 80 or so keys. All in all, it was an unenjoyable evening. The same 5-6 people got to keep going up, while I had to wait a full hour after signing up. All because the hosts wanted tips. Tips for what? For keeping the microphones warm? For letting me sit & grow even more nervous? And the wait staff never came by to get us drinks. It certainly was a bungle of a night out.

-"Do Ya Think I'm Sexy", by Rod Stewart
This has to be my favorite performance up to date. It was at an establishment which was made up entirely of karaoke rooms. About 20 or so of us squeezed into a room designed for about 10 people. And to add to an already pressure-packed situation, each karaoke machine would grade your performance after the song is over. The grading was on a scale from 0-99...99 being the best score, obivously.

Well, soon it was my turn to belt out some melodies. I selected Rod Stewart's amorous ode, "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?". And if that wasn't enough to drive the ladies crazy, I sung it in a Scottish accent....rolling the r's, 'doon' instead of 'done', the whole bit. After I was done, we watched the machine spins it's numbers for my score......

99! Slighly after my performance, someone told me that was the funniest thing she'd ever seen. I'm sure Rod would have been proud.