Your choice for the hardest song to sing at a Karaoke Bar? Mine is "Along Comes Mary."

It's hard when you try to sing the Linda Ronstadt range.

 

I can only karaoke in sporadic short bursts.Even at home my cat would just look at me and shake her head,walk away.

 

Soundgarden - Jesus Christ Pose

 

Yeah, I just wouldn't. I'd stay in the mid-whichever eagle voice that is- range. If were to do it ,which I wouldn't.
Haven't heard the song in the last decade or so but doesn't she do like one verse and some back up?

 

MacArthur Park, but it's the choreography that is the biggest challenge for me.

 

Haven't done any karaoke in years now since covid hit. Time to get back in the game, I'll request my local pub to make an evening happen again.

 

Journey-I’ll be alright without you(yes I have video)

 

I’ve sung songs in Japanese at a karaoke place in Tokyo. THAT was hard.

Remember the theme song to “Speed Racer?” (“Go Speed Racer”). I once sang that at karaoke in Japan, but in English, and it blew everyone’s mind. They had no idea that show made it to America.

 

Once I sang Bay City Rollers Saturday Night which is a very high key for my very low voice and got a standing ovation haha. Was hoarse for three days after, it was my Twist and Shout moment.

 

I have no idea. Only way I do karaoke is if I am drunk and I havent drank in years Hence the overreaching Ronstadt.

 

My oldest best friend, my wife and I try to do "Suite Judy Blue Eyes"!

 

any bebop head that's had lyrics written to it such as:

 

Grazing In The Grass - Friends Of Distinction.

Especially that “I can dig it, she can dig it, they can dig it” part, man it’s brutal!

 

I nominate this one as the hardest.

 

After several margaritas, me (male) and three young woman decided to sing "California Dreaming". You can imagine, alcohol + (what should be) multilayered harmonies = an embarrassingly bad recording on a cassette. Must have been 25 years ago and I still have the cassette tape.

 

Tom Jones - Promise Her Anything

 

One of my party tricks is to sing a perfect Bridge Over Troubled Water... I probably succeed 1 out of 5 times

 

Speaking of the Monkees, I imagine "Goin' Down" would be a tough one.

 

I've tried singing a lot of songs on karaoke nights. Normally, I have a problem getting off the stage & people who know me post requests in my name so I have to sing them. I didn't like having to sing "Something Stupid" with an Ex-manager's son because I didn't know it & where I came in & where the man came in so got told to just stand next to the man & sing the words on the screen whether it was my turn or not. I've sung everything from "Let it be", "Will you still love me tomorrow?" & "Top of the world" to "The Rose", "Wind beneath my wings" & "My heart will go on". I love singing "Mull of Kintyre". The hardest song I've ever had to sing though is "Does your chewing-gum lose its flavour on the bed-post overnight?". The reason for this is because I can't stop myself from laughing while I'm singing it. I daren't even try to sing "Delaney's Donkey" as I don't think I could keep a straight face while singing it.

 

The lyrics do come at you fast. This is one of those songs that is very catchy but when one is singing along with it the melodic line you are following branches from one voice/instr to another, very symphonic. So when you sing along with it you are not just the singer, you are a defacto producer, creating the top line from your enjoyment of the song. I think of Good Vibrations as like that too.

 

IIRC we don't have to imagine.

 

When I'm on stage I can't even think of the audience. All I can think of is when I come in, the background music, how I should sing it & my voice. I can't really think about anything else until I've finished & give a bow or curtsey to the audience. I was always like that in drama at school too. It made it easier for me & I never got nervous.

 

"Lets Say the P Words"