How many song books to you bring to a show?

[bryant]

Originally Posted by TTowntenor

Predictable? No one does new songs?

Not at that bar I mean.

[Monolithent]

7 artist and 3 title.

Depending on the show I will put out more or less.

I've found that at times if I put out too many I find them on the floor (I hate thet). I like to keep them in demand so people are paying more attention to where a book is.

Usually have 6 to 8 of them out at any show. But the displayed quantity varies.

Jon

Monolith Entertainment

[billyo]

usually bring in 10 books 5 titles 5 artist, only have 7 left my last private party ( saturday ) someone walked away took my 3 books with 'em..

[bryant]

Originally Posted by billyo

usually bring in 10 books 5 titles 5 artist, only have 7 left my last private party ( saturday ) someone walked away took my 3 books with 'em..

I think there's a poll for lost books, too. Join the club.

[duhhuhmoe58]

I take 8 artist and 8 by song title... My pay in Kansas is around $ 140-$175 for my reg. Friday night (depending on crowd).. my song list is 13,500 aprox. with about 3,000 duplicates... Just got on this site today and THINK I'M IN LOVE..... MOE

[alec.c]

3000 duplicates????


holy cow


alec

[bryant]

Originally Posted by alec.c

3000 duplicates????


holy cow


alec

Yup, we had calculated some time ago that on the average those that keep their duplicates run between 20 and 30 % total dup's.

[Lonman]

Originally Posted by bryant

Yup, we had calculated some time ago that on the average those that keep their duplicates run between 20 and 30 % total dup's.

I'd have to look again, but I believe my overall count is around 14k, with around 11k non dup'd.

[swany]

Just redone my books last week and now am putting out 5 title and 5 artist.

I have culled my books down, still carrying 14,000+ songs on the hard drive but with the smaller books 5400 listed. I am getting them to sing more and look less. Kinda nice having 31 double sided pages in one and 35 in the other. Went from 2.5 inch binders to 1 inch. One show in a larger bar, I have ten combo artist title books I pass out on busy nights and most often no more than 7. But I average 21 singers per rotation there with the bar having maybe 100 customers. Still singin and having fun.

[alpfleger]

I bring 4 artist and 4 title and something else. I bring a cheap used laptop that has an old Sax & Dotty show presenter program on it. I attach an external hard drive to the laptop and then I set up the sax & Dotty software with the drive that has all my songs. It scans the drive where my folders are . Then I detach the drive. I can then search by artist or title and it finds the songs tracks and artists, but it can't play them. The singer writes out the song slip and they love it!

[Roy Dennis]

I print 7 of my books with only about 5000 songs with no duplicates. I have them by Artist & by Title with pages at the back for Duets & New additions which are usually the latest pop songs. The first page explains that these books only show the most popular songs and if they can't find their favorite song to just write down their Title & Artist and I will Do My Best To find It. It is not very often I can't find what they want. The biggest problem with singers is they don't always know the proper title. I use 100 leaf display pockets which gives you 200 pages. with these you don't get problems with pages falling out like you do with ring binders. I have another 2 books 1 of which is Artist & 1 by Title. but I rarely give these out. they have about 14,000 songs in each and almost fill the 200 page leaf displays.

This seems to work fine with my singers.