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Marty Robbins Don't worry
Girl Crush
Turn the page
Pontoon
Play that funky music white boy (because I end every show with this one)

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I only do private parties, and you're not invited

Turn the Page gets sung way too often and is almost 5 minutes long. It is a slow boring song, and when I play it, I speed it up 10 to 15 % and the singers never notice it.

I get Turn The Page maybe once every couple months, and usually it's the Metallica version

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I always get the same sentiments from restaurants as well but if you're willing to do this: offer them a one freebie night, no cost to them just to try, then invite all your friends & regulars.

That's how I got job. This restaurant was unyielding in-spite of all urging until they heard that magic word "free". One night free of charge. I gave them a complete karaoke set-up, lights et al. All my regulars showed up & it was a blast. 'got hired on the spot and 7 years later I'm still here every Fri & Sat.

Side note: Another benefit – you can command a premium price for your service because now they’ve seen what you can do to increase their profitability. Good luck, jc!

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To be fortunate enough to derive an income from a source as fulfilling as karaoke music has got to be as close to heaven as we can get here on earth!

My restaurant was in a dry county, still had a few slipping outside to take a nip, but I always had a good crowd twice a week for karaoke, the downside was that some would get there 3 or 4 hours early to get good seats and sit and drink cold drinks for 7-8 hours for $1.99 and didn't eat, my place set 200 people, most karaoke nights we'd have over 100 show up for a family friendly show. After two years of me being open and losing over $100K, I shut it down and leased it out.

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I only do private parties, and you're not invited

Water sippers could be a problem. We had our share of them in our restaurant. Customers with their friends ordering bottled water or just glass of tap water and stay the whole 5 hour stretch. Some don’t even buy at all. Just hang out and sing.

We serve beer & wine, no hard liquor and of course, the management's aware of the non-alcoholic drinkers and designated drivers; but the restaurant serves all kinds of food from appetizers and/or full course meal at reasonable prices. Also, it kind of influence other paying customers not to buy either: “why buy when other non-paying customers are allowed to sing?”.

Finally, the manager put out a sign on each table “We require a minimum order of $10.00 per person, food, and/or drinks during karaoke nights”. That took care of that.

btw, not my idea. I told the manager it’s not my job to monitor or enforce that rule.

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To be fortunate enough to derive an income from a source as fulfilling as karaoke music has got to be as close to heaven as we can get here on earth!

I started a small cover charge for folks that didn't eat only $2 as this was a poor town, and my crowd dropped my 30% or so. I had some that would order water, get a bowl of sliced lemons and make lemonade, even had some would order a small salad and steal a purse full of crackers.

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I only do private parties, and you're not invited