How Do You List ARTISTS In Your Songbooks?

[Musicman51]

I still use the old KJ Pro data base, a throw back from my disc years. So how ever they throw them out, is how i list'em. I to, have two books, one by artist, one by song title. However, with Hoster, most times i won't even ask you for a song slip. And with hoster, if i have the song, and you wanna sing it, CLICK! it's a done deal...forget the books, song slip, and the hassle.

[EmilioM]

I have 6 binders, 3 with titles, last name first, first name second, and 3 with artist using the same format; last name first, first name second. The thing is I stopped using them about a year ago. Just about all my singers found out a long time ago that all they need to do is come up and ask me for a song and it's there in an instance. Mostly all my singers never even use the binders. Plus they also know that I keep a singer's database, so if they're trying to remember a song, all I have to do is bring up their name and all their songs are listed.

JRMerc
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[Lonman]

Originally Posted by EmilioM

I have 6 binders, 3 with titles, last name first, first name second, and 3 with artist using the same format; last name first, first name second. The thing is I stopped using them about a year ago. Just about all my singers found out a long time ago that all they need to do is come up and ask me for a song and it's there in an instance. Mostly all my singers never even use the binders. Plus they also know that I keep a singer's database, so if they're trying to remember a song, all I have to do is bring up their name and all their songs are listed.

JRMerc
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Yeah they do that with me too.
It's almost to the point that technology has actually hurt, how does anyone figure out new songs anymore? Looking through a book is part of the experience imo and sometimes will see something listed that I normally wouldn't have thought of otherwise. These people now rely on their memories & our singer history - I don't even have people tell me what THEY want to sing anymore, they just say put me in with something from my list. That's not karaoke to me!

[EmilioM]

Originally Posted by Lonman

Yeah they do that with me too.
It's almost to the point that technology has actually hurt, how does anyone figure out new songs anymore? Looking through a book is part of the experience imo and sometimes will see something listed that I normally wouldn't have thought of otherwise. These people now rely on their memories & our singer history - I don't even have people tell me what THEY want to sing anymore, they just say put me in with something from my list. That's not karaoke to me!

I don't mind it so much. Most of my singers listen to music quite a bit, so alot of times they come to me and say, "I heard this in the radio today and I want to try it". Just last night a girl asked for something she had never done before that she heard on the radio. I was glad to put it on her list. By the way, she did a great job with it. Some of them listen to the radio all week and write down songs they want to try and bring the list with them to my gigs.

JRMerc
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