Naturally, Elvis was invited. After all, what's a 60's and 70's party without the king?!?
Willie Nelson stopped by, and so did one of the Beach Boys, and some guy who was with Styx?
The gals sang and the guys tried to compete.
We were honored to hear Alyson sing. She was one of 25 finalists for Nashville Idol!
And by the way, her aunt Jeannie can belt out a ballad, too!
Until, later, here are the Gypsy Songstress and John the Revelator, hoping that all your 60's and 70's parties are as successful as this one was!
2 comments:
this is a great idea for my up and coming birthday. did you have to rent a special karaoke machine for outside? speakers? or is this all your own equiptment?
I hope you enjoy your party, Michelle. Send me an email if you are looking for a karaoke host.
As for renting equipment, that can be fun, but I think you have to understand the limitations: sound quality and number of songs available.
1) Rented equipment is (generally)not the same as what a karaoke host will bring in. A rented system is usually less than a hundred watts total. (If the specs on the system don't say RMS per channel into 8 ohm speakers then someone is quoting bogus numbers to make the equipment sound like professional equipment. You might as well just divide the quoted wattage by 8 to get the true wattage.)
My own experience is that for indoors, you pretty much need at least a few hundred watts RMS to make sure that you have decent sound quality. Outdoors, I really wasn't happy with the sound until I got 2000 watts RMS going. When you take a system outside, you loose all the bass.
As for song selection, a professional karaoke host typically has something over 5,000 songs. Even with close to 10,000 songs, every night I get people asking for songs I don't have. With a rented system, you may have a few hundred songs. If the crowd knows the songs they have, then 100 songs might be ok.
If you are interested in knowing more about watts and amps and speakers, I can recommend a few blogs I have written:
First part of karaoke system tutorial
Amps for karaoke
Watts and RMS
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