JUMP IN THE LINE - HARRY BELAFONTE

Woohoo!!!!!!!

And also "Please Mr. Sun" and "Tall Oak Tree"...WOW!!

Best,

I would also like to re-ask if the Paul Simon songs on the new 8763 means better access to Simon & Garfunkel songs. BC?

No.

However, Bob, your sound engineers, background singers, and musicians have done it again.

"Brain Damage/Eclipse" is a feat of pure genius, as near to karaoke perfection as "Eyes of a Stranger".
I have a new A-list song.
Thank you very much.

Having just gotten the "Billy Joel vol2", I was VERY reluctant though!

Not anymore!

Keep up the good work.

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Originally posted by Grateful:
70's guy: The Singing Store in Sherman Oaks (previously Sing Young) gets discs faster than anywhere I've seen.

The official release date was last Thursday, and they had it in their store Friday. I also picked up Hard Rock Hits V.5 (another great job by SC - awesome vocals & guitar work) and the PowerPick with the Eminem song on it.

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So you are in the San Fernando Valley? I didn't think that the Singing Store carried Sound Choice (I may be confused with stores - this one in Van Nuys) and could never get a reason why. I usually go to Karaoke Music World (which is in Sherman Oaks - Ventura and Van Nuys Blvd - same place?) and get them usually the next day they are released

Cool! That and the Hits of Jerry Reed are on my "must-have" list!

Thanks, SC.

Not bad, but I'd bet a buck that BC wasn't the studio manager when it was created.

I was pretty disgusted when the studio singers began singing "oooh" instead of "aaaah". It might seem petty, but there are distinctly different emotional responses to each one, especially when they are sung in minor chords. It's an unfortunate error.

2370 HITS OF ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA - VOL. 1
DON'T BRING ME DOWN
TELEPHONE LINE
STRANGE MAGIC
ROCKARIA
HOLD ON TIGHT
TURN TO STONES
WEET TALKIN' WOMAN
CAN'T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD

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Originally posted by l'opera voce:
Well, I just got Another Brick in the Wall Part II.

I was pretty disgusted when the studio singers began singing "oooh" instead of "aaaah". It might seem petty, but there are distinctly different emotional responses to each one, especially when they are sung in minor chords. It's an unfortunate error.

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I guess you haven't listened to The Wall in a long time.

On the original album recording, the backup singers do in fact sing "ooh ooh ooh," and not "aah aah aah."

However, in every subsequent live performance of the song since then, it has been changed to "aah aah aah." Don't ask me why. I personally prefer the original sound. It has a stronger affect, in my opinion.

No, there is no mistake on this track. It is indeed, one of SC's many tracks of virtually flawless quality. Nice job, SC.

Uncle Floyd

Thanks dabble!

BTW: I, typically, have little, nada, bupkus, zippo to do with our performance results of individual songs - positive or negative. That responsibility rests primarily with our resident Music Director, an outrageously talented man, and our individual Engineers/Producers and Musicians, a very talented and dedicated group.

On the Headbangers/Hard Rock stuff - two guitarists now (for the past 2 years or so), although we used to also use several other guitarists up through HB8. None of it is divided up by artist, they each just get songs to do per schedule. Sometimes there are multiple songs by the same artist, but mostly it's just chance. And, No, same drummer, no change (also, the same bass player).

Sometimes I can tell which guy played the guitar parts, most of the time I have to ask - they are both very talented and thorough. Going back a few years, it was the same guitartist/Music Director/Engineer who did both the Eagles disc and all the songs on the first Zeppelin disc except Ramble On (which I believe some folks have noted that the ending is not perfect).

But they have both taken on Hendrix, Van Halen, Clapton, U2, Dave Matthews, Def Leppard, Brian May, etc. Obviously, the degree of difficulty is high for the pyrotechnics of Hendrix or Van Halen, but more often the challenge is finding the particular characteristics of the sound of a guitarist/band - the odd tunings or unusual voicings, trying to imitate a 7-string guitar on a detuned 6-string guitar, figuring out the overall sound on a song is one part identically doubled, then another track plaed the same but in a different tuning, then another track recorded in a standard tuning at a slower speed, but speeded up when they mixed it all down - etc. Or, as I was told the way Jimmy Page did it - play the same part identically, but slightly detune the hight E-string.

It's a pretty set core of players, although there are substitutions depending on people's schedules. Same for the singers, although we tend to find new voices here and there. We have a couple singers who have been with us for a decade, and have sung on everything from Madonna to Alsion Krauss to Michelle Branch, George Strait to Queen to Kid Rock, etc.

SC is the elite of the karaoke world. Their music is usually top notch. And the few mistakes that they do or can't quite get the music just right, is very forgiveable.

NOBODY is perfect... you will find hits and misses in every karaoke format. But I feel that SC HITS nearly every time!

And that's not just because I'm on their board, either! I just flat out like them and their product.

I wonder who I insulted this time.

That type of negativity is almost always offensive, and certainly it is always a waste of time in this space.

I didn't see all the responses to my message. Were there more? I only saw the one Operavoice and then I went to sing. Was there a lot of name-calling? I really didn't get a chance to see it.

Uncle Floyd

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SC is the elite. But even they make mistakes. I will admit that some of the competitors out there are getting BETTER! Stuff that used to be kinda okay is awesome now.

We're helping them grow! It's kinda funny, but I've become a bit of a celebrity at my old hangout because many people there are major QR fans... so when I come walking in, everyone wants to sing off my discs! Then they see my list, and shake their heads, trying to figure out what to sing first!

I still make mine SC... and whenever possible, "upgrade" to them when I can.