Karaoke Song Book Arrangement

[bryant]

My books I bring to shows are arranged by a title section and an artist section.

[Lonman]

You should of had a combined book as well in the poll. I used to have 1 book that had both title AND artist. Now it's separated into 2 separate books.

[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by Lonman

You should of had a combined book as well in the poll. I used to have 1 book that had both title AND artist. Now it's separated into 2 separate books.

Same here.
8 books by artist and 4 by title. The title books rarely get used.

One of these days I'm going to import all the vocal versions I have as well and create a separate book for those. So far I've done a good job of talking myself out of it.

Sam

[Lonman]

Originally Posted by mindonstrike

The title books rarely get used.

Really? Now I grant you the artist is probably primary, but I get asked for title listing books probably just as much as artist books. Strange.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by Lonman

Really? Now I grant you the artist is probably primary, but I get asked for title listing books probably just as much as artist books. Strange.

Yeah, ppl around here seem to say more of "What's that song by so and so, can't think of the title". That spurred me into having all my books eventually(when they get too thick for both) to be just Artist. But I will always keep one master that contains both for that rare one who needs to look up a title.

[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by Lonman

Really? Now I grant you the artist is probably primary, but I get asked for title listing books probably just as much as artist books. Strange.

When I first split up my books I went from 15 combined to 10 & 10. After spending many nights watching the artist books get depleted while the titles barely get touch I cut the title books down to 5 and then 4 on the next reprints

I number all the books and keep them in numerical order to help determine how many of each are getting used (cuts down on cleaning too ). Most nights 4-6 artist books go out and between 0 and 2 title books go out. Most of my singers are regulars with their saved songslips so that could possibly skew my results and like Bryant most folks who ask about a song, know who sang it they just can't remember the (exact) song title.

Sam

[madjim- with the Lord]

I see I'm the only one who uses "Artist Only" in my books. I used to list Artist in the front and Title in the back of evey book but they got WAY to big and heavy (10,000 plus songs). The reason I decided not to have any books listed by Title is so all of them are the same, one less thing for folks to complain about. If they want to find a song by title they ask me and I do a quick search.

I print my books with a double column using Hoster's settings. Are any of you guys making changes to the setting in your word progam to get more songs per page? If so, what are they?

Thanks

Jim

[bryant]

Originally Posted by Lonman

You should of had a combined book as well in the poll. I used to have 1 book that had both title AND artist. Now it's separated into 2 separate books.

Yes, that was what was actually meant by that "third" category; artist and title in same book.

Apparently, it's being taken as "separate books, one for artist, and one for title"

[billyo]

i'm in the process of re-doing my books, just added a bunched of songs..i have 2 separate books 5 books for just the title and 5 for the artist ,diff. book colors blue for the artist and black for the titles i get asked all the time what book is the title and what is the artist, thats the reason for 2 diff. colors