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Here are just some of my favorites:

Uncle Kracker - Drift Away
Billy Vera - At This Moment
Michael Buble - Crazy Little Thing Called Love / Feeling Good
Billy Joel - Only The Good Die Young / The Entertainer / Tell Her About It
Elton John - Crocodile Rock / Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin
Stray Cats - Rock This Town
Alabama - Mountain Music
Ronnie Milsap - Lost In The Fifties
Robbie Williams - Angels
Barenaked Ladies - One Week / Brian Wilson / The Old Apartment
Ray Stevens - The Streak (a crowd favorite for sure)
R. Kelly - Gotham City (not well-known, but everyone loves it when I sing it)
Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn

After I've warmed up and I really want to surprise the crowd, I'll occasionally pull these out of my hat.

Phantom Of The Opera - Music Of The Night
Il Divo - Notte Di Luce (Nights In White Satin)
Living Color - Cult of Personality
Metallica - Enter Sandman
Bob Seger - Turn The Page
The Platters - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

Tunes I want to learn:

Andrea Bocelli - Time To Say Goodbye (tried it once, and messed up the initial parts of the verses)
Various - The Prayer (I think Bocelli did a version)
Amanda Marshall - Let It Rain (LOVE the song, though I'll probably have to change the key)

LOVE reading posts like this. As a host who sings -- and who will occasionally keep himself in the rotation ONLY if the rotation is small enough for that -- it's a lot of fun to see what other KJs like to trot out. My interests are all over the place, but when I'm working, I prefer to sing stuff that I know I can sing, and try out new stuff at home or when out singing for fun. Warm-ups and safe songs include:

Prince - When Doves Cry
Kings of Leon - Use Somebody
Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Ben Harper - Steal My Kisses
Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood
Dion - Runaround Sue
Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road / I'm on Fire / I'm Goin' Down
Nick Lowe - Cruel to Be Kind
Elvis Costello - Peace, Love, Understanding / Veronica
Mumford & Sons - Little Lion Man
Dean Martin - Ain't That A Kick in the Head
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue / Under the Bridge / Soul to Squeeze
Shaggy - Angel

"Clint Eastwood" I find extremely useful as a starting song - I find my regulars like to rap almost as much as they like to sing, and starting off with that song helps me get the vocals mixed to a point that will require minimal tweaking after the fact.

Once the evening is in full swing, however, all bets are off. I pride myself on willfully taking requests or, more often, "dares" -- I readily agree to any duet that anyone proposes and often put on a pretty silly performance in the interest of being a willing participant. I'm not a great singer, but I do admit to having a strong falsetto, and the one song I get asked to sing at every single show is "Kiss" by Prince. It's gotten to a point where I've essentially retired it, only trotting it out when requested.

Other songs that fall into the more rambunctious second half of the night:

Outkast - Roses
The Darkness - I Believe in a Thing Called Love
Kanye West / Twista - Slow Jamz
Stevie Wonder - Part-Time Lover
Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody
Cee-Lo Green - Forget You (or F You, depending on the venue)
Jennifer Holliday - And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going
Aerosmith - Walk This Way
Queen / David Bowie - Under Pressure (only with a Bowie stand-in)
Celine Dion / Barbra Streisand - Tell Him (only with a Barbra - it happened as a dare one night, and caught on)

And then, of course, I end up doing a lot of standard karaoke duets: "Leather and Lace", Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now", "Endless Love", and so on.

Am I the only female responding? This is like when you buy a new karaoke disc and most of the songs on it are for males.

Alright -- I'll play:

Bring Me To Life - Evanescence
Crazy On You - Heart
Tell It To My Heart - Taylor Dayne
Looking For A New Love - Jody Watley
Lovergirl - Teena Marie
My Love (Never Gonna Get It) - En Vogue
Torn - Natalie Imbruglia
Fantasy - Earth, Wind, and Fire
Reasons Why - Nickel Creek
With You I'm Born Again - Syreeta
Can't Get Enough of Your Love - Taylor Dayne
Hey, Big Spender - Sweet Charity
Promises in the Dark - Pat Benatar
Cornflake Girl - Tori Amos

I could go on...I rarely sing at the bar. Just something peppy to start the night and set the mixer.

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Anything Journey, Boston, Styx, Asia, Foreigner.

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Lady Will Power, Gary Puckett
You're The One, Vogues
Mony Mony, Tommy James
Tallahassee Lassie, Freddie Cannon
Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa, Gene Pitney
Keep On Dancin, Gentrys
Sock It To Me, Mitch Ryder
I Feel Good (I Got You), James Brown
Real Wild Child, Iggy Pop
Mean Woman Blues, Roy Orbison
Wooly Bully, Sam The Sham
Bad Case Of Lovin You, Robert Palmer
Venus, Shocking Blue
Saturday Night, Bay City Rollers
Little Bit O'Soul, Music Explosion

Most of these are great dance songs

Oh mony mony! Haha everytime someone sings that, the crowd adds in the "naughty part". It's hilarious when you see people react because sometimes it's a more upscale karaoke place, and they don't know what's going on.

My personal favorite right now is anything by Bruno Mars.

"Take my breath away"