140,000 songs????

[WDEWDAD7]

It's a law of averages. We all know that only so many songs can be sung in a night. And I run my show pretty fast getting as many singers up as possible. We know it's the " availabilty " factor. Do you have all the popular songs, the older songs? I establised my fbase foundation, and I add new songs to that. When people ask if I can get something, I search the net to see if it is available, and how much. Is it worth getting that song, and do I have the other songs on the discs already. When I used discs (pre-computer) I kept my rotation list, for myself, and to support any questions a bar owner/manager may have. It was good because I could see trends in business. One previous post said we could probably get by with 200 songs. yeah, we could; and some do. But, if you are serious and do several venues, parties, etc; you need to have a large selection. If you don't, the guy down the street does.

[Garry A. Leslie]

Hello
I was the guy who suggested 200 songs,
It was not meant to be a recommendation for running a show.
Just a comment about how few songs ever really get sung, and how WE ALL carry far too great a songlist, that is never warranted.
To be fair how many songs have we all got that have never been sung by anyone, 50% or higher?
We all know how quickly this month's specials, and even No.1's disappear into obscurity in next to no time, never to re-surface.
When I attend other KJ's venues I usually have 4 or 5 discs with me, maybe a 100 songs, because I don't like to sing the same old hackneyed ones, and I try to never sing anything that anyone else might sing, over 10 years I have heard about half a dozen songs sung, by others, which I had always considered to be my own little speciality.
Anyway if singers are so keen to sing songs you haven't got, they can always buy their own, they soon realise how expensive it is.
All meant to be lightheared, which I hope Karaoke is.
Regards from across the pond.
Garry