Need recommendation and advice...

[hwheeler43]

I use a white board and place the singers by a number as they come in. When I add their song to the list I right click and add their number to the right of their name. That way if I have 10 or 40 singers it does not matter. I keep the numbers in order and all flows smoothly. If it is an extremely busy night and a new singer comes in late and say we are on singer number 5 out of say 35, I will make the new singer number 8.5. Whatever number a singer gets they stay with that number for the rest of the night.

[billyo]

i have regular singers and they know how i run my show, i pretty much stay with my rotation, if their names are already on the playlist, when i call for their names, that's when when they give me the slip with next song they wanted to sing,( it's easier for me to keep track on playlist rotation that way ) and for those who asked about their turn, i usually show them my playlist and show them where they are at on the rotation, and if i get " i'm going home in a few minutes excuse " ( most of the time they just wanna impress some ladies ) i usually tell them to come early next time.. and most of the time they will stay at the duration of the show.