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  The Rotation

            Sonic Lizard Karaoke wants everyone to get as many turns singing as they want,
            and we do all we can to make sure that happens.  After all, we're fanatical singers
            too!  Keep in mind though that every show has an end time, and some evenings
            there may be lots of people who want to sing.  Here are three things you can do to
            maximize the number of turns you get:

        •  Come early!!!  Karaoke shows tend to get more crowded as the night
            goes on.  Some evenings we may have to stop taking songs an hour or
            more before the show ends.

        •  Try and be close to the stage when your turn is near.  The time you save
            might be your own later in the show!  Try to remember who sang ahead
            of you last time.

        •  Have your next song slip ready to hand to the host when you come up to
            sing.  "Sing one, bring one."  This will hold your spot in the rotation.

            Remember, singers will be called up in the order they turned in their songs.
            Our goal is to keep the singers in the same order throughout the night, but if you
            forget to turn in a song, or miss your turn because you disappeared for awhile,
            you'll end up singing later in the rotation.  (But don't worry, you won't miss your
            turn if we catch you in the bathroom – in these cases we just send in the wireless
            microphone and a pair of disposable rubber gloves:)  If you sing as part of a duet
            or group, we'll have to count that as your turn for the whole rotation if the wait
            has gotten to be too long for other singers.

            A word to the latecomers: we'll do what we can to speed the show along and
            hopefully squeeze you in before the end, but please don't expect to sing ahead of
            anyone who had a song turned in before you arrived!  We truly hate to disappoint
            anyone who wants to sing, but to be fair we cannot "bump" you ahead of the
            customers who have already spent their time (not to mention their hard-earned
            drinking money) waiting for their turns.

            The NEWEST ADDITIONS to our song list can be spotted by looking for a plus
            sign (+) in front of the song number.

            There are many manufacturers of karaoke discs, and the quality of each label's
            reproductions can vary enormously.  Especially where we have multiple versions
            of the same song, we've tried to indicate the differences between them in the
            COMMENTS column to the right of the song title.  This is an expanding feature,
            and we'll be adding more COMMENTS in later editions of our Songbooks.

            You might note that we begin every song number with a two-letter abbreviation
            indicating the manufacturers' label.  Below is a key to those abbreviations for us
            die-hard, fanatical karaoke singers.  It's often a matter of personal taste, and even
            the best labels will occasionally screw up a song, but as a rule of thumb the most
            reliable and authentic-sounding versions are usually found on these labels (shown
            in bold below):  Sound Choice (SC), Killer Karaoke (KK), DK (DK), Doctor
            Music (DM), Radio Starz (RZ), Ameri-Sing (AM), Zoom (ZM), Pioneer (PI),
            Motown (MT), Sing King (SK), Dangerous (DG), and SingToTheWorld (SW).

 

AH - All Hits AI - American Idol AK - American Karaoke AM - Ameri-Sing BS - Backstage CB - Chartbusters DG - Dangerous (Canada) DK - DK / Song Factory DM - Doctor Music EK - Essential Karaoke (Britain) GB - Sweet Georgia Brown HD - Helluva Disc HL - Hotline KC - Karaoke Classic KH - Karaoke Hits KK - Killer Karaoke LB - Legends Bassline Series LC - Lost Classics LG - Legends Artists Series ME - Mr. Entertainer's (Britain) MH - Monster Hits MK - Madacy MM - Music Maestro MT - Motown (original recordings!) MX - Memorex NT - Nutech PH - Pop Hits PI - Pioneer

PR - Priddis PS - Pocket Songs PT - Performance Trax PX - Protrax RB - R&B Karaoke RC - Retro Classics RX - Rebel Sync RZ - Radio Starz / Country Starz SA - SAVP SB - SBI Music (Britain) SC - Sound Choice SD - Star Disc SF - Sunfly (Britain) SG - Stage Stars SI - Sound Images SK - Sing King (Canada) SP - Super Core SS - Superstar Karaoke ST - Standing Ovation SW - Sing To The World (Britain) SY - Sybersound "Party Tyme" TH - Top Hits/Top Hits Monthly TT - Top Tunes UB - U-Best UK - UK Karaoke US - Ultra Sonic ZM - Zoom Karaoke (Britain)       .