# Help me choose a Karoke song
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-a-karoke-song/788177
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [June 5, 2017, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-a-karoke-song/788177 "2017-06-05T13:54:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2017, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-a-karoke-song/788177/1 "2017-06-05T13:54:00Z")
I’m going to sing karoke tonight.
First, I can’t sing on key or carry a tune.
But I make up for it in expression and enthusiasm, also it helps that the computerized system at the bar has some corrective power.
I like BIG songs. I was going to do MacArthur Park - the Richard Harris version- but it’s long and it would take a certain athleticism that I don’t have in me - plus there a two minute bridge that just screams for crazy dancing. I’m going to have to train for that one, I think. I don’t think I can sustain it.
My other favorites are Wedding Bell Blues, I Will Survive and character songs from musicals - I Feel Pretty, Dance 10 Looks 3, I’m Just a Girl Who Can’t Say No.
So, I’m taking requests, what song should I do?
And I apologize in advance if I don’t reply back right away, I’m just heading into a long meeting and won’t be checking back right away
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### Author:  [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2017, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-a-karoke-song/788177/2 "2017-06-05T18:16:47Z")
Hot Child in the City - Nick Gilder
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### Author:  [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2017, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-a-karoke-song/788177/3 "2017-06-05T18:19:21Z")
“New York, New York” doesn’t take much of a voice and the audience usually enjoys it.
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### Author:  [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2017, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-a-karoke-song/788177/4 "2017-06-05T18:45:32Z")
ABBA has a bunch - Dancing Queen maybe?
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2017, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-a-karoke-song/788177/5 "2017-06-05T19:03:22Z")
I don’t have a great singing voice, but they’re are some songs where a great voice isn’t necessary. I like to sing _Takin’ Care of Business,_ _Sharp Dressed Man_, and Joe Walsh’s _Life’s Been Good_.
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### Author:  [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2017, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-a-karoke-song/788177/6 "2017-06-05T19:41:19Z")
_Sweet Caroline_- everyone always joins in and it requires no range
_Midnight Train (Don’t Stop Believing)_ - this one does require range, but people tend to forgive it since most people don’t expect you to sing like Steve Perry
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### Author:  [@Periwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Periwinkle)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2017, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-a-karoke-song/788177/7 "2017-06-05T19:54:46Z")
“I Love Rock and Roll” seems like one that you could pretty much just shout with enthusiasm.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFHg0uRAyVs)
I tried to think of a “big” song and came up with “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me”.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t-AVCTn8JA)
A couple of ideas for fun songs are “Love Shack”, “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”, and “Runaway Baby”.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SOryJvTAGs)
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIb6AZdTr-A)
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbE_fVjHdCY)
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2017, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-a-karoke-song/788177/8 "2017-06-05T20:10:10Z")
[“Mother”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbAOsW6iiKk) - The Police
No singing required.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2017, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-a-karoke-song/788177/9 "2017-06-05T22:04:29Z")
> [@Poysyn](#):
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> _Midnight Train (Don’t Stop Believing)_ - this one does require range, but people tend to forgive it since most people don’t expect you to sing like Steve Perry
Unless you’re [Arnell Pineda](https://youtu.be/ZObS1FCjziw). 😃
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### Author:  [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-a-karoke-song/788177/10 "2017-06-05T23:29:14Z")
My go-to is SECRET AGENT MAN – because you can weave around it playfully and there are parts you can’t really overdo, no matter how drunk you get.
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### Author:  [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2017, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-a-karoke-song/788177/11 "2017-06-05T23:43:00Z")
Choose an instrumental.
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### Author:  [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2017, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-a-karoke-song/788177/12 "2017-06-05T23:47:29Z")
Pick something everyone in the crowd will know. They will sing along with you and not hear you.
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### Author:  [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2017, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-a-karoke-song/788177/13 "2017-06-06T00:00:56Z")
American Pie.
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### Author:  [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2017, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-a-karoke-song/788177/14 "2017-06-06T00:57:44Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#):
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> …
> I like BIG songs. I was going to do MacArthur Park …
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> So, I’m taking requests, what song should I do?
> …
Judas Priest: Sinner. You’ll knock 'em dead with that one!
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrdEuEWBIFQ)
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### Author:  [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2017, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-a-karoke-song/788177/15 "2017-06-06T05:11:53Z")
You can’t go wrong with this classic [American Standard.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ)
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### Author:  [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2017, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-a-karoke-song/788177/16 "2017-06-06T05:37:37Z")
Crazy Little Thing Called Love.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2017, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-a-karoke-song/788177/17 "2017-06-06T06:23:22Z")
Drag a friend up and do _Love Shack_. Just talk really loud and strange, and you’ve nailed it.
_Love Shack, BABY!_
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### Author:  [@Marci\_Al](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marci_Al)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2017, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-a-karoke-song/788177/18 "2017-06-06T09:58:47Z")
If you want people to form letters above their heads, “YMCA”
If you want them to settle down and concentrate on finishing the song, “American Pie”
If you want them to dance, “Rock Around the Clock”, "Runaround Sue ", “Dancing with Myself”, or “Turning all the Night Time”
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2017, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-a-karoke-song/788177/19 "2017-06-06T14:25:35Z")
“I Feel the Earth Move” by Carole King
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### Author:  [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2017, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-a-karoke-song/788177/20 "2017-06-06T14:34:44Z")
Total Eclipse of the Heart
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